Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-06-29
FROM WASHINGTON

the action of the President i'm de-
handing that Secretary George B.
Cortelyou. of the Commerce and
Labor Department, be made the
chairman of the Republican Natio-
nal Committee. In the eyes of the
politically wise, this move means
nothing less than that the President
intends to run his own campaign in
his own way. for surely Mr.. Cor
telyou. while he is personally one
of the incest kind of fellows. has
had no experience whatever I'm the
management of national campaigns.
He has been and now i nothing
more than 4 clerk at the head OF a
bureau and all his political expert
cncc has been confined to Just such
work. While RooSevclt'S work in
national campaigns has been more
extensive, yet he has about as much
idea of conducting campaign "a a
hog has about navigating a ship.
Together they will make sorry
mess of the thing and it is an open
secret here that among the leaders
of the republican party they are
not breaking their tear wells over
the thing and do not give a cotinen-
tai how badly Roosevelt is defeated.
The truth of the matter. however.
is that the President was perfectly
satisfied that he had all the old fat
frying republicans placed i'm a cor
ncr and knocked out TO finish SO
far as the campaign fund Is con-
cerned, because Carnegie had
agreed to put up a million dollars
and he had further feathered his
nest in the Panama canal deal to the
extent Of several more millions for
the campaign fund. which gave him
all he really needed. or at least
thinks he may need, and he there
fore became very cocky. He now
proposes TO run things aS he pleaScS
and will refuse TO take the dying
suggestion of that prince of prac-
teal politicians, Matthew Stanley
Quay, that the selection of Cortel-
YOU for chairman OF the republican
national committee was an egrcgi-
Gus blunder. He intends to run
things in his own way by placing
this new and un1edged politician
ut the head of things, thinking
thereby TO fool the people into be-
hevng that he cares nothing at all
for the campaign contributions
that could be garnered 10y the old
timers in the game of politics. that
he Is going To run things on high
plane and not going to have
money campaign The truth is
that he has all the money he needs
from the Panama canal deal and
from Carnegie and by placing
Cortelyouin command, apparently,
he will conduct his own campaign
IN ms own way He thinks he is
fooling the whole people, this same
smooth man in the White House,
but 1t is a case of the ostrich stick
ING his head in the sand and be-
hevlng he Is hidden. Watch his
game.
The leaders OF the democratic
party here are rejoicing over the
situation in the state of Wisconsin.
From the advent here of a delega-
ton from the LaFollette faction of
the republicans of the Badger
state, it is learned certainly that
there can be no peace in that state
unless that faction is recognized as
the republican party of the state.
inns the President refused To do.
1t he had done so, he would immdi-
ately embroil himself with Senator's
Spooner and Quarles and the lead
erS of the so-called stalwarts of the
party IN Wisconsin. Therefore, he
Is between the devil and the deep
sea and the chance of the state of
Wisconsin sending democratic
electors to the electoral college
next winter is increasing daily.
Under the law and the constitu-
uon out in that state the electors
have to decide upon which ticket
thelr names shall be printed and as
both the LaFollette and the So
called stalwart factions of the re-
puoIcans each have nominated the
same presidential electors, thinking
thereby to head off the democrats
on the national ticket at least, the
ruD comes in. 1t now is case of
Under which King, Bezonian,
l.