Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-25

| tor or representative will have no DIFF
| ficulty in going back In his mind
| through all the administrations under
+! which he has served to find quickly
made against succeeding presidents
and also against the secret caucus.
| Every president. said an old mem
Der, has believed that any proper In.
, fiuence 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. THU
may be lobbying in one sense but if il
| is, l guess all the preside> is 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.
7 Here's the way that another mem.
| Der put his estimate on this so-called
lobbying by President Wilson and by
| other presidents before him: "Yor
see every president naturally thinks
| that he represents the entire country
while a senator represents only state
| and representative only a district
Now the president believes that where
| four or five senators hold out against
a 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 Ia
Washington from some quarters that
President Wilson has been using pa
tronage to further his legislative ends.
This charge is one also that has been
| aimed at every president since Wash
ington's time, according to the views
of men who have made study Of po
litical history 1t 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
prerogative as 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 liz
patronage matter in Norder 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
academys graduating exercises came
f1rsI, 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 old 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
quarter of a 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 il 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 arRly. 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 ten
cade: appointments year at his
command, and almost invariably he
elects to name the sons of officers of
the service. 1t does not always fol.
low that boy graduates as high or
as low as his father did. Colonel
Cocktails, who is building the Panama
canal. however, has son in the serv'
ice who graduated pretty nearly as
high as his father The boy is now
on the isthmus doing the work Of
lieutenant, while his father looks
down on him paternally from the
height of colonels place.
Fathers and Sons.
Ulysses S. Grant, the third, is a
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