Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-19
1car5 THEODORE BIlx~.9
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the stump and delivered many
speeches His plurality was 1909
As the campaign OF 1900 drew near.
the popular demand that Roosevelt's
name should be on the National Re-
publican ticket grew too imperative
to be ignored by the leaders The
honor of the nomination for Vice-Pres-
ident was refused time and time again
by Roosevelt, who felt that he had
great duty to perform as governor OF
New York state.
Says Cal O'Laughlin. apropos Of the
Republican National Convention.
which was held in Philadelphia on
June 10, 20 and 21, 1900:
Nomination at 16fIodeIobfd.
On the evening of the first day of the
convention, Roosevelt saw Platt- My
name must not be presented to the con-
vention" he told him. Platt was mad.
and mad clean through: but he acquieseed
and Roosevelt returned to his apartment
to run into the arms of the Kansas dele
CATION I'VE do not request you TO ac-
cept the nomination. said State Senator
Burton; I'VE do not urge you to accept
the nomination, but we propose 10 issue
orders to you. and we expect you to obey
them" Throughout the delivery of MI
Burton's remarks. Roosevelt stood, with
shoulders square and feet at right angles,
his chin occasionally shooting forward.
as if he were on the point of Directing TO
the argument that he alone could rescue
bleeding Kansas from dernasogism and
populism., But he waited patiently until
the address was ended, and then appealed
to the Kansans to take his words at their
face value, and vote for some one OF the
candidates. But his appeal was useless,
for Senator Burton, graspfng his hand,
congratulated him lin advance upon his
nomination and election" and the dele
cation enthusiastically approved the SEN
timentS- So certain was Kansas that,
Roosevelt would be the choice of the con-
vention, that it had printed a huge plac-
ard, bearing the words in large, black
type:
KANSAS DELEGATION
FIRST TO DECLARE FOR
GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT"
And, when the nomination was declared
to have occurred, triumphantly carried it
about Convention Hall.
After his nomination, Roosevelt
said:
1 held out as long I could. I had to
give in when l saw the popular sentiment
of the convention 1 believe it is my duty.
Now that it is all over. 1 want to say that
1 appreciate fully the sentiment which
accompanied my nomination The un4n-
unity and enthusiasm of the convention
for my nomination never will be forgot
ten by me.
During the political campaign which
followed, he travelled 5000 miles,
flashed through % states, delivered 459
speeches, containing $50 900 words.
and made his appeal directly to L.
GOO, 900 persons
His Capacity for Work.
Mr.. Riis says that the thing that be-
clouds the Judgment of his critics is
Roosevelt's amazing capacity for work
He says:
He can weigh the pros and cons of a
case and get at the meat of it in less
time than it takes most of US to state
DrODOSitiOn he 10
ingly thorough Nothing escapes him.
His judgment comes sometimes as a
shock to the man of slower ways He
does not stop at conventionalities If
thing is right. it is to be done-and right
away 1t was notably with the round
robin in Cuba, asking the government to
recall the perishing army when it had
won the fight People shook their heads,
and talked of presidents. Precedents, 1t
has been Roosevelt's business to make
them most of his time But is there any
one today who thinks he set that one
wrong? Certainly no one who with me
saw the army come home. 1t did not
come a day too soon. Roosevelt is no
more infallible than the rest of u.s. Over
and over again 1 have seen him pause
when he had decided upon his line of ac-
ton, and review it to see where there
was a chance for mistake Finding none
he would issue his order with the sober
comment: There, We have done the best
we could II there is any mistake we will
make it right The fear of it shall not de-
ter us from doing our duty. The only
man who never makes a mistake is the
man who never does anything"
EnforcfnS the LotO
Referring to Roosevelt's strict en-
forcement of the Sunday excise law,
the San Francisco Argonaut's New
York correspondent, "F1aneur," wrote
under date of September 2, 1895:
The law is not a Republican law. 1t
was passed by Tammany. means of
matchmaking saloonkeepers who refused
to yield up tribute 1t is Democratic
law. was introduced at the instigation of
Tammany. was passed by Democratic
legislature, and was signed by a Demo-
cratic governor. David B. Hill. Senator
ftai by abusing Roosevelt for enforcing
the law. but he places himself in very
questionable position When a man is
the leader of a party in a state, when his
party passes an excise law. and when he
himself signs 1T governor, he certainly
stultifies himself when. to embarrass a
political opponent. he fights against the
enforcement of the very law which he
himself passed The opponents of enforc-
ing the law are having a rather hard
all that they say is that it is "a hardship
to enforce it" But who is to decide on
the relative severity mildness of the
IawsZ Commissioner Roosevelt himself
frankly says that he does not believe in
such severe Sunday law, but as it is the
law. he is going to enforce it. And he
is certainly doing So There is a good
deal of humor in the American people,
and in this great city there many
thousands who smiling sardonicaIly
over the plight of Tammany caused by
enforcing Tammany law For Tam
many's revenues come largely from the
Matchmaking of LIQUOR saloons
President ho0Seyefr mas been a sf1t-