Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-10-04
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ton by a vote of 753 to 218 for Cover
nor Black The campaign throughout
the state was spirited. Roosevelt took
the stump and delivered many
speeches. His plurality was 1909
AS the campaign of 1900 drew near.
the popular demand that Roosevelts
name should be on the National Re
publican ticket grew too imperative
to be ignored by the leaders. Tie
honor of the nomination for Vice-Pres-
ident was refused time and time again
hv Roosevelt, who felt that he had
great duty to perform as governor u
New York state.
Saws Cal O'Laughlin, apropos OF the
Republican National Conventlon'
which was held in Philadelphia ON
June 10, 20 and 81, 1900:
Nomination at PbiIadeiohfo.
| On the evening of the first day OF the
! convention, Roosevelt saw Platt: Wy
name must not be presented 10 the coi
| ventton." he told him. Platt was nau,
| and mad clean through: but he acqulesceu
| and Roosevelt returned to his apartment
| to run into the arms of the Kansas oeie-
CATION. 1--WE do not request YOU 10 a.
cept the nomination., said state SENATE
| Burton; 1--WE do not urge you TO accep.
| TO nomination, but we propose to issue
| orders to you, and we expect you 10 ooIs
them" Throughout the delivery u w. ~,
| Burton's remarks, Roosevelt STOOD WIZ
| shoulders square and feet at rlght ahsies'
his chin occasionally shooting for"aru,
as If he were on the point OF ob)ectlns "
the argument that he alone could rescue
bleeding Kansas" from deInagosisn an
populism But he waited patiently UNIV,
tha address was ended, and then appedAeu
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, grasp1ng MS manu-.
congratulated him I'm advance upon MS
nomination and election" and the oele-
CATION enthusiastically approved the SEN
timents. So certain was Kansas that
Roosevelt would be the choice OF the con-
vention, that it had printed 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 1t
about Convention Hall.
After his nomination, Roosevelt
said:
1 held out rs long as could. I had to
give in when I saw the popular sentiment
of the convention. l believe 1t is my duty
Now that it is all over, 1 want to say that
l appreciate fully the sentiment which
/ 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 100000 words,
and made his appeal directly to L.
100000 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
case and get at the meat of it in less
time than 1t takes most of us to state
the mere proposition. And he is surpris-
tngly thorough. Nothing escapes him.
Ills Judgment comes sometimes as a
shock to the man of slower ways. He
does not stop at conventionalities. If
thing Is right, 1t Is to be eone-and right
away. 1t was notably so 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 day too soon. Roosevelt is no
more lnfallible than the rest of US. Over
| and over again I have seen him pause
when he had decided upon his line of &C.
| ton, and review it to see where there
| was chance for mistake. Finding none
he would issue his order with the sober
, comment: There, we have done the best
| we could. If there is any mistake we will
| make 1t 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"
EnforcinS The LotO
Referring to Roosevelt's strict en-
forcement of the Sunday excise law,
the San Francisco Argonaut's New
York correspondent, "Flaneur," wrote
under date of September 2, 1895:
The law is not Republican law. It
| was passed by Tammany, as means of
| matchmaking saloonkeepers who refused
| to yield up tribute. 1t is Democratic
law, was introduced at the instigation OF
Ialnmany, was passed by Democratic
| legislature and was signed by a Demo-
cratic governor, David B. Hill. Senator
Hill Is now trying to make political cap
ital by abusing Roosevelt for enforcing
the law, but he places himself in yery
questionable position. When man is
| the leader of party in state, when his
| party passes an excise law, and when he
| himself signs 1t as 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 enforce
| ing the law are having a rather hard
time Nobody denies that the law exists:
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
| laws? 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 1t. And he
| Is certainly doing So There is a good
deal of humor in the American people,
and in this great city there are many
| thousands who are smiling sardonically
| over the plight of Tammany caused by
enforcing Tammany law. For Tam
manys revenues come largely from thr
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