The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-19
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into delirium. 1t swept through the
delegations, who had come here with
favorite sons to present, like a prairie
fire Like an immense tidal wave il
bore down everything before it. The
booms CT the other candidates collapsed
like eggshells when it struck town
The secret was not hard to find, Not
Platt and Quay whose object was tc
humiliate Hanna, could claim the vic
tory. They might congratulate them
selves that it was their work. But they
welded no magnetic wand. The secret
lay down in the hearts of the republi-
cans of the country. Rooseyelts mama
unlike that of other candidates, instant
ly struck a responsive chord in the pop
ular breast. 1t captured the heart Of
the convention. 1t mattered nothing to
the rank and file that Hanna and ALI
son and Grosvenor and Thurston and
Others felt chagrined and strained
every nevre to stamp out the fire.
Town Roosevelt Mad.
1t mattered not that even Roosevelt
and his friends turned water on it.
Their efforts were as futile as hand
grenades against a conflagration. The
people would hear of no one else. They
wore his picture; they shouted his
name. They considered him to-day as
already nominated. The town was
Roosevelt mad The governor himself
was sincerely anxious to avoid the nom
nation. Some of the friends of the
other candidates, embittered by the
how j
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
the point by Hanna and his lieutenants
General Greene in his behalf even call
ed delegations and in his name asked
themtnot to support him. But the tenn
per of the convention was undeniable
Regarded ns IA SURRENDER
Human nature has it's limits, so at
O'Clock this afternoon, after a day of
terrific pressure from both sides, Roose-
welt issued statement. Though it
thrust aside the crown in words, it is
regarded as virtual surrender to the
will of the convention. The inside his
tory of the struggle which preceded
Roosevelt's announcement, the secret
officers of Hanna and his friends, the
joint conferences with Roosevelt the
persuasion, appeals, entreaties and even
threats that We're said to have been used
will make chapter forever memorable
in convention annals
Stories float.
Every sort of story was ahoat. 1t
was said that Hannas served notice
that Roosevelts, candidacy. although it
would have been eminently acceptable
at first, put forward as it was by the
enemies of the administration, did not
meet now with approval and that the
fight would be carried to the last ditch.
Roosevelt was said to have been told by
friends that to yield would be to stand
in his own light as a candidate for pres
ldent four years hence; that the vice
presidency was political graveyard
from which he could never be resusci-
tated His place, they urged, was at
the head of the ticket in New York
again this fall. In the last proposition
Roosevelt concurred. 1t was said that
Platt's emissaries argued that to turn
his back on the manifest wish of the
republicans of the country would be to
forfeit his right to the future support
of the New York organization, and the
republicans of that state might look
elsewhere for candidate for governor
next fall
OF course, there are those who are al
ways uncharitable enough to attribute
sinister motives to Plat They intim-
ated that he desired to kill two birds
with one stone-eliminate Roosevelt
from New York politics and hurniliate
Hanna for his uncomplimentary criti-
cisms of Woodruff. Gossip among New
Workers even went so far as to suggest
that were Roosevelt transferred to the
nationtl ticket Woodruff was already
agreed upon as the candidate for gov
ernor of New York. Roosevelt had also
other advisers who insisted that it
would be suicide to decline the nomina-
ton. AS the situation now exists, not
withstanding Roosevelt's virtual decla-
ration that, if nominated, he cannot de-
cline, he may not be nominated after
all. All day long Hanna's efforts have
been directed to the rebuilding of the
booms wrecked yesterday in the Roose-
welt tornado. All the favorite ones have
been encouraged to remain in the race
and without some success.
Might Abandon Roosevelt.
The nomination for vice-president is
three days away. Much can be accom-
plished by that time by shrewd, hard
headed political leaders The delegates
are all DESTROYS Of carrying out the
presidents wishes and if the animation
becomes conviction that Mr.. Mckinley
himself would prefer another candidate
the popular choice would be abandoned.
Mr. Plat very shrewdly decided that the
New York delegation should not for
malIy endorse Roosevelt 1t Is stated
that Roosevelt insisted upon this. Then
If he were nominated it would be patent
that the nomination was forced upon
him. But while the New York dele
ton refrained from endorsing Roosevelt
Plat is said to have passed the word to
Quay and the Pennsylvania delegation to
continue to fan the fame.
Tomorrow the session of the conven- |
ton probably will be brief. 1t will be
called to order by Chairman Hanna and
Senator Wolcott, the brilliant orator as
temporary chairman, will deliver his
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