The Nome nugget., 1902-08-13
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Do Nol Fancy Ii;S &tfena0lSneSS and Therefore Oppose
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 Only three a. sy4- ",,s- ;-o% uator Thomu- C. l'ia.t. uJ .oo York, a'Ioa,3 himself to be fuJl,sa.l jn -imilar prediction. ahorll before t"at ut-rt- ance the Pcimay yiednia r"ra'i.caH ,ta'e , convention endorsed, with ,a... cordial words or apwo,a}, tho tImu.-u~tioa . of Theodore i;oo., ,o't. iaG"ual. iowa, Wisconsin and half aouleu other .'.t" have taken similar aot..4. .9 fact, every republican ratherjn in tbo Da,@ two months has adop,od Q like course. and ha, endorsed 'rc-ijel' !,,o,ytalt.
 To the rolipje'an in Ma'- or the naa up tree. @ho i.no~ io3. CT ro..Ia. of Am,. icau political uolho3- thi. would seem t5'i# .rate very ei.r.s and very iot uly tial Theodore Ioosc- welt will be nominated a- tho head of the republican ticket iu the national . convention, to hg held in tha summcr of l90i. Bet to tae m.: ~ho Haa"~ somothiug If American pcli,ir~ method. in "of s'tr,' n" cudotSo- ments simply represent bonurabo myn- tion in tho politieai'e~go-.ttoa some other fellow may @et th, gold medal
 The pig men iu ti.o republican, party councils to@qy arc Piatt TuaE. iiaapa, Foraker, Fuirhan,- antnn2n cf t.H' ilk. No one s foolish cno'ch 70 holicy. that Mcs,t.. l.,at1 and taey, for .G- stance, are more enthusiastic in their endorsement ct Thcod4g' Roosevelt fu: .he first u,aco oa the li".,r, .,, i98t than they were in thoir A~i:t,rsc that he take second place in I"oJ. P}alt &nd Quay undoubtedly made the present incumbeu, cC tie pre-}cotial otce 6 possibility. They rrco Aim 'uon t'o ticket at the Philadelphia ouve2si"n against his pr,lc~tand in spite Of lhe efforts of his ,los,-, friends to keep him of. They did 1t ,or their own purposes. s.euelor hlatt expected 10 shelve Roo.cvcit to bur! nim lu the gravclurd of presidential hopes. The senior senator wanted the guEernItoripl track in New York state cioar and to remove the obsiru~tions he lo;c7d the incumbent of the guberGatOTial chair into the vice pra=idency.r He fooled no one by that acticn. Everyone in the Philadelphia convention, including Mr Roosevelt himself, realized that the purpo,r of tho Easy Boss" Wa; to bury formidable rival.
 No one could forcsec the Buffalo tragedy which mado I.&o sholved iu dividual the president of the United States in fact. Az Governor of New York state Theodore Roosevelt made himself Independent of his political creator. xBccau.r of this. independence it became nvuc.saty- for Ir. f!Itt to put the goyeruor out of the way. Senator Quay, who easily saw the possibility Of an independent and in curable presidential possibility in Roosevelt in l9Ci readily lent his aid to hit friend and ally and the ticket was made Mckinley aad Roosevelt,
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 Is there any man in America today who really believes that Roosevelt as ,.pre.id.at i% any more sah-cgvient to the wishes of the party leaders than was Roosevelt .hc governor! If there is such G man hc is the voriest tyro in the art of partisan political science. He has made appointments and an .11ounced policies to suit himself and without consulting with the party leaders, Of course he has not at tempted to fill every office within his Aift without the consent of the senators, ;fyho d>e usually cona1lted.- But at Vast q score of instances. might be cited wherein he has selected men for office from the state of New York with out asking Senator Fatt's advice-the appointment of Alr, sawyer as assistant secretary of war is a case''in in point. Nor has he been any more int CT ested in the feelings of Senator Quay when picking out appointces . from Pennsylvania. The same may be said of every state in the Union. Mr. Roosevelt has invariably followed his own bent. When that bent suggested consultation with ''party leaders" " well and good. Otherwise he simply told them of his decisions and there was nothing else to do than to acQuiesce.
 That Mir. Roosevelt is 8 candidate for the presidency in 1901 noedsno affidavit from the gentleman himself. That he has been engaged for months in build ing up his own organization ia equally easy to demonstrate. Y he can se' con struct political affairs during the next twenty-three months as 10 assure him. self a majority of tue delegates to the next national republican convention he will be nominated by acclalnation on the first ballot. On the other hand, should he fail .o secure safe ma jority Of the delegates in advance of the assembling ,of the convention he will have fight on his hands and it val be bitter orc. He knows this as well as