The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-25

buy the suggestions for them and have
them sketched.'
@How do you account for the fact that
women like the President
His life. He stands for so much in that
respect--all the clean, domestic virtues
do you receive many funny suggestions
by mail3'
Hundreds OF them. This morning had
a letter from an old gentleman, over 80.
from Washington State, who offered, IL
l thought 1t necessary. to come back East
and vote, as he couldn't vote there, l
wrote him guessed we didn't need him
4Then another came from a man out West
who had the greatest scheme yet. TINS
was to start country newspapers all over
the United States; they were to be edited
by country schoolma ans SO as to avert
suspicion, but just as soon as they got unoer
way they would come out strong for Roose-
welt. He said that IL we approved and
would back the scheme, in less than week
he would have over 5000 papers ana S'ooo
schoolma ANS on our side.
Il wrote him I guessed 1t was little
too late for his idea, good as it was.
It was at this moment that Chairman
Cortelyou sent word that he could be
looked at.
Looked at" is the correct term. You
can look at him, but you can't talk to INN
at least, If you do he won't answer He
says he won't talk, because he doesn't
believe 1t Is a wise thing for the leaders in
campaign to talk about 1t.
reference was made to the policy OF
secrecy followed in the Eastern war. He
nodded approval Of 1t. Then it was argued,
as eloquently as a tired interviewer could
argue, that while the conduct of a war might
be hampered by much talk, a political cam
paign. which really represented talk, might
be hampered by silence, that it was like
Hamlet" minus Hamlet.
He did not agree with this at all. His
idea is that as there are people hired to talk
in a campaign, and plenty Of people who
will talk, 1t is the wise and diplomatic
leader who keeps Quiet.
Chairman Cortelyou is a handsome man.
He has broad shoulders. with hair and
mustache that match the ravens wing,
or would II there were a raven instead
Of q gilt eagle to use as comparison.
His manner is courtly. He waves one
into and out of chair with grace that
would do justice to We're de We're. But
with the Metropolitan Museum filled with
rare treasures Of marble Apollos and mar
BILE Mar cissuses. II seems a long time to
spend--four hours--to view the marble
chairman Of the Republican national com
mittee. .. t-.... ~ .....
According to one Of his aides, Chair
man Corte)you has the gift not only Of re-
Numbering names and faces in phenome-
nal degree, but also of sizing UP his visitors
While the interviewer and the artist sat
in their respective chairs, a matter of FIVE
minutes, the chairman disposed OF half a
dozen assorted varieties OF voters who came
in. Judging from the faces Of the invaders
as they went out they bad forgotten the
reason of their invasion and were wondering
as to their departure.
Having accomplished his eviction act
with a grace and despatch that defied crit-
cism, Chairman Cortelyou turned over
interviewer and the artist to one OF his aides,
who was competent to answer any ques-
ton without giving information. This
lis the thirty-third degree Of perfection in