The National tribune., 1910-08-18

dents lawn. AS n matter of fact there
had to be two luncheons. as the dining
room in the Presidents cottage was not
large enough to accommodate some 80
hungry people. The climate at the
Summer Capital affects the appetite and
makes visitors simply voracious. Each
Executive had his Secretary, his Army
and Naval Aids, together with mem
bers of their families, and this made
large group.
The "ratey' folks had luncheon in
the cottage and all the others on board
the MayTiower, that rides at anchor
most of the time in the placid waters
of Beverly Bay. That yacht was sent
up to Boston to bring the Chilean Presi-
dent and his large retinue to the Presi-
dents landing, and after the ceremo-
nies of the friendly meeting were over
conveyed them back to Boston again.
Perhaps the most significant thing
about the meeting was the efforts of
Presidents Taft and Montt to avert war
between Ecuador and Peru. Those lit
tie South American bantams have been
trying to get into q boundary fight for
a year or two, and stronger American
powers have been busily occupied in
holding them back. President Moutt is
heartily in sympathy with these efforts
to settle the Ecaadorean Peruvian
squabble peaceably and promptly prom
ised to exert all the influence of his Ad-
minstratiOn in that direction.
Secretary of State Knox fastened to
Beverly to participate in the Chilean
festivities but he tarried a shorter
while than during his Midsummer visit
of last year. There was very little bllsi-
ness for him to take up with the Presi-
dent, and after two or three more or
less informal meetings with his official
superior the Secretary fastened back
the fine roads in this vicinity. played
golf trii!e, and visited his old friend,
Henry c. Frick, of Pittsburg.
Visiting Cabinet Officials.
While politics has engaged the atten-
tion of the President a vast deal this
Summer members of his Cabinet have
been here very little. Secretary of the
Navy Meyer, altho only a few miles
away, has been TO Beverly only two or
three times and then has stopped brief
ly. Secretary MacVeagh has come only
once, and that very recently. This in
activity of the Cabinet officials at Bev-
crly is due to the settled conditions of
affairs in their Departments and to the
consequent fact that they have little to
discuss with the President. All of them
within hailing distance of Washington
must now prepare soon to return to
washington, for by the middle of Sep
nber President Taft will be back
ere for a flying visit and for some
lettings of his Cabinet.
1t has not been decided vet whether
lhe President will remain in Washing
IN three or four days or little over
a week. That does not matter particu-
larly, however, for whether his 1eturn
be for four days or for seven days it
will start the Departments to work, and
will terminate the promiscuous vaca-
tions which were strung into November
last year. AS has been many times re-
iterated. the Government officials will
not go back to Washington till the pres
ence of the President there makes their
return necessary.
The visit to St. Paul will be of the
flying variety. The President plans to
make no stop going or coming, except |
for an evening in Chicago. While he |
has refused to make any speeches ex- |
cept at st. Paul, it is more than likely |
that the Chicagoans will persuade him |
to say something before an audience.
As the time is now only about two |
weeks before the President departs, it |
is not expected that the Cabinet officials |
will attend here numerously in the |
meantime. Attorney-General Wicker
sham and Secretary Nagel. of Com
merce and Labor, will probably be back
in. Washington by that time. The only
absentee will probably be Secretary of |
War Dickinson, who is still in the hill
ippines on his long tour It may be |
that Postmaster General Hitchcock will |
be, absent, fer he is starting soon on a |
long trip to the Pacific Coast. His plir-
pose is to get little more vacation and
also to attend some postal conventions
that are assembling thruout the West.
incidentally he will look over the poll
tical situation, for while he is no longer
the chief mainstay of the Administra-
ton in politics, his observations WI be
welcome L
Senator Crane as Managp-
The authorities say that Senator
Crane, of Massachusetts,, has complete
" displaced Mr.. Hitchcock as political |
adviser. The dissemination of that /
view was followed by an announcement
that the President was employing both
Senator Crane and Mr.. Hitchcock on
expected, for the disposition would nat
urally be to let Mr.. Hitchcock down
easily. He served the President to the
best of his political ability. but could /
not be expected to be as practiced In
the art of politics as the more expert.
enced and more influential Senator
Crane.
It is noteworthy that Senator Crane |
of late has been giving Beverly wide /
berth. He ia very Silent man, works /
quietly, and does not like to have his
moves chronicled far and wide. He
however, LNHt IEeTe are numers
Gus publicity agents on guard at Bev-
erly. AS he failed to get by when ne
motored over to Manchester, ostensfbly
20 visit with his wife's parents, and |
dropped down to the Presidents cots
tage, supposing he had evaded any pos
sibility of publicity, he is transactins
political business over the telephone or
meeting Secretary Moron is some cut.
Df-town place.
The discovery of Senator Crane on
his Western mission was one of the an.
noying features of the Summer to the /
Federal officials at Beverly His errand I
was widely heralded before he started, |
and this added to his embarrassment in
executing ii. However, as matters
turned out il was shown that Secretary |
Ballinger could not have been persuad=
ed to enter the Senatorial race in Wash=
ington State. There are 100 many rneh 1
in the field who have already spent |,
money on their campaign, and conseE
quently cannot withdraw in good grace.
Politics in the S,ate Of Washington
The Administration is now more or
less worried lest Representative Poin-
dexter, the rantankerous insurgent Of
eastern Washington, shall win. Ordi-
narily he would have hardly ghost of
chance. But the primary law In
Washington State provides for the deet
ignation of the candidate who has the
highest vote at primary. Half dozen
regular candidates are in the running
and are likely to divide the strength of II