El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-21
President Tells of His Experiences

, qUacy and weakness. but as though 1
! were shaken by the very things tnaL are
shaking them and If seem clIc ulI .. = ~
| IL IS because am 50 olIlSenLy u yl4i y
not TO make any colossal blunueI ; II
you Just calculated the hummer OF jul!
I QerS fellow can make IN "a pOuI II
ne Is not careful and if he does ny Is
ten more than he talks, you gulu $50
something Of the feeling that nave.
Message Was DOetoTed.
IT was amused the other DAY at a re-
mark that senator NeWlands Haue.
had read him the trust message thaI
was to deliver to congress some ~ ueiy $
I before 1 delivered it, and 1 never STOP
-Qoct0flng things Of that klno GIitI1 tue
Gay 4 have to deliver them WHen ne
neard 1t read to congress, ne sdIu,
think II was better than It was Wneh
yolA read II to me-. Salu- oehatOI'
theSe Is one thing which 1 DeueNe you
40 not understand. I not only use ali
the brains have, but all can borrow
ana nave borrowed lot since reau
IL to you first That, 1 dare say IS
what gives the impression of circum-
spectness. 1 am listening; 1 am dill
BenLIy trying to collect all the oralns
InaL are bOrrOWable in order thaI
may not make more blunders than 1t is
inevitable that a man should make VINO
I has great limitations Of knowledge and
chance.
Feels Like an Outsider.
Z The emotion of the thing is so great
mat suppose I must be some kind of
q mask to conceal it ! really feel
sometimes as if were masquerading
men catch a picture Of myself in
some printed description. In between
InlnSs mat have to do as a public Of
( ucer never think of myself as the
president OF the United States have
never had any sense Of being identified
win that office. I feel like q person
{ appointed Tor certain length of time
70 administer that office and 1 feel
just as much outside Of it at this mo-
HleuL as DeIOre 1 was elected to 1t. No
man could imagine himself the govern
uenL OF the United States but he could
understand that some part Of his fell
low clLzens mad told him to 60 and run
a certain part Of it the best he knew
how. That would not make him the
government Itself or the thing itself.
II would just make him responsible for
running it the best he knew how. The
machine is so much greater than him
self the office is SO much greater than
himself; the office is so much greater
Lhan he ever can be, and the best he
can do IS to look grave enough and self
possessed enough to fill it.
81 can hardly refrain every now and
again from tipping The public the wink,
as mucn as TO say 1t is only me that is
inside this thing. know perfectly
Z well that L will have to get out pres
emily. 1 know that then I will look Just
my own proper size, and that for the
/ what retracted and misrepresented to
the eye by the large thing I am inside
OF, from which am tipping you this
wink
sort:
I viii not say whether it is wise or
unWlser simple or grave; but certain
precedentS have been established that
IN certain companies the president must
leave the room first and people must
SlVe way TO him They must learn to
not SIT down If he Is standing Up. It
IS very uncomfortable thing to have
to think of all the other people every
time 1 get up and sit down and all that
sort Of thing. So when have guests
in my own house and the public is shut
out, adjourn being president and take
leave to be q gentleman. II they draw
back and insist upon my doing some
thing first firmly decline
DelVes Into Detective Stories.
There are blessed intervals when
i forget by one means or another
that am president of the United
States. One means by which I forget
II IS to set a rafting good detective
story, get AFTER some imaginary Of
fender, and chase him all Over-pre-
1erably any continent but this Be
cause the very parts of this CONT
, nent are becoming painfully sugges-
tive to me. The pOstOffices, and many
other things which stir "reminiscences
U
cast Of thought There are postof-
fees to which I would not think Of
mailing letter, which I can't think
Of without trembling with the knowl-
edge of the heart-burnings of the
struggle there in connection with get
Tng somebody installed as pOstmas-
ter
Too Much Personal CONDUCTING.
Now, if I were free, I would not
infrequenly come up to these rooms.
You know never was in Washington
but a very few times and but q very
few hours until I came last year and
I never expect to see the inside of the
public buildings in Washington until
my term is over The minute I turn
up anywhere, am personally con-
Quoted to beat the band. The curator
and the assistant curatOrs and every
other blooming official turns up and
they show me so much attention that
1 don't see the buildings I would
have to say stand aside and LET me
see what you are showing me- Some
day after I am through with this Of
flee I am going to come back to
Washington and see it. In the mean
time I am in the same category as
the National museum, the monument
the Smithsonian Institution or the
congressional library, and everyone
who comes down here has to he shown
the president II I only knew an ex-
hibitiOn appearance to assume-ap-
parently 1 can assume other appear
ances that do not show what is go
ing on inside would like to have
it pointed out, so that I could prac-
tice it before the looking glass and
see If I could not look like the mon
ument. Being regarded as a national
exhibit it would be much simpler
than being shaken hands with by the
whole United States.
"And yet even that Is interesting to
me, simply because I like human he
ings. It is a pretty poor crowd that
interest
would have to be all members of that
class that devotes itself to 'exnense
regardless Of pleasure in order to he
entirely embarrassing. These look so
much alike-spend their time trvine.
to look so much alike-and SO relieve
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