The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-22

committee. Tie does things 1ntultIveIy,
impulsively, whereas Whitney end Har-
rity are cautious and give much thought
to any matter presented to them before
they reach final decision.
The committee is visited daily by Mr..
Robert p. Roosevelt, who has been elecoed
treasurer, and occasionally by the noted
Senator German, of Maryland. Mr. Roose.
Welt is one of the old Enickerbocker aris
tocracy of New York. He does not belong
to the famed -Four Hundred because he is
a member of a more select circle, into
which but few of the Four Hundred are
ever able to penetrate. His acquaintance
with New York merchants and the repuua
ton for business ability and integrity Of
character which he has among them are
as great as those possessed by Cornelius y.
Bliss, who is the treasurer OF the Repub>
ican national committee.
Mr. Roosevelt is as persuasive in Undue
ing Democratic merchants to subscribe to
a campaign fund as Mr. Bliss is with Re
publican merchants. He is an uncle Of
Theodore Roosevelt, perhaps the most
prominent and promising Republican Of
his years in New York. Young Roosevelt
is now one of the federal civil service COM
missioners He was a candidate for mayor
of New York before he was thirty years of
age, and is as ardent Republican as his
uncle is a Democrat 1t is quite possible
that Treasurer Roosevelt will be the Dem
ocratic candidate for mayor of New York
this fall.
To him is committed the financial re-
sponsibility of the campaign. He is ex-
pected not only to raise the funds that are
needed, but to see that the accounts are
thoroughly kept and that there is no waste
or extravaganza. In the consultations i'll
which he shares Mr.. Roosevelt has not
much to say about the conduct of the cam
paign, for he is not practical politician.
But as to ways and means his Judgment
is regarded as almost infallible, and upon
| it the committee will in the main rely dur
| ing the canvass.
The most jovial, fun loving member OF
the committee is Bradley 3. Smalley, OF
| Vermont, who has been chosen secretary
Mr.. Whitney regards him as a very astute
| politician, Notwithstanding his fondness
for a practical joke and his irresistible i'm
| pulse to indulge in wit. 1t is like a ray oil
sunlight when Mr.. Smalley enters head
| quarters in the morning. He glances over
| his correspondence with lightninglikt
rapidity, and can clear desk loaded dowr
with mail more quickly than any mar
who has ever held the post Of secretary ex
cepting ex-senator Dorsey, who was sec
rotary of the Republican committee il
1880.
Mr.. Smalley is in charge of the bureau o
correspondence, although subordinate
relieves him of much of the detail worl
necessary to conduct it. This bureau ha
the two upper floors of the brownston
mansion and even then is somewha
cramped for room. The amount Of printe,
matter which will he sent out will be, it i
expected, greater than has ever been is
sued by any national committee, and
corps Of clerks in the basement room viii
be occupied day and night in the work G
mailing. The printing and disseminatin
of this matter, Treasurer Roosevelt bt
lieves, will be the heaviest item of expens
| that the committee will have to meet