The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-05

lican national campaign is feeling the
effect of Chairman Cortelyou's fine tai
ents as a manager, says W. w Jer-
name in a Chicago dispatch to the
Minneapolis Journal. While his mind
is quick to detect every flaw, whether
of detail or general plan, it is equally
quick to propose a remedy. He had
not been national chairman many days |
when he saw that the national COM
mittee and the congressional commit
tee, the one looking after states as a
whole and the other after certain con-
gressional districts within those
states, had for years been doing an
unwarranted amount of duplicating
covering the same fields twice, and
thus involving a waste of time, tai
ents and campaign funds. He set
himself about bringing these two
bodies into closer relationship, and
while the difficulties were neither few
nor trifing, he has at last overcome
them.
The formal announcement of the
new policy came when it was made
known that Congressman James A.
Tawney of Minnesota was to be man
ager of the speakers bureau of the
national committee. He already holds
the post of manager of the speakers
l..o., oS thu ornccinro1 nOr rnif.
tee. His work for both organizations
will be done in Chicago under national
committee direction, and thus for the
first time in the history of the republi-
can party, this branch OF it's business
is to be conducted in accordance with
business ideas of securing maximum
results with a minimum expenditure
of time, energy and money.
Not only that, but the national COM
mittee will be closer than ever before
to the congressional situation, and
therefore in better position to render
important help at opportune moments
in close or uncertain districts, while
the congressional committee, in it's
closer relationship to the national
committee, will be in position to give
important counsel regarding what
should be done in the weak spots in
the several states where the battle
will be on.
President and Congress Cooperate.
In another direction, Mr.. Cortelyou
has also shown thus early in the cam
paign the fine stuff he is made OF.
This year will see a closer and more
loyal cooperation between the White
house and the two houses of con
gress than has characterized any re-
publican national campaign for more
than a generation. For this state OF
affairs Mr.. Cortelyou is directly re
sponsible. The selection of MI. Taw
ney to manag the joint speakers bu
reau is one of the early fruits of this
cooperation. There will be many
others before the campaign closes
Speaker Cannon is an ardent admire1
OF the new chairman, and SO is Sen
ator Frye, president pro tempore o
the senate. All the other leading re
publican members of the two houses
are preparing to make Mr.. Roosevelt
| cause their own this year to a degre'
which up to a month ago vas assumes
: to be out of the question.
Cortelyou, modest, u~nassuming, g
times silent, has done it all.
The foregoing statement is so er
9 tirely at variance with what the publ
has been given to understand was tn
feeling between the president and tn
party leaders in congress, that ! wa
at first almost tempted to doubt il
d truth. The high source from whic
e it comes, however, is of itself a suf
Gent guarantee of truth.
: Mckinley and Hanna Influence.
. AS a further evidence of Mr.. Co
telyou's wonderful tact, l am able
announce that the Mckinley and II
Hanna families are enthuslastlcal
for Roosevelt and that at the prop
time definite announcement of tn;
fact will be made.
There has also been a permanent r
moval of the possibility of the par
breach which Mr.. Cortelyou's appoiI
ment at one time seemed likely
make. Senator Penrose, Senator Ct
linger, Senator Scott and Govern
Murphy Of New Jersey were all ca
didates for the place which Cortely'
now fills and their campaigns for
pointment were rather strenuous. T
president, meanwhile, was anxious
name Cornelius Bliss or Govern
Murrv Crane 0f Massachusetts. Be