Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-03
Theodore the First
 Laying Ropes for 1908
HAS HAD HIS OWN WAY AND WILL BE FREE TO NOMINATE
 HIMSELF AGAIN IN 1908.

New York, July 2:-President Roose- welt has had his own way, and will be free to renominate himself in 1908, says the Chicago Chronicle.
 The amazing and unexpected sdr- render of the reconcentrados of the National Committee has left him in undisputed possession of the machin- cry of the party. George B. Cortel- you was elected chairman of the new committee and the President will name a woking executive committee and reserve the right to pass final judgment upon all candidates for Of 1 1ces with in the committee.
 IL Is currently believed that he has already selected a secretary to sue eeed Elmer Dover in the person of Louis A. Cooldrige, of Washington. It is the obvious purpose of the Presi. oent to surround himself hereafter with friends and counselors of his own choosing, and unload, as rapid y as prudence will permit, the entire army of Mckinley office holders which came to him as heritage, and which he did not dare to disturb while he was serving McKinley's term.
 The selection of Cortelyou as chairman is universally recognized as the first step in plan to build up gigantic Roosevelt machine, which will be as formidable and effective as it can be made. If he is elected the President will make a clean sweep of all the offices. He has made up his mind to annihilate every existing vestige of the once powerful Mckinley machine by replacing Mckinley office holders with men who will publicly wear the Roosevelt collar.
 The President has perfected his plans with so much secrecy that their full import is not yet intelligently understood by all politicians. They appreciate, however, that it is his purpose ruthlessly to desroy his politi- cal enemies, to offer or accept no terms of compromise from any one who is not willing to take the Roose- welt oath of allegiance without reser- Vation, and 10 become the most des- potic boss the Republican party has had in it's history.
 The selection of Cortelyou for chairman of the National Committee confirms the most exaggerated sus- plcions of the Presidents purposes. Cortelyou is not, and never has been, a party man. He has no ties other than those which bind him to the President to whom he owes every thing he possesses.
 Until the President recently an- nounced that he proposed to make the Secretary of Commerce and La Dor chairman of the National Commit tee not half dozen men in the United States knew what party Mir. Cortel- you belonged to- He was first ap- pointed to subordinate office in the Postoffice Department during Presi- dent Cleveland's second term, and the presumption was that he was a Demo crat. Postmaster General Bissell ad- vanced him through several grades of the civil service. and finally recom- mended him to President Cleveland as competent clerk and stenographer who would fulfill all expectations. Thta was Cortelyou's political begin ming.
 After President Mckinley was in- augurated his advancement was rapid. He became secretary to the President in 1899, and after the death of Me Kinley remained as Roosevelt's secre- tary until he was appointed Secretary