The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-29
Frank III. Hitchcock.

sidered responsible for the nomination of
the secretary of war. Hitchcock has been
though s Guet nnassumine ana many sImost sire res
firing in disposition, Hitchcock has made
an impression on Washington which
washington expects to see duplicated up
on the country in the course of the IL
weeks of campaigning which are to pro-
coed under the direction of this compare
lively youthful director.
Hitchcock is an interesting study of the
young man in politics. He is a direct and
politics is an unmanly and undignified pro-
fesSion. lie says himself that the more
gentlemen we have in politics the bet
ter. Inherently. work of a public nature
for whom it is DONE" says he. ''It is both
honorable and needful; In their effort
clergymen first. then physicians and after
them politicians: l assure you , there are
a good many gentlemen in politics and
more are entering all the time"
He Is But Al.
This new leader of the Republican ma
tional committee is but Al years of age.
Cortelyou was approximately the same
age four years ago, when he was given
charge of the Roosevelt campaign. Evil
IDENTIFY the success which the young man
Cortelyou attained has treasured the ma
tional committee in the selection of a
youthful successor. For while Hitchcock
has actually passed Al summers, as a mat
ter of fact, he locks much younger The
casual observer would scarcely put him
down as more than IS and yet it is no
idle compliment when 1t is said that he
undoubtedly knows more thoroughly,
more accurately and more sympathetically
the differing political situations in the
different states of the Union than any
other man. regardless of age or regard
less of experience, who IS in the Republi-
can public eye.
Several different things recommended
Hitchcock's elevation. In the first place
he invented the Chicago steam roller.
which accomplished not only the re-
markable feat of entirely extinguishing all
opposition to Secretary Taft, but the
much more difficult feat of making those
who were extinguished like it. Then, too,
Hitchcock was Cortelyou's first assistant
during the Roosevelt campaign of four
years ago and consequently he might be
said to have been logically in line for the
succession.
Regardless of his antecedents, however.
he has already demonstrated his politi-
cal prowess He has already crossed and
recrossed the country He is omnipresent.
He is on the Pacific coast today straight
ganiZation and tomorrow he is back in
Utica, n. Y, attending the notification
of Sunny Jim" Sherman. He runs poll
tics as a business man runs business 1t
is a matter of coldblooded system. The
voters of the nation are card-indexed like
the buyers of mail order furniture. Hitch
what they think OF things today and like
all men of big caliber, he is something of
a prophet and can see ahead to how they
are going to vote tomorrow. He sees
the far results of present causes and the
| Intervening events that may change the
trend of his result. He keeps mis- hands
on the political pulse of California Maine
and Louisiana from morning to night and
then until morning again.
Story of His Life.
Hitchcock was born IN Amherst Ohio.
His father was clergyman He lived in
V isscnsin until he was 10 years of age,
with Milwaukee as his last Wisconsin
home, He then went to Boston. where he
grew up and prepared for entrance to
Harvard college. He was one of the most
popular men who ever attended Harvard.
/ He was a keen and successful sports
man. and his athletic disposition has
provided him with a constitution which
| is polite proof. The results of that col
/ lege athletic training are perfectly APP
! parent today. Hitchcock will sit up into
/ the wee small hours of the morning, talk
4 ing politics until the last politician has
faded into slumber, and then in the early
morning he appears again the first man
on the scene, and withal the freshest AL
ways his bright yellow hair, divided in
| the middle. is plastered smoothly across
| his head. Always his face is smoothly
| shaver. Always his linen is Immediately
clean Always he is dressed in fitting
1 style. In fact, his personal appearances 4