Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-13

aDd FORAKER; Win TUG uhanSiHi
still hanging upon the horizon to COM
plicste the whole situstion, it is little
wonder hat the republics foot soldiers
and staff officers are wondering "where
they are 81"
The Presidents still ardent coterie OF
third term boomers assert that they Will
nominate him and elect him in spite OF
and notwithstsndil 6 bis latest announce
meDt.
Just now there is considerable specu-
lation among politicians hereabouts as 10
the effect of the announcement on the
Hughes boom. That the silent govern
or has been keeping under cover untli
the Presidents plans we're uncovered,
has been regarded as the programme OF
widom, and many are ready to declare
that il proves the man in Albany to be
ga greater politician han Roosevelt"
He has kept he President and all others
guessing by merely doing nothing at all,
for they hadIconvinced themselves that be
ought to get out and make noise. NOW
that the President has eliminated him
self from the equation, "the wise ones"
say it is up to Hughes to start on hun'
for delegates in advance of the conven-
ton. If he does not do so, they think
he will be missing golden opportunity.
Government officials, as well as the
politicians are snxiously awaiting to see
what will turn up at the Office OF the
Secretary Of The Treasury. That chill
illness has grown up between the Presi-
dent aud Oortelyou has been common
report for a month. but the goSsips diner
as to the cause. Some say that the
President sat down on the Secretary
presidential aspirations. Others assert
that the President dumped on Cortel-
you" for playing in with the Wall street
banking crowd and the anti-sdmiuistra-
ton coterie of the republican national
committee.
Even under The very trying rumors
charging treachery toward the Presi-
dent, Secretary Corielyou today pre-
served his customary cOmplacency, de
cliuing to discuss the matter. His friends,
however, assert that no man in public
life in recent years, has been 30 uDJustly
msligned. They stamp the charge that
the Secretary had said he had received
"a damned rough deal from the White
House." as a pure fabrication. They
declare that his political operations have
been as an open book to the President;
that the latter, in fact, approved all thai
has been done in the way of coddlipg
southern presidential delegates, and that
30 careful has Cortelyou been not to
have bis attitude misconstrued that he
RETAINED from receiving the republican
national committeeman at the Treasury
last week, as he personally should have
liked.
They assert that CorIelyou is not an
avowded candidate for the Presidency,
but say, that, because another cabinet
officer has been fayorsbly mentioned,
Is 10 reason why Oortelyou should pro-
test against the use Of his own name in
that connection. They characterize IS
absurd the Tumor that COrtelyou con-
templa es leaving the cabinet, and de-
clare their conviction that his resigna-
ton would not be accepted if rendered.
The stories about friction between
the President and bis secretary OF the
treasury, bis friends declare have been
circulated by persons having Interior
objects in view. Cortelyou's friends say
that because the secretary has never
hestitattd 10 express himself in the
Presidents councils on questions
OF administrative policies even when
il brought him into direct conflict
wilh the Presidents views, his indie
pendence has been made the basis
for the building of a structure OF miSrep'
reseutation. They explain that his
/ attitude toward the President has been
identical with what it was to Cleveland
and Mckinley, when his counsels were
sought. They do not hesitate to de-
Glaze, however, that COrIelyou has the
right to have presidential aspirations,
without asking permission Of President
Roosevelt, Secretary of War Taft or any
oUe else.
The circumstances leading up to the
requested resignation of Midshipmsn
Earl w. Pritchard, "for the good Of the
service" which have just become known
here, have caused wide surprise among
the friends Of the handsome and brilliant
young officer. Friends of the young
midsbipman, who VAS a graduate OF last
years class at the Naval Academy,
Insist that he wss victim OF
circumstances, but the view Of the
navy department is that the cir
cumstsnces were his own creation.
Mrs. Adolph Won Haake, wife ola re-
tired Pfussian army officer and now a
clerk in the Postoffice Department, laid
the case before President Roosevelt a
month ago and three weeks ago she sp-
peared before Assistant Secretary New
berry mskiDg complaint Of dishonorable
conduct in connection with her recently
married daughter, Mrs. r. Harry CAth-
cart, it,, of Newburg, N. Y. She claimed
Pntchsrd had Ienticed her daughter away
from her husband. 1t is suggested that
Pritchard was an admirer OF Mrs. Cath
cart before her marriage. Mrs. Gath
cart, it is said, had contemplated bring
log divorce proceedings against her hus-
baud while on their honeymoon in
which New York chorus girl was 10
figure.
The leader of the democratic congress
iOnal fight next year will be Represent
alive James 7. Lloyd, ofMissouri, in all
probability. The democrats in the House
wiz choose a chairman of the demo-
cratic national congressional COMMITTEES,
shortly after the holidays. 1t is under
stood Lloyd is backed by about two-thirds
of the minority. The decision to select
Lloyd is based on the determination
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