The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-10

II name III the news
lpapers any more. and | thought per-
! haps he had dropped OUT was the
rejoinder
That Is Just the difference between
this administration and the last one
replied the bystander. This admin
istration seems to try to keep out Of
the newspapers. President Taft al
most broke golden rule when he
gave out his statement OF his position
on the tariff. am convinced from
what have learned that he would
not have done that had not thu;
bunch OF congressman mistaken his
| previous silence and good nature and
| made 1t an excuse to browbeat him
into their way of thinking But, SPEAK.
ing about Smith. has anybody seen
Charles p. Neill around here lately?"
| Yes. | saw him on the street the
| other day. broke in a third man. He
is another old Roosevelt standby who
doesn't seem to be getting into the
newspapers as much as he did The
last time I heard Of NELL In the prints
he was In Georgia trying to settle thai
colored firemen's strike aud | did not
even know he had come back tt
| town"
| The foregoing conversation In tht
reception room of the executive OF.
fees at the White House gives con
| ception or the way the Roosevelt
lights have gone out In Washingto
since March 4. Smith. Neil, Law
renee o. Murray, Clifford Pinchot auf
Ambassador Jusserand of France. d
members OF the old tennis cabinet,
are still accredited to jobs In WASH
ington. They are not members OF the
Taft golf cabinet and are no longe
so close to the throne as TO make
their coming time to set one
watch.
1t was a standing joke In days gont
by that Afford w. Cooley, former civil
service commissioner and later assis
tant attorney general; Secretary OF
the Interior James r. Garfield Az
sistant Secretary OF Commerce and
Labor Murray, and others OF the tel.
mis- cabinet, had a stated hour to ca
at the White House. When President
Roosevelt went away the newspaper
men used to make pools as to whiel
one would be the first to welcome him
back
The number of confidantes Presi
dent Taft has in the departments Is
few. The Old tennis cabinet has scat
tered to the four winds Those who
are still on the job are doing as good
work as they ever did but, like the
interstate commerce commission
which was the cynosure OF all eyes
during the Roosevelt administration,
they have stepped from the limeliEht,
except when they have departmental
news to give out. They are as wei
come at the White House as ever be-
fore, but they have less excuse for 90
ing there.
II Commissioner Smith reports prog
ress on the investi cations his bureau
Ii making from time to time and re-.
cslves honorable mention In the
press; Comptroller of the Currency
Murray has been at the bottom OF
some of the most important reforms
yet introduced in the comptroler's OF
Ace and has received his share oil
credit for that; Commissioner Neil
and Chairman Knapp of the interstate
commerce commission did yeomaf
service on the Georgia railroad strike
and got credit for that, and Chief For
ester Clifford Pinchot has come into
the limelight again by getting into {
row with Secretary OF the Interior
Ballinger over lands withdrawn fro"
the forest reserves. The White Hous
however, Is not shouting about t.t
work they do.
The Grants, the Sheridans and Tax
Bromwells, who added gold lace to tbs
White House social affairs, have givet
way to the onnipresent Capt Archi
bald w. Butt, who sticks to cigiliat
clothes except when he has to don hlt
regimentals. odd faithful" William
Loeb, Jr., has been appointed collector
OF the port Of New York and has hal
more publicity than any Of the other,
| In the old Roosevelt encourage be
cause he has cleaned out the New
York custom house In spite OF the pol
iticlans.
l Roosevelt's cabinet Is another ad
Junct or the last administration tha
has dropped out Of sight, Formei
Postmaster General Meyer is secrt
tary Of the navy and Secretary OF Az
riculture Wilson, "irremovable." is 9
the old Job. but that Is all Of II
Rooseveltians who sit around the car
met table Tuesdays and Fridays. Z
hu Root Is senator from New York.
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