The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-06-24

made against succeeding presidents
and also against the secret caucus.
EVERY president" said an old mem
Der. .'has believed that any proper in
fuence which he could bring to bear
on congress to pass legislation was
all right provided he felt that the leg
islation was demanded by the coun-
try or by the party platform. This
may be lobbying in one sense but IL IL
is. L guess all the presidents since
George Washington have been guilty
of it, and / am quite convinced that
the charge has been made against
presidents in every congress since the
country was founded
Believes In Majority Rule.
I Here's the way that another mem
Der nut his estimate on this so-called
| lobbying by President Wilson and by
other presidents before him: You
see every president naturally thinks
that he represents the entire country
while cenator represents only state
and representative only district.
Now the president believes that where
| four or five senators hold out against
bill 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
as they can to make the few get the
view of the many"
There have been intimations in
l Wy ortnr
! President Wilson has been using pa
tronage to further his legislative ends.
This charge is one also that has been
aimed ct every president since Wash
| ingtons time, according to the views
of men who have made study of po-
| litical history. 1t is remembered by
| the cld-timers how President Garfield
refused to appoint collector of the
port of New York who was demanded
by Roscoe Conklin, in behalf of his
prerogative as a senator from the
state of New York.
Patronage matters and patronage
charges were prominent during the
Cleveland: the Harrison and the Nc
Kinley 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
it 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. Mr. Roosevelt argued that
the legislation was for the good Of the
whole country and that he might prop
erly yield in a, small patronage matter
to secure for the country what he
thought was blessing.
Hundreds of Cadets Graduated.
There has been an outpouring from
/ Washington for some days of army
officers and their wives and fam
lilies en route to West Point to
see "our boy" or some other
family's boy graduate. The Naval
academy>s graduating exercises came
first, to be followed closely by those
of West Point. Something like one
hundred new officers have just been
added to the United States army
through the exercises of graduation at
| the Ola Military academy.
At West Point Cadet Francis K
Newcomer of this city has just grad
uated. Moreover, his father, Col
Henry C. Newcomer, was present to
see the boy take first honors, and the
coloners thoughts went back about q
quarter of a century to the day
when he, like his son, graduated and
srrix, he of fret T1lo
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 class graduates
In the army today there are many
:, cases of fathers and sons" The
| president of the United States has ter
cadet appointments a year at hi
: command, and almost invariably ht
! elects to name the sons of officers o.
: the service. 1t does not always fol
low that boy graduates as high Of
= as low as his father did. Colone
Goethals, who is building the Panama
4 canal, however, has son in the serv
5 ice who graduated pretty nearly al
r high as his father. The boy is nov
3 on the isthmus doing the work Of /;
2 lieutenant. while his father look
2 down on him paternally from thu
? height Of colonel's place.
3 Fathers and Sons.
Ulysses s. Grant, the third, is
{ first lieutenant of the engineer corps
This Grant graduated way up at tn
1 top OF his class. and went into tn
: engineering branch. His father, Fred
: erick D. Grant, graduated way dow
at the foot of his class, taking fiv
years to complete his course, and be
I ing lucky to find vacancy left TO
r him in the cavalry. Ulysses S. Grant
I the first, graduated squarely in tn
{ middle of his class, and so with tn
: son and the grandson praduafinp a