The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-22
NNder We administration
81 WNNlam Roward DAFT
BY JOHN T. MCUTCHEON.

wN the March ppleons, John T Mccutcheon tells in his delightful m
bination of pictures and descriptions of Will happen when W cnanse
a Presidents.
In the meantime. lie says, after touching upon the inaugural ceremonies
all vas peace and quiet at the White House.
Echoes of the preceding administration were slowly dying away A bevS
of brides and bridegrooms out sightseeing were wating to b. introduced to n
lev President. Ex-senator Tom Plat. of the United Estates ExpressC Company
was nervously rehearshng a speech against the iniquihes of the proposed par
cells post. A committee OF wenfed bankers was impatenuy waiting for an
audience thu they might presents u IN ssne ny themselves asA"e ""'
the postal savings bank proposition be thrown into the Potomac.
ome we. ms et nossuns was wanaerinea around din thu back yad looking fr the
kitchen door. A tag reading at u favorie adopted son Colonel William H.
Taft, with the love Of the South" hung bnthey from the all of me of nj
'possums
A cowboy leaning against the White House gate sighed heavily and re-
marked. This place haint like it used to be when cunnel Roosevelt a
The new President? Where is ne the while? Standing in the Cast Room.
frame. receiving a stream Of guests that passed before him. To each he
pleasantly spoke the Taftans synonym of "dee-hghted," not withs yhabies crisp
Iy bitten off, but in a voice husky from n open-air inaugural address.
Statesmen fearhssy entered the and fearb@sly walked right up
and shook his hand. Groups OF callers chatted absent mindedy in various
partsof the room, sometimes pausing to LISTEN TO something they ould nt
It was like a wedding reception after the bride and bridegroom had gone
when thu spoken wore hides the though of where o put your carriage
check
In m group an old man was telling how he first met Roosevelt.
"t raj right here in this room," he sad' blinking back in 80, When ne
Ss Over s in another group a couple of men were engaged in a hand a
discussion as to the place in history which the recent president hou &C.
90" ~ Tell vol he'll be classed u With Washington n Lincoln" said M
"In twenty-five years we'll be reading about what he said What III I'D
the way we 20 ed about Lincoln"
other a prosperous-looklng nan with a hfycent cigar peepng ut of his star
A tall man will a flowing mustache, a prominent Adams apple, and the
cool gray eye of a painsman4 leaned o. the baby grand piano allowed ne
then ambhd sadly GU in the cold March air in search of other excitement
A hond man with white hair vas over in another sroup violently attack
ing Roosevelt, but whether he was rich or only pretending to be coui nt %
determined.
Another man with high-heeled boots and one am as having a animated
discussion with a New England congressman.
"rve fought with him evers since" .vpained te congressman, land I'm
against him"
"oh, he'll make a great President; but, speaking OF Roosevelt let me tell
you just me thing he did to me Thatn show o what kind of a nan ne IS
Then follows a long story about mans duphcity to man N 10y a ceH lam
failed to d o its duty in not striking the ause of all his troubles