The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-17
BARS
OUT HARRY NEW
Cortelyou Would Have Chosen
Him Vice Chairman Of Re-
publican Committee.
BY w, w. Jermane.

Washington, March 17.-There is a
bit of interesting political history con-
nected with the failure of Mr.. Cortel-
you to appoint Harry New of Indiana
as vice chairman Of the republican ma
tic committee. Having gone into
to give up the committee chairmanship.
His work as chairman is finished, his
candidate has been triumphantly elect
ed, and is now, by his own choice, out
of his party's calculations for the fu-
ture. Obviously, therefore, the control
of the committee should be in the hands
of a man who is not part Of the Roose-
open to the charge Of trying to use the
position to favor some candidate in 1908
supposedly the Roosevelt choice.
The president does not want to drag
his high office thru the mire of bit
ter contest for the nomination, nor does
he want the political influence, which he
possesses by virtue of that office, to be
way, for or against any Of the men am
bilious to succeed him. It may be neces-
sary for him to change his mind in this
regard, but it is evidently his inten-
tion to keep hands off, unless circum-
stances should order otherwise.
Roosevelt's Position.
What the circumstances are which
would lead the president to endeavor to
shape his party's choice in 1908 may. be
summed up in few sentences. He has
and the corporate interests, and if he
should see the nomination drifting to-
ward some republican supposedly, under
Wall street control, he might feel JUST.
fed in trying to interfere. It is a pAst
Of his ambition to turn the party lead
ership over to successor who stands
with him on the important issues now
that ambition he would have much pop
ular support.
Mr.. Cortelyou is about to step down
and out of the position Of chairman OF
the national committee, and is to name
somebody to succeed him, with the title
of vice chairman.
It was the original intention Of Mr.
Cortelyou to name Mr.. New for this
place, and he was about ready to make
word came that. such a course woulc
be exceedingly distasteful to the vice
president. Fairbanks will be a candi
date for the presidential nomination in
1908, and because he and New are al
swords points he objected to having
New placed in a position where, fo1
three years, he would be able to exert
Ill uu1dVOIdU10 1AAuCACS vi GuO l. Oil
banks candidacy.
| New Out Of the Field.
| This objection has removed New from
the field of available men; it has alst
intensified the New-Fairbanks feud il
Indiana, and it has added another com
pication to a situation already suff
! GENTLY complicated. ~
New was originally an enthusiastic
IFairbanks man, and when airbank
was candidate for the senate the frs
time, he did all he could for him, for
feiting the friendship Of many of hi
former Indiana political friends. New
at that time was one Of the owners O.
the Indianapolis Journal, the republican
organ Of the state, and was it's response
BILE tdior. After Fairbanks had beer
elected to the senate, he acquired a. con
trolling interest in the Journal, but re
tanned New as it's editor and nomina
owner. While acting in this capacity
New claims that Fairbanks inslste'
upon directing the policy Of the pape,
and paying off some old political score
which he had piled up during his sena
torial campaign: New didn't like thi
procedure, holding that if Fairbank
was to direct the policy Of the paper, h
should be publicly known as doing sc
and that it was not fair to ask hir
| NEW to attack his own persona
friends to satisfy the Fairbanks thirs
for vengeance.