The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-07
A BOOM FOR
CORTELYOU
Something Doing in New York
for the Ambitious
Secretary.

II NEW YORK. July 25.-You cannot
dig very long in New York politics be-
fore YOU uncover the Cortelyou boom.
The illustration is apt, because the
boom at present is below the surface.
II It's ramifications, however, are extern
sive, and the Cortelyou prospects are
not TO be treated lightly by any means.
1t remains 10 be developed where Mr..
Cortelyou's boom will first take definite
and tangible shape, but from present
indications its first sponsors are likely
TO be the business interests Of the
| country, or at least some of them. II
| 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
| gentlemen can apply to the financial
and business interests for support.
1t is said here that Mr.. Fairbanks
will command a section of the business
/ element of the country with which the
railroads are closely allied; that MI
Knox will appeal TO the business men
who are interested in manufacturing
and in maintaining the high protective
tariff, and that Mr.. COrtelyOu will have
behind him the banking and financial
section and mercantile group. 1t is
certain that Mr.. CortelyOu will be OPP
posed by the high prOtectionists, and
it is, therefore, assumed that the rea-
sons which produce this proposition
will bring to his support those who
favor modification of existing high /
tariff rate.
NO POLITICAL MACHINE.
Mr.. Cortelyou has no political ma t
chine, but by the same token neither
has any other prospective New York /
candidate. No man can claim the Re-
publican organization in this state as
his own at the present time. Mr..
Cortelyou is standing on his own foun-
dation He does not seek and does not
want the present backing of any poiiti-
cal machine. The one prayer constant
" and ferventIy uttered by Mr.. Cor
telyou's friends is that President
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.. Cortelyou shall be let alone to work
out his own salvation in his own time
and way.
There is no disloyalty to President
in Mr.. Cortelyou's aspira-
tons, his friends say. If the Presi-
dent wants the nomination Mr.. Cortel-
you viii 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. 1t is 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 propa-
ganda through the country is the
of the National League of {
Republican Clubs. This means the sup !
port of young Republicans throughout,
the value of which is appreciated by
every candidate. John A. Stewart,
president of that organization, has re-
Gently been putting out some feelers &
and has reported that Mr., Cortelyou $
IS very strong among the clubs and i
the younger element of the Republican G
party. But, as stated at the outset, the 7
Cortelyou sentiment is only in embryo i
1t the present time, although the fact l
hat the germ is located among poten-
ial business interests is highly crafty t
ng to Mr.. Cortelyous friends. I
Mr.. COrtelyou will be opposed by the Y
high protective tariff people He is /
n the bad graces of the "stand-pat- f
ers" along with Secretary Taft. The r
American Protective Tariff League has
got him on the list" and his friends Y
Ire looking out for signals from that r
quarter The American Protective b
Tariff League is, as every one knows, a
he organization of the manufacturers $
md of the extreme tariff sentiment in t
his country. The league is effective 4
n politics, not in an affirmative way,
'ut negatively. That is to say, the G
eague never advocates the personal r.
andidacy of any man, but does take t,
upon itself to oppose a candidate Ii
whose policies are inimical to the pur- il
oses of the league. q
The league is openly fighting Secre- u
airy Taft. 1t has not opened UP Wig s
rously en- Mr.. COrteiyou for the rea- ii
on that his boom has not yet taken D
angfble shape, but it can be stated s,
'ith authority that the league is ready
18th a big stick the moment his head 4
obs up. The grievance of the Ameri- C,
an Protective Tariff League against cl
lr. Cortelyou is identical with the OPP to
osition Of that organization to Secre- r.
airy Root and President Roosevelt 81
rowing out of the new commercial Il
realty with Germany. incidentally it
lay be stated that the league is watch g.
lg very closely Mr.. CorteIyou's adj I
of the customs laws and
iready there are grumblings that he
; inclined to favor lenient rather than
trict construction of high tariff regu-
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