, 1900-06-18
FOR ROOSEVELT
NEW YORK ROUGH RIDER WANT
ED AS CANDIDATE FOR
VICE PRESIDENT.
State After State ClamOrs for the Nom
ination of the Famous Colonel Of
the Rough Riders Who Has De-
clared a Hundred Times That lie
Will Not Have it.

VIII Not Have It.
Philadelphia, Pa, June 17.-ROosc
yelt's name is written beside that o
McKinley's on the republican sky il
letters of fire. The governor Of New
York will be nominated for vice presi
dent if he will accept. Senator Plat anC
Chairman Odell of the New York stat,
committee both declared this evening
that the governor would accept tn,
domination if ii were rendered to him
That Roosevelt cheer when the New
York came to the city last night, the
first and only one heard here since the
town took on gala attire, was pro,
phetic.
What may be termed the Roosevelt
deluge has been sweeping down On tn,
convention city. So far as it can be
located, it started in Oregon, the ma,
tional committeeman of which state
declared for Roosevelt last Thursday
But it did not break with actuaI
violence until this forenoon, when the
Pennsylvania followers of ex-senator
Quay announced that of siXty-fouI
votes from the Keystone state, fifty
eight would be cast for Roosevelt.
When the news got abroad at tho
hotels where the governor, Senator
Hanna and Senator Plat we're stopping
nearly everybody asked: Have they
endorsed Roosevelt for vice president
or president
This inquiry was prompted by the
stories with which the administration
representatives have been filling Phila-
delphia papers for several days to the
effect that Quay of Pennsylvania,
Jamison of Indiana and Plat Of New
York were planning to control the con-
v"ention against Mckinley and Han
ma.
1t was speedily understood hat Quay
had executed one OF those brilliant
strokes for which he is famous and had
seized on the popularity Of New Iork's
governor to emerge from his seclusiOn
as a defeated and d~iscredited claimant
for a seat in the senate and become a
factor in the convention.
Instantly the air became filled with
Roosevelt talk, but singularly enough,
it was not regarded as a myoe against
Hanna. Men close to the administra-
ton took it up. Hanna, who had said
the convention should have the picking
of McKinley's mate, provided 1t took
a national figure, was taken at his
word.
State after state began to ia. in line.
Connecticut, which has been support
ing Secretary Long, expressed decided
preference for Roosevelt. Colorado,
under the leadership of Senator VOL
colt. himself a vice presidential candl-
date, was soon pledged. Arkansas and
Alabama were led into line. Senate
Lodge, the Long leader in New Eng
land, said if Roosevelt would take it,,
Longs name would not be presented
and the solid vote of New England
would be assured. Joseph H.. Manley
Of Maine called on the governor and
pledged him the good will of the Pine
Tree state.
California's delegation dropped the
Scott boom before they dropped their
g~ripsacks. Maryland swung into line
with almost a solid delegation. The
Rough Rider country came TO the
front with sombreros and cowboy y"lls,
Montana, Arizona and New Mexico be-
ing aligned for the ranchman, rough
rider and governor in a jiffy.
The Iowa men who were solid Tor
Dolliyer, began to look gloomy at their
headquarters in the Stratford. Kan
sas came in with Deliver cheers on
their lips and at once began to say that
they would support Roosevelt with JOY
if there was any prospect of his ac-
cepting the nomination. Illinois, with
as delegates, and two hundred Dollt-
yer shouters from Chicago, appeared
late in the afternoon. They Will De
be cheering for Roosevelt in the morn
ing.
So it came to pass that in one short
day the situation that was scattered
among a score of candidates, some or
them put up for technical purposes ana
all open to some objections, became
conferred around one man, who, not
once or twice, but a hundred times, a
declared that he did not want the nomi-
nation and would not take 1t.