White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-27
ROOSEVELT
WAS CARELESS
HIS INDIFFERENCE TO POSSIBLE
ATTACK FROM CRANKS, MADE
HIM WORRY OF THE SECRET
SERVICE.

A man who held an official posi-
ton in Washington under the Roose-
Welt administration, and who was
more or less acquainted with the al
fairs at the White House during mat
period, says in a Washington dis
patch that Mrs. Roosevelt was APP
prehensiye of the danger to which
Colonel Roosevelt was exposed when
he was president, and worried a good
deal about 1t. To Mrs. R%oosevelt's in
sistence this man attributed the de-
cision of Colonel Roosevelt not to be
a candidate for president in 1908.
Major Richard Sylvester, superin-
tendent of theWashington Police, who
has had nearly thirty years expe-
rienee in the protection of presidents
of the United States, said following
the attempt of Ro~osevelt's life: 1T
is we'll known that when Colonel
Roosevelt was in the White House
he was very careless of protection
from cranks and the police received
little cooperation from him in their
work. But Mrs. Roosevelt was ex-
ceedingly careful, and she saw to Ii
that every preeaution was taken TO
prevent her husband from violence.
Secretary Loeb also was always on
the alert, and he, too, made every
arrangement to protect the presi-
dent.
Colonel Roosevelt was such an ac-
tive, energetic man that it vas rather
difficult TO throw about him the meas
ure of protection that was warranted,
but we managed TO keep up with
him. | do not think Mr.. Roosevelt
as president attracted the attention
of more eranks than other presi-
dents, although he was very emphatic
and was frequently the center of
great excitement.
I'VE took the same measure with
him that we did with Mckinley and
Cleveland and other presidents.
Cleveland was always the source OF
great worry for me, because of the
strenuous times during his admins
tration and the intense feeling that
was en%gendered."
Major Sylvester said that there
was a very marked Increase In the
number of guards in and around the
White House during the seven and
a half years that Colonel Roosevelt
served as president. Not until his
term was the employment of the Sc
cret service men for that purpose
given the sanction of the law and
the present number was augmented
by details from the police force of
the District of Columbia. The White
House ushers and the secret service
men were assisted in guarding the
iiiIalbn anu 1it al JOiiihE tA'NhAAfN
/ office building and the extensive
White House grounds by metropoli-
tan police, whose number was in
creased gradually until about forty
policemen were detailed regularly for
this duty.
While there Is some diversity OF
! opinion on the subject. careful in
quiry indicated that Colonel Roose-
welt himself was not worried about
possible danger to himself during his
presidential terms from eranks or
would-be assassins, but sanctioned
the nearby presence of secret SER
vice operatives and policemen be
cause they protected him from the
annoyance of the many people who
sought interviews with him on triv-
ial matters. AS for the danger to his
life that the lesson of McKinley's
assassination had brought home, he
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