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WILL WILSON Be
BOSS?IS QUESTION
Many Persons Prophesy Bryan
Influence.
THINK he NEEDS MAN BEHIND

Vet ~ Governor He Ran His Office a.
He Chose, Regardless Of Would Be
Advisers, and It Is Expected Maybe
New President Will Follow Same Self
Reliance In White House.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
! Washington. March 1.-[Special.1-
~Whos going to be PRESIDENT" What
a silly question! Well. there Is SILL
deal Of speculation everywhere as to
whether Woodrow Wilson will be the
boss or some one whom he selects TOT
his adviser. Fer several months. while
various persons have been most oblig-
ing and very busy helping Governor
Wilson choose a cabinet, these and 9TH
hrs have been telling how William ).
Bryan would dominate the Wilson ad-
ministration; also pointing out what
other influences would shape the poll
cies of the first Democratic admins
tration in twenty years.
And when things seemed to be fa1r-
~ well fixed in the minds OF those who
must have q finger in the administra-
ton pie along comes a report which
SAYS that Bryan can't arrange the cab
met and therefore won't play in the
game. And then began another series
of questions as to who who is going to
be the big man behind Wilson. Some
how the impression seems to have
gained ground that the new president
must have a "big man behind him."
It May Be Wilson.
Stop! Look. Listen! Maybe Will
son will run his own administration.
1ust as he has run other things which
have come under his charge. Now.
that's really worth thinking about. 1t
has quite a lot of common sense be-
hind it, for Woodrow Wilson has
shown a capacity to do things in his
own way and to go ahead with what
he thought was right regardless Of
those who may have been instrument
tai in pushing him forward for prefer
ment as governor. He may do the
same thing as president. The man
who has seemed such a political enig-
ma to most of the politicians may
prove as self reliant as was Grover
Cleveland.
How He Picked Barrett.
When Secretary Elihu Root was
making his tour of South America he
came across the isthmus at Panama
and met John Barrett. then minister
to Colombia. Barrett came home with
him and talked about South America
and other things. for Barrett can talk.
Root learns men quickly, and it did
not take him more than three days to
find that he needed Barrett as head of
the bureau of American republics.
He needed man who could talk
about the southern republics and talk
to the representatives of those coun-
tries. He appointed Barrett, and the
latter has been all that could be hoped.
Barrett advertised the bureau and the
eountries. He talked to people, and he
wrote about the countries and their
possibilities. He made it tie big show.
It has been success, md Root is per-
fectly satisfied now IL 1T he picked the
rigLs man for the plat e.
Lodge In the Gallery.
"There's Lodge in the gallery" re-
marked an old timer in the senate, and
he called attention to the fact as If it
were something new. And that was
the fact. The Massachusetts, senator
rarely, If ever before. had been seen in
the gallery. He took friend there
and remained to point out some Of the
distinguished men on the floor who
were his colleagues. To see other
senators with friends in the gallery
creates no surprise. 1t is the unusual
that surprises.
Another Old Soldier.
A few days ago l told how I went
wrong once in saying that no more old
soldiers Of the civil war would be
elected to the senate. I named four
men who had since been elected. And
now Nathan Golf has been elected
from West Virginia for six years. He
Il q veteran of the civil war. When
It comes to making predictions about
senatorial elections there are always
several guesses. and it's better not to
be too positive.
They Like NewIands.
One day in the senate. when Sena-
tor Newlands was making a very long
speech and the senate was fidgeting
over the delay of the appropriation bill
pending. one senator remarked, Some
times l am almost sorry that Nevada
was ever admitted as state" But at
the same time the senator from Nevada
Is we'll liked. Besides. he generally
says something when he takes the floor,
and he always knows what he Is talk
ing about.
Two Lotteries Will Go.
Without desks and seats in the house
there will be no lottery for the location
of members as heretofore. That was
always an interesting occasion in the
house. In the senate there will not be
/ lottery for many years to come. as
there is no possibility of the admission
Of another state In the next generation.
The lottery in the senate was of con-
stitutional authority and related to the
drawing for long and short terms when
senators from new state was admit
ted. Both lotteries will now pass into
history.
YEARS FOR WHITE SLAYER