Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
BOSSESARE VERY SAD
ROOSEVELT NOT IN FAVOR WITH
ADMINISTRATION FORCES.
Mckinley Obliged to Run with the
Man Who Derided Him-"Teddy''
Likewise Is Sore Because He Can Al
ready See His Political Finish.

Likewise Is Sore Because He Can Al
ready See His Political Finish.
Washington correspondence:
The administration forces came back
to Washington, looking very, very sad,
not to say disgusted. They all deserted
their posts and went over TO the Phil
adelphfa Republicas convention with
notion that it was to be an administers
ton circus from start to finish. OF
course, some of them did not quite
know who Mark Hanna had picked for
Vice President, but nobody objected to
a little mystery. 1t helped to give the
affair some semblance of life and in
terest
Mckinley and Roosevelt. Even now
they can hardly realize it. A gow of
the party bosses. and Hanna forced to
accept the man he hates. Mckinley
obliged to run on a ticket with the man
who derisively speaks of the Presi-
dents chocolate eclaire backbone.
And to cap the climax, Roosevelt is an
CRY and sore at the fate which, finishes
him politically by putting him on the
Vice-Presidential ticket. Gone are
Rooseyelt's roseate dreams of being the
Republican Presidential candidate in
1904. Shattered are his aspirations to
wreck the Plat machine by. having
himself reelected governor Of New
York State.
1t was a queer political comedy.
Everybody Platt and Quay
are disappointed. These two gentlemen
eyened up some private and personal
SCORES and taught the bumptuous Mr..
Hanna that there are a few finer and
rIore astute bosses than he.
Plat, as the instrument of the trusts,
did not want Roosevelt for governor of
New York another term. Neither did
he propose to be pestered with that
erratic gentlemans Presidential aspira-
tions for 1904 To unload Roosevelt
ON Hanna as McKinley's running mate
was temptation too strong TO be re-
sisted. Quay helped the deal, because
he was sore at Hanna's vote to deny
Lllli a oSlI III llt IoChdiC.
incidentally, good many of the dele
gates came to Philadelphia fayoring
Roosevelt, but if Hanna had only the
delegates to handle he would have
shown them in short order that their
choice didn't make any difference In his
decision as to the Presidential
candidate. But Platt, Of New York,
was too willy for the administration
and for Roosevelt. Probably no man
could have been selected VINO is more
distasteful to Mckinley and Hanna and
the trust interests than Roosevelt.
1t is not that Roosevelt is such a
"pure and spiritual minded person, as
Kipling would say, but that he is er-
attic and obstinate and badly balanced.
Roosevelt is like the buclling broncho
Of the plains, while Mckinley is well
broken to the harness, and can be de-
pended upon to do in a refined and dig
nifed manner whatever his masters de-
sire.
The administration followers on their
return to Washington hardly tried to
conceal their distaste for Roosevelt.
The campaign begins with dissension
and soreness among the Republican
leaders. Hanna is not only sore be-
cause he has received an unpalatable
lesson in the art of political bossship,
but he knows that the nomination of
Roosevelt will make it very difficult
for him to collect his campaign fund.
There is soroe faint and half-hearted
attempt 20 make it appear that Hanna
and Mckinley acquiesce lin the will of
the majority of the convention" but it
| is very sorry bit of acting and the
| delegates themselves have gone home
| impressed profoundly with the convic-
| ton that even those who wanted 20
nominate Roosevelt would not have
been permitted to have their way only
that that happened to be the outcome
| of the war between the bosses.
Roosevelt, after four days of yacilla-
| ton, accepted the nomination for Vice
President with very bad grace. He is
not a good actor. He didn't want 10
die politically Just get and he showed
| his grief plainly. Still when the bosses
wished 1t, he had to assist at his own
political funeral, even to the extent of
seconding the nomination of Mckinley.
AS soon as Hanna and the admins
| tration leaders recover from their dis
may they win begin to shout loudly
| that Hanna was for Roosevelt all the
| time, and that he only appeared to
| quarrel with Plat and Quay in order
to amuse the public. Naturally this
must be done in order to preserve even
a semblanee of harmony. but Roosevelt
is n bitter pin for the administration.
Democrats Are Satisfied.
The Democrats have every reason to
be satisfied with the Republican nomi-
nations. Mckinley was a foregone con-
clusion, but the Democrats Will be able
to put up a strong campaign against
the man who has to shoulder the bur