Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-01-16
Entered at the Newpor. News Va. Postoff,co
as sscond-Oiass matter
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 1G, 1907.
REPUBLICAN CLANS cLAsHlNe.

REPUBLICAN, CLANS CLASHlNG.
For many months tho newspapers
and others put UP call on Mr.. Cortel-
You to resign the chnirmanghip of the
Republican National Committee, and
many times the rumor went forth that
She was about to sever his connection
With the committee. and one occasion,
Sat least, Harry s. New. OF Indiana,
Vice Chairman, was called to Wash.
ington. and II was at once given out
I that he would Immediately assume di-
rection of the affairs of the commit
tee. But there was n hitch some way
nobody seems to know just what,
and Mr.. Cortelyou hung ON To Ills job.
SSof6e people said II was because Mr.,
New was from Indiana, the State OF
Vice President Fairbanks, and as Mr..
Fairbanks was one of those most fire.
qiiently spoken Of as probable can
Sdidnte before the next convention. the
keeping OF Mr.. New in the back ground
was for the purpose that Mr.. Fair
banks should have no advantage over
other probable candidates, Others
sign until the question whether 1t was
proper to accept campaign contrbu-
8tions from corporations was settled.
s5Whatever the cause. Mr.. Cortelyou did
sent to the Senate for Secretary of
the Treasury.
Now that he has resigned the fight
on Captain New continues. Senator
Scott who is himself member of
the committee. has declared that the
committee ought to be called together,
& Ia, accept the resignation of Mr.. Cor
te,you and designate his successor. 1t
was given out that Senator Hepburn,
g;of Idaho. would join him in this de-
G.;.nd. but this has been denied. 1t Is
probable call for a meeting of the
committee will be circulated. There
may be colored gentleman hidden
away in all this, but no one seems
to know who is to be the beneficiary
ayof the agitation The time for the
4 nomination is more than year off
vet, but the shaping of matters in adj
vance of the meeting of the convention
F3is about due. 1t is not like it was
gin 1896 when Mckinley so lowered
above all other possible candidates
as to make his nomination an assured
,sfact long before the assembling OF the
convention. Up to the present time
sitgis anybody's race. Foraker, Shaw,
Root, Taft, and Fairbanks are all on
the waiting list. They stand for
( radically different policies. The Vice
President is the conservative one of
q the lot, but Mr. Foraker is also classed
Jas an opponent of many of the most
extreme measures of President Roose.
welt, Shaw, Taft and Root. have each
! been the upholders of all the policies
advocated by the President. 1t is true
that Taft disclosed a desire to kick a
little over the traces at the order
making the wholesale discharge of the
colored troops, but that was only ten
5tative and he has become one of the
warmest defenders of the President on
\ that Issue. Mr. Root has taken very
advanced stand on increasing the
& power, of the federal government, and
respectfully for increasing that of the
President. So far as the world knows
4 Mr.. Shaw has also stood very firmly
behind the President in all things.
ITO him there has been manifested
aonie opposition among the monied
alassese and some Of his Alancial pro-
posais have been severely frowned
iippn. Each Of these three cabinet of.
Ulcers ft,okl an active pert in the recent