The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-10-11
z,taES THEODORE Bl1m9
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ton by 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 1S,O79.
AS the campaign of 1900 drew near,
the popular demand that Roosevelts s
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
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 81, 1900:
Nomination at Pbiiadeiobfa.
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 mao;
and mad clean through: but he acquiesced
and Roosevelt returned to his apartment
to run into the arms of the Kansas dele
CATION 1--WE do not request you TO ac-
cept the nomination" said State senator
Burton: I'VE do not urge you TO accepI
the nomination, but we propose 10 lssue
orders to you, and we expect you TO obey
them Throughout the delivery OF MT.
Rurton's remarks, Roosevelt stood, with
chouIders square and feet at right angles
bis chin occasionally shooting forward
as if he were on the point of obJectlhg u
the argument that he alone could rescue
.'bleeding Kansas from dernagoglsm ana
populism. But he waited patiently untli
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, graSping his mana,
congratulated him ''in advance upon his
nomination and election" and the deie-
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 i'll large. blac6
type:
KANSAS DELEGATION
FIRST TO DECLARE FOR
GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT"
And, when the nomination was declared
to have occurred, triumphantly carried 1t
about Convention Hail.
After his nomination. Roosevelt
said:
1 held out as long as / could 1 had to
give in when L saw the popular sentiment
of the convention. 1 believe it is my duty.
Now that 1t is all over, L want to say that
L appreciate fully the sentiment which
accompanied my nomination. The unan-
unity and enthusiasm of the convention
for my nomination never will be forgot
ten by me.
During the political campaign which
followed, he travelled 49, 100 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 it takes most of us to state
the mere proposition. And he is surpris-
1ngly thorough. Nothing escapes him.
His Judgment comes sometimes as a
Shock to the man of slower ways He
does not stop at conventionalities. II
thing is right, it is to be done-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 precedents. 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 US Over
/ hi
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. If 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"
EnforcinS The Las0
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. 1t |
was passed by Tammany as a means of |
blackmailing saloonkeepers who refused |
to yield up tribute. 1t is a Democratic
law, was introduced at the instigation of |
Tammany, was passed by a 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 very
questionable position. When a man is
the leader of party In state. when his |
party passes an excise law, and when he
himself signs it 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 enforc-
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 or nildness of the |
laws? Commissioner Roosevelt himself
frankly says that he does not believe in |
such a 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 sardonicaIly |
over the plight of Tammany caused by |
enforcing a Tammany law. For Tam1
many's revenues come largely from the
blacknailing of liquor saloons.