Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-24
.CORTELYOU THE MAN.
WILL RESIGN CABINET POSITION
AND BECOME CHAIRMAN
OF COMMITTEE.

1t Is Rumored That He Will, After the
Election, Be Made Postmaster Gen.
eraI to Succeed Payne, Who Will Re-
sign Soon-Crane for the Cabinet.
[BY H. j. MAHIN.1
Washington Bureau of the Courier.
Washington, D. c., May Fl.
There now appears to be little doubt
that the President has chosen the man
to be chairman of the national commit
tee-Secretary Cortelyou.
If Secretary Cortelyou accepts this
place-which by the way came very
near going to two Iowa men, Secretary
Shaw and j. w. Blythe,-he will, about
July 1, resign his position as secretary
of the department of commerce and la
Dor. He will be out of the cabinet only
temporarily however, as it is stated
that he will be rewarded for his work
as chairman after the campaign by be-
ing appointed postmaster general to
succeed Mr.. Payne, who will soon re-
sign.
Both Carroll Wright and James D..
Garfield, son of the martyred president,
are spoken OF as successors to Mr.. Cor
telyou, but wise ones say Murray
Crane of Massachusetts, will get the
appointment. The President has want
ed Mr.. Crane in his cabinet for some
time. 1t was reported that he was
going to give him Mr.. Shaw's place
once but the President soon put that
story to rest by assuring all question
ers that he had no idea of trying to
get along without Mr.. Shaw
Secretary Cortelyou will undoubtedly
make a good chairman There is still
talk that the President would like to
see Mr.. Blythe be vice chairman and
take charge of the west but it is gen.
orally thought here that Mr.. Blythe
would not be willing to enter into such
an arrangem ent. Mr. Cortelyou dur
ing the years that he served as private
secretary to President Mckinley be-
came fully acquainted with public
men and affairs.
If after election he is given the post
office portfolio as planned it will be
most welcome. He has always wanted
to get into the postoffice department
again. He did his first government
work there as stenographer in the first
assistant postmaster generals office.
In fact it is whispered that Mr.. Cor
telyou will probably make a much bet
ter postmaster general than he has a
secretary of commerce and labor. The
latter department was a new one and
its organization was stupendous task.
It. is rumored in some sections that
Mr.. Cortelyou did not grasp the situa-
ton exactly as the President might
have wished. }a ftff
President Roosevelt showed himself
good friend of union labor the other
day when he forbade the members of
the marine band to take the places of
some striking musicians in local
theatre. The members of the marine
band sometimes play out about town ait
union prices and thus make some "on
the side.'' The President says they
can do this all right ii they want to but
that they must not take the, place OF
striking union men and help to build
up non-union orchestras.
A local minister has had the temer1ry
to criticise the President and his wife
for attending different churches. He
said:
notwithstanding the example set by
the President of the United States and
his wife, man and his wife had bet
ter go to the same church,
AS is we'll known the President at
tends service at the Dutch Reformed
church while Mrs Roosevelt goes to
St. Johns Episcopal church, the fash
ionable church of Washington. The
Roosevelt children attend either church
as fancy strikes them II believe that
there should be church home as well
as domestic home" said DR.. Par
sons, the minister in question. Where
the father and mother attend different
churches there is seldom any religion
infused into the home life of the chill
dren. The family should go together"
Considerable attention has been at
| tracted in the east to General James
| B. Weaver, again at the head of the
Iowa democracy. The doughty old gen
| eral seems to have, the respect and ad
miration of all men regardless of par
| ty. Modern politics exhibits no curl
GUS figure" said any old campaignel
the other day. "He was twice can
| QlQdLe lOt tAc plSSldChSy u .iiO SLiL
ed States and twenty-four years after
his first nomination to that Office he is
still leader among the members OF
his party in his own state, which by
the way he has never carried.
Here is brief history of the gen
eral: He was born in Dayton, Ohio
in 1898; studied law from 1853 to 1855
enlisted as a private soldier in the sec
ond Iowa infantry; was promoted ma
| ior and commissioned as colonel, his
colonel and lieutenant colonel having
been killed at Corinth; was brevetted
major general and returning from the
war was elected district attorney in
Iowa October 1866; was appointed
United States assessor for internal rev
enue for the first district of Iowa in
January 1867; held the Office for si1
years, was elected to the fifty-sixth
congress as a member of the nationa
greenback party in 1873 and in 1886
was nominated for President of the
United States on the greenback ticket
and polled over 100000 votes. He was
one of the organizers of the populist
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