The evening times., 1899-09-27
The REPUBLICAN, TICKET Nl9O0
Significance I'm the Retirement of
Mr.. Hobart.

| sey will decline to accept a denomination
| for Vice President from the next Repub-
| lican national convention will excite no
! surprise among political observers who have
watched Discriminatory what has been
going on behind the scenes in Ad-
mnistration circles during the last eight
| cen months. Since the Spanish war began
| it has more than once ytranspired thai
| the Republicans would require in the next
national campaign ticket somewhat diff
ferent in personnel from the Mckinley
Hobart combination of 1896. That conclu-
| sion has forced itself -insistently upon Re-
publican leaders of national influence, and
| though they have frequently sought TO
| evade the retirement of MI. Hobart, they
| have nevertheless been forced to look the
pressing necessities of political situation
plump in the face and to act accordingly.
1t has now practically been decided that
al least one of the Republican candidates
| in 1900 must be man who will bring
| to the national ticket certain elements OF
strength made necessary and requisite by
altered political conditions, and especially
| by the military fever that has recently
| swept over the country. Had there been
| no war, Mr.. Hobart would doubtless be
| today the unanimous choice of his party for
| the Vice Presidential nomination next year,
and, indeed. if only the wishes of a large
| majority of his political associates should
| now be consulted, he would probably be
| renominated by acclamation. The demand
! however, for a picturesque military leader
| with engaging personal qualities, supple
| manted as 1t is by the fact that Mr.. Nc
| Kiniey has little of the heroic tone or tenn
per, has induced Republican politicians to
| search for a candidate who would COM
plement the President S somewhat color
less personality.
Ii is doubtless true that Mr.. Hobarts
| health has been none too strong FOR sew
eral months and that his large business
interests require a deal of attention. yet
by persons acquainted with his physical
| condition it is known that he would be
| quite as competent in 1900 as he was in
| 1886 to endure the strain of a Presidential
| canvass Indeed. 1t has been the subject
| of frequent remark that Mr.. Hobart has
contriyed to be OF more actual service to
mis- party, If not TO the country at large,
| than any other Vice President within the
memory of men now living. 1t is not for
gotten that many of his notable Offices
among which might be mentioned the pass
ing OF Mr.. Alger, have been performed
during the recennt period of his alleged i'll
health 1t is probably true that the Vice
President would advantage physically by
a temporary relaxation from all political
activity. More that that however, may
not justly be said in inventing an excuse
for Mr.. Hobart's political retirement. IL
is only fair to infer that the prestige OF
his distinguished service TO his party on
many delicate and even critical occasions
during his Vice Presidential Office, as we'll
as the satisfaction that must be his when
he recalls the deep-felt gratitude of many
of his political associates would have the
effect OF terminating him with a desire TO
remain at post of duty he has filled so
acceptably both from partisan and a
patriotic point OF view. Mr. Hobart's
wish to retire" is TO be explained there
fore. upon more reasonable ground than
that of i'll health which is at best but the
| ostensible cause and which invites en-
quiry into the real motive of certain domi-
nant Republican leaders who are now busily
obscuring in the background of the genial.
gracious and exceedingly able gentleman
from New Jersey.
The sinister purposes of the White
| House 'cuckoos are not far to find. The
suggestion that Mr. Hobart should retire
is an admission not of the Vice Presidents,
but of another gentleman's elements of
weakness. If Mr.. Hobart retires he will
do SO not because he is weak Vice Presi-
Dental candidate, but because Mr.. Nc
Kinley is not a strong Presidential can
didate Mr.. Hobart will abandon politics
for the reason that he does not compile
ment the Presidents notable short-com-
| ings. s,.,l. .. 49,. ..,..,
Political conditions next year will re-
quire, it is thought, ticket that repre-
sents vim, vigor, vitality, intense dynamic
| force, and the picturesque characteristics
which can be contributed only by some
military hero"
The desire nearest the heart of the
| President is that Governor Roosevelt
1 a5phf ha rad 70
place" 1t is kpoWn.-hnW eYer.-Ihat the
| Presidents wishes will not be gratified.
! Governor Roosevelt has net escaped the
opportunity to declare that he would never
be the tail to the Mckinley or any other
political kite. At present the Rough Rider
is known to have a certain clearly defined
and definite political ambition. The Re-
publicans, therefore, must needs seek
other than Roosevelt for sMcKiniey's' run
ming mate
Who it is that will contribute the pic
| turesque personality TO the, Republican
ticket next year cannot now be determined
Should an Eastern man be named, ii is
thought that Gen. Francis Y. Greene, of
New York, might be acceptable. He is
man of wealth and popularity with all
classes of Republicans in the East and he
has some military reputation. 5 He
was mentioned prominently, il is remem-
bered, in connection with the portfolio of
| War when Mr.. Alger, recently resigned.
Mr.. Root has also been mentioned. He
! however, is also a civilian, and the OBJ
jections made to Mr.. Hobart might apply
with equal force to the Secretary of War.
Should Mr.. Root, however, prosecute the
war in the Philippines successfully, he
would naturally come prominently into
view. 1t is now believed that Mr.. Nc
Kinley personally desires a Western man.
Some strong candidate from the far West
or the Northwest would, it is understood
be highly acceptable to the President He
realizes, it is said, that certain elements
: in those sections which supported him in
| 1896 are not now in love with many poll
cies of his, and he studiously desires tc
win them back to this support. 1t would
not be surprising. therefore if some dark
horse with a military uniform should ride
out of Michigan, Minnesota, eor Wisconsin
and capture the Vice Presidential nomina-
ton in next years Republican national
, convention Such an event would be made
comparatively easy by the retirement of Mr..
Hobart.
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