Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-10-19
DEWEY FOR PRESIDENT.
Rumored That Proctor is looming Him
Much to the Administrations Dis
comfort Similar to Grant.

New York, oct. 1j.--The Times prints
the following from Washington: The i'm
preston Is gaining ground here that if the
Ohio election turns out in a way disad-
vantageous to the President, there will lie
an effort to make Admiral Dewey the re-
publican candidate for President.
IT, after all the efforts put forth by the
administration and by Senator Hanna in
Guiding the presidential tour in the West,
the election results in a small plurality
or defeat for Judge Nash, many Of the
republicans who now acquiesce in MIR.
McKinleys denomination because they
have TO, will be able to express their
opinions.
Reports from Vermont. which seem TO
indicate that that Cool-headed and willy
politician, Senator Proctor, is grooming
the admiral, are making many of the
Presidents friends uncomfortable. Mr.
Proctor, like all the republican leaders,
is nominally in favor of the President just
now, but it is currently reported that
there are many perfunctory Mckinley
men who would in reality prefer some
other candidate. The talk about Admiral
Dewey the eXpanSionist, as democratic
and ant-eXpansion candidate has given
these men much amusement, but it has
also given them n valuable suggestion.
An imperiaist candidate and an anti-m-
perialist party is not very probable
combination. hut there are a good many
republicans who see nothing the matter
with war horse for a candidate on a
platform calling for the prosecution of the
war
Just now the talk is all for Mckinley
but if anything should happen to turn
the eyes of the republican leaders in an
other direction, they would rest first on
vermont. It is said that Senator Proctor
after long interview with Admiral Dew
ey at MONTPELIER, made this remark about
the admirals candidacy:
IF Admiral Dwey adheres to his deter
mination he will he unique in American
history. No man has ever yet refused the
presidency of the United States"
Politicians say Senator Proctor is not
a rainbow chaser, He is one of the hardest
headed men in the Senate. The indication
that he would not be reluctant to pose
AS the custodian of "a Dewey boom is
causing moro head scratching and hard
thinking among administration politicians
than anything that has happened in a
long time.
1t is being recalled that the talk about
Grant for President had made some head
way IN the democratic party before it was
seized upon by the republicans. The idea
| oil Grant on a democratic platform in 1865
was as humorous as that of Dewey on n
4 democratic platform in 1900, but ii furnish
ed the republican leaders with an idea
which later bore fruit.
| The political history leading to the con-
| vontion of 1865 is being recalled with more
interest than the ante-conVention history
OF any other campaign since the rcpub-
lican party came into existence.
PRESIDENTIAL GOSSIP AT MONT
PEI-IER
Corresnondence of the N. Y. Hcraldl
Montpelier VT, Thursday. has
| been lot Of talk here to-day about ths
/ Dewey presidential boom. Every politic-
ian in the State, big and little Is in town.
and they all are enthusiastic over the no.
ton of presenting Dewey's name to The
next republican national convention.
| majority of Vermonters vote tho re-
publican ticket, and they say they don't
want to see the democrats appropriato
their great man. There seems to be no
conjunction whatever about throwing
Mckinley over if George Dewey will only
say he will take the nCmination. Senator
Redleld Proctor and other prominent men
are diplomatic reserved when oucs-
| TONED about the Dewey boom but Mr..
Proctor called upon the admiral tonight
and the two had long conference When
asked after this conference whether he
thought the admiral could be induced ia
reconsider his expressed determination
and accept a nomina ton Senator Proctor
| said.
well, If Admiral Dewey adheres to his
determination he viii be unique in Amer
lean history No man has ever Yet re-
fused to accept the Presidency Of the Uni
ted States.
In talking to his friends Admiral DEWEY
snakes no secret of the fact that he thinks
Gen. Otis should be superseded in the
Philippines. and that while in Washington
me talked E>etty plainly TO President Nc