The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-06-28


II the Republicans were about to carry
the 1900 election overwhelmingly, but
there are great many skeletons at the
feast.
Read the following:
Especial to the Chicago Times Herald.)
PHILADELPHIA, June 21.--At the bust
ness meeting Of the triennial convention Of
! the North American Turnerbund, or thu
| golden jubilee turnfest," as it is called
which has been in session here all week
resolutions were adopted which have giver
| the delegates now here in attendance upor
| the Republican national convention posi-.
| tive shock, II not a bad scare. Three para.
graphs Of the said resolution read as fol.
| lows:
"We recognize the right Of all people tt
defend with arms of warfare their liberty
and independence. We consider every at
tempt through the methods of war, Of ter
ritorial expansion as opposed to civilization
and as an act Of brute force.
1--WE condemn every effort to extend the
blessings Of civilization with sword and gun
as one based upon hypocrisy and greed for
gain.
1--WE protest against the policy of con-
quest of this government and against every
attempt toward expanding the domain Of the
United States by force
Several of the delegates made speeches
in which they severely scored the present
administration, while a number of others,
most of whom claimed to be Republicans,
advocated the Endorsement by the German
voters of Bryan, but at the suggestion of
the chair that Bryan had not yet been
nominated and his platform had not yet
been promulgated, and also that it was
probably best In the end not to bring poll
tics into the organization, the matter was
dropped and the resolutions as proposed
adopted without a dissenting vote.
Outside the meeting these German dele
gates talked very freely and predicted that
the German vote, which was practically
solid for Mckinley four years ago. would
be as solidly against him next November.
This paper, just quoted, the Chicago
Times-Herald, is the leading exponent
of the Mckinley administration in the
United States. It is thoroughly dis
gusted with the results of the Phila-
delphia Republican convention. It
comes out the next day, June %, in q
leading editorial, in which it says:
Republicans Must Prepare to Lose
New York.
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 chicanery and deceit behind the hc-
titious stampede" that overcame Gov.
Roosevelts 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 col
lege.
Outside of the hurly- burly of Philadelphia
the people Of the United States who elect
presidents II they do not control conven-
lions, have watched the game with the
gravest misgfvings as to its consequences
They have seen the conspiracy of Tom
Platt to rob New York of an honest gov
ernor win through the absolutely unwar-
ranted claim that the prairies were afame
demanding the nomination of Roosevelt for
v1ce-president.
Nothing could have been further from the
truth. The all-pervading sentiment of the
West, where Gov. Roosevelts personal at
tributes have made him a popular idol,
asked that his earnestly expressed wish for
q second term should be respected. The
West was not deceived by the trickery and
skuldugery that sought to take that square,
set jaw out of the way Of Tom Plat and
jam 1T into the smooth. round hole labeled
the vice. presidency.
q
head at every corporate feast, the fly in
every pot of oily jobbery for which Thomas
G. Platt lives and schemes. In Washington
Theodore Roosevelt will be far removed
from the Office In which he has been a terror
to rascals and stumbling block to all
kinds OF legislative log-rolling and iniquity.
tom Platt would rather have q Democrat
in the governors mansion at Albany that
a second term OF Gov. Roosevelt.
But the Republican voters and the fnde-
pendent citizens OF New York were pre-
pared to force second term for Roosevelt.
The only way Platt could checkmate the
popular demand for this was through fore
ing his nomination for vice-president
This Is what he accomplished before he
left Philadelphia Wednesday night with a
glad heart beating exultantly under q frac-
tured rib
And now Western Republicans must be
prepared to face the difficult task OF elect
ing Mckinley and Roosevelt without rely
ing on New York state. The truth cannot
Do concealed that as a candidate for cover
nor, an ONCE in which his fearless impetu-
ostty and honest instincts were needed.
theodore Roosevelt would have attracted
thousands of Independent Republicans. anti
Tammany Democrats and civil service re-
formers to the support Of the Republican
ticket. AS candidate for vice-president his
personality will not count for a rush to win
support from these classes
a q uau ING Btu =. COler Is nominated
for governor by the Democrats against any
stool pigeon Tom Plat may name, does
any one doubt that the disgust over the
political assassination OF the rough rider
VIII endanger both the state and national
Republican tickets:
He is but shallow student Of the crooked
ways Of New York politics who does not
fear the worst from the jockeying that has
rehabilitated Thomas C.. Platt ~ In. uu-
disputed middle, end and confidence man
or Republican power In New York.
BY playing tho game for Thomas c. Platt
the Republican delegates from the West
have confronted their constituents with this
iIl-favored table Of November possibilities:
nryan vote III 1856. s176
New York's electoral vote. ,.S6
kentucky's electoral vote........12
Aarylands electoral vo:e.........
AOsss. ..''.... s,..s.ss.s..ses........Z 32
slncluinx one from Kentucky.
IT VIII DO perceived that II Bryan wins
"a New York. Kv0tuckY md MarvtarA a.