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CORTELYOU TO MAKE ANSWER:
HE WILL REPLY TO HIS CRITICS
At DURLANDS NEXT FRIDAY.

announcement from washington. Wnefe
the National Chairman Has Been
Conferriny with the Presidcat--He
VIII Become Rooseveaps Mouthpieco.
Chairman Cortelyou Of the Republican
national committee Is to speak next Friday
night at the meeting to be held in Duriand' q
Riding Academy by the West Side Republi-
can Club. This was announced last night
by william l., Ward, one Of the members
Of the Republican national executive COM
mittee, who yesterday, after the departure
Of Mr.. Cortelyou and Senator SCOTT, was In
charge OF national headquarters.
The fact that Mr.. Cortelyou will appear
on the platform next week caused con-
siderable surprise last night among those
who heardeof his intention. In the several
weeks in which he has been at the national
headquarters he has not once spoken for
publication. He has insisted all along
that his office was one which required
silence. From the beginning he made that
position so clear and 20 frankly explained
his reasons for it that his refusals to answer
inquiries never gave rise to hard feelings
in his callers.
Mr. Cortelyou would not bulge from
Of the metropolitan newspapers were daily
attacking him, accusing him Of using the
information about the workings Of the big
corporations which he had obtained es
Secretary OF Commerce aud Labor to force
large contributions out Of them.
When Mr.. Corteyou left town on Thurs
day it was with the avowed intention Of
going to Washin gton first to see the Presi-
dent and then to Chicago to look after the
campaign in the West. 1t was thou ght
last night that his change Of plans must
undoubtedly have been suggested by the
President himself.
President Roosevelt and Mr. Cortelyou
had several conferences yesterday accord
ing to information which came to this city
from Washington. At the close the news
was sent here that Mr.. Cortelyou would
return to the city and would speak next
Friday night in Durlands Academy.
So far as could be learned, Mr.. Cortelyou
did not come to town last night At a late
hour he had not reached the Hotel Man
haitian. where he stays when in the city,
but he is expected here to-day to make
arrangements to speak at the Friday meet
ing. 1t is probable that he may then go
on to Chicago for day or two to carry out
the plans he had mapped out there.
MIR Cortelyou will devote his speech to
answering the attacks which have been
made upon him personally and through
him on President Roosevelt These at
tacks have been mainly to one effect-that
is, that at the insti cation Of the President
he has been sweating the corporations
and has been bringing pressure to bear
upon them by reminding them Of tho knowl-
edge, he, he'd obtalnsd regsriins them As
head OF the Departments OF Commerce and
Labor.
Frien-,s OF Mr., Coftslyou who know him
and his disposition we'll said last night
that IL he had been left to follow his own
inclinations he would never have replied
to those attacks. The inference is that
Mr.. Cortelyou has been urged by the Presi.
dent to ref,iJe from the platform the in
sin.atiors which have been published by
certain newspapers against both the Presi-
dent and Mr.. Cortelyou,
Mr.. Cortelyou will merely use the meet
ing Of the West Side Republican Club as q
convenient means Of getting his statement
before the public. II is understood that
the speech will be printed and will be sent
out in pamphlet form all over the country
go as to reach the voters before election.
That the action Mr.. Cortelyou has taken
Is inspired is apparent from the fact that it
is unusual for the charmen Of the national
committee 10 make public address in
the last days of the t.amDaiCu