| Show I Chairmen of f the Two Great National Committees Committee li 4 ji 1 aro 1110 nt lit least two qualities which must he ho a n pait pa 11 of ot tho com composition 1 fF IJ position of ot tho suc successful 8 f 4 c chairman ot oC u 1 national nil I committee personal magnetism a capacity for or unlimited work Nor fust 11 u t e O requisites bo present In 11 a l lirely 1 rely upi n lo or oven even a n qualified a II gre re must be he In so In fact that all other othor human are dwarfed Into ti e H I has hils been beell t l of oC this nil all Important Individual r iier Inelegantly Inel hut but not loss IO forcibly tr it he must handle the oil IOn can ox the jonts pull tho lover o one ot tho ne machine trans I J 1 tint means that ho must bo bello po 1 t 1 of m III Insight that Is almost su a n persuasiveness that Is ns liS ni a It Is potent and n judgment th t Is f 8 I n cam J i one 1 of oC the tho duties of cC tho f 1111 1111 1 n the candidates be i of their nominations i II I appoint an nn executive committee of I hT reo to make chairman o or n II w l There f n th f nd of nl ln In tho 10 Powerful t It v h br n to L machine amenable III n Op m to conviction tl e to Aug ston us III liS nil t n n nes I B 8 llIO es concerned Its lI tl K n ra M l The ho nc ac to rh of ot It nil all Is 1 he 1 01 n r j J If nt Iho ot f fn h C moro t In n that n hi thai hao vo risen l 01 hv ha both i of tho ie r th tho at the 11 to men menI HI ugh pr H nt DC I I hel th I of ut C Ci i t the nel iw chairman a OJ II I I h 1 6 hI t ItC 1 bom Nov N n 11 nt t 1 1 n At the uge 1110 I 01 11 his Is he WIlS Amer hl bl nl in In i wll who In Ohio 7 J l u X r re 11 Ii r 1 of oC i nn the ther r 1 ay II l proprietor nf at a n of ot In n 1880 he ho was WOH Ii PUs in Pf It his hla cm em In the Iho Indianapolis business eventually became tho principal owner of ot tho concern In Tn 1886 Mr Tn lurt made mado his political venture Ho lIe sought and ob obtained the th Democratic nomination for tor county count auditor of o Marlon county At that both city county considered hopelessly Republican but of oC managing a campaign long been admiration of oC both political parties parlieR He Is famous ns R n conciliator It Is n In III that tIIt un political tangle that Tom cannot unravel Is too tOI hopeless for fur further further ther consideration Asun As 1111 evidence ot oC the confidence which ho has hos won from In III high In III Ills hili home city by II nil all parties und and has established a reputation lion tion for uprightness thit will servo him admirably In his political elevation Ho Is n a married man and with his wife and six children lives In a 1 beautiful homo home at nt North Capitol avenue Georgo Bruce Druce Cortelyou chosen by Now New Yorks social and business circles circle of ot a II past generation As All n 1 boy hoy young II Cortelyou studied at It various public and private schools In III New York city acquitted himself favorably In each eachor of or them being studious as ns well as un unusually usually bright When he hc seventeen ho WIS from tho II or orif if J I I THOMAS AS TAGGART CHAIRMAN OF or TIlE THE DEMOCRATIC NA B CORTELYOU CHAIRMAN OF TIlE THE REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE NATIONAL COMMITTEE made friends ho was wal elected by a II handsome major majority majorIty ity Ho lie served two terms ns liS auditor and In IS 2 ho he chairman of ot tho state central committed In this trying position ho quickly demonstrated demonstrate ed e his hili special faculty for tor organizing Mr tr has made moro reputation I tion n OR a 1 shrewd political poll tI c I manager than ns liB nn 1111 officeholder Ills His methods his hll fellow townsmen may bo mentioned the fact th t l ho he has hold held tho of oC mayor for tor three terms Ho He has been lIeen n member of at tho Democratic national committee since has long been regarded as IlIn n coming man Mr Ir Is a 1 man of oC affairs In Indianapolis Ho Is IR len of at tho Grand Grund Hotel company and Is Interested In many local enterprises Ho Is held the tho president and his political poll friends to tn manage the caching III In tho Interest of the Republican and Its candidates born In III Now York city on 01 July 1862 Ho Is a member of nn on old metropolitan family his hili grand flIt fat hei hel Peter Poter Cortel Cortelyou you for tor forty a partner In tho firm of ot George ft Co having been heen a 1 prominent figure In Institute on Tong Long IHland whoso whose lr Dr John Hinds afterward bo he came his At the age of ot eighteen Cortelyou en entered the Stale Not Normal mat school nt Led Lcd by tho young mans manH mansI devotion to tho preliminary I essentials of or pedagogy Dr Hinds nd him to 10 prepare himself for tor teach tench teaching ing It with this object In view that he matriculated nt III his hili earliest curliest childhood ho he had manifested a remarkable talent for tor mu music sic alc and It Is IB likely that an on early ap liP application to technique Would havo made madea a virtuoso of ot him As All It II was wS he ho was so Infatuated with the study Immedi Immediately upon bin hili graduation nt tho normal school he entered the Now New T Conservatory of ot nt lit Boston ho hI became n pupil of ot Dr Or Iowla Mans of or tho Boston Philharmonic nic who found foun him possessed of ot much musical I In order to equip himself for tor business B so escape the tho musicians i reputation of ot lack IlIck of ot ho combined the study still of at stenography with that of ot harmony Under the In Instruction I of at James H I Munson tho originator of ot tho system bearing his name tha tho young oung man mall became h so inter interested ested estell In III shorthand that he ho abandoned music devoted all ull his hiM energies to the tho of oC the new url art Al Although 1 though he never resumed the study stud of theoretical music Mr III Is to today today day one Olle of ot the tho most amateur musicians In the country In this dis distinction ls ha he ranks with the veteran Curl Schurz of oC whom It has hns been If It he ho had not been so 80 great a 1 pub publicist publicist he hc might have been heen an nn even pianist When Munson was appointed official of ot tho superior court Cor telou his assistant Shortly afterward ho resigned began a u career which continued four years It was during durinA this period ho married 1 Miss Ml s Lily M Hinds daughter of oC the principal After Afler his Mr en cn entered tho public service In the en of ot private secretary to various minor government and In 18 5 ns nR stenographer to President Cleveland He was Willi promoted to exec executive clerk In 1896 became assistant secretary to President Iro In III I 1898 In 1900 he was WIlA Invited to act as lIa secretary to President Roosevelt Although Mr eight years of service nt the White House made his hla continued presence thero al nl almost most a n necessity he had made Inalle so o many friends that his fur further further ther promotion n matter of at course Ills capacity for tor absorbing detail and storing It for convenient reference him to tile tic chief exec executive uthe Mr appointment of or his secretary to 10 tho now new department of oC labor and commerce wall Inspired by I i notable R That the presidents Q II ri II J 11 I fj I dents confidence In his hili former secreta secretary r G Gry ry had ha not diminished hell Mr Cor Jt T I I short oversight of now de department I evidenced by b his leleo selection j t J I lion tion for tor the trying most position of ot chairman of oC tho national Il I r rI committee I 1 Tho have halo established n II I i ivery very satisfactory position In Washing f tons social life lito There arc nrc tour four chil children dren three boys and Ind a small girl the tho modest homo In Maryland avenue Is IB ono one of oC the most popular gathering I places on Capitol hill hili It Is Ie especially I frequented by h the musical and literary 1 sot Hol w x |
