The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-27
IS NOW ON PROBATION
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While A--~e S-c Democrats here and there ynS ..:~ ,c .! .lining that the campaign committees are s.Jw getting down to real business, there are also .Tctu...~ans who make a similar com plaint and who do not hesitate to point to the choice of George Bruce Cortelyou for chairman of the Republican Ma tional Committee as responsible for the dull and unprofitable condition of affairs.
 Aforetime Washington has had no dea rthof campaign oratorial talent at this stage of the campaign, who. if not actually busy on the stump, had assurances of consideration from their national committee which kept them alert and cheerful with high expecta- tions. That was the way when Mark Hanna was chairman, but 1t is far from the way with Secretary Cortel- YOU guiding the campaign. A promi- nent Republican and former members of Congress, touching this point said today:
 Roosevelt has been given to under stand that there are certain things he must do and a number of things he must refrain from doing before he can get any campaign money. That ex- plains why he has lately been inner sed in unwonted quietude. He is on probation at the behest of what you fellows sometimes call the captains of industry and they are not going to let Cortelyou, whom MT. Roosevelt manages, have any considerable cam paign fund until the President shows he is able to do what they want him to do. It must be admitted he appears to be trying his best to satisfy the captains, but his period of probation has yet some time to run"
 Visitors to New York from Wash fngton report little or nothing about the Republican headquarters, which in- dicates confidence and assurance as to the result in November Very few people are seen at work about the headquarters, and the situation is strikingly different from the cam paigns when Mark Hanna was at the helm.
 With the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee it is another story. Every member of that commit tee, from Chairman Babcock down. is a veteran campaigner In this they have an unmistakable advangtage over the Democratic Congressional Commit tee. the members of which have had no campaign executive experience worth speaking of.
 Tn Campaign Committee.
 
 Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is in a bad way for lack of funds and that Chairman Cowherd Is discouraged, that there is little or nothing doing. are derived from the restless imaginations of Republican newspaper correspondents. Chairman Cowherd is not disturbed about tho situation. He had made no complaint of lack of money. The committee is maintaining better and more preten- tious quarters than it did two years ago.
 It might as we'll be borne in mind that this is presidential year and that the campaign managers rarely have ever gotten down to the real hard fighting of the campaign until after the candidates have promulgated their letters of acceptance. In off years the congressional campaign sets in soon after the adjournment of Congress. for on such occasions there Is nothing to wait for and whatever organiza ton exists goes ahead with its work as 1t understands 1t.
 Those who are familiar with past campaigns are well aware that it will be the middle of September before the battle lines will be formed and that until October hostilities will consist mainly of skirmishes. The real strug- gle will be fought and won within the three or four weeks preceding the election. It is believed that especially this year will the conflict between the two great parties be short. sharp and decisive. Swarms of speakers will make the welkln ring in all the doubt full States and in every political com munity in which vigorous contest prof fers a chance of victory.
 Another delay in fhas c n, paign Is that in a number of States nominations for State officers are yet to he made. and the managers of the national campaign are naturally con cerned as to the character of candi- dates to put forward by the State organizations. This is particularly true of New Pork in which the State conventions of both the Republicans and Democrats are yet to be held. VIII Complicate Campaign. Undoubtedly the kind of State stan dard bearers chosen will affect the national tickets. In short the national campaign with contests for control in most of the States will keep the situa- tion complicated until the tickets in all the States have been named It Is a vast chess board of politics and although the game has begun only the pawns and minor pieces have been touched. while strategy and combina- tion. as in the actual royal game at its initial stage, are at this writing un- known and almost incalculable.
 What will Roosevelt's letter of ac- ceptance contain? What will distin- guish the letter of Judge Parker? What kind of candidates will the two parties In New York put forth? What is to come of the dissensions among the Democrats of Greater New York? How are the Republicans going to recon cile their differences in the same
 metropolis, for admittedly they have great troubles of their own?
 All in all, there is nothing in the situation for either side. looking at 1t ispassionately as one would view a battel from afar, to plunge the masses of citizens into the dumps for fear that it is going to be A dull and list less campaign. When the dog days have done and the leaves lurid the bat tie will he blazing from the Atlantic to the Pacific. and the sort who are