The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-18
He Is Pulled and Hauled
This Way and That
By Party Leaders Claiming
to Be His Friends.
NOMINATION IS HIS.
A Stampede For Him For
Vice Presidency
Prefers to Make the Race For
Governor.
But Hesitates About an AbsO-
Lutte Decision.
Kansas Delegates Join the
Roosevelt Boomers.

Philadelphia, June 1s.-Governor
Roosevelt gave out this statement at
o'clock this afternoon:
In view of the revival of the talk of
myself as a vice president candidate I
have this to say:
1T is Impossible to express how deep
ly touchedI am by the attitude of those
delegates who have wished me TO take
this nomination. Moreover it is not
necessary to say how thoroughly un-
derstand the high honor and dignity of
the Office an office so high and so hon
orable that it is we'll worthy the am
bition of any man in the United States.
But while I appreciate all this to
the full. nevertheless feel most deeply
that field of my best usefulness to the
public and to the party is in New York
state, and if the party should see fit
to renominate me for governor I can
in that position help the national
ticket as in no other way. I very
earnestly ask that every friend of mine
in the convention respect my wish and
my judgment in this matter"
Philadelphia, June 1S.-From a spec
tacular standpoint the convention be-
gan today over night the city
blossomed like a flower garden. Bright
skies smiled and cool breeze in
stilled life and animation into the con-
stantly swelling crowds. BY every
train they are pouring into the city,
and the town awoke to the strains of
martial music as one of the marching
clubs swung up the street headed by
a brass band playing as If it's saliva
tiOn depended upon the vigOr put into
the music There has not been an
hour since when the air was not filled
with music and in which bands have
not been parading in some quarter Of
the city, meeting and escorting the in
coming delegates, clubs and distin-
guished visitors. The leaders are being
serenaded and the hotel corridors are
jammed with seething, struggling
crowds. And the Roosevelt contagion
is everywhere.
The town is mad with delight at the
prospect of his nomination. His badge
is on every lapel; his name is on every
lip. Nothing else is talked of. In the
streets the newsboys dinned it into
every one. The fakirs and sellers of
buttons shouted their wares in sport
ing parlance: Mckinley with Roose-
Welt for a place"
There was the biggest kind of a
turnout of pretty women, and almost
without exception they We're wearing
the vignettes of the Empire state gov
F-
ccrned it is taken for granted that the
ticket is already named. The crowds
will not listen to the suggestion that
Roosevelt himself may upset the pro-
gramme. They say he had as we'll at
tempt to stay the torrent of Niagara
In the hotels the delegates We're busy
holding state meetings, selecting com
mitteemen and distributing badges
These latter are the handsomest seer
in years They consist of simple bronze
medallions suspended by ribbons from
a bronze bar. on the medallions are
the faces of Lincoln, Grant and Nc
Kinley, supermposed upon each other
McKinley's likeness uppermost The
leaders are pow viewing. The nationa
committee held a final meeting to cleal
the decks for tomorrow and the Off.
cials are engaged in the distribution O
the tickets and in adjusting the thou
sand and one details which remain t,
be attended to.
ROOSEVELT IN A QUANDARY.
By11 O'Clock today Gov. Roosevelt be
gan active work to stem the tide o
sentiment in favor of his nomination
He had conferences with Henry c
Payne Of Wisconsin, Senator Lodge o
Massachusetts, Senator Hanna, Ma
tional Committeeman Gibbs of New
York and Benjamin Odell in addition
to other leaders.
Senator Hanna. it is stated, advised
that the proper course for him to pur
sue was to issue statement positivel.
declining the nomination.
1T viii be entirely consistent witt
your previous statements" Senate
Hanna Is said to have urged, "and vii
convince people that you have lost non
Of your determination when you set on
10 accomplish a result.
But I have never asserted" an
Bwered Governor Roosevelt, that
EOuld decline if nominated. do no