The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-14
SOME INCIDENTS IN THE
CAREER OF CORTELY0U

for one reason or another. and certain
corporations and politicians were sry-
ing TO thrust upon him men he did not
( want.
Mr.. President" said this friend. -
have national chairman Tor you-A
man VINO belongs to no factions. wbs
is not the choice of any corporation,
who has the confidence of all RepuD-
licans. who was close to Mckinley arz
Hanna, and is close to YOU, who Is
honest, able, strong
Who is he-who is hep asked the
President.
George Cortelyou.''
The President thought that a sug>
gestion worth thinking about. It WAS
a new idea. No one had suggested Cor
telyou before. Cortelyou had not been
thought of in that connection. In look
ing for a man for a certain task we
are all prone to hunt far away ana
to overlook the man at our elbow. The
President did think about CorteIyou.
He consulted his advisers. In a week
Cortelyou's name was on the slate
1t pays to be the best stenographer
In the office, the best salesman in the
store, the best bookkeeper in the coun-
ting-room, the best workman in the
shop, the best hostler in the stable
On taking his seat as the unanimous
ly elected chairman of the Republican,
national committee George Corteiyox
said to the members of that body:
In this office / want the advice ana
the help of all of you. the old and ex-
perienced members as we'll as the
younger and newer ones But as the
responsibility is mine, I am going Ia
meet it fully, as think you would have
ME meet it, without dictation from any
man.
This was said with a purpose. Though
Chairman Cortelyou Is the personal Sc.
lection of President Roosevelt. as ev-
cry national campaign manager is thG
choice of the presidential candidate.
though Mr.. Cortelyou is to manage the
campaign under the general direction
of the candidate, as every campaign
manager does, he is to be something
more than the servant of the President
He has ideas of his own. He may noe
always agree with the President. He
is going to be campaign manager in
fact as well as in name AS President
Roosevelt has said:
tCortelyou will attend to the dutfex
of his office while I attend to the duties
of ms- office"
After the campaign is over CorteiyoU
is to take Henry c. Payne's place as
Postmaster General. Thus in ten years
he will have completed the circuit
from stenographer in the Postoffice
Department to the White House, to the
cabinet, to successor of Mark Hanna
as chairman of the national Repub-
ican committee. and back to the
Postotfice Department again as its
chief. Pretty good work for ten years
on merit alone. without wealth or poll
teal influence or anything but his
habit Of being the best wherever he il
put.
'"They say there are no opportunities
for young men in our country" re-
marked Chicago lawyer, who was
formerly a government official. why,
ten years ago, when I was in Washing
ton, there was young chap in the
Civil Service COMMISSIONS cranky,
snappy. quarrelsome sort of fellow.
who was not much liked by the poll
ticians and who apparently had about
as much chance to rise in political life
as that waiter over there who has just
served us our lemonade. Now that
young chap is the President OF the
United States, the unanimous choice
of his party for another term, rec
ord smasher in American public life.
"And my next door ueighbor in the
Postofffce Department was young
stenographer, a quiet fellow who rarely
had word to say, who was not known
to more than a couple of dozen people
IN the department, but who just went
On saving wood. He is now the chair
man of the Republican national COM
nittee, and is to be the new Postmast-
or General It's a queer world, isn't
to"