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Show PiSIS p "A (lSEC7TOJY TWO) ' m i ; . ; W : ' ft Hi-, Tuft regime ran scarcely bo duties. With oHiem- Wilson. Knox and VVi';, . 'y ' , Vt.V- A ft J I&2UU1' V.witVr-'iM.ii..J,,i'' V. K Cr20:(? i-X '-' J "77 J 5r designed a "youo mon'ii admin- Meyr-h wo a well acquainted through M foffT? A '-i. ffff .mafa? fer' ' '---yi-lr-l WJ2I. JZgyT&r Mc . Wrallon" in tl. aw.aefcthal tha service In the Roosevelt Cabinet. l r-V,,V 1 MCjfi &2SJ?0er ttCTefctyraftte. jQ&FTr ' volt tenore t the White House- ,, , r . V- & fCFcaS: CS SjejiSQS' rartleulDrly the changed condition no- Grorpe on Lenrerke Meyer, who wm It ? - ' y'-fiQ fj ' tl"b.e within the eharrned elrc.o of the G Utv j ' A "' -, 'f ! Cabinet. The former rent h.tbe J-M Jj? t Uteilfel C!ff0 " selection or men Burn ns fnco"' tho present Cabinet who rnn lor claim , ll W'V t Vrv 'Iff lias boon at til head of the Department legal caaea the new head of the Depart- master Ceneral. h the youngest mcniLer .tou. f.aroeid ana rj' ;.,"whnuni." to no legal training. Instead, he belongs ll i-k'V ' VI4 U tl of Aef',,ture that President Toft cn- ment of Commerre and Nil.or remarked of present Tnfts Cabinet and cxlrtlv dlanoaltlon to place power In , th hands that Increasingly nwmoroua claw It Y 1 IS that ho could not do better than nnletly that be had always prided himself J,. ,;rtn,V t'r be nc of men under rather than over years Af, , , of .ftIpn-th5 Ia( Mnrk ,,nnna U' M&M retain the man who might almost be do- In keeping bit, clients ot of the courts. h. credit, commonly for being, PrcaWent Taft. on the other a ronf(p,cuo,m 0nrnple--Shrewd. UlMlii f ff fl nominated the "father- of Ibis branch of That wan what they paid him for. os he Personally, the most unpopular memler . hand, with a lawyer s wpect ror ripe rapflbl), n,lfill0SS mrn wh0i i,nvng Ct- . V..",.r . . ' . TT i . .13 onr vernmcnt. Confeq.ienLlr Secretary construed If. Something of the same un- f hc dlstlnguLsbed botly. Possibly, this experlfoce. has recnilten a eamnei idq ba noted the thrills of the business world, ' t. Muit m.. ."'-' s'L.'lf II! ' Wilson when he retires will do so with obtrusive efflrlency may be expected to Is to be attributed to a rather unfortu- arerage aire or wbirii i nearly turn to politics for new t-enpatlons. Of " CJTTC'S' JypG &6??JF&3rs ro,.ord of Ionj:PI. H).rvCe In th PmhI- characterl Serretary NageCa odmlnlstni- nate manner, for Hltchrock'H cold, hiugh- ltZ r.nirMHitehrArt ,h "hshr" of w plentiful pnrplus of this world's f Cf'C22222&rr& 2J7(f dentlal Cnblnet than nny other man la tlon of the newest branch of the govern- ty reserve is in marked contrast to tli.j ihL r.blnet irhole l" reara materlallv Knoi iH necessary for the citizen who ' . . ' H'" history of the nation. menf. and ooe which Just now bns Juris- frnnknew and genial cordiality of auch 1., h,a flr.,i wni,t ho wonld thurt enter btatecraft bv the short ' ?. .Secretary Wilson Is the only member diction over many questions of vital Im- men as MncVengh and P-nllluger. In tern- reouces iuo average, tuc uguie wouiu dv . . nf i'rr.Ki.i,.n. Tofi'c r.niini io nnrii.n i.n nHor. r.t n.,iir.r. . '... -v. III", Taft regime can scarcely bo r' designated a "young man's ndmln-T ndmln-T Ictrallon" In the sense that the, term was used dnrlnz tho Kooso-volt Kooso-volt teoure at the White House-Particularly House-Particularly la tho changed condition no-tleeablo no-tleeablo within the charmed clrclo of the Cabinet. The former president, by the selection of men such os Bacon, Cortcl-you, Cortcl-you, Oarfleld and Newberry, showed a disposition to place power In the hands of men under, rather than over, .V years of age. President Taft. on the other , i hand, with a lawyer's renpect for ripe experience, has recruited a cabinet tbo average aire of which la nearly 5S year, and wern It not for the youth of Postmaster Post-master General Hitchcock, tho "baby" of the Cabinet, whose 12 year materially reduces tho average, tho figure would bo nigh fti. Seldom has a Presidential Cabinet disclosed dis-closed tbe range of ages to be seen in lb Teft official family. As, hap been raid, the new Postmaster General is but 42. and Secretary of the Navy Meyer, a holdover from the coterie of comparatively compara-tively young men in the Roosevelt cabinet, cabi-net, is only 51. Secretary Knox is 56 and Secretary Dickinson and Attorney General Wlckersbatu are each CS. Then cornea Secretary Nagel, with his 60, and ncTt in the ascending scale la Bccrotary MacVcugh. who confesses to G7. Finally, we como to "Farmer" 1 Jnmea Wilson, whose 74 summers moke blm tbe dean of tbe body by virtue of age, as well as io point of continuous service as a cabl- net oOicer. . . Somewhat in controst. too, to the preceding pre-ceding Cabinet i the clrcnmstnnce that most of President Taft'a ndvlmers wore chosen because of their experience' and attainment rather tbnn 'because of personal per-sonal relations. Theodore Roosevelt took pleasure In surrounding himself with cronies and old friends, whose identity insured harmony of Ideas and ideals. So far from exacting any such passports to his Cabinet, tbo present Chief Magistrate rhose some men whom be knew ouly by reputation, and. Indeed, President Taft met some of the members of his official household for the llrat time when they came to Washington to assume tbelr new duties. With others Wilson. Knox and Meyer he was well acquainted through service In tho Roosevelt Cabinet. Secretary of tli Navy. George Von Lengcrko Meyer, who was promoted from Postmaster General under Roosevelt to be Secretary of tho Navy under Tafc. is one. of tho few men In tho present Cahlnet who can lay claim to no legal training. Instead, he belongs to that Increasingly numerous claas of Americans of which tho late Mark Hnnna was a conspicuous eample shrewd, capable business men, who, hnvlng exhausted ex-hausted the thrills of the business world, turn to politics for new sensations. Of course, a plentiful surplus of this world's goods Is necessary for the citizen who would thus enter btatecraft by the short cut, but on this score Secretary Meyer auTers no handicap, bis own fortune having hav-ing been augmented by his marriage to the former Miss Alice Applcton. Secretary Meyer comes of an old New Fngland family; he Is a graduate of Harvard, Har-vard, and Boston has loen home to him nil his life. His political career started os a member of tbo Boston Common Council, and in duo ronrsu he became npeaker of tho lower house of tho Mas-haehusett.s Mas-haehusett.s legislature, using In Ihnt capacity ca-pacity a ponderous old dek, wblcb be lias tdnce had removed to' Washington and Installed for his departmental work. Dnrlng the McKlnley ndmlnlstratlou Mr. Meyer made his entry into national poll-tlca poll-tlca as a Republknn natlonnl committee-mini, committee-mini, and later President McKlnley appointed ap-pointed him United States ambassador to Italy. He served at Rome and later at St. Petersburg, where he handled acceptably accept-ably problems growing out of tho Russo-Japanese Russo-Japanese War, and then caino homo to a cabinet berth. This blue stocking of tho " President's advisory council was a member of Roosevelt's; Roose-velt's; "teniiLi cabinet," and Is likely to be enrolled In President Taft'a "golf cabinet." cab-inet." The Meyer family will Inevitably be thrown much with the Tufts If, as Is now pljnned, the President and bis household house-hold become neighbors of tho Meyer In the fashionable summer colony at Manchester Man-chester by-the-Sea, on the north shore of has been at tile head of the Department of Agriculture that President Taft concluded con-cluded Ihnt ho could not do better than retain the man who might almost be denominated de-nominated the "father"' of tbls branch of onr government. Consequently Secretary Wilson when he retires will do so with n rei-ord of longer service In the Presidential Presi-dential Cabinet than nny other man In the history of tho nation. Secretary Wilson Is the only member of President Taffa offlclal family who Is not a native of the I'nlted States. 1I Is a Scotchman, and rame to this country when a lad of 17. Ills parents settled In Connect U-ut, but threo years later the younc man removed to Iowa and set out to carve his own career as a farmer. Incidentally Inci-dentally be j;ot Into jvlltlcs, being elected to the stalo legislature for several successive succes-sive terms, and ultimately being chosen speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives. Representa-tives. Then he came to Congrts and served several years, and finally, for ft considerable con-siderable Interval leforc entering the Cabinet Cab-inet he wns professor of agriculture at the Iowa Agricultural College and director of thn ' Agricultural Experiment Statlou. Thus he gained both a practical and a theoretical knowledge of farming which fostered that broad, progressive policy which has made our governmental Department, Depart-ment, of Agriculture one of the most wonderful won-derful Institutions In tbo world. Secretary of Commerce mid Labor. Charles Nagel, th; new Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Is a lawyer and a graduate of Yale. It might be fciispected that these fpialltlrallons alone mli;ht be almost sufllcient to explain bis presence In the Taft Cabinet, hut they by no means make up the sum total of Secretary Nagel's assets When n man un tact fully remarked, recently, In the hearing of the Secretary, that he bud never seen Mr. Nagel's name mentioned In connection with any famous legal esses the dcw head of tbe Department Depart-ment of Commerre and Ivibor remarked 0'iletly that be had always prided himself In keeping bis clients out of the courts. That was what they paid him for, os he construed If. Something of the some unobtrusive un-obtrusive efflrlency may be expected to characterlr.f? Secretary Nagel's administration administra-tion of tbe newest branch of tho government, govern-ment, and ooe which Just now bns Jurisdiction Juris-diction over many questions of vital Importance Im-portance to the welfare of the nation. The nppolutment of Secretary Nagel, alike to that of Secretary Ralllnger, was In a measure attributable to a record of accomplishment established during tbe last Presidential Campaign and tbo preliminary pre-liminary canvass for tbe nomination. Secretary Nagel, who Is a native of Texas, but cbose St. I.ouls as the scene of his legal career, has been gradually forging hln way ahead In politics for aome years past. He was president of tbe St. Louis city council for four years and then became n member of the state legislature. legis-lature. During the Roosevelt administration administra-tion ho worked hard to bring Missouri into tbe Republican camp, and he It wa9 viho won tbe Missouri vote for Tuft lu the nominating, convention at Chicago. During tho campaign that ended Inst No vrmtier he was much of the time lo ch-irge of the Western headquarters of the Republban National CommtttCf nt Chicago, and at the same tlmo devoted considerable attention to tho Missouri situation. Secretary Nagel la an evtep-tlonally evtep-tlonally well-educated man, having hod the benefit of a upeclnl course In tho University of Rcrlln He has been for jiais past one of tho professors at tbe St. I.ouls Law School and Is n trustee of the public library nud also tbe museum of f.ne arts. Pontmaater General. Frank Harris Hitchcock, the new Post master Ceneral. is the youngest member of President Tnft s Cabinet, und, oddly enough, gets credit, commonly, for being, personally, the most unpopular mewler of tbe distinguished body. Possibly, this Is to be attributed to a rather unfortunate unfortu-nate mariner, for Hltehrock's cold, haughty haugh-ty reserve is In marked contrast to tho franknesH and genial cordiality of auch men as MncVeagh and P-nllluger. In tern-perament tern-perament and other characteristics the new Postmaster General U rather suggestive sugges-tive of a fish out of water In his pr-s-ent environment, but to become Postmaster Postmas-ter General was a cherished ambition of his nnd manifestly it is difficult for a newly elected president to refuse the personal per-sonal request of a man who. as Chairman of tbo National Committee, has been, in effect, the general manager of his campaign. cam-paign. Postmaster General Hitchcock Is a native na-tive of Taft'a own state, Ohio, but when he was very young his father, a Coure-gatlonul Coure-gatlonul minister, removed to Boston nnd the lad was educated In the Boston public pub-lic schoolH Save for snrh groundings as be received during a eourso in Harvard, Hitchcock may be s.ald to be a prod-ict of tbe government service at Washington. Washing-ton. He bus been drawing pay from Uncle Un-cle Sum almost continuously for a good many years now Justice Harlan gave blm a helping hand when he started a a clerk In the Department of AgrlmMurf nnd then he became a protege, of George P.. Cortelyou. The latter took him with him when he organized the Department of Commerce and 1-nbor nnd in turu when he took charge of the Pnstofflco Department. De-partment. Incldently he helped Corlel-you Corlel-you manage the Roosevelt Presidential Campaign nnd learned of the irsslblllilej of the i'ostoiTlee Department as a ceniei for tbe political nerves of the nation. Massachusetts;1 li(iy.,'iDcldcntally it may he mentioned) that .feome of the most influential in-fluential aenatorN and representatives in Congress from jUieSP.ay State can be depended de-pended upon to" work hard to have Secretary Sec-retary Meycrs retained in the Cabluct so long as he may desire to remain there. Ivxpln nation: If he were out bo might take It Into 'his head to mine to Congress from MnssnehnNetts, and that would mean n "shake up" lu tbe present delegation. Soeretnrj- of the Interior. Richard A. Balllnger. Secretory of the Interior. Is the representative of the Pacific Pa-cific Slope In the new Cabinet, and, llko almost all the newcomers, he Is a lawyer. law-yer. Born In Iowa, he, like Secretary Meyer, graduated from Harvard, and then, taklug Horace Greeley'a ndvlce. he sought the land of opportuulty. In the favored Pacific Northwest he literally grew up with the country, ami has ever been regarded as one of the leaders of the bar In the I'uget Sound country. His rodl0.cal.lon of the laws of the State of Wcishlngton brought him considerable fame, and he served with distinction as a Judge of the Superior Court. About fhe years ago the people of Seattle, Seat-tle, ngalnst .ludgc Bnllluger's protest, elected blm mayor, and the thoroughness of the municipal housecleanlng which he inaugurated attracted the attention of men all over the country, Including President Presi-dent Roosevelt. When Judge Balllnger declined re-election as mayor, Roosevelt drafted him for pervlen as comrnlssloner of the General Land Oilier, n branch of the government service which Just then afforded af-forded peculiar opportunities for Judge Bnllluger's thorough, conscientious rattling rat-tling of dry bones. This was his Introduction Intro-duction to ofliclnl life at tho national capital, and after a brilliantly successful career ho reiiiriied to his law practice Ii; Seattle. During the last presidential rainpnlgu Judge Balllnger was Held marshal mar-shal for tbe Republican national organization organi-zation In the Northwest, and President Taft early selected him as the man to represent tbe West Coust in tho new Cabinet. Secretary of AjcrleuHnrc. James Wilson, veteran of three administrations, admin-istrations, Is probably the most plcl uresque figure In tbe present Cabinet, as he was In lis predecessor. When William II. Taft nurtured an ambition Io start fresh In the presidency with a brand-ucw Cabinet be did not exactly expect to retain the prcs ent Secretary of. Agriculture. However, he was speedily deluged with such a flood of communications from farmers and farm ers' orgaDizaitous in ail parts of tho country coun-try in support of the policy purnued bv Secretary Wilson during the U years he |
