Show IS IT TAFT AND CORTELYOU We e get the following bit hit of oC political speculation from the New York American Ameri Amen can a paper that isn't committed to the cause of or any an- Republican candidate and yet one oue which employs rather sagacious young oung men to do its writIng writ writ- Ing lug The Tho Taft managers are arc thought to tobe tobo I bo be in favor or of oC ou for vico vice I president They want a New Yorker one strong with business interests ts and andone ono one who will be satisfactory ati to friends of or the be administration They dont don't want C Hughp who Is Js considered an Impossible party mast man They have apparently renters centered on Cortelyou partly in ord order r to so heath head off ore the th Fairbanks Fair Fair- hanks banks vice Ice presidential al boom For a man recently declared l to he be out O of ot the tho political game gamo arn Mr r. r Cortelyou Cortelyou Cortel Cortel- you jon Is turning turning- up lip with rather rath more assets than nay any political bankrupt whose name comes readily to mind They arc ara after him on all sides He lie has the cards that In the hands of or either side would mean victory It looks as If he was war pla playing ing them w with th sl skill UI And that isn't the most improbable thing In the tho world worl either Mr Ir Cortelyou Cortelyou Cortel Cortel- you answers that for a n man who Is li acceptable to the tho business men menor of or the East He lie Is not rich himself of oC course but hut there is no man tuna now now- extant who could get a n better helter financial backing for any project which ho he might approve And Taft TaCt and Cortelyou Cortelyon wo would ld make a good team Both Doth are arc o of the tho people Both are aro staunch and true truo Republicans And both are arc loyal in their r friendship for the President and firm in their theil approval al of oC the policies he has alwa always s supported Indiana is said still to expect Mr rr Fairbanks will be he nominated for second see seCt ond end place since sinco the he they can not get him named for first But Bui it is just po possible this lat later r forecast is tho the more nearly o accurate |