Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-01
President Entertains His Secre-
taries and Others at White
House
A TOUCHING FAREWELL SPEECH
President Discusses His Pleasant Re-
Iations With Aides in Work and i'm
Play-Hunters and Ranchmen From
the West Among the Special Guests
at White House.

Washington. March 1.-Presden
Roosevelt today gave a farewell lunch.
con at the White House to the mem.
bers Of the famous tennis cabinet
and others who have been closely as
ISOLATED with him during the past sew
EN- years. Aside from the distinguished
government officials who have servet
as among the presidents chief aides
cu.ing his administration, and also as
his companions at sports of differ ,nt
liindr. there were present men whom
the president had made friends win
when he was roughing ii in the west
years ago and with whom he had gone
on numerous hunting expeditions.
The occasion was memorable to those
who surrounded the president today
and the latter's farewell words were
not entirely free from notes of regret.
if not sadness. The president in II
brief speech laid emphasis on the point
that no administration had given its
chief more loyal service, and he stated
that he believed that the country had
never had a more devoted set of pub
lie servants than those men thru
whom. he said. most of the work of his
administration had been accomplished.
President Makes Speech.
The president in his remarks follow
ing the luncheon said:
Gentlemen: You are here nominallv
as members. or to meet the members
of the tennis cabinet'-that is, as men
with whom Mt tennis or hunting nr
riding. or walking. or boxing, l have
played. with whom / have been on the
roundup, or in the mountains, or on
the ranch country. But really, as sou
know, you are not here for that reason
az all; you are here because you ars
the men, and because you represent
the men with whom ] have worked
while have been president No admin
lstration has ever had finer or more
loyal service than YOU have given, and
do not believe this country has ever
rad an ADLER or more devoted set Of
cubic servants.
1T is thru you and those
like you that l have done the
major part of what has been accom-
Dlished under this administration.
Moreover. in a vast number of cases
he doing of the work itself has been
your only reward. The credit has come
% me. to the chief of the administers
ion For exactly as men like to SYM
police battle by the name of the COM
so they like to symbolic an
by the man at the head,
forgetting that the immense majority
IT his acts can be done only thru 9TH
rs and that a really successful adj
successful from the
of advancing the honor and
he interests of the country. must be
as ours has been. in a spirit
If the most loyal association and part
lership. There are many others like
'ou whom l would have given much
o bring here today; but there SIM
by wasn't room enough; and so
nave brought you here partly for your
WIN sakes, but primarily as represent
ng thousands. of other workers; as
representing all good, faithful, fear
ess public servants, who strive their
'est to do what the public need de-
hands, and who in the last analysis,
tand, all on the same level, when
judged by that supreme test which
axes into chief account the spirit of
he service rendered