The Washington times., 1908-05-18
Victory of Senator BBarroUS
PITS Republicans to Thinking
Power Held Over Situation
by Conservative Clique
Surprise to Leaders.
Believed Secretary COrtelyou
Is Strongest Man for the
Second Place.

| The selection or senator -ulus
| Caesar burrows OF Michigan as tenn
porary chairman OF the Republican Ma
/ tional Convention has opened a good
many eyes to the fact that down un-
der the surface of things there has
been something doing for months past.
results Of which are just beginning 10
/ be apparent.
/ Senator Burrows would be set down
/ IN any classification as an anti-admin-
/ istration statesman. He IS OF the
group Of old-time Senators on whom
the Presidents domination has never
| sat comfortably. He led the fight
| against seating Senator SmoOt, while
! the President was determined that
! SmoOt should be given his seat He
/ has stood with the conservative Sena-
tOrial clique which gets its tone and
| leadership from Aldrich. Allison. Hale.
Frye, and men of that type.
The politicians calculate that the selec-
ton OF Burrows means. first, that the
/ convention is to De started OF with a
keynote speech which shall breathe
/ conservatism and extreme moderation:
and. second, they recognize Il as an in
dlcation that the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
| people may yet turn Up in control of
the national committee.
Both Claimed Control.
Both sides have claimed control OF
the committee from the beginning OF
the fight There was a test at the De
/ cember meeting, when the Taft people
wanted the national convention sent TO
Kansas City and the ants wanted Il
! TO 90 TO Chicago. At that time Frank
Hitchcock, now Tafts manager. was
| handling the Cortelyou fight, and IL
wes ne who lined up things for Chi
CagO and the "antis." Later Hitch
cock was taken into the TAN camp.
CorteIyou dropped out OF consideration
as a Presidential factor, and the Taft
| people have been confident that the
Hitchcock influence would be potent 10
/ turn the national committee back 70
/ the Taft side Of things,
The action In Chicago. even though It
was taken by a subcommittee. Is dis
quietlng 20 The Administration forces.
| II was supposed certain that either
| BeveridEe or Dolliver would be made
temporary chairman Either Wouid
lave suited the Administration forces
Mr Beveridge had the personal sup
uOrt of the President because OF some
| especial obligations growing out OF his
active support OF Administration pol
iCies- He was the candidate Of the rad
iCal Administration people Dolltver
/ was satisfactory 10 the Administration.
| though uuObjectionable to the anti-Ad-
rnfnlgtratiol people. He IS not rated as
/ decidedly attached 90 either the pro
EresSivc or the conservative faction,
and IS an attractive speaker. Burrows
was one Of the men who would have
! been supposed utterly impossible be-
cause Of hts decided anti-Admiulstra-
| ton leanings. Tt is small wonder, then,
that the selection Of Burrows Is dis
IfrrFE 10 j -
/ national committee may not yet be un-
der control Of the Tart people
Fight for Second Place.
In this connection there has been re
Gently a very quiet but authoritative
presentation, by the Taft maI-agers, OF
the case in favor Of CortelyOu for Vice
President. They want a New York man;
one strong with business: one who viii
be satisfactory TO friends OF the Ad-
mfpistration They don't want Governor
Hughes, who Is considered an impossi-
BILE party man. They have apparently
centered on Cortelyou, and his case is
being pushed with quiet insistence just
now. partly in order TO head of tho
Fairbanks Vice Presidential boom that
is gettiI z strong in all sections.
Since the selection of Burrows as tenn
{
intimation that one reason why the
Taft people want CortelyOu for second
place is that Cortelyou has been found
10 control certain members Of the ma
tional committee whose adhesion 20 the
Taft cause IS necessary II the TAFT eie-
ment is 10 control the committee. There
fore, It Is cOnjectured, IL may have been
found worth while 10 Ofrer a place on
the ticket in order to induce Mr.. Cor
telyCG 10 come IN and deliver his com
mittee strength.
That CarteIyou VIII be the nominee for
Vice President is no longer doubted IN
the best-infOrmed political circles he
wants IL. and has strength with the
big business interests. He Is a New
York man. He IS claimed 70 have con
siderable strength with labor organiZa-
lions. He controls a bunch Of votes in
the national committee, which seems 10
be strong enough 10 turn the balance
OF power there. Finally. II he isn't
nominated. it seems likely that either
Fairbanks or Hughes will be; and the
Taft people don't want either OF these.
Has Great Force.
For a man recently declared to have
been eliminated from the political game.
Mr.. Cortelyou is turning up with rather
more assets on his person than any 20
liticaI bankrupt whose name comes
readily TO mind. They are after him on
aLk sizes. he mas Ile CaruS mat IN the
hands of either side. would mean vie
tory. 1t begins TO be apparent that ne
is playing them with exceeding skill.
Conjecture is just now busy with in
quiry as 10 how the national convention
viii perform. There viii be about 200
contested seats in less than 1000 mem
bership. Suppose the national commit
tee proves to be still IN control OF the
anti-Taft people-aud these have never
for day admitted losing the control
and supposing the temporary chairman
is in sympathy with that side, as he
viii he. what then? The possibilities Of
manipulation and management appear
pretty nearly unlimited.
And every time a politician discusses
these possibilities he winds up with the
suggestion that Of course there is one
way out of any tangle That way is
the nomination of Roosevelt.
Presidents Sentiment.
Despite that various statements have
been put out with the color or author
tative representation OF White House
opinion about the selection OF Senator
Burrows to be temporary chairman OF
the Chicago convention. it was said TO-