The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-18
Teddy Is Not the Choice Of
Administration,
But III Nominated II Is Believed That HI g
Will Accept.

InlldutIDnHtg JuuG Ats-HA I'LL ttld Aht-
publican national convention 4S hours
ahead Philadelphia today resembled a
convention city about as much as an
ordinary town meeting resembles riot.
Usually with a national convention SO
near at hand the hotel corridors are
choked with people, marching clubs are
parading the streets, the air is filed with
the blare of bands, sensational rumors
are everywhere and the din and confusion
are terrific. Today the quiet of Phila-
delphia was unbroken by a single cheer
or a strain Of music. The weather was
responsible for most of 1t. Jupiter
Pulvius did his worst. The rain god
simply would not be propitiated. All
night he drenched the city until 1t seemed
that his reservoirs must run dry. But
the supply held out nearly all day. To
ward night he showed signs of WEAKNESS
but the heavens continued to ooze and
drip as though the last drop of moisture
was to be squeezed from the clouds. The
flags and hunting with which the hotels,
Clubs stores and houses had been deco
rated hung wet, limp and lifeless and
the delegates and visitors wandered aim
lessly through the slippery, deserted
streets. So heavy and displriting was
the gloom that the electric lamps were
turned on in the hotels but even their
glare could not dispel the depression.
Add to the influence of the weather the
fact that the rules of a quaker Sabbath
are enforced here and the picture is COM
plete.
A little artificial stimulation might
have produced some cheer but Philadel-
phia will not be disturbed on Sunday
and her guests We're left to their own
devices. Not even u national convention
was allowed to invade the sancity of the
day. A kings ransom could procure
nothing more exhilirating than lemon
ade and lemonade has no power to fortify
the blood against the inclemency of a
storm. In the afternoon the California
delegation took pity on the sodden crowd
and dispensed some Pacific coast cheer on
her own account. The hospitality of
California is traditional at all national
but never more SO than to-
day.
The products of her vineyards In bas-
kets with red, white and blue covers
were simply inexhaustible in the Colon
made where the Californians live. When
the news of what was going on there got
abroad the migration from the headquar-
ters of other states recalled the trekklng
Of the days of 40. Every face was turned
toward the Golden Gate and seemingly
everybody wanted to live, at least tenn
porarily in the bracing air of Cali fornia.
AS the skies frightened and the mist
dissolved toward evening the news of
what had been happening behind closed
doors in the rooms of the leaders came
ndsed about and the hotel Hobbies became
animated. The situation with reference
to TIE man who is TO stand with McISin-
ley . the coming fight suddenly grew
intefsting and exciting. A real crash
in Which party leaders were to struggle
for te mastery was imminent, was clear
ly OF lined. Gov. Roosevelt, whose DASH
ing career and captivating personality
appl to the Imagination OF men, sud /
dsnl loomed up ON the horizon as the /
most formidable candidate for the vice |
pres ency. Ever since the Republican |
clanaave begun to gather here Roose-
yelt Is been hanging over the convention |
like te shadow of the man on horseback. |
His Gtearance in the corridors of the /
hotels.hus far has been the only thing /
whicthas stirred the crowds to their +
depth He alone has uncorked the en-
thussn and inspired a cheer. Today
whehe entered the Walton, picturesque
and commanding wearing the slouch
whi has been his only headgear since
he Iurned from Cuba, the crowd rose
at m and eddied about him like a
swing tide in their eagerness to greet
hin The rank and file have been only
dered from proclaiming him as their
che from the very first by his repeated
auuncement that he was not eandl-
da Today New York and Pennsylva-
M the former with ~ and the latter
vh "a delegates threw his banner to the
we. The effect was magical. The