Vice President James S. Sherman (1909-1913)
Personally, I have
not the slightest race prejudice or feeling, and recognition
of its existence only awakens in my heart a deeper sympathy for
those who have to bear it or suffer from it, and I question the
wisdom of a policy which is likely to increase it. Meantime,
if nothing is done to prevent it, a better feeling between the
negroes and the whites in the South will continue to grow, and
more and more of the white people will come to realize that the
future of the South is to be much benefited by the industrial
and intellectual progress of the negro. The exercise of political
franchises by those of this race who are intelligent and well
to do will be acquiesced in, and the right to vote will be withheld
only from the ignorant and irresponsible of both races.
William HowardTaft (at 350 pounds) was as lethargic as Roosevelt
was energetic. He did not really want to be president -- his
dream was to be a Supreme Court Justice (he was eventually appointed
by Warren Harding in 1921). Whenever he heard someone say "Mr.
President", he would look around for Roosevelt. By
1910:
Teddy, come blow your horn,
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in
the corn,
The boy you left to tend the sheep
Is under the haystack fast asleep
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