The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-23
ARRANGED BY MIR. ROOSEVELT Conventions Work Has
 Been Mapped Out. HAND OF THE PRESIDENT Seen in All Things Prelim-
 mary to Assembling. Something of George Bruce CorteIyou, Who win Assist the Rough Rider
 in Running the Campaign. A Look at Past.
Advertiser Bureau.
 Colorado Building,

Wltn lne hepuuAcan NatiOnai COnVen- ton just month away. President Roose- welt. who intended long ago to command the nomination to succeed himself, has mol only in all human probability made that event many times assured. but he has very nearly arranged everything that has to be at that Convention. He has set tied upon his running mate, framed a platform and picked out man to be chairman of his Campaign Committee.
 A National Convention will never have had less to do of its own energies anu resources. Mir. Roosevelt has pretty near ly arranged everything. If anything is lacking, if there is any fault of omission o: commission in the predestination of the Republican affair at Chicago, President Roosevelt will have himself to blame, for he has not only taken in hand all the essential arrangements, but 1t has been obediently or supinely allowed him by the people of his party to do as he pleased. If one is heard to say there was never anything like 1t in the history of American political parties, there will be nobody to gafnsay the assertion. Likely enough there have heretofore been occa- sions when the popular trend was so pow erful in one direction that it was easy to foresee and foretell the main events O. national political gathering, but this was when a great many people from all parts of the country were possessed of a con mon sentiment, and no single partic- ipant dominated and led the way
 Roosevelt Changed All.
 Mir. Roosevelt has changed all that. He has showed his party how one man can drive it, for 1t can never be said that he is leading it. Ever since the meeting last December in Washington of the Re- publican National Commattee President Roosevelt has been driving and whipping into line the men of his party. He began then to treat them as he did the troopers of the negro cavalry regiments at San Juan Hill, then while they were in the trenches and some of them were grow ing restless he threatened to shoot the first negro who went to the rear. To say nothing of what he did to and for the Republican Congress. he more completely relieved the Republican Party of labor than any man who ever received or took it's favors. The word of this Caesar stands against the world of party life, experience and wisdom with Republicans
 The prospect of George Bruce Cortelyou Secretary of the Department of Com merce and Labor, for the great and su- premely responsible post of Chairman of the Republican National Campaign Com mittee is not happily received by the av- craze Republican. That quite apparent fact has elicited a suggestion that the name of MT. Cortelyou was used in con nection with the chairmanship only in a tentative way. It was done, in other words to see whether it would take hold of Republicans who these many weeks have been vexed with the problem of tt..N
 The Cortelyou idea came from the White House. MT. Roosevelt has been credited with eagerness to manage his own campaign. He accordingly picked out for the chairmanship the man who had been his devoted clerk. a young man clever. faithful and amenabe to instruc- ton and direction at all times from his superiors. The President had despaired of finding anybody who could even ap- proximate the rare qualifications of so thorough a postmaster of national poll tics as the chairman who managed the two Mckinley cmpaigns
 Were No Volunteers.
 Volunteers for the succession to the Ohio Senator there were none. Week af~ ter week passed of anxious watching. waiting and listening. and still no volun- teers Meanwhile the Republican leaders and party men in public life, big and little. had been to the White House for one thing and another. and still there were no volunteers for the campaign management Tho unusual reluctance of the Republican leaders to come to the front was painful enough, but their ab- soiute stoidity in the way even of sug- gestions as to the wisest solution of the problem could bat deeply impress people capable Of institutlng comparisons. So 1t came to be decided that something would better be done to sound those who 1t was hoped might be induced at least fa- vcrably to consider taking the chairman skip It seemed strange, indeed, in view of aforetlme readiness of ambitious and capable Republican politicians to get to the front, that there would be so utter dearth of enthusiasm over the Idea of the chairmanship of the National Cam paign Committee.
 Trusted followers of the President were | sent out on the mission of feeling the pulse and taking the temperature of pos l sible candidates for the chairmanship | This mission was prosecuted most care | fully and assiduously for many days. The result proved more discouraging than anything that has occurred in the prep arations of MT. Roosevelt to succeed him self as President. It has been MT. Roose- VeltS way, when unaDle to ma d uldh tt do a thing for him, to do 1t himself Hence. Secretary Cortelyou for the chair menship. There have been a great many curious kinds of comments upon the se' lection. none of them very hattering tc the judgment of the President coming from the Republican observers. Demo | cratic critics have been quite amiably disposed toward MT. Cortelyou He Is mol blamed by them for Mir. Roosevelt. and they say that MT. Roosevelt is only con- | sstAnt with himself in choosing a ser va4it who will serve loyally and unmur- nluringly.
 Merely a Nice Example.
 The Republicans, while admitting the exceptional cleyerness of Secretary Cor | teIyou, look at the prospect of a young
 man wbo-fs popularly regarded as merely nlG6f fexample of successful merit evolv' edN lfom the civil service system for tho
 hairmanship of the National Committe'