The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-19
MCKINLEY AND ROOSEVELT.
New York's Governor May Be Run
| ming Mate Of the President.

WASHINGTON, July 1S.-The next
Republican Presidential campaign
ticket will probably be Mckinley and
Roosevelt. Men high in the councils
of the party favor this combination for
1900. 1t is hardly necessary to en-
phaSiZe the fact that Roosevelt re-
CARDS his present position merely as a
stepping stone to higher office, having
the ambition to be nominated for the
Presidency in 1904.
There are others upon whom the les
son of Roosevelt's popularity is not
lost. Despite all that may be said by
the optimistic rank and file, the Re-
publican leaders know that the next
campaign is not to be won by walk
ing over f1owery beds of ease. They
look for contest more bitter and in
tense that that of 1896, and they are
aware that the full voting strength of
the party must be brought out. 1t is
for this reason that many of them are
urging that new name be put on the
ticket for second place, believing that
more enthusiasm will be created.
They regard Roosevelt as particu-
larly available for the Vice Presiden-
cy on account of his war record, as
well as on account of his location.
New Jersey has the Vice President and
a place in the Cabinet, while New
York, with it's thirty-Six electoral votes,
has been out in the cold since Mr..
Bliss's retirement. Shrewd party man
ayers, while they esteem Mr.. Hobart
highly, frankly declare In private con-
versation that there would be no poll
teal wisdom in renominating him. At
the proper time, therefore, they expect
by diplomatic means to have Hobart,
on the score of his health, step aside
so that Roosevelt may be put on the
ticket. They regard Roosevelt as the
ideal candidate, a man who would at
tract a larger vote to the ticket than
Mr.. Hobart, or any other.
If he can be persuaded to take the
place, all agree he will help material
ly Under the circumstances at present
the friendly attitude of the eAdminis-
tration toward the popular New York
Governor is very clear, and this friend
ly attitude promises to be emphasized
from time to time in the months which
will intervene before the Republican
National Convention. The recent visit
OIL ROOSEVELT TO the w mite House was
first step toward bringing about the
most cordial relations between the
President and Governor.
Will Roosevelt accept the nominal
ton for Vice President? He cannot
decline and look forward to future po-
litical preferment at the hand of the
people at large. The present policy is
to work up throughout the country
such a sentiment for Roosevelt that he
Will be unable to withstand it. The
plan is to tender it to him in such a
way that he cannot reject it without
offering an affront that would render
impossible his nomination for the first
place in 1904. He may be put in the
position that confronted the late Thorn
as A. Hendricks in 1884, when he was
compelled against his will to be the
running mate of Mr.. Cleveland.
Mckinley and Roosevelt, the Presi-
dent who successfully conducted the
war with Spain, and the man who left
the battlefield to enter the Governors
chair-that is the program of the pol
iticians for 1900, aided and abetted by
persons high in authority, to whom
success is more important than any
other consideration.