Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02

Roosevelt obtained the nomination
to be governor of New York under the
same difficulties as he now receives
the vice presidential nomination.
He was not more than half wanted.
But the prospects of the republican
party had a good deal run down.
The democrats Unexpectedly nomi-
mated an affable man, who had been in
the judiciary and whose brother had
not long before beaten Mr.. Platt's part
ner for mayor of New York.
Roosevelt had earned the name OF
Teddy" in the city and was strong
with the barkeepers, who are potent
race Of men in that town, where the
warmest welcome is at an inn.
Roosevelt had made the saloons obey
the law and yet there was a mysteri-
Gus pluck about him which left long
respect. The young fellows with
white aprons who set out the bottles
were wont to remark: Teddy did not
make the law. That was made by the
Albany machine But Teddy has the
law obeyed, and of that we cannot
complain
Strong, the magyar, who came from
Ohio, had made Roosevelt a police
commissioner, which is generally
enough to destroy a man politically.
Roosevelt, however, shook up the
police as we'll as the offenders against
the law, and he left wholesome, if
brief, example which few have since
followed. I retract the latter part of
my sentence; the liquor law as Roose-
Welt administered it is still the general
observance, even in Croker's New
York. Roosevelt had nothing to do
with imposing taxes and making
money out of the liquor laws as they
were.
New York had prepared itself to go
democratic, when Roosevelt was nomi-
mated for governor. He was saved by
the votes Of democratic young men,
who said thht he had sand in him.
1t is a bad hour glass which will
not hold sand.
There would have been no Roosevelt
for governor of New York, if he had
not been to the Cuban war. The fuses
over that war were an assistance to
the democratic party in New York.
Nothing but an actual hero of the fight
could dispel the doubt about the cleo
ton.
When Roosevelt had been elected to
that Office, which was filled by Jay,
| Clinton, Dewitt, Marcy, Seward
Wright, Tompkins, Tilden and Dix, he
showed the inclinations of his mind to
| be towards his fathers example modi-
fed by his own experience.
He would not sign dishonest bills,
but would not refuse to sign bills
which other governors, elected by
party, would assent to.
He showed every disposition to get
along with Plat without becoming
Plat, or ceasing to be an individual
mind and man.
Had he yielded any more than he
did, he would not be a necessity to Mr..
Platt now, and this shows that every
political machine will some time stand
| in need of a. man with a conscience
and who loves fame more than power.
The man Of fame, the old-fashioned,
poetica1 man, is restored to the repub-
| lican party in Roosevelt.
Roosevelt does not feel people with
both hands. He has no beatifc smile
into their eyes as if some secret lay
between them which neither would
tell. He has not been led around by
a boss like Belisarius by blind boy.
He is conspicuous in this convention,
where he is personally present, by the
absence of any body guard.
All the powers of the convention
have been trying to direct attention
from Roosevelt He came here ap-
parently without dress suit and went
into the Hanna banquet like a man off
his bicycle.
It is true that political motives in
at least two Of the states sWelled
Roosevelt's strength in this conven-
| ton.
But the administration found itself
in a peculiar situation. 1t was afraid
not to have Roosevelt, and almost
afraid to have him.
is it possible that Mark Hanna had
designed to run for president of the
United States. in 1904?
Everybody knows that, had he de-
sired to run, Ohio and Mckinley
would have been for him.
Why did Mr.. Hanna come here with
such a quiet form of merchant as Cor
nelius Bliss to be the candidate OF
New York state?
Mr.. Bliss, as vice president, would
have given the next nominee for pres
ident no trouble.
To some persons Roosevelt's nomi-
nation looks like the passing of the
Ohio school in the course of the next
four years.
With the many fine qualities about
Ohio men, their politics have been as
Stunning a state of flocking together
Roosevelt cannot be a potent be-
ing in the vice presidency, and yet
John c. Breckenridge, as vice presi-
dent, received the presidential nomina-