The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-18
From q STAFF Correspondent.

From q Stan correspondent
Chicago, June 18.-The Chronicle
(dem.) this morning publishes the
following:
!" II. demanding the election of Sec
rotary Cortelyou as chairman Of the
republican national committee, Pres
ident Roosevelt is laying the founda-
ton Of an organization that will en-
able him to control the nominating
machinery of the party in 1908. His
obvious purpose is to renominate
himself. The republicans of the coun-
try are not going to stand for such
a program. The national COMMITTEES
| is nearly a unit in the affirmative for
making an issue with the president
| that neither he nor the committee
| can evade or compromise.
This statement, made yesterday
! by a United States senator, who is
also a member of the republican ma
! tional committee, epiton1izes a situ-
alton that is causing President Roosa-
i Velt's friends keen anxiety.
! The president has said fatty and
| unequivocally. in reply to many mes
sages from members of the national
committee, that he will not withdraw
ISecretary Cortelyou's name.
/ ReprisaIs Planned.
! 1.-THE committeeman who sent the
message declare just as unequiyocal-
/ ly that Corte1you will not be chair
man. They said last night that il the
}president does not retreat from the
position he has voluntarily taken, he
/ will be treated to the same sort OF
a dose that was administered to
/ Rutherford B. Hayes after that gem
tleman was nominated for president
/ in 1876. General Hayes named for
| chairman a, man who was distasteful
to majority Of the national commit
tee. He was urged to withdraw the
| name, and upon declining to do SO,
] the committee elected lack Chandler
| of Michigan chairman.
| 1.-THE revolving members Of the ma
/ tional committee are now threaten
| ing to elect Senator Boies Penrose Of
Pennsylvania chairman. Senator Pen
/ rose will accept.
Their determination not to accept
Cortelyou has been strengthened
since they learned that the president
did not consult a. member Of his cab
met, nor, so far as Is known, any of
his recognized political advisers in
i congress, about his decision to make
II Cortelyou chairman Of the national
committee.
4 .'The members Of the national COM
mittee object to Cortelyou for many
q reasons that have been adequately
4 stated, but they object still more to
s. the audacious attempt to use the sec
i rotary as the medium for Selling upon
the machinery Of the party for pur-
poses Of ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Why They Oppose Him.
It mas been estimated that perhaps
A two-thirds of. the present republican
national committee Is more or less
hostile to the selection Of Cortelyou.
They do rot object so much to Cor
telyou personally, nor do they under
| ~ I,;1 Ioy, F,,1
ability and his all-around cleverness.
i What they object to, and this is at the
: bottom Of practically all the anti-Cor-
4 telyou talk one hears, is the gossip
, that has been going the rounds of the
press that Cortelyou's selection will
! mean a higher and better moral plane
for the national committee. BY indi-
rection, this gossip insinuates that the
: plane of the last two campaigns has
not been very high, and that is a slap
at the dead national chairman, Sena-
tor Hanna, and is resented by all his
friends on the old committee. The ma
jority of the members of the old COM
mite will serve again in that capacity,
so Mr.. Cortelyou will be called upon
, | to exercise all of the tact for which in
the past he has been so justly praised.
Parallel i'm Minneapolis.
The question Of the Craftsmanship is
! causing many good republicans in
$ Chicago serious discomfort The
: president insists that Secretary Cortel-
= you act in that capacity; two thirds OF
: the national committee is opposed to
v that selection, but yield for good
: FORMS sake.
q This will mean a repetition of q
q part Of the happenings at the Minne-
i apolis convention in 1892. HarrfsOn's
q denomination was forced upon the
= party, and swearing trains pulled Out
> lie bxy after the