The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-12
CHAIRMAN CONTIGUOUS TACT

A glance at the makeup Of the re-
publican national committees execu-
tive and advisory committees will
show something of the tact of Chair
man Cortelyou in getting together for
the support of Roosevelt the factions
which sought to control the party
machinery after Senator Hanna's
death, and which it was thought for
some time might be hard for Cortel-
you to manage, says w. w. Jermane
in the Minneapolis Journal. Senator
Scott of West Virginia, one of the
"old guard" is on the executive COM
mittee, and will manage the eastern
| section of the speakers bureau. Gov
ernor Murphy of New Jersey has a
prominent place in the Cortelyou
scheme, and he will do all he can
to make his own state republican.
Senator Penrose is also in line. Wher-
ever there was a sore spot, or a threat
of one, prompt treatment has been
applied, with gratifying results.
Senator Scott is deeply interested
this year in West Virginia, because
the legislature to be elected there in
November will select his
If that Legislature is republican, he
will succeed himself. Scott feels GER
tain he can carry the state for Roose-
Welt, but whether he can or not, it
is interesting to know that he is over
his fit of the pouts and ready to go
to work for republican success all
along the line.
Notable Campaign Documents.
The three most notable documents
in the republican campaign Of 1900
were President McKinley's speech and
later his letter Of acceptance, and Eli
hui Roots campaign address, delivered
at Canton, in August. The three most
notable documents in the 1904 cam
paign will undoubtedly be President
Roosevelt's speech of acceptance, his
letter of acceptance, which has not yet
been written, and the speech of Elihu
Root, as temporary chairman Of the
Chicago convention.
Mr.. Root was scheduled four years
ago to deliver his famous campaign
address, which was a logical and elo-
quent statement of the reasons why
the republican party vas entitled to
a continuance of public confidence,
at Youngstown, Ohio, but on the
morning of the day fixed the opera
house burned. Root went on to Can
ton, arriving in the middle of the af-
ternoon. Secretary Cortelyou made a
quick roundup of the situation, en-
gagged the Canton opera house for that
night and flooded the town before 5
o'clock with handbills announcing the
speech. The opera house was crowd
ed, and the speech delivered, which
was fortunate, as advance copies of 1t
had been furnished the press and were
in the offices of all the leading news
papers of the country awaiting re-
lease.
The republican campaign textbook
will be out soon. 1t will be, it is said,
the most effective weapon of the kind
issued by the party for a great while.
Some of the best experts in the u
try have contributed to it's pages. IT.
is being printed in Milwaukee.
About Jersey and Connecticut.
AS to New Jersey and Connecticut,
it is believed at national headquar-
tiers here that while they will undoubt-
eddy be affected by New York, they
are a good deal more reliably republic
a this year than New York. The
latter state is admittedly doubtful.
Both sides claim 1t, but neither can
make any convincing showing. The
situation is about like this: If New
York should go democratic by a large
majority, say by $4,000 or more, Con-
recticut and New Jersey would also
be likely to go democratic; but If New
York, if democratic at all, is so by a
margin of less than 10000, which Is
entirely possible, the other two states
would not be affected.
With a united party, and the Wall
street opposition story exploded, the
republican chances Of carrying New
York are improved, and while 1t is
too early to make claims, it is safe
TO say that at this time the republi-
can chances there seem to be fully