The Cairo bulletin., 1906-11-05
GEORGE q. coRTELYoU, RoosE.
VELTs FORMER SECRETARY
is AGAIN GIVEN A BOOST
HARD WORK AND BRAINS
Combined With Skill Made Him a
Success-Assistan to Three Of
Nations Highest Executives
He Shows Great Ability

telyou to succeed Leslie NJ. Shaw as
secretary Of the treasury can only be
viewed in th light OF tribute 10 a
man who ha rendered himself IN
! valuable as q friend and adviser
Coming to President Roosevelt as
he did from a previous administra
tion where his associates and friend
ships had been with men who in the
nature Of things were more or less
lntagonistic to the new executive, ii
+ equired the development of high
Qualities and consummate ability to
! lttach himself in the manner he has
become attached to the pre- ident.
Perhaps the real reason why
| Roosevelt likes him is because he has
made good. While he was the presi-
dents secretary he performed his
duties SO killully, trelessly and
capably that the president consented
| TO make him member of his cabinet
| With regret He made good as secre-
AIRY Of the new department of com.
narce and labor which he organized.
He approached that great task In
he same spirit which had enabled
aim to become the invaluable assist
mt of there pres dents. He worked
Eighteen hours day digging into
multitude Of details which nobody
Else seemed TO thing about. He had
to give force and effect ia an untiied !
10 al sd INN "A
rs complicated as the usual enact |
nent of congress. He approached |
every problem prudenty and eau. |
tiousty and worked 1t out to a salts |
factory solution.
Some Thought Him TiYnid.
Some people who watched him said |
he was timed and afraid because he /
"efused to jump headlong into ques.
zion that were of he greatest po
'ibe moment to the nation II is
My necessary to say that when he
finally laid down the portfolio Of
and labor to take up that
If the postoffice It was one of The
best organized departments of the [
government. Its machinery was com i
,lete TO the last detail Its work was {
,erfcrmed nteligently and expedl {
iously It's relation o the government /
nd to the people had been defined I
nd g tablished in a manner which {
Eft little for Mr.. C0rtelyou'7 sue / r
essor 20 undertake except to per.
)rm such routine duties as fall to the n
IT of a cabinet officer Mr. or elyOu @
ersonally dug into everything some. 0
mes patiently ana sometimes enthu- Il
last cally but always with success D
% detail was too smal to escape his Fl
ttentiQn and none too large to appall t
i'm. il
The president knew how he had Il
Orked and what he had achieved.
e knew, moreover. that he person c
ny had been relieved OF innumer Il
Bile burdens and responsibilities .
hieh under other circumstances he Y
ould have had to shoulder and he y
a. grateful - Cortelyou. T
Cortelyou had mastered the bust.
ss Of rel wing presidents of burdens
any year before After he became Il
cKinlCy's secretary he was so in- e'
istrions so diplomatic 50 patient "a
nd ST. .ieless that tn president d;
'actically left all Of the details of es
e business Of the White House in NJ
hands. Mckinley himself was ~
1rker. Re entered MS Office daily cl
"a usually was there until midnight IT.
,rtelyou was always by mis- side. II
II was the wonder Of Washington ey
w Cortelyou stood up under the X
rain. He used 70 leave he White Fl
,use about > o'clocl, after putting in m
long days work Sometimes he co
,uld take a drive before dinner. all
metimes h. would 60 directly m
me. Always he returned between y,
anl 8 O'Clock and uDon o-ca ions hu
fore Z and rema ned until nearly I'M
dnight That was his routine seven ce
Us in the week. Nobody ever heard
n complain about hard work and
never seemed 10 nave time o con iei
a TO his most intimate friends OH
It he was even tired. He seemed 10 4 De
i've on that s-rt Of an existence. |a-
Ch would have left O man not in 'ph
red with the genius Il work cat
1ele-s invalid
Mckinley rusted him as he trusted 90
othe- man NOT even excepting the Ba
p Senator Hanna. He found him Cr.
-tw0r'hy ia all things if is doubt AMI
If any secretary to the president I
r exercised a. much power and in la;
.nce as Corteivou aid in the last ma
Is of he McKiniev admlnist -ation. or
prestige and influence were 7
oEnizet by Mckinley closest Of
rds and advisers and they fif not II.
tate when occasion required 70 90 sen