The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-23

we believe that 1t would be good poll icy to let the country know that the administration proposes to insist upon tarif modification.
 we are hoping and expecting that the President will call an extra ses- sion of Congress in April or May to take ups the subject. It must be done Republican party from defeat in 1906 if 1t fails very soon to deal with the tarif. and the sooner revision Is un- dertaken the better for the party. We believe President Roosevelt Is headed right on this question. but we appre- ciate the dificulties of his environment and the hard-headedness of the stand patters.
 Since the election have received letters and teiegrams from every part of the country telling of the growing demand for tariff revision. This week received letters from Indiana mem tioning that two reciprocity associa- tions had been. organized In small towns in that State. Michigan Is stirred up over the question. and Min nesota is demanding that something be done. Governor Cummins has been nere to tell of the Iowa sentiment" New York Tribune Forecast.
 The New York Tribune, always pre- sumably great metropolitan Repub- lican newspaper, close to ali Republi- can administrations, on Sunday devo- ted nearly an entire page to an arti- cle forecasting President Roosevelt's g 1 policy. It treated on the tariff and | the trusts as the most pressing prob lems and printed in black the follow | ing:
 'srhe President today regards some 1 readjustment of the existing tarifk schedules by the next Congress as es- sential to the prosperity Of the nation. which invariably is the first aim of the Republican party"
 | The President according to The Trl- bune, does not construe the groat Republican maJorttiea as meaning that the people want no change in the tarfff schedules, but as indicating their confidence In the willingness and abil- ity of the Republican party to make such readiustment as they may deem advisable"
 This is all very well as a speelous way for the 'standpatters to get out l of the hole into which the President has driven them. He has just now ! demonstrated, as has already been pointed out in this correspondence, his determination, not even to seem to be ruled by any of the legislative bosses Of his own party. Aldrich. Cullom, Payne Daizell and the rest of them realize that Mir. Roosevelt has his>o own notions about what is good for the country and that with the gilt-edged I credentials he has just received from the people he will hardly be in the humor to surrender his own convictions and abate his every impulse for the general good.
 Notwithstanding their tremendous victory the Republicans will maintain the organization and activity of their national committee, with headquarters at Washington. There is said to he a good prospect that the vice-chairman- ship of the committee will 20 to Elmer Dover, who was Secretary of the Ma tional Committee and was private sec- retary to the late Senator Hanna. In the event of the entry into the cabinet Of Chairman COrtelyou, which, ia stiu likely, Mir, Dover will ge to the head of the national committee for he next three years.
 cOrtsIyoa wIII so Abroad.
 MT. Cortelyou, 1t is understood. con templates taking trip abroad for two months of rest and diversion. after which he will be prepared to enter upon any cabinet duties to which he may be assigned.
 Nothing has as yet been heard about the democratic campaign organization, l C man Thomas Taggart that he. intended to have headquarters in Indiana. There was some talk at the national head quarters in New York, just before tbs election, about the importance of keep Ing up sort of party educational work through the committee. But. in vIeu, of the dreadful landslide of the sth oe November, 1t is yet too early to say what Democratic leaders have fin mind as to organizing for another campaivp. For the most part they have refraine6 rom saying anything, and 1t is ouire probable they will for a long time keen in a retieent and waiting mood.
 Being in with the party fin povrer tb a Republican committee will have nIe,- ty to do. Elmer Dover got his traI,,. ing under Mark Hanna, who was con. tinually sought by the leaders oe tho party In the several States and bia in- huence was almost invariably inoror- tuned by the office seekers.
 There are two vacancies in th. u. publican National Committee for vybtct there are number of candidatas tsa States. not represented being yVisco,, .l'e -,v and Louisiana It is believed tbot N1. Cortelyou will make the appotntre e.9,. Irt for these places before tnrntsa- ..-s '. committees affairs over to Nr no,Sa. .n.
 R. H. Watkins.