The Forrest City times., 1913-06-27

E ihaue agalnst succeeding presidents ana also against the secret caucus
 EVery president said an old mem- per has believed that any proper in. huence which he could bring to hear on congress to pass legislation was all right provided he felt that the leg. lsiatlon was demanded by the conn. try or by the party platform. This may be lobbying in one sense but I. 1t IS, guess all the presidents since George Washington have been guilty or IL, and l am quite convinced that the charge has been made against presidents in every congress since the country was founded
 Believes in Majority Rule.
 Here the way that another mem. Der put his estimate on this so-called lobbying by President Wilson and by other presidents before him: You see every president naturally thinks lhat he represents the entire country while a senator represents only state ana representative only district. Now the president believes that where four or five senators hold cut against a Dill they do it for local reasons and that they are holding up legislation which perhaps nine-tenths of the coun- try wants. Believing in the rule of the majority, all presidents have felt that they ought to use such influence 1 as they can to make the few get the view Of the many
 There have been intimations in Washington from some quarters that President Wilson has been using pa tronage to further his legislative ends ms charge is one also that has been aimed at every president since Wash lngton's time, according to the views of men who have made a study of po- lltlcal history It is remembered by the old-timers how President Garfield refused to appoint a collector Of the | port of New York who was demanded by Roscoe Conklin, in behalf of his prerogatiye as a senator from the state of New York
 Patronage matters and patronage | charges were prominent during the | Cleveland, the Harrison and the Me | hinley administrations and were not at all unknown during the Roosevelt and Taft administration. During some of the administrations they were more scattered than during the others, but | 1t is not hard to recall how Theo- dore Roosevelt changed his mind in patronage matter in order that he might be certain to get the support of two senators for his railroad rate leg islation MT. Roosevelt argued that i the legislation was for the good of the whole country and that he might prop l erly yield in a small patronage matter to secure for the country what he l thought was a blessing
 l Hundreds of Cadets Graduated. There has been an outpouring from 1 Washington for some days of army 1 officers and their wives and fam flies en route to West Point to 1 see "our boy" or some other l familys boy graduate. The Naval academy's graduating exercises came | first, to be followed closely by those ! 1 hundred new officers have just been | added to the United States army through the exercises of graduation at i the old Military academy.
 1 At West Point Cadet Francis K. | Newcomer of this city has just grad uated. Moreover. bis father, Col, 1 Henry C. Newcomer, was present to see the boy take first honors, and the coloneIs thoughts went back about a quarter of century to the day when he. like his son, graduated and was given the laurel of first place.
 The chances are that young New conner will enter the engineer corps. He can if he wants to, because the boy who graduates at the head of his class is given the right to take any vacancy which exists in the lowest commissioned rank in the United States army. There are always some vacancies in the engineering branch at the time that a class graduates
 In the army today there are many cases of fathers and sons The president of the United States has tep cadet appointments a year at h,f command and almost invariably he elects to name the sons of officers oi the service. It does not always fol- low that a boy graduates as high or as low as his father did Colonel Goethals, who is building the Panama canal, however, has a son In the serv ice who graduated pretty nearly az high as his father. The boy IS no" on the isthmus doing the work or a lieutenant, while his father looks down on him paternally from the height of a colonel's place.
 Fathers and Sons.
 Ulysses & Grant, the third. Is first lieutenant of the engineer corps This Grant graduated way up at the top of his class, and went into the engineering branch. His father, Fred erick D. Grant. graduated way down at the foot of his class, taking five years to complete his course, and be ing lucky to find vacancy left for him in the cavalry, Ulysses s. Grant the first, graduated squarely in the | ,dalo of hic class and so with the