Show I 1 al IN J GUARDS presidents LIFE tho the changes in fit officialdom at the national nati capital that followed tho the inauguration of 0 william 11 IL taft as president extended oven to the personnel of that secret service corps charged with protecting tile person of the chief magistrate of the nation it if Is not strange that each president should prefer to exorcise strictly his pers personal preferences regarding the secret service men detailed as lit his personal escort for very few f high or low degree are more closely or more continuously associated with the chief executive than these protectors in plain clothes president tafts tafta selection for the post of principal bodyguard was secret service operative mcwheeler LC L C wheeler and it all came about in this wise from the very day that taft was elected pros pres ident four months in advance of the date on which he was inaugurated tile tha chief of the secret service considering that judge taft was a personage whose well being was of vast import to the nation detailed two of his best operatives to guard tl the I 1 e president elect mr air wheeler wheelen was one ot of these men and he accompanied the tafts everywhere they went to cincinnati to hot springs va to augusta ga arid and to the panama canal with side trips to washington philadelphia now new haven new york and other points the qualities which mr air wheeler displayed during this strenuous season made a most favorable impression upon the new president and he asked that mr wheeler ae made his principal bodyguard when he was installed in tile the white house now when president taft walks rides drives or motors abroad in the streets of washington or in the suburbs secret service agent wheeler Is his big inseparable shadow the conscientious secret service man scarcely lets the distinguished object of his attention out of his sight eight during his waking hours hours wheeler like to the other secret service men on duty at the white house la Is about 30 years of age he Is of athletic build arid and keeps himself in the best of condition by daily exercise all these secret service guards 1 go well armed but the weapons are carefully stowed away out of big sight lit and there Is nothing in either the dress or manner of these men to In indicate dicato their office |