Show I I 4 4 4 4 1 4 4 1 4 4 1 I 4 1 44 I 4 4 4 4 I 4 4 1 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 I THE A ROOSEVELT THE TUE MOST ACTIVE 4 4 OF THE TUE NATIONS NATION'S PRESIDENTS I I 1 2 f 2 2 2 5 5 2 a 2 1 5 5 i i 5 i e T o e T T e eT T T F i F i i 5 The capital has not yet accustomed Itself to having an athlete for President Every new Roosevelt feat or p or or rough riding is is the subject o of extended comme tin clubs and at functions functions says a Washington dispatch Washington does not und understand howa how a President can be e so active Mr McKinley McKinley Mc- Mc Kinley used to take a short stroll through the White WhiteHouse House grounds once or twice a week and he would go out ina in ina a carriage occasionally Mr Cleveland Cleveland never walked when he could ride Mr Harrison did wa s me but never like a man who was out out for exercise Still President Roosevelt President Roosevelt is simmering simmering simmer simmer- ing down He takes as much exercise as ever ever hard hard p rides on the dirt roads near the the District boundaries and quick energetic eneric walks to to Cabin abin Johns John's Bridge Bridge and ana I back back but in the White House Route he is is sq quieter ieter and less ef ef- ef Tf H Formerly he grasped rasped a visitor by y both hands and said I am am delighted to see you ou with tile tHe accent on on the delighted de dc lighted but now he lets one hand do dothe dothe dothe the work and nd h h som sometimes omits the delighted He lie fi has i s come come to rely more moreon moreon on or that marvelous man Secretary Cortelyou Cortelyou Cortelyou Cor Cor- who do with the tle greatest economy economO of time and energy and has the vitality ty of an iron m man n and the m mastery of detail Of a genius When the Pl President went vent into the White H House use he ne wanted to do everything every every- every thing himself Now ow he realizes that there are m many n things his force can do probably better than he He Is systematizing systematizing systematizing himself to o some degree but for all that he is the most energetic and the most alIve physically of any Pre President ident for foJ m iY years The President finds It hard to get Cabinet officials to walk with hIm The memory of the d day daY- Y when v he dismissed the carriage at at Cabin Johns John's Bridge and made Secretary Root walk b back ck to the White House with him eight miles still stil lingers Nor has the story been forgotten of ho how he chas chased d Senator Lodge up and down a country road laughing uproariously as the Senator bobbed up and down on his horse and clung to the pommel of the saddle The Presidents President's nt's best talking chum is his his' eldest son son Theodore Jr The President President President dent cannot that young man When the latter was home for his Christmas holidays they went out to together together together to- to gether every day Young Theodore never cried enough x I Mr lIr Roosevelt began asking all ail comers corners I Ito to luncheon or dinner when he went yent I Into the White White-Hous and he is still extending invitations He rarely has hasa a meal without company He entertains entertains enter enter- i lavishly too When there Is Is' Is no state function or or public dinner he has friends at his table from everywhere Dinner invitations to the th White House Housego go out in every mail mall Washington notes also that the President dent draws no p pirty lines s In m his Free Silver Populist Republican can or Democrat t its all one one t to ta him Politicians who vhO rarely went to the White House in others days now eat drink and are merry with the dent if j v r f r Rough Riders are always always- received with open arms arms' arms Most of them have been around at one time or another to toI see their old C Colonel lonel Many of them I I I. I 5 5 i i 1 5 5 5 5 I 5 5 2 want office The President does the best he can cart for them A few days ago he gave Ben Daniels an appointment as United States Marshal for Arizona Daniels was a war friend of the President dent Mr Roosevelt sent him to the General Attorney-General with a note which sai said 1 l Hes bully In the Presidents President's history of the rough riders Daniels is given especial notice for bravery The nomination was confirmed by the Senate Then somebody alleged that Daniels had been a faro dealer owned an interest in a faro game had killed a aman aman aman man and had h had d an n ear cut Off in a 0 battle with knives knives and at the request of Senator Hoar the confirmation of Daniels was reconsidered and the charges are now being Investigated The President did not know anything about th the matters involved in these charges He lIe appointed Daniels because he was a brave man The President knew that from personal experience He figured that bravery is an essential for Cor Arizona Marshals M Somebody whispered that in the note the Pre President sent to General Attorney Knox recommending Daniels he spelled it Marshall l Dont pont let that worry you said At At- torney General Knox I dont think its it's so But he can spell it with seventeen Ts ls If he wants io 10 to and it will go Never Kever forget that A delegation of l Michigan men called called on the President a few days ag ago One of them said he hoped there would be beno beno beno no war during the next three years War snorted the President Not Nota a chance of it Do po you think Im I'm going t to hav have a war with me cooped up here hereIn herein herein in the White House |