The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-08-25
SUDDEN
But ERR
GER AIN
Is CHAIRMAN CoRTELYou IRE
PueLlCAMS ASToNiS8ED4 AND
DEMOCRATS ALARMED sY
TIE NEW MANS POWER.
THE NEW YORK HERALD, Al.
THOUGH a DEMOCRATIC Or
GAN, PAYS a VERY HIGH
COMPLIMENT TO REPus-
LiCAN MANAGER.
Here is what the Herald says:

/ parties who were disposed to scoT at
/ George 3. Cortelyou when he was
made chairman of the Republican
National Committee as man who
should first serve his apprenticeship
in politics, have changed their tune.
Not a single man connected with
the Republican party has come in CON
tact with Mr.. Cortelyou without being
impressed With the Intelligent manner
| in which he is working and the grasp
hand the Democrats have become
frightened at Mr.. Cortelyou.
He is now described at national
Democratic headquarters as Teddy
the Students sudden campaign mana
ger
This title has been given to him be-
cause the Democrats when they have
started to do certain things in the
present campaign have discovered
that Mr.. Cortelyou has been ahead
of them and they were baked. This
has happened in half dozen import
ant things. It has occurred In con-
nection with the support Of certain or
gantzations of influence among certain
classes of voters and In getting aid
and comfort from some very import
ant institutions and men.
Mr.. CorteIyou has developed into a
man of quick action. 1t takes him
about two minutes to consider propo-
sition. II he does not look with favor
on 1t by that time the chances are
that it will not be considered again.
When he makes his mind up thus In |
two minutes it usually takes him
about thirty seconds more to get to
the telephone.
:; He Knows Them All.
The mistake made by the men who
objected to Mr.. Cortelyou as chairman
was to say that he was not acquaint-
ed with the men OF affairs in this coun-
try. AS fact, Mr.. CorteIyou has an
with the merchants.
bankers, capitalists and professional
men Of the United States second to
that Of no one else in the land. He
personally knew every friend Of Presi-
dent Mckinley, and was also known
and respected by every caller at the
White House during the time that he
was secretary to President Roosevelt.
When he became Secretary of Com
nerce and Labor he widened this
knowledge of men. and there is scarce
y Republican or Democrat of promi-
lence with whom he has not at least
speaking acquaintance. Mr.. Cortel-
you has not been down town with
sIr. Bliss, the treasurer of the Nation
Il Committee, but he has been a great
lelp to Mr.. Bliss, just the same. {
The national headquarters in the {
Life Building is run like
well organized business establish I
nent An observing man who went to
york there last week remarked yes t
erday that it seemed to him that it
ear Mr. Cortelyou is surrounded by
ormer employees of his in the Depart
nent Of Commerce and Labor, who
resigned to go with him.
lie goes to work about s o'clock in 4
he morning. He devotes all his time a
While at the headquarters, which he t
loes not desert until late in the after n
loon, to seeing callers, talking with u
he Chicago headquarters over the E
ong distance telephone, and to re- t.
ewing reports of matters which Il
ught to be done in various States In T
which the National Committee is in 1
crested. His system of reports is n
omplete 1t is safe to say that he E
,nows more about the political situa- Il
ion of the United States at this min n
tie than any other man. j
When he leaves the headquarters II
ar. Cortelyou goes to his rooms in the n
fanhattan Hotel. At that time his a
FORK is just half through. and he has o
ccomp1ished more than the average
usiness man who works under full o
cad of steam from nine to five He II
ttends, to all his correspondence at Il
he hotel He has no chance to look
u 1T. at the headquarte He 4 also Is 3t3
ees some callers, but onl BY ap- ;N IS
ointm eIlt. He never goes to bed r e
ntil his work is finished Sometime di
his is two O'Clock, sometime It ssIjtI
hree. But he gets UP ssssffresh as at [.el