Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-11
BOSSES ARE VERY SAD

BOSSES ARE VERY SAD
ROOSEVELT NOT IN FAVOR WITH
ADMINISTRATION FORCES
Mckinley Obliged to Run with tho
Man Who Dcrided Him-"Tcddy'.
Likewise Is Sore Because He Can Al
ready Sec 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
adelphia Republican convention with n
notion that it was to be an adminIstra-
ton circus from start to finish. OF
course, some of them did not quite
know who Mark Hanna had picked for
Nice-President, but nobody objected to
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 row OF
the party bosses, and Hanna forced to
accept the man lie hates. Mckinley
obliged to run on ticket with the man
who derisively speaks of the Presl-
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
Roosevelt'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 queer political comedy.
Eyerybody-except Platt and Quay
are disappointed. These two gentlemen
evened up some private and personal
scores and taught the bumptuous Mr..
Hanna that there are a.few finer and
more 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 gentleman's Presidential aspira-
lions 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
him a seat in the Senate.
Incidentally, good many of the dele
gates came to Philadelphia favoring
Roosevelt, but IL 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 vice-Presidentia
candidate. But Plat, Of New York,
was too willy for the administration
and for Roosevelt. Probably no man
could have been selected who is more
distasteful to Mckinley and Hannd and
the trust interests than Roosevelt.
1t is not that Roosevelt is such a
pure and spiritual minded person." us
Kipling would say, but that he is err
::atc and obstinate and badly balanced.
Roosevelt Is like the bucking broncho
of the plains, while Mckinley is well
broken to the harness, and can be de-
pended upon to do in refined and dig
nified 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 sope faint and half-hearted
attempt to make it appear that Hanna
and Mckinley acquiesce Sin the will of
the majority of the convention" but 1t
is very sorry bit of acting, and the
delegates themselves have gone home
impressed profoundly with the convic-
ton that even those who wanted to
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 vacilla-
ton, accepted the nomination for Vice
President with very bad grace. He is
not a good actor. He didn't want to
die politically just vet 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
tratlon leaders recover from their dis
may they will begin to shout loudly
that Hanna was for Roosevelt all the
time, and that he only appeared to
quarrel with Platt and Quay in order
to amuse the public. Naturally this
must be done in order to preserve even
a semblance of harmony, but Roosevelt
is bitter pill for the administration.
Democrat. Are Satisfied.
The Democrats have every reason to
be satisfied with the Republican nomi-
nations. Mckinley was foregone con-
cluslon, but the Democrats will be able
to put up strong campaign against
the man who has to shoulder the bur-
den Of four years Of laundering while
he asks for a second term. A new can
didate on the Republican side would
have been able to gloss over McKin-
ley's shortcomings and promise better
things If a change of Presidents were
made without a change of parties.
Roosevelt for Vice President empha-
sizes militarism to the last degree. He
is never happy except when relating
some alleged act of heroic warfare,
and he will not have discretion or tact
enough to keep militarism and imperl-
alism in the background as will the
astute Mckinley.
The Republican national convention
was most tame and spiritless affair.
1t was impossible to fill the convention