Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-25
REPUBLICANS MUST PRE-
PARE TO LOSE NEW YORK

Chicago Times-Herald Rep).
Theodore Roosevelt having failed to
stem the tide of Republican enthusiasm
that would not permit him to escape
the vice presidential nomination. the
Republican party must now face the
serious problem of electing it's ticket
without the electoral vote of New
York. Whatever may have been the
political c~hicanery and deceit behind
the fictitious stampede" that overcame
Gov. Roosevelt's honest instinct and
snatched him from his chosen sphere
OF duty and usefulness, there can be
no doubt that it weakens the Republi-
can ticket in the State with the largest
vote in the electoral college.
Outside OF the h~urly-burly of Phila-
delphia the people of the United States,
who elect Presidents if they do not
control conventions, have watched the
game with the gravest misgivings as
TO It's consequences. They have seen
the consequences. They have seen the
conspiracy of Tom Platt to rob New
York of an honest Governor win
through absolutely unwarranted claim
that the prairies were afiame demand
Ing the nomination of Roosevelt for
Vice President.
Nothing could have been further
from the truth. The all-pervading
sentiment of the west, where Gov.
Roosevelts personal attributes have
made him a popular idol, asked that
his earnestly expressed wish for a sec
ond term should be respected. The
west was not deceived by the trickery
and ~skulduggery that sought to take
that square-set jaw u of the way of
Tom Platt and jam it into the smooth
round hole labeled the vice presidency.
In Albany Gov. Roosevelt was the
deaths head at every corporate feast.
the fly in every pot of oily jobbery for
which Thomas c.. Platt lives and
schemes. In Washington Theodore
Roosevelt will he far removed from the
office in which he has been a terror to
rascals and a stumbling-block to all
kinds of legislative log-rolling and in
iquity.
Tom Platt would rather have a
Democrat in the Governors mansion
at Albany than a second term of Gov.
Roosevelt.
But the Republican voters and the
Independent citizens of New York were
prepared to force a second term for
Roosevelt. The only way Plat could
checkmate the popular demand for
this was through forcing his nominal
ton for Vice President.
This is what he accomplished before
he left Philadelphia Wednesday night
with a glad heart beating e~xultantly
under his fractured rib.
And now western Republicans must
be prepared to face the difficult task of
electing Mckinley and Roosevelt with
out relying on New York State. The
truth can not be concealed that as a
candidate for Governor, an Office In
which his fearless impetuosity and
honest instincts were needed, Theodore
Roosevelt would have attracted thous-
ands of Independent Republicans. anti
Tammany Democrats and civil service
reformers to the support of the Re-
publican ticket. AS candidate for Vice
President his personality will not count
for a rush to win support from these
classes.
If a man like Bird S. Coler is nomi-
mated for Governor by the Democrats
against any stool-pigeon Tom Plat
may name, noe any one doubt that the
disgust over the political assassination
of the Rough Rider will endanger both
the State and national Republican
tickets?
He is but a shallow student of the
crooked ways of New York politics
who does not fear the worst from the
~jockeying that has rehabilitatea
Thomas c. Plat as the undisputed
middle, end and confidence man of Re
publican power in New York. 4
BY playing the game for Thomas C.
Platt the Republican delegates from
the west have confronted their con-
stituents with this ill-fayored table OF
November possibilities: