The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-07-06
WILL LOSE HIM NEW YORK

Mr.. Roosevelt having been nomi-
mated by Mr.. Hanna for the purpose
of carrying New York for the Hanna
Mckinley ticket, it is interesting
to know how that action is re-
garded by members of the Hanna
party. The Chicago Enthusiastically
whose editor claims the honor of being
an Original Mckinley man." who has
been a near friend of the Ohio son and
a quasi-official spokesman for the ad-
ministration makes these significant
remarks in it's issue of Friday.
Theodore Roosevelt having failed to
stem the tide of the Republican
enthusiasm the vice president nomi-
nation the Republican party must
now face the serious problem of elect
ing its ticket without the electoral
vote of New York. Whatever may
have been the political chicanery and
deceit behind the fictitious ''stsm-
pede" that overcame Governor Roose-
velt's honest instinct and snatched
him from his chosen sphere of duty
and usefulness, there can be no doubt
that it weakens the Republican ticket
in the State with the largest vote in
the electoral college.
Outside of the hurry -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 misgivipgs
as to its conse quences. They have
seen the conspiracy of Tom Platt to
rob New York of an honest governor
win through the absolute unwarrant-
ed claim that the prairies were afiame
demanding the nomination of Roose-
welt for vice president.
Nothing could have been further
from the truth. The all pervading
sentiment of the west. where Cover
nor Roosevelt's personal attributes
have made him popular idol, asked
that his earnestly expressed wish for
a second term should be respected
The west was not deceived by the
trickery and skulduggery that sought
to take that square.set jaw out of the
way of Tom Plat and jam it into the
smooth round hole labeled the vice
presidency.
In Albany Governor Roosevelt was
the deaths head at every corporate
feast, the fly in every pot of oily job
berry for which Thomas c.. Platt lives
and schemes. In Washington Theo-
dore Roosevelt will be 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 iniquity.
Tom Platt would rather have a
Democrat in the governors mansion
at Albany than a second term of Gov
ernor Roosevelt.
But the Republican voters and the
Independent citizens Of New York
were prepared to force a second term
for Roosevelt. The only way PIatt |
could checkmate the popular demand
for this was through forcing his nomi-
nation for vice president.
This is what he accomplished before
he left Philadelphia Wednesday night |
with a glad heart beating exultantly |
under his fractured rib.
And now western Republicans must |
be prepared to face the difficult task |
of electing Mckinley and Roosevelt
without relying on New York State.
The truth cannot be concealed that as |
a candidate for governor, an office in
which his fearless impetuosity and
honest instincts were needed, Theo-
dore Roosevelt would have attracted
thousands of independent Republi-
cans, anti-Tammany Democrats and |.
civil service reformers to the support
of the Republican ticket. AS candi-
date for vice president his personality
will not count for rush to win sup
port from these classes.
If man like Bird s. CoIer is nomi-
mated for governor by the Democrats
against any stool pigeon Tom Plat
may name, does anyone doubt that
the disgust over the political assassi-
nation of the Rough Rider will endan-
ger both the State and National Re-
publican tickets?
He is but a shallow student of the |
crooked ways of New York politics I
who does not fear the worst from the
oekeying that has rshabilitated
Thomas G. PIatt as the undisputed {
middle, end and confidence man of
power in New York. II
By playing the game for Thomas G.
olatt, the Republican delegates from
he west have confronted their con-
tituents with this ll.favored table of ]
November possibilities: c