The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-02
POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.
Tue June Frce-for-All.-The public Is
no nearer today a settlement of the much
exploited and much-vexed Republican Vice
presidential problem than it was six
months ago. Experienced politicians in
washington continue steadfastly to accept
at Its face value the repeated statements
OF the Republican managers to the effect
that Mr.. McKinley's running mate has
not yet been selected by them. 1t is i'm
possible to convince many of these old
| poiiticai foxes that the name of the man
VINO VIII be placed on the ticket with Mr..
! mckinley is not known to the Hon. Mark
| Hahna and two or three other statesmen
| OF MS kind. At the same time it is not
doubted that dozen or more names will
be presented at Philadelphia, quite that
number of States have favorte sons who
! have been mentioned" for Vice President
. by the numerous press agents of Mr..
| Hanna's National Committee. Among
those who will be placed in nomination
| at Philadelphia are John D. Long, of
Massachusetts,; Timothy d. Woodruff of
| New York; Senator Edward o.. Wolcott OF
Governor Scofeld, of the same State;
Governor Shaw, of Iowa; Senator Fair
| banks of Indiana, Representative j. p.
Dolliver of Iowa, and Edwin o. Stanard,
OF Missouri. 1t is not believed any OF this
number will be chosen, but their names,
with half dozen or more others. will
be voted on. After three or four ballots
have been taken it is expected that Mr..
Hanna's dark horse will be led out. AS
the programme is understood a bunch of
delegates from some obscure community
Will cast their votes for the dark horse,
and then the Hanna machine will proceed
TO do business. 1t may be that this is the
| plan decided upon by Mr.. Hanna to force
the nomination upon the violently-protest-
ing Roosevelt, or it may be that he has
selected the Hon. Stephen B. Efkins as the
compromise between the numerous host Of
favorite sons. 1t is interesting to note that
the name of the plausible gentleman from
West Virginia is heard these days with
suspicious frequency in Administration cir
cles when the subject of the Vice Presi-
dency is being discussed
He Made Arthur.-CoI. Jimmie"
Davis-he insists upon being called Jim
mie'-met in the House restaurant yes
terday his old chum, Representative Bar
tholdt. OF st. Louis, whom he had not
seen for many a day. Colonel Jimmie"
and the St. Louis statesman were friends
back in the early seventies and eighties,
when Bartholdt was a hustling newspaper
correspondent at Albany with Dan La
mont and others who graduated from jour-
nalism into craftsmanship and have since
become plutocrats. Colonel Davis looks
something like the Hon. Chauncey NJ. De-
pew, and in the politics of New York he is
faithful supporter Of Plat. You know,
Bartholdt, that have always been a Stall
wart. and l am still a Stalwart." The
term Stalwart was redolent of the excit-
ing days of Roscoe Conkling's supremacy
in New York. And / despise the Half
Breeds as much today as / did when /
brought Chester Arthur forward at the
convention in Chicago in 1885," Colonel
Davis went on to say. Chester Arthur
aye, there was the greatest of them all.
Used TO let me have a Government tug
while he was collector of the port when
eyer / wanted to go out to meet friends
coming in on transatlantic steamers.
Never wanted to be Vice President; didn't
care much about being President, in fact
The best fellow that ever lived You see
nobody had thought of putting Arthur on
the ticket with Garfield until l kept
urging it upon Conkling. Finally induced
that wonderful man, while the conven-
tons blood was boiling under the excite
ment which had attended the defeat OF
Grant to permit Arthur's name to be pre-
sented for Vice President. Arthur didn't
want the nomination, as said before; told
me himself that he didn't want it; never
told me or nyHody else lie in his life.
Well, you remember. Bartholdt, how the
convention went wild over the name of
our princely friend? He was a stalwart OF
the Stalwarts. We just had to have him
on the ticket that year to carry New
York. l told Chauncey Filley and others
of the big leaders Of that day that unless
We got Arthur we could not hold
the party together In New York.
The miserable Half Breeds had
about destroyed the party. Old Filley saw
the point and got to work The rest is
history. Garfield never would have been
elected if Arthur hadn't been put on the
ticket. No other man could have saved
New York that year. Many time have /
talked with Arthur all about 1t at the
White House when he was occupying that
mansion. He was always a friend OF
Jimmie even If he was mad when he
learned that had fixed it SO he had to ac-
ccpt the Vice Presidential nomination. Ar
thur never went back on friend. He was
the king OF all OF them"
Early Prepnrations.-Mr. Hanna has
ordered the Republican National Commit
tee to meet in Philadelphia on the morn
ing of June 13-sx days in advance of the
convention. 1t is not customary for the
National Committee to meet in the con-
oil NJ
tion and naturally considerable curiosity |
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