The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-06-19
ROOSEVELT S0UT0F IT
Declares That He Does Not
Want to Be Vice President.
SENATOR HANNA MUCH PLEASED.

SENATOR HANNA MUCH PLEASED.
Vice Presidency Now Appears to Have
Settled Into Contest Between Long
and Dolliver, With Chances Favoring
the Eastern Man.
PHILADELpHlA, June 19.-Today, the
44th anniversary of the day on which
General John @. Fremont was nomi-
mated by the first Republican conven-
tion, held at Musical Fund hall, in this
city, the national Republican conven-
ton will assemble in the great exposi-
ton building in West Philadelphia.
Here, amid the swelling memories of
half century and in the presence Of
men who saw the bloodstained clouds
lie across the sunrise of the party, the
Republicans will meet in the high tide
of their glory to name their national
candidates and enunciate the platform
for the coming campaign.
The cymbals of a conquering army
never clashed with more vigor than
they do here today. Amid the thous-
ands of warriors there is but one choice
for leader. His face is engraved upon
banners and buttons, it is framed in
flowers and in ivy on the walls, it
adorns the windows of the shops and
looks down upon the swarming crowds
from every conspicuous place. McKin-
ley again will lead the greybeards and
the young men in the November battle.
Banners are dipped before his portrait
and the mention Of his name arouses
enthusiasm. When Senator Foraker
concludes his peroration in the conven-
tion tomorrow storm wild and tenn
pestuous will shake the great hall
Roosevelts Boom Is Dropped.
But that outburst of enthusiasm will
be only the forerunner of the pande-
monium that will reign if Roosevelt
should be named to stand beside him in
the coming battle. The stampede in
his favor started Sunday, stirring the
town into delirium. 1t swept through
the delegations who had come here with
favorite sons to present like prairie
fire. Like an immense tidal wave it
bore down everything before it. The
booms of the other candidates collapsed
like eggshells when it struck them. The
secret was not hard to find. Not Platt
and Quay, whose object was to humil-
late Hanna, could claim the victory.
They might congratulate themselves
that it was their work, but they welded
no magician wand. The secret lay
down i'll the hearts of the Republicans
of the country. Roosevelt's name, un-
like that of other candidates, instantly
I struck responsive chord in the popular
breast. 1t captured the heart of the
convention. 1t mattered nothing to the
rank and file that Hanna and Allison
and Grosvenor and Thurston and others
1 felt chagrined and strained every nerve
| to stamp out the fire. 1t mattered not
1 that even Roosevelt and his friends
poured water upon it. Their efforts
were as futile as hand grenades against
confagration. The people would hear
of no one else. They wore his pictures:
they shouted his name. They consid-
cred him as already nominated. The
town was Roosevelt mad.
Roosevelt Issues a Statement.
The governor himself was sincerely
anxious to avoid the nomination. Some
of the friends of other candidates, en-
/ bittered by the havoc his sudden ap-
pearance created with the prospects of
their favorites, We're harsh enough to
intimate that he had been flirting with
the situation from the first. But his
closest friends knew that honestly he
wanted none of it. He appealed to
them to stem the tide and they did what
they could, reinforced at every point by
Hanna and his lieutenants. General
Greene, i'll his behalf, even called upon
not to support him. But the temper of
the convention was undeniable. Human
nature has its limits, so at p. m. YES
terday, after day OF terrific pressure
] from both sides, Roosevelt issued the
following statement:
SIN view of the revival of the talk of
myself as the vice presidential candi-
to deeply express how touched am at
the attitude of those delegates who have
wished me to take this nomination.
Moreover it is not necessary to say how
thoroughly understand the high honor
and dignity of the office, an Office so
high and so honorable that it is we'll
worth the ambition of any man in the
United States. But while / appreciate
all this to the fullest I feel most deeply
that the field of my best usefulness to
the public and to the party is in New
York state, and if the party should see
fit to renominate me for governor can
i'll that position help the national ticket
us in no other way. l very earnestly
ask that every friend of mine in the
convention respect my wish and my
Judgment in this matter"
Though it thrust aside the crown in
words, it is regarded as virtual sur
render to the will of the convention.
The inside history of the struggle which
preceded Roosevelt's announcement
the secret conference of Hanna and his
friends, the joint conferences with
Roosevelt, the persuasion, appeals, Ell