NOT IN THE CABINET.
The striking personal appearance of Mr. Taft, will save any visitor such an experience a a fell to the lot of m certain General Brown, of Missouri, who once went to the White House to give a newly-elected President some pointers about his Cabinet. While he was waiting in the ante-room he accosted a men who was glancing over a paper. “I suppose you are'here on the same errand as I am ?” he remarked “I don’t know,” replied the other, pleasantly. "What errand are jou on ?” ‘‘l’m going to tell that old chump in there how to fix his Cabinet.” “No, I can’t say that I’m on that errand.” ‘‘Maybe you ain’t a politician?” ‘‘No,” returned the stranger, politely ; ‘‘l’m the old chump.” General Brown was hot in the new Cabinet.
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 22, Issue 93, 1 December 1911, Page 5
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135NOT IN THE CABINET. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 22, Issue 93, 1 December 1911, Page 5
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