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AT THE WHITE HOUSE
The Confidential Employees Who Can
B? Trustel.
HOW INFORMATION IS PRESERVED
President Has Private Tele
graph Office.
HANDLES IMPORTANT MESSAGES
And Never a Word Leaks Out—Character
istics of Secretary Porter —A Safe, Modest
and Sagacious Confidant The Presi
dent's Doorkeeper and Other Employees.
Washington, July 9.—.[Special. ] —The
secrets of the White House arc well guard
ed. It improves one’s faith in human na
ture to know that at the executive man
sion there arc a number of employees who
from the nature of their work must be
familiar with what is going the
scenes, but who are never known to breathe
even the slightest hint of the information
which comes to them. I can testify that
not one of the newspaper correspondents,
of Washington ever thinks of approaching
a White House employee other than the
secretary to the president for news con
cerning White House policies or actions.
These men are looked upon as confidential
employees. Their trust is a sacred one.
It would be disgraceful for them to betray
it, and even the newspaper correspond
ents, who are, as a rule, pretty eager for
news, and sometimes in the fierceness of
their professional rivalry are driven to odd
expedients, respect the sacredness of the
trust which the president reposes in the
men about him.
While Secretary Porter is the only White
House employee who has access to the
president’s room at all hours, other em
ployees find it necessary to see the presi
dent at various times during the day, and
in the nature of things it is impossible to
keep from them information as to what is
going on. Then there is the correspond
ence. Its volume is too great to be dis
posed of by the secretary alone. He must
have assistance in reading letters and in
preparing replies to them. This means
that Assistant Secretary Pruden, Execu
tive Clerk Cortelyou, Telegraph Operator
and Stenographer Montgomery and vari
ous other clerks and employees must every
day be more or less familiar with what is
going on.
A Private Telegraph Office.
It may not be generally known that the
president of the United States has a tele
graph office of his own. In a small room
at the northeast corner of the building,
second story, sits Operator Montgomery.
By means of an arrangement with the
telegraph company he is enabled to send
and receive messages direct from his table
to all parts of the United States. Scarcely
an hour passes in the day that important
telegrams do not pass oneway or the other
over this wire. Messages are sent concern
ing foreign appointments of the highest
importance, as, for instance, the mission
to Spain. Last month Operator Mont
gomery handled at least a score of mes
sages about this one office, any one of
which would have made interesting read
ing could it have been given to the public.
Telegrams are sent to influential men con
cerning leading appointments, and more
than one administration tangle is straight
ened out by means of the president’s wire.
Telegrams are frequently sent to the
capitol or to the departments. Senators
are always calling up the White House,
either by wire or telephone, to know when
certain nominations in which they are in
terested are to be sent to the senate. Oper
ator Montgomery has charge of the tele
phone as well as the telegraph, and it is
safe to say that the amount of confidential
Information which comes to his busy ears
and industrious brain amounts almost to
an Inside history of the administration day
by day. Yet never a word of all this leaks
out from him. One might as well attempt
conversation with the sphinx of Egypt as
With this punctilious operator.
Men Who Keep “Mum.’*
Charles Loeffler, the.president’s door
keeper, is another White House employee
who is in possession of a vast number of
secrets of state. Mr. Loeffler’s duty is to
sit at the door of the cabinet room, through
which important visitors are admitted by
appointment. In hot weather this door is
either left open or is covered only by a
screen, that there may be free circulation
of air. The result is that as Mr. Loeffler
sits at his post he is compelled to overhear
more or less of the conversation within.
It frequently happens that the president’s
visitors talk in a loud voice, and the man
at the door is so near that practically all
they say is perfectly audible to him. But
that makes no difference. Mr. Loeffler has
been hearing this sort of talk for 20 or 25
years. It is an old story to him. It all
goes in one ear and out the other.
These White House employees have been
there, most of them, for many years. They
serve through administration after admin
istration. Pruden, Crook, Montgomery
and others have been there since the days
of Lincoln and Grant. They are among
the most trusty men to be found in the
whole government service. But what a
book any one of them could write if he
were to sit down and rummage among his
recollections of famous men and scenes!
Porter’s Tact.
I have often been asked the question who
has the most influence with President Mc-
Kinley. Ti;n’» i,s a kard gpmundrum to an-
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swer, but if 1 Were going to mate an effort
In that direction I should certainly place
Secretary Porter before all others. Porter
has influence with the president chiefly'be
cause he does not try to have any. He is
a thorough believer in keeping his place.
He does not intrude his opinions. If he
did, perhaps they would not be so well re
ceived. But Mr. Porter is a man of abil
ity and judgment. He knows human na
ture. Having been a newspaper writer, he
knows how to size things up quickly.
The president long ago recognized Mr.
Porter’s good qualities, and he leans on
his secretary more than any president in
recent years has leaned on the man occupy
ing a similar position, unless we except
Mr. Cleveland’s relations to Dan Lamont
during the first Cleveland term.
Mr. Porter has a tremendous advantage
in that he is always by the president. Mr.
McKinley is not a man of moods. He is
nearly always the same—yesterday, today
and tomorrow —but there is some trifling
variation, and no one knows so well what
to say and when to say it and when to
keep still as Mr. Porter. If he has any
thing he wishes to offer, he waits till the
moment is propitious. Others, even cabi
net officers, are generally compelled to
speak when they get the chance, be the
moment a favorable one or unfavorable.
Many times a day the president asks for
Mr. Porter’s advice, and he has learned to
value it when he gets it. The president
has discovered that in his secretary he has
a faithful, modest and sagaclousconfidant,
and Mr. Porter’s influence thrives accord
ingly. Walter Wellman.
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Coinproller Oat For Congress.
Columbia, S. C., July 9. Comp
troller General Norton has positively
announced his candidacy for congress
in the Sixth congressional district to
succeed Mr. McLaurin. The candi
dates have until the thirteenth to file
their pledges. So far two canaidates,
Solicitor Johnson and F. D. Bryant,
Esq., have filed their pledges. It is
considered certain that Mr. D. W. Mc-
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Heat Wave Canges A Strike.
Paducah, Ky., July 9.—The heat
wave is causing suffering all over west
ern Kentucky. Many prostrations are
reported. Two hundred men employed
on the Illinois Central below here
struck, declaring that they could not
work. Threshing crews are abandon
ing their machines.
North Carolina Cotton Mills.
Raleigh, July 9.—The state labo:
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the cotton mills in North Carolina and
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000 spindles and over 30,000 looms. The
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The Thrilling: Adveiiturt* of a Fisherman
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a few moments the boat gave a sudden
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boat; the fishing line was made fast to
the end of the chain, and hence pre
vented the fisherman from using his
knife to sever the twine.
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