Evening star., 1898-09-13
HE DID NOT NIBBLE
Independent Bait Failed to Catch
Roosevelt.
ONLY REGULAR NOMINATION WANTED
Democratic Efforts to SheIve Free
Silver.
BRY AN MEN IN EARNEST
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
NEW YORK, September IL. 1898.
To man up a tree it does not now ap
pear important whether Senator Thomas c.
P!att is sincere in his Endorsement of Col.
Theodore Roosevelt for the nomination for
| governor. Tha boom" appears to have
| gone beyond the control of any organiza-
| ticn. 1t is a popular wave, and bids fair to
| sweep the colonel into the gubernatorial
chair with resistless force. But there was
| a chill in the wave all Friday, and por-
| ton of Saturday. 1t was known that the
"cits,'' as the Citizens Union crowd is
called, would nominate the colonel for gov
ernor upon independent ticket thus
sharing the credit with Platt for booming
the Rough Rider, and virtually placing
him on record against the machine" 1t
was a dangerous thing for Roosevelts
chances, because it was just this thing
that killed Seth Low. Republicans remem-
bered well that there a time last year
anti-Tammany union candidate against
Croker's "yellow-dog ticket" That time,
however was before Low had been formal
ly placed in nomination by the Citizens
Union. From that time on Patt determined
that the republican organization could not
belittle itself by travelling in the wake of
the "cits' and accept Low as it's mayoral
ty candidate. And that Is why there was
chill of apprehension, whch was enhanced
when the nomination was actually made.
Would Roosevelt accept or reject the 'cits' "
nomination?
There was immediate relief when it was
formally announced by several close friends
of Col. Roosevelt that he would not nibble
at the gubernatorial bait so temptingly
dangied before him by the ''cits.' He also
made it as plain he could without max
ing a personal statement that he would
not be made use of for the purpose of fight
ing Senator Platt, and that if he accepted
any nomination at all it would be that of
the republican party, regularly made by
the delegates of the Saratoga convent ton.
1t was a lucky thing that Roosevelt did
not take the inderendent bait as investiga-
ton showed that ii was but a corporals
guard that framed the statement and made
the ticket Friends of the colonel after de-
voting sixteen hours Of hard work trying
to find out just who the Independents We're
who placed him at the head of state
ticket, gave up in despair on Saturday.
They learned that neither the Citizens
Union nor the City Club had authorized
the action taken by the Independents. and
they later learned that the Three TailorS
of Tooley street had been eclipsed by the
Independents only in point of numbers
There were three of the tailors of Tooey
street, and there were eight or nine of the
independents who, through courtesy. met
in the City CLUB on Friday night and Sc
lected candidates for the various state Of
hceS to be filled this year.
From all over the state come Roosevelt
shouts. In this city party organization
and affiliations are being broken to fall in
line with him, and there a number of
democrats who have declared personally
that they will vote for "Teddy' If he gets
the nomination. If he is nominated 1t will
be most picturesque campaign. The cos
tune of the Rough Rider promises to fig
ure conspicuously among the marching
clubs and perhaps some of the real thing
he " hp foil T.aH he rnl0 ll At "a
| tiago-Will take places on the stump. The
| Rough Riders do not want to stop fighting
| Two troops are to be mustered out shortly
| and the others will be disbanded as fast
| as they may be, and all OF the officers and
many of the men hope to be able to fol-
| low their colonel in a campaign in New
| York state. They have presented their
| offer of continued service to him. They
sent committee to Colonel Roosevelt to
! say that they would like to stump the
| state for him in his running for govern
| or Like the shrewder politicians they as
| sLmed that he would be nominated, and
| also that he would accept the nomination.
| But he has not said he would run. Il was
| a chance for the colonel to forget his de-
| cision not to speak yet about politics, and
| almost he did.
| The second place on the ticket is not re-
| Ceivlng much attention on the surface, at
| least. Lieutenant Governor Woodruff de-
| cision to stick to Governor Black puts him
| on the other side in a possible party fight
ana out Oh CONSIDERATION In connection WIN
| the present most favored candidate. Two
names are mentioned with equal confidence
| by republicans the probable nominees
| for lieutenant governor. Speaker James NJ.
Z. OGrady is one and Nevada \. Strana-
| han OF Madison county is the other.
| The Democratic Editors Banuuet
About the most important thing in the
| democratic camp was the editorial banquet
engineered by Pat McCarren's commit
| Z of
ion mingled with the drinks, of course, that
! indicates that the democrats can have Col.
William j. Bryan forgotten by the Syracuse
| convention and buried completely as
We're his chances to reach the front during
| the recent trouble with Spain. There We're
| nearly a hundred editors at the gathering,
and while practically all of them are earn
| est supporters of the policies enunciated by
| Bryan two years ago, all of them believe
| 1t would be best to tight shy of these par
| ticular issues this particular ccaSiOn.
They will shout for free silver, an income
| tax, reputation of the Supreme Court and
| other of Col. Bryan's hobbies right up -
the assembling of the Syracuse convention;
| but they then will fall in line for state is
| sues, will forget the Chicago platform until
| after election and will assist in squelcbIng
| the efforts of the Chicago platform demo-
Gratis to place a IL to l democra tic ticket in
the field. The sentiment among the editors
as regards the democratic noHlnee seemed
| to be Elliott F. Danforth, first; John B.
Stanchfleid OF Elmlra, second. and Robert
c. Titus of Buffalo, third
Bryan Men in Earnest.
Despits the confidence with which the ed
itors assured McCarren that silver could
be ignored, there is no doubt that the Bry-
| an crowd is in deadly earnest in this sec
ton of the country. They say that they
have not actually approached the demo
cratic leaders with a proposition for a rec
ognition of the Chicago platform in the
platform adopted at the state convention.
They declare that it would be uselSA to
make such proposition, as they feel con-
fident that the leaders of the organization
have made up their minds to ignore entirely
the Chicago platform. They add that they
will fight on to the bitter end and that
they feel assured that the war they intend
to carry into the camp of the opposition
will be of such a nature as to secure them
recognition in the national convention of
1900. The democratic national committee
is made up of democrats who believe fer
vently in the doctrines of the Chicago plat
form of 1896 The vote today in the COM
mittee stands 81 out of 80 for that platform.
The national democratic committee names,
in 1900, the temporary officers of the dem
ocratic national convention, who name the