The man Roosevelt, a portrait sketch . anders. Byrne wasa Catholic, and could talk to his fellow believ-ers as no Protestant could. He improved theopportunity offered by his electioneering activi-ties to explain and defend the Governmentspolicy. This greatly pleased the President,who, when the campaign ended in his defeat,named him for restoration to his old place. The fact that he had become a supporter ofAddicks and was nevertheless to be appointedto office excited all the uproar, and quitedrowned out public consideration of any othercircumstance in his career. Complaints of hisneglect of hi
The man Roosevelt, a portrait sketch . anders. Byrne wasa Catholic, and could talk to his fellow believ-ers as no Protestant could. He improved theopportunity offered by his electioneering activi-ties to explain and defend the Governmentspolicy. This greatly pleased the President,who, when the campaign ended in his defeat,named him for restoration to his old place. The fact that he had become a supporter ofAddicks and was nevertheless to be appointedto office excited all the uproar, and quitedrowned out public consideration of any othercircumstance in his career. Complaints of hisneglect of his duties as district attorney underhis former commission began to pour intoWashington; the press rang with the incidentfor some weeks; resolutions denunciatory of thePresident were adopted by various reform bod-ies; and in every way the popular feeling aboutAddicks and Addicksism made itself the midst of the turmoil, which broke outduring the Presidents temporary absence fromthe capital, Postmaster-General Payne, known 150. THE GUX ROOM AT SAGAMORE HILL. STICKING TO HIS MAN as the expert politician of the Cabinet, madethe mistake of attempting to explain to thenewspapers that the President was only treat-ing Addicks to the same recognition accord-ed to other heads of regular party organiza-tions. Far from acting as a palliative, this state-ment merely increased the excitement. could not understand why it had all his life been dealing with politicianson the cold business basis of so much recogni-tion for so many votes; and he was aware thatMr. Roosevelt, whether gratified or not by thefigures, had been astonished at the magnitudeof the Addicks following as revealed by thelatest election returns, although nearly everysop of Federal patronage had been thrown tothe minority faction on the bare ground thatAddicks was Addicks. The President, on his return to the WhiteHouse, lost no time in making it known thatreasons entirely disconnected with Byrnes fa
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