Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20
QUIET WORK IS GOING ON
Sidelights on Interesting Three.
Cornered Contest.
FAIRBANKs-KNOX INTERESTS
Republican Organization Not Any
Mans Claim-Roosevelt Favor
Regarded Handicap in Race.
Special From STAT Correspondent.

Special From STAT Correspondent
NEW YORK, July 2O-You cannot dig
very long in New York politics before Won
uncover the Cortelyou boom. The illustra-
ton is apt, because the boom at present
Is below the surface. Its ramifca tons.
however. are extensive, and the Cortelyou
prospects are not to be treated lightly by
any means.
1t remains to be developed where Mr.
Cortelyous boom will first take definite and
tangible shape, but from present indica-
tons Its first sponsors are likely to be
the business interests of the country, or at
least some Of them 1t is evident that
Mr.. Cortelyou's friends propose to contest
for the support of the conservative business
interests with Mr.. Fairbanks and Mr.
knox's hackers. Some side lights upon this
prospective three-cornered fight reveal the
grounds upon which each of these gentle
men can apply to the financial and business
interests for support
1t is said here that Mr.. Fairbanks will
command section Of the business element
OF the country with which the railroads are
closely allied; that Mr. Knox will appeal to
the business men who are interested in
manufacturing and in maintaining the high
protective tarlH, and that Mr.. Cortelyou
Will have behind him the banking and
financial section and mercantile group. 1t
is certain that Mr.. Cortelyou will be on
posed by the high protectionists, and it is
therefore, assumed that the reasons which
produce this proposition will bring to his
support those who favor modification of ex-
listing high tariff rate.
No Political Machine.
Mr.. Cortelyou has no political machine.
but by the same token neither has any
other prospective New York candidate No
man can claim the republican organization
IN this state as his own at the present time.
Mr.. Cortelyou Is standing on his own foun-
datlon. He does not seek and does not
want the present backing of any political
machine. The one prayer constantly and
fervently uttered by Mr.. Cortelyou's friends
Is that President Roosevelt will keep his
hands off the Cortelyou boom and not try
to push it. They don't want the handicap
OF presidential favor, such as Mr.. Taft has
received. All they ask is that Mr.. Cor
telyou shall be let alone to work out his
own salvation in his own time and way.
There is no disloyalty to President Roose-
Welt in Mr.. Cortelyous aspirations, his
friends say. If the President wants the
nomination Mr.; Cortelyou will be the first
to work for him. Mr.. Cortelyou's friends
claim that If the question of loyalty is
raised there Is something due Mr.. Cortelyou
from the President in the way of loyalty.
Mr.. Cortelyou has made his sacrifice to Mr..
Roosevelt and he yet bears the scars of
the service he rendered as chairman Of the
republican national committee It is a
question whether some Of the ghosts of that
campaign may not yet come back to haunt
Mr.. Cortelyou.
Clubs for Cortelyou.
A valuable asset of the Cortelyou boom
useful in extending the propaganda through
the country Is the friendship of the Ma
tional League Of Republican Clubs. This
means the support OF young republicans
throughout the value of which is. appre-
ciated by every candidate. John A Stewart
president of that organization, has recently
been putting out some feelers and has re-
ported that Mr.. Cortelyou is very strong
among the clubs and the younger element
of the republican party. But, as stated at