Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-02
CAPITAL CHAT.
President ". H. Taft Is a
Great PeaCemaker.
The New Administration Is
Certainly Making Good.
Maine High School Pupils in Wash
ington..-PostaI Order.

Washington, April 1.--(SpeciaD.-
President Taft'S attempts to keep all
the official folks around Washington
on amicable terms are becoming the
topic of the city and of the country.
Lately they have been reviving his
OLD time title Of "Secretary of Peace"
He has been giving q dinner at which
warning political notables We're hidden
to break bread around the same fes
tive board. He has been making up
likewise to Representatives. of an fac
tons and parties. He has made the
members of the old Ananas Club feel
at home when they came around the
White House offices He has been
making a real chum of the Vice Presi-
deEt-a very unusual thing for 4 Pres
i,icnt to do: and he has been getting
on sWmmingly with the members of
his cabinet Peace and harmony are
everywhere
Some say the harmony dinner at the
White House the other evening did
not avail anything, that Floor Leader
Payne and Representative "Gussie"
Gardner. of Massachusetts, the latter
the leader of the Republican insurgents
shook hands only in a most formal
way as they entered the Presidents
presence as fellow guests. Some say
as much of Representative Champ
Clark. the minority leader. and the
leader of the Democratic insurgents.
representative John Joseph Fitzser-
aid, of Brooklyn. But then. there is
no doubt those gentlemen all felt bet
ter because the President had invited
them and their wives around to the
first of the formal White House ban
quets. 1t will be easier now for them
cones be bygones and to shake hands
across the bloody chasms.
But the way the President and the
Vice President are cumming it has
set all the oldest inhabitants to re-
viewing similar cases of Presidents
and Vice Presidents in the days past
and gone. There have not been many
such instances. President Roosevelt,
of course, never had but one Vice
President to get along with and
it is a matter of common knowledge
in Washington that President Rose
Volt did not like Vice President Fair
banks and allowed no opportunity to
pass without giving Mr.. Fairbanks a
good stiff dig. President Mckinley
used to be real friendly with Vice
President Hobart and folks here are
recalling that as n parallel between
the friendly relations of President
Taft and Vice President Sherman
1t is well known that President Cleve-
land had little use for Vice President
Stevenson. Harrison and Morton
pretty we'll. but Mr. Harrison was not
very cordial in any Of his official re-
lations. His great worth as q Presi-
dent however, has come to be recog-
nzcd and in Washington many think
they see that President Taft is build
same lines that Harrison built. The
people are now in a mood to appreci-
ate that kind of a President more
than they were in Harrisons time.
It is not so easy to get inside the
White House Offices now as it was
prior to the Fourth Of March, perhaps,
but it is very noticeable that the era
Of good will which has been growing
has brought 4 great many people there
who had not been gong heretofore.
A great many visitors Of prominence
used to come to Washington and de-
the White House: now nearly all of
them find time to go up the Avenue
and at least call in to pay their re-