The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-29
SEATTLE, FRIDAY, JUNE ~.
The people Would Have Him.

The People Would Have Him.
One Of the stupidest assumptions ever
credits the nomination of Roosevelt 10
the wiles of the political managers In
the Republican party. over the heads
OF his own friends 1t has been utter
ed by few Republicans OF the order
who always prefer complex causes to
simple. and taken up and repeated by
Democrats who hope to find in It some
thing that may break the overwhclm-
ing force OF his popularity. Roosevelt
was sacrificed" they say; sidetracked
into the vice presidency by the will Of
the ''bosses." because Plat did not
want him to he governor OF New York
Tor another term. His friends resisted.
but they could not withstand the power
OF the machine.
Now let anyone look at the visible
facss. about which there is no doubt
wAatsvsr because they are 30 plain to
sao p~te1o eye. That Senator Plat ala
wnnA Gov. Roosevelt named for vice
uessidssA n no secret. He worked 20
SAa& end with all his power. 90 did
some others among the Republican
lsadsss. Senator Hanna ala not. be-
uawss ~ respected Robssvelt's own
w1A. whioh was for the governorship.
Awd the same men who whine about
the sacrifice OF Roosevelt are those who
yssam that the Republican party exists
Osly 20 40 Mr. Hanna's bidding.
This was the situation before the con-
ventton which took plenty OF time 20
deliberate. II was evident from tho
first moment OF assembling that the
nomination OF Roosevelt could not be
prevented. hut IL was the wish OF the
great body OF delegates and the win OF
the people who sent them there that
made IL inevitable. II all the managers
whose nanns the party knows had
joined hands to prevent II. they would
have been helpless. Senator platt was.
indeed. aa fueonsplcuous ngnre In tho
matter. He could not manage the dele
Cation from his own state. and Roose-
vdt could. In difference to the sx-
pressed wishes Of the latter they re-
fused To name him ms their choice But
not cue-fourth OF the convention could
have been controlled By any agency
whatever in the nomination OF vice
president
The proof OF THIS ~ in the fact that
Mr.. Roosevelt could not control n him
self one great feature 81 the convention
was his universal popularity. II reused
at tho sigh, % him. Wherever he moved
there was group 81 admirers. when
ever he spoke thern was rousing dem
orssfration. Construct any theories that
one may or this gathering SIS av0wed
devotion 20 Roosevelt was second only
90 tts devotion 10 Prsstdcn, Mckinley.
Yet u wcnld net lstaA to his arguments
ar obey hts wishes II was determined
u AfseN " HiRu ~ Az NsshAN8AtN never
was q convention more utterly beyond
the ecntecs es any leader or set ct lead
ers. more es'erminstly bent upon Aav-
ins the naan Of It's own choice
II was the West that nominated
Roosevelt ana that would have nAmei
hia no matter what any other section
n.iwht have chosen 20 do The west.
walah has little care for the sehes;s
% managers in Eastsra states simply
Sook tae bits betwsea its teeth T'heo-
dors Roosevelt has eaen It's popular hero
from the beginning. and e would have
no one elsa II was IN Difference 70 this
that Western candidates withdrew their
names Tn favor cf the man Of the hour
Spontaneous and irresistible was the de-
mand. ana Theodore Roosevelt himself
had 20 bow 20 il. IL was greater than all
she plots or plans that may have been
laiA graater than the men who aavs
Easas AaaaAuce In party councils. grsatss