PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
Mr Roosevelt (says a Washington correspondent) is rapidly showing that he proposes to conduct his office on different lines from those hitherto adopted. The presidential mansion, the White House, is now being renovated and refurnished at a cost of £72,000, and is destined to be the scene of various magnificent functions during the next winter season. The Mayflower, the splendid steam yacht purchased by the Government from Mrs Ogden Goelet for over £IOO,OOO, is being refitted at a cost of £IO,OOO, and will hereafter be used as the President’s yacht. When completed it will be a veritable floating palace, equalling, if not surpassing, that of any European monarch. These and other extravagances have aroused a certain amount of criticism among Mr Roosevelt’s political opponents, and are condemned as undemocratic. Mr Roosevelt will shortly make a tour through the country, ostensibly to show himself in view of a second term, but his prospects are not encouraging. The leaders of the Republic party are not entirely in sympathy with the President and nearly all the measures he has recommended to Congress have met with defeat.
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Western Star, 26 August 1902, Page 3
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