The National tribune., 1904-07-07
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$t0.000 year as Chairman of the Repub
lican National Committee. If he gets 6
salary at all, and he will probably get what
he asks for, it will be the very first time in
the history of the Republican National
Committee that salary has been paid OF
course. it isn't supposed that anybody ever
was at the head of that committee for
nothing" but it is also true that the men
who have headed the committee have gen
orally been rich men. and they did not ask
a salary. Mr.. Cortelyou is not a rich man
He is far from being rich. But he is going
at the Craftsmanship of the greatest polti
cal organization on earth as business
proposition. and he proposes to do his work
along thoSoughly business lines. good
salary is the very first prerequisite.
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Mr.. Cortelyou has been literally swamped
with requests for work on the Committee
All requests are being refused. There will
be no work done which will make force
of clerks necessary until late in August
and the pay will be small. even then.
The first-class, double-turret monitor
Puritan. the largest, and one of the most
modern of the coast defense vessels of the
new Navy, has been ordered to Washing
ton for the use of the local Naval battalion.
Mr.. u. l. Murphy. Secretary of the 18th
Yian Canal Commission. says that the Com
mission is overwhelmed with applications
for work. He says they are coming in by
the thousand. In reply to these applica-
tions, Mr.. Murphy says that only those
with special qualifications will be taken.
He further says that "thoSe applying for
service on the Isthmus, in addition TO the
possession of exceptional qualifications.
must pass rigid physical examination
under the direction of the Public Health
and Marine Hospital Service to test their
fitness for service in the tropics Probably
not one in a hundred of those applying has
even remote chance of appointment
The Manila Times says that "Aggie" is
coming to the United States this month.
and that he is going TO call on the Pres
ident The President has just issued an
order that he can not be bothered with the
''olIa podrida'' public from now on, as
he is engaged with weighty affairs, but he
sufficiently to run down to the East Room
to give Aguinaldo his hand for a moment.
OF course there isn't single scintilla of
truth in the canard that Mr.. Cortelyou is a
Democrat. He is Republican by heritage.
birth and environment. His father was a
Republican of the stanchest kind. His
grandfather was one of the original Repub-
licans, when to belong TO that party of
"comeouters" was stigma of shame. Mr..
Cortelyou was a Blaine Republican. and it
would be hard to find anything more en-
phatic to say than that. He organized
Blaine Republican Club and fought the
fight to the finish for the Plumed Knight
He declares that he never voted anything
but the Republican ticket since he cast his
first vote for Blaine. He was secretary to
President Harrison. Cleveland requested
him to remain in Office when he came in
the second time and found Mr.. Cortelyou
one of the Assistant Secretaries to the
President, because he recognized the worth
and ability of the man. Mr.. Cortelyou
remained. and he has been there ever since
until he was made Secretary of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor as a de-
served recognition of his ability. As Secre-
tary to two Republican Presidents and one
Democratic, Mr.. Cortelyou has had pret-
ty fair schooling in politics, and what he
doesn't know about politics and political
intrigue would make a very small story.
As Chairman of the Republican National
Committee Mr.. Cortelyou will be able to
put this knowledge to very good use.
Mr.. Speaker Cannon is always perfectly
loyal to the House. In a recent speech,
1.-The Speakership is great office if
worthily filled, and, in my opinion. is very
close in Importance TO the office of Presi-
dent. Indeed. l consider the Speakership
the second Office under our Government.
When | was elected to it your Uncle joe
Cannon was completely submerged, and his
position of Representative exalted. In that
Office | have gloried for the past 80 years,
and If my constituency continues 10 treat
me as kindly for the next 80 year III die
member of that popular body
Secretary Taft has been much tofmented
by shopkeepers and others who have been
comiu0 to tho War Daparfmapt RI colIact
debts contracted by clerks in that Depart
ment. who then fail to pay the same. He
has now issued an order that no more of
these debts shall be brought to his Depart
ment, as it is not a collecting agency. But
he breaks the force of the blow by saying
that if the people who have charges aga inst
clerks can show that those same clerks are
not trying 70 make an effort TO pay the
same. said clerks will be summarily dis
charged.
Secretary Moody paid his last official
visit to the Navy Yard for the purpose of
presenting to the Dolphin the trophy won
by the gunners for the best Workmanship
BE was received with full honors, and
after he had given the crew a talk, and
:, presented the gunboat trophy. he departed
the hauling down of his flag being saluted
by the firing of salute of II guns.
Charles E. Magoon has been appointed
General Counsel for the Isthmian Canal
Commission. Judge Mago0n has been the
Law Officer of the Bureau of Insular At
fairs since that Office was created i'm 1899
aud his work has been of high character
and great value: his familiarity with many
questions with which the Canal Commits
sion must deal and a desire to officially
commend and reward his past services in.
duced the Secretary Of War to approve the
transfer, but at the Secretary's reaues,
Judge Nagoon will continue to advise rhe
Bureau of Insular Affairs on legal mat
tiers.
Burton L. French, sole representatiye
from Idaho and Americas youngest Con
gresham. who is known here in Washing
ton as "Cncie Joes Baby" was married
last week to Miss Winifred Harley, ol
Norfolk. Neb
President Roosevelt is now an enthus
dstic tennis player. He has always beer
fond OF out-dOor sports and exercises. bu
OF course while living at the White Hous.
almost the only exercise he has been abl,
TO take is horseback riding The Whit,
House grounds are spacious, and a tennis
court has been made just outside the win
dows OF the Executive Offices. The Pres
fdent attired in loose flannel suit will
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