Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-02
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President Heartily Com
msnds tennis Cabinet
Tells Them They Made Ad-
mtnistratiuass a Success.
Says They and o,is,sDid the Work
And He Gets The Credit.

Washington, March president
Roosevelt today gave 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 served
as among the Presidents chief aides
during his administration, and also as
his companions at sports of different
kinds, there were present men whom
the President had made friends when he
was roughing it in the West years ago
and with whom he had gone on numer-
Gus hunting expeditions. The occasion
was memorable to those who surround
ed the President today and the latter's
farewell words were not entirely free
from notes of regret, if not sadness.
Tie President in a brief speech laid
emphasis on the point that no admin
istration had given it's chief more 10y
al service. and he stated that he be-
lieved that the country had never had
more devoted set of public servants
than those men through whom, he
said most OF the work Of his admins
lGdllDI IldU DecH dCCOiI DIStiCO.
The President in his remarks follow
ing the luncheon, said:
"GentIemen--You are here nominal
" as members, or to meet the members
- the Tennis Cabinet'-that is, as
men with whom at tennis or hunting,
or riding, or walking, or boxing, l 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 rea-
son at all-you are here because you
are the men, and. because you repre-
sent the men with whom I have work
eG while I have been President. No
administration has ever had finer or
more loyal service than you have given
and l do not believe this country has
ever had an ADLER or more devoted set
OF public servants. 1t is through you
and those like you that I have done
the major part of what has been ac-
complished under this administration
More over. in a vast number of cases
the doing of the work itself has been
your only reward The credit has ccmc
to me. to the Chief of the administra-
ton. For exactly as men like to SYM
belize a battle by the name of COM
inander, SO they like to symbolic an
administration by tile man at the head
forgetting that the immense majority
of his acts can be done only through
others and that a really successful adj
ministra tor, successful from the
standpoint of advancing the honor and
the interests of the country, must be
managed as ours has been, in a 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 simply
wasn't room enough; and so I have
brought you here partly for your own
sakes, but primarily as representing
thousands Of other workers; as repre-
senting all good. faithful. fearless pub
lie servants, who strive their best to
do what the public nccd demands and
who, in t;1e. last analysis. stand all on
tie same level. who's Judged by that
Supreme test whicj l3hes into chief
recount tho spirit rf the service ron
minister. Il t0rrau ol,cf, marshal. an
Indian agent Il fore ster. a letter car
rer. a member of the lifesaving ser
NiSS. IL Clerk bl department., OF a
workman in navy rard, or whether
he holds one of a. hundred other posi-
tons, makes not the slightest differ
ence If he puts his heart and his soul
and his mind into his work and is
content to accept as his chief reward
the satisfaction that comes from
knowledge that the work has been well
done. So while greet you for your
selves. I greet you still more as SYM
bolizng others, and in saying fare
well to you I shall take as symbolizine
all Of you one who leaves public life
when I leave it; a man who made a
real personal sacrifice when seven
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: man who
fo,' the last two years has been one of
the most useful cabinet ministers who
ever sat at the cabinet table-.Tim Car
fcld.'
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
lici.or General Hoyt. Assistant Score
tary OI.aughlin, Assistant Secretary
Winthrop, Assistant Secretary Satter-
lee. Assistant Attorney General Wood
riff, Assistant Secretary Phillips.
Comptroller Murray. Commissioner
Leupp, Commissioner Jeill, Commits
sioner Smith, Commissioner McIlhen-
ny. Han. John c. Rose. Hon. Henry L.
Stimson, Hon., Lyman II. Bass, Clifford
Pinchot, James B. Reynolds, W. s.
Heffelfnger. Captain Luther s. Kelly
yellowstone Kelly" whom the Pres
ident first met in the Little Missouri,
at present an Indian agent in Arizona:
W. w. Sewall, the Presidents old
guide; Capt. Seth Bullock; Commission
err keefe. Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, John
A bronze statue Of a crouching cougar
was given to the President by his 'ten-
mis- cabinet" the presentation address be-
ing made by Henry L. Stimson. The
bronze is by Alexander P. Proctor, the
animal sculptor. whose works adorn the
public parks in New York and Denver
the Geological Gardens IN New York and
in Pittsburg, and who made the colossal
lions of the Mckinley monument at Buff
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