| Show Secretaries to Presidents and to the tie Candidates Men Who Must Have the Unmistakable Political Instinct are the du 11 of f a II private see aeo seeto Ira 1 to 10 a II president nt t I o i a l I comprehensive he list ItAI of his en manta that It may mayI I I firmed affirmed truthfully t It h that Ihal he lie Is 9 j O II h at least lael le l IH is the Ih theng i f ilK ng g ago by hy every i either public or ur r t hr I en 11 him In contact contao t i pubic officials I 1 inter iI prior to Preal 1 I j t that e l congress l I I Ii I h magistrates mu traces 1 t I w I Previous to 10 hua M r I had hud II i h I 1 r h id Ill I K some mt ono one der derI de I I f f r c 11 i one of the dc tie tieI I II i Unusual for tho the I r r i n some orne Intimate I I Ii ICI I Andrew Andrea lack Jock 11 II t I Ms his friend k anti and I Jr Jackson pr Ir Donelson a t l rv during the eight J I r I J I J lil Ie White While House Househ Jr I d 1 h r LI f 10 1 of oC West w 1111 ald de P M camp on HI bis J l J Wll bras HI an old man i il I lr r I began blan J I tl but he es cc nIi 11 n Cause with such UCh UChi at U I t p I waa t M nl a arrested 1 If II and L f f r api When p President i f r ft the I old r r mans plight iI h he her j tat t e r s nas 1181 he ordered order his Sf aP j fu he sent Bent i tI Ii ly latter etter f offering I him 1 Ii WI If d he would oban 1 is III f fr and r t i Nr Ir come j d t I lie tIP refUsed day II of hi hia death r r with a firm th the e Ct nth 41 I I tf with the Ihl lire life of i n a II secretary w ft Is I I Yar I ago the POsition i r cure Ot Of q nil all 1 1 h the ther ft i H I been tit at II I Ilk the c 1 I that II John I lid d Ad a J orR Druco tl M led u to the ifill late h l had the tho least time It Waa a ono one of r absolute requirements that every letter which reached the lire White WhiteHouse House should be answered Some gome ad administrations ad 1111 administrations ministrations havo made It Il a point to Ignore all nil correspondence corr which was Willi not actually Important Mr tr McKinley was wont to maintain that any person Who vho took the trouble to send him n II let tor ss us worthy worth of an answer anti and us 1111 a II result rosult his hili secretaries were kept dic die dictating dictating tating from morning until night For any uny letter referring to le a n 1 depart department department rl ment was wall forwarded to that thai depart department department ment for tor consideration and that ended tho the of ot the tha executive of ot office lice fice These e letters are oro still sent to tho the proper departments but under the new way WRY he rhe sender Is III notified by b the tle pres pros presidents dents secretory that Mi hut matter will be attended to In proper time One of ot tho the most active and one Important duties of the secretary Is IH to 10 act as all a sort of buffer between the president and the ever ocr present army 11 Im of office omco seekers and for favors fa po and social During his hia probation as aR assistant secretary It II was discos discovered erect ered that lint Mr was possessed of ot great grent talent In thin direction and the business of political and social me InO was turned over oer almost exclusively exclusively to him It was WitS his adeptness In tho the management of ot social problems problem that went far tar toward making Mr 11 Cor a i necessity at nt the White House H Jt Is le labor enough for tor one ono man and a II man of no common parts must he be bo to steer ateer safely through tho the social sea elt son at ot the tho White House It Is le the most moat dreaded part of a 0 duties and more than one ona new now man mall has come comae perilously near shipwreck The social functions of a n government are arc by no means to be regarded ns as of or minor Im Even In wartimes And with the unconventional and anti serious Lincoln In tho the choir chair theta the was Willi no cessation of ot festivities In the White House Hous An Ur 01 drew Johnson loved lovel good cheer the th executive mansion was WAI a hospitable ho ble Place while i he was wall In It II Doorkeeper r Arthur Simmons used to 10 declare that ho had seen Been delivered at one time limo at nt i I i r s 0 1 li 4 I pF 5 3 i I ti ll t f r S S t I 1111 7 4 ARTHUR MCAUSLAND WILLIAM LOED JR Judge Parkers private pr I ate secretory secretary s President private secretary the kitchen door of the White House two dressed beeves three dressed dreaded d lambs a n barrel of 01 hams and ami a 0 hogshead of eggs egg J Buchanan Henry wan the first private vate vale secretary to appear on the House Jlou c payroll lie He was a relative of oC President and remained with him two tuo years car At Al that time there was no executive force In the White House The rhe secretary was wall required to do the entire clerical work No Ao books were kept and all nil letters except those of a n I strictly persons personal character were nn an Sutured by the department The Th prat presidents dents of ot those thoe days attended to th their own awn private correspondence President i McKinley wrote fewer letters than any ant on previous chief executive cx All of the presidents president pr before Mr McKinley wrote their messages with their own hand hands President Cleveland dictation ho Ire wrote most mOlt of his has Important Utters letters with his hla own Oln pen Doth Hy and Cleveland always wrote their own mes messages m sages and anel they the were weri were afterward copied by an on assistant secretary John 0 Ml relay was WAil secretary and re ra remained r mashed with list him to the end nd He tie II la is I still cull living In Washington and Is II this the beat living authority on matters malic pertaining to 10 the groat greet emancipators lion Wh llen n General Orol to In the White House Hou e he hl chose for tor or Ida his secretary young RIbert M 1 Douglas a son Ion of the Little pant Some Same of ot tho the most moal noted private see sec secretaries to 10 the presidents were attached 1 to their chiefs In a I similar capacity before be bt before fore ort their election Several of them theta were active and anti most mOIl student In con ton conducting ducting darting the campaigns which requited In their patrons r reelection Mr Nice lay was wall the th man mama who assumed the bur burden burden den of ef second campaign and bt Itt m 4 assisted by b John liar lay who vho Is Isnow Isnow isnow now secretary of state Daniel S La r mom was wa the Ibe magician who smoothed the nit will way for far r second admin administration and a friend of ot and a II power flower In the Inner Illner and ami conservative oen circles of oC Democracy he le largely larrelt to te the tM success of or the lilt first Ii 11 Cortelyou furnishes another example of what may be lie ac acv by coupled with Lash Loab Jr secretary to Pres President President ident nO I Is another confidential con scribe I rI whoa w opportunity It II la is to Le h at lit atone atones ones one and Inti persons personal In character Not Hal only must he h retain a keen over oversight oversight sight lIht of the It usual White While louse House lIou oler cler clerical ical Ital business bun but he h must Inuit enter heart and ant i spirit Into the Uti Intricacies of ot a campaign lie he 11 I is II a t man loan of abundant political experience having bean bien successively In tire the confidential employ of ot Senator lessen Governor Morton and Lieutenant Governor Sax Saxton Saxton ton When Wilen President was WIS elected eted governor of New Nw York he ht se Ce selected Ie Mr Loeb for tor his ht private secre secretary secretary tary tal When he wee was III chosen vice vie president president dent he took till hll secretary to Wash Walli Washington Washington ington and amid when he succeeded u to 10 tin the presidency Mr 11 Loeb became 11 assistant to Mr air 11 At 1 the tha ap rip appointment ointment to a cabinet i Jl Mr M r Loeb Lob became to 10 thin president Arthur Arlhur Alton aiton li Par Parkers kr kers private i tot ir l tR a MM the bt busiest time of ot his hIli ii r rio l 1 life lit Whether be lif he the Ih nui imi li II will al I w iv aIS Ic be b of ot ih don that at it one nf lime nf or life his life I lip it c v WI is permitted d to tn view new the Ih machinery of a presidential campaign from the Ih inside A BARTOW DAnTOW oR I r |
