People's voice., 1900-08-09
PURE And SIMPLE FAKE
Roosevelt's Nomination Prear-
ranged by Mark Hanna.
DELEGATES VICTIMS OF A TRICK.

The Whole Affair Was Cut and Dried
Before the Convention Met-Rough
Rider TO Take the stump and Pose
ns the Hero of the Spanish War.
The Vice Presidency Cheapened.
Preliminary plans for the campaign
were practically agreed upon before
the new Republican national commit
tee adjourned. 1t is decided to make
the utmost Of the fact that there is q
soldier of the Spanish-American war
on the ticket, to make the charge of
the Rough Riders at San Juan a spec
tacle for posters and a subject for ora
tory.
I'VE will glorify the man who led his
troops up steep hill in the teeth of a
deadly fire Of Mausers," said Chairman
Hanna to Senator Chandler.
"0f course the governor will take the
stump and wear some of the regimen
tails which he wore while in the serv-
icer suggested the New Hampshire
man.
Certainly" said Hanna emphatical-
ly. "And he will play the part Of sol
dier from beginning TO end. His Rough
Riders will all be in the campaign, or
as many Of them as the national CON-
mittee can persuade to take an active
part guess they will be heard from"
IAN excellent plan! An excellent
plan" assented Senator Chandler.
Thus the Rough Rider Is once more
to become political factor, Just as he
was in the fall Of 1898, when Roosevelt
was elected by the narrow margin Of
$4,000 votes. Hanna will hire every
one of them whose services can be OBJ
tanned for pay. They will go through
every state and every city, marching
for and singing the praises of Roose-
velt.
Roosevelt himself will take the
stump early In the campaign and make
complete circuit Of the country, omit
ting only the Pacific coast states from
his itinerary. He is expected to Offset
Mr.. Bryan, who will of course, as he
did in 1896, keep all engagements that
may be made for him by the Demo
cratic national committee.
An hour after the convention ad-
jOurned the delegates had begun to
awaken to the fact that they had been
tricked, that the Roosevelt nomination
had been planned long in advance of
the convention and that the Hanna
fight on the New York man was a fake
pure and simple. In fact, that Hanna's s
candidate had been nominated unani-
mously by clever dodge.
While it is true that Roosevelt has
been the one man on whom the dele
gates could lavish their enthusiastic
acclaim and equally true that they Law
ished great deal of It, there can be no
doubt that as the delegations are leav-
Ing for their respective states there is a
growing feeling that everybody con-
cerned was made the victim of a stupid
and wholly unnecessary fake.
The reaction was apparent soon after
the convention adjourned, and 1t will
continue to magnify and grow regard
less of the announced plan of the boss
es to make Teddy the central figure Of
the coming fight. As one delegate put
1t:
"The American public likes to be
fooled In a shrewd way, and pretty
nearly every American is willing to
stand for just a little coming, but
when 1t comes to dragging the high
Office Of vice president through the
mire Of common buffoonery it is time
to call halt Republicans may shut
their eyes to the facts, but they will
have to twist their cOnsciences to do
So"