The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-13


nighted country, in behalf OIL the Al
drich tariff. IL the South be ignorant,
shaw is the very type of man who
could have fine time talking here
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NORTON.
The man most prominent in the eyes
of the official world at Washington
nowadays is Charles ID. Norton, the
new Secretary to the President. He
has very hard place TO I'LL and he
has made II very good start. 30 tar'
he appears to be exactly the sort OF
buffer the present Administration has
needed all along. Carpenter was gen
lie studiotls, Woodworking and always
at his desk. He did not know every
body aud did not care to Know every
hody. but who could blame him for
that? We tried to persuade him TO
marry "a southern girl; but he was 50
busy attending to the President that
he didn't have time to look them over.
He failed to recognize that Jones WAS
n great man in Possum Hollow, and
lacked the gift of diherentiating be-
tween this sort of statesman and the
other great men of the same name
who fill more pages i'll the census re-
ports than those of any other patrony-
mic but the ever-estimable company
of Smiths who fret the land with their
fecundity.
1t will not be so with Norton. He
sill be glad to see them all at the
White House and to jolly them along
and make than believe that the Whole
thing will go to Bal!yhack If they do
not help it out. That's what Norton -
for: that's why we pay him the
small stipend he is 20 receive from the
pockets of the people. He looks fit,
as il he could organize tennis cabinet
IL worse should come to worst, and
caddv with the best Of the boys He
is also supposed to te letter perfect
in baseball. and knows that a put out
is a put out as well as Burton Harri-
sweetness of Carpenter With the en-
durance of Loeb, he Will make his way
if he will only study the life and times
of Dan Lamont and emulate the wiz
tues of that greatest of private secre-
taries. One of the first things Norton
should do is to have conference With
the members of the Cabinet, particu-
larly with Wickersham, and insist upon
revising ali their public utterances be-
/ fore they arc given to the newspapers.
/ Then he should have a heart-to-heart
/ talk with Ballinger and suggest 10
| that member how important it is that
I, he should get out.
| The best thing he can do is to adj
| yertise what Mr.. Taft has really nc-
/ compiishcd since he became President
/ He need not touch on the tariff ques-
| ton. or any of the things that the
| President should not have done; but ne
| viii find abundance of material for
/ good newspaper stories in other things
4 that were worth while that Mr.. Taft
| mas done. things of which all the
world would have been apprised in An
other day with such attention to de-
tails that from Maine to Mexico the
people would have been talking their
heads off about the White House ant
it's work. If Norton will only lister
to reason. there are lots OF us VINO
could tell him exactly how to adver
it on the first page nearly every day
4 Then Norton ought to do little
slewhing after hours. He will prob
ably find that a good many of the per
sons who have been hanging arount
tote little more cutlery In theil
I sleeves than is at all necessary will
the present styles of mems wear. Wha
Is needed more than anything else II
his position lis what the Georgians cal
Judgement"
We wish you mighty well. Mr. Nor
ton during your stay at the Whit
House. You viii not he there after til
Fourth Of March, 1913. II we are no
greatly mistaken in our reading o
the Ohio and New Jersey signs in til
political zodiac. II they kick you, MI
Norton, kick back, II they kick At TIL
President. take It for his sake; If the
become offended because they are no
able 10 make the dates Carpenter as
signed 10 them. mollify their indignn
ton with ointment. be brave and self
reliant and strong to receive when 20
cannot resent or resist, and take IT frol
Us. Mr. Norton that one Of the mos
pathetic and ye, one OF the most use
ful creatures IN tho Kingdom Of faunf
nattTalism is the scapegoat.
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WHY CHANGE THE BEST EVER.
Having oYoreXorted itself in inhict
Ing the neW railroad bill on the help
lcaa country, the senate Ia now recrcnt
Ing itself with vocal Eymnnstics, in
tended 10 Bo0th oVerWorked minds AM
to bring slumbcr 10 Republican Sena
tors after their long vigil. Che Gppro
prhilon for the investigation of tn
taflr question IL tho amusement 0
tho hour and lbs debate on this claus