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could use. Those who imagine that
under these conditions Roosevelt will
help the national ticket in New York
may yet see their error. Platt will
select the republican candidate for
governor and the people of New York
will forget the personality of Theodore
Roosevelt in their anxiety to defeat
Platt's candidate for governor, and it
may now be safely put down that if
Platt's candidate for governor is de-
feated New York will wheel into the
Bryan column.
Prior to the convention the Syracuse,
N. Y. Post-Standard, an ardent re-
publican newspaper, protested against
the booming of Governor Roosevelt
by Platt. In that protest the Post
Standard said:
The electoral vote of New York, we
have strong faith to believe, is to be
cast for the republican presidential
ticket; through the attainmentof this
result; let us mark it we'll now, is to
be no child's play. All the strength of
popularity for the presidential ticket
that can be mustered is going to be
needed in this state. Governor Roose-
velt being again our candidate for the
governorship, will bring to the ticket
a larger element of strength than as
candidate for vice presidents; while
Governor Roosevelt for governor, plus
some other strong and acceptable
eastern man for vice president, would
substantially guarantee the success of
the Mckinley ticket in New York.
And let it not be for one moment
forgotten that the vote of New York
state in the impending national cleo
tion is as likely as ever before to de-
eide the presidency.
The Chicago Times-H Herald, another
republican newspaper. termed the
Roosevelt boom ''a disreputable polit-
ical conspiracy, and added:
Platt, having failed to bend Cover
nor Roosevelt to his political purposes,
now plots to remove him from the
sphere OF his greatest usefulness to the
state of New York and the people of
the United States.
The snare is spread in the sight of
the whole nation, andit is no eXag-
geration to say that the whole nation
is watching with deep anxiety the
outcome.
In an article printed in the New
York Journal Wednesday, June 10,
Congressman Grosvenor said that one
reason for the booming of Roosevelt
was that Roosevelt sis not a satisfac-
tory governor of New York to Mr..
Platt."
| The administration was violently
opposed to Roosevelt. Congressman
GroSvenor, who is an acknowledged
representative of the administration,
had this to say in the New York
Journal:
The demand of Mr.. Platt and of the
PlattrQuay combination is that Nc
Kinley shall be forced to take A DIS
TASTEFUL RUNNING MATE of their
selection and shall be compelled to
recognize their power and influence
at this early perion in the campaign.4-
So the republican party enters the
campaign with weeksand vacillating
candidate in the first place, linked with
"a distasteful running mate" who was
nominated for vice president in order
T to make way for Platt machinist in
New York IS gubernatorial chair.
! So far as New York is concerned
much will depend upon the character
of the man whom the democrats OF
the state select for governor. If he be
a man whom the corporations cannot
control, man in whom the people
may have confidence, Platt's candidate
for governor will be defeated anl
Platt's work in behalf of Roosevelt
boom for vice president will have beel
in vain.
New York is headed for the Brya
column and the nominate of Roose
yelt by Platt and for Platt's unhol
{ purpose will accelerate the Empir
states speed in the right direction
World-Herald.