Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-02
Farewell Luncheon Served In
White House Monday at
Noon, When the President
LaudS His Friends.
HIS BOON COMPANIONS
PAID LOYAL TRIBUTE
FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE
Personal Friends Came from West
ern Ranches and Mountain and
Valley To Dine at Last Dinner
With Their Chum.


WASHINGTON, March 1.-President
Roosevelt today gave a farewell lunch
con at the white house to the members
Of the famous Tennis Cabinet" and
others who have been closely associated
with him during the past seven years.
Aside from the distinguished govern
ment officials who have served as among
the presidents chief aides during his ad-
ministration, and alos as hi scompanions
at sports of different kinds, there were
present men whom the president had
made friends with when he was roughing
it in the west years ago. and with whom
he had gone on numerous hunting expedi-
tions. The occasion was memorable to
those who surrounded the president today,
and the latters farewell words were not
entirely free from notes of regret, If not
of sadness.
Tribute by President
The president, in a brief speech, laid en-
phasis on the point that no administration
had given its chief more loyal service, and
he stated that he believed the country
never had a more devoted set of public
servants than those men through whom
he said most of the work of his admins
| tration had been accomplished.
The president, in his remarks following
the luncheon, said:
Gentlemen: You are here nominally
as members of the Tennis cabinet'-that
is, as men with whom at tennis or hunt
ing or riding, or walking, or boxing.
have played, with whom have been on
the roundup, or in the mountains, or in
the ranch country. But really, as you
know, you are not here for that reason
at all; you are here because you are
the men and because you represent the
men with whom 1 have worked while
have been president.
mo administration has ever had finer
or more loyal service than you have
given, and / do not believe this country
has ever had an ADLER or more devoted
set of public servants. It is through
YOU and those like you that 1 have done
the major part of what has been ac-
complished under this administration.
Moreover, in a vast number of cases the
doing of the work my success has been
your only reward.
Words of Praise
THE credit has come to me, to the
chief of the administration. For exactly
as men like to symbolic a battle by the
name of the commander, so they like to
symbolic an administration by the man
at the head, forgetting that the immense
majority of his acts can be done only
| through others anu that a really sue
cessfuI administration successful from
l
and the interests of the country must be
managed as ours has been, in spirit
of the most loyal association and part
nership.
There are many others like you whom
I would have given much to bring mere
today, but there was not room enough,
and so I have brought you here partly
I for your own sakes, but primarily as rep
resenting thousands of other workers; as
RofN f,tI AGO
public servants, who strive their best to
do what the public need demands, and
who. in the last analysis, stand all on the
same level, when judged by that supreme
test which takes into chief account the
spirit of the service rendered. So, while
greet you for yourselves, 1 greet you
still more as symbolizing others, and in
saying farewell to you 1 shall take as
symbolizing all of you one who leaves
public life when 1 leave it; man who
made a real personal sacrifice when sew
en- years ago he came here to take office
at my request man who has stood ever
since as the type of what a good public
servant should be; a man who the last
two. years has been one of the most use
| full cabinet ministers who ever sat at the
cabinet table-Jim Garfield"
Those Who Were Present
Those present at the luncheon were:
! The French ambassador, Secretary
Bacon, Mr.. Justice Moody, the post
master general, Secretary Newberry,
Secretary Garfield. Secretary Loeb, So
/ licitor General Hoyt, Assistant Secre-
/ tary O'Laughlin, Assistant Secretary
/ winthrop, Assistant Secretary Satter-
| lee, Assistant Attorney General Wood
ruff, Assistant Secretary Philips, Comp
| troller Smith, Commissioners McIlhen-
| ny, Hon. John c. Rose, Hon. Henry L.
| Stimson, Hon. Lyman NJ. Bass, Clifford
| Pinchot, James B. Reynolds, w. w.
| Henelnnger, Captain Luther S. Kelly,
| yellowstone Kelly" whom the presi-
dent first met on the Little Missouri,
| at present an Indian agent in Arizona
| w. w. Sewall, the presidents old guide;
Captain Seth Bullock, Commissioner
Keefe, DR.. Henry S. Pritchett, John
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