Bisbee daily review., 1904-06-24
Impressions of
 Walter WeIIman
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the day. The President liked the sug gestion; he discussed it with some O. his w.se political friends-and thu practical. professional politician is il his own humble opinion the wises thing on earth. Some of them likeS it and some of them did not.
 It was the purpose of the President 10 hold the selection of Cortelyou a secret till he could gain opportunit, to consult the older statesmen, senators and such veteran wheelhorses. But as Is the way of the world, the secret could not be kept, and when some oi the elder statesmen heard of the SC lection they were wroth. They had not been consulted; they did not stor in as a dictator over the national com rather than a design, and permitted their angry passions to rise. They roasted Cortelyou. He was a Demo crat, they said: he was nothing bli an ofice boy; he knew nothing about practical politics-why, the man had never set up a caucus in his life; il was a shame and an outrage to put in as a dectator over the national com mittee a man who had spent most of his life taking dictation, and so on through the long list of objections and knocks which have filled the news papers during the last few days.
 Saturday the gossip around the ho- tels would have it that the National Committee had triumphed over Roose- welt; that the compromise was to go through; that Cortelyou was to be chairman of the executive committee, but not of the National Committee. And, finally, it Wa. noised about that Mir. Root had agreed to this proposi- ton and that he had had the White House on the long-distance phone ard it was all fixed.
 Nothing in it, said the former Secretary of War; when I asked him about the tale. Nothing in it al all. Cortelycu will be elected chair. man of the National Committee with. out any opposition"
 Vice Chairman Harry Payne said the same thing. And the men who know the most about what is going on. though perhaps they do not do the most talking. concur. l. is the opinion of such that when the critical moment arrives not a man in the na- tional committee will be found with the nerve to stand up against the edict of the rough rider perched away up in that howdah on the back of Mir Elephant. It seems almost a pity the good natured ambitions of Messrs. Scott. Penrose and Murphy to rise to the chairmanship of the Ma. tional Committee cannot continue to blossom and bloom. and thus contri- bute something to the gayety of an otherwise dull and commonplace con- vention scene.
 Men who are thoroughly familiar with Mr Roosevelt's ideas about this business of the management of the national campaign know that he wants Cortelyou, and is going to have Cor. telyou. first because he believes in the man and second because he wants to put the campaign Of 1904 on a high. CT level than any other campaign has ever reached. If l cannot be elect ed by such methods as Cortelyou will employ 1 do not want to be elected al all." are the wrods which more than of the Presidents friends have heard from his lips. He does not despise practical politics, quite the contrary But he is mighty particular about the character and methods of the man he entrusts with the task of putting out paper for him to redeem after election. MT. Roosevelt and his friends believe the selection of Cor telyou marks a distinct advance II the wholesomeness of campaign meth ods in the Republican party, and there is not the sligtest inte;ion, so far ai can be discovered up to this hour to submit to any disarrangement ot the programmee
 There has come into my posses54"I an interesting bit of news which throws light upon President Roose velt's way of doing things. Having taken a great liking to Paul Morton second vice president of the Santa F. railroad, and having a complimentarl idea of that young gentlemen's char acter and ability, MT. Roosevelt som' time ago decided he would like |; have MT. Morton in his cabinet. Al torney General Knox was appointed torney General Knox was appintet Senator from Pennsylvania, and l was decided to shift Secretary of tht Navy Moody over to the Departmen of Justice. MT Roosevelt summon ed. Mr. Morton to Washington, ant on Thursday last the President ten dered to this able young railroade the post of Secretary of the Navy Mr Morton declined on the ground that n does not know much about naval mat ters and that he thinks ;t would b better for him to stick to his own line President Roosevelt wanted Morton and he was nor de.erred by Ihe fact that that gentleman was until re gently a Democrat and that he is railway official of high rapk.-Wal ter Weiman in Chicago Record-Her ald.