Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-19
RoosEvELr's RUNNING MATE.
Considerable Discussion Of the Vice
Presidency Among Republican Lead

PRESIDENCY Among nePuouSdH eSdo
erS.
Washington, March 19.-During the
intervals between executive sessions
many senators have been busying
themselves talking about candidates
in the next presidential election. The
nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for
the first place on the republican ticket
lis conceded even by men who are not
personally any too fond of the presi-
dent. They say his personal popu-
larity is so great as to prevent the
nomination of any one else, because
the president could be turned down on
by after a hard fight il at all, and the
party would so before the people handi-
capped at the outset by the declara-
ton that the present republican adj
ministration had been unsuccessful.
The shrewdest political leaders in the
senate declare that the nomination OF
Roosevelt is a necessity, and that II
any other man is selected by the re-
publican convention he will certainly
be defeated at the polls. For this rea-
son all the talk about the ticket in
1904 is concerned with the question
of second place. Geographical consid-
CREATIONS have always had weight in this
regard, and it is therefore assumed that
the vice presidential candidate on the
the republican ticket will come from
west of the Allegheny mountains. If
there ever was any chance of securing
a state in the solid south that POSSIBLE
ity has been dissipated by the presi-
dents action on the negro question, so
that the unusual pressure Of vice pres
idential candidates from states like
Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky,
and Tennessee is not expected to ma
terialize next year.
In the opinion of the most Of the poll
itical prophets, therefore, the vice pres
idential candidate on the republican
ticket will in all probability be Sc
lected from Ohio. Indiana, Michigan,
Illinois, wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
Nebraska or Kansas. Suggestions as
to the Pacific coast have never been
warmly received in party councils, and
as yet the western slope of the Rocky
mountains has not developed people
who have acquired national repu-
tation.
There are two other governors in the
vicinity of Chicago-Yates Of Illinois
and La Toilette of Wisconsin-whoa are
frequently mentioned, but seldom with
approval Of practical politicians. Each
one in his own state represents mere
faction and nothing more, and it is said
by those in position to know that the
nomination of either of these chief ex-
ecutives would almost certainly mean
the loss of his own state.
Senator Beveridge of Indiana has
made good many new friends this
r~ff InV,
ing him for the vice presidency. Those
who assume to be closer still to the
Indiana senator assert that his time
has not yet come, and that it would
be wiser for him to keep in the back
ground and then become the western
candidate for the presidency in 1908.
Thus it happens that while Senator
Beveridge's new friends are forever
suggesting him for the vice presidency
next year, his older associates de-
clare he would not accept the nomin-
alton under any circumstances.
Every new man elected to the senate
this year has received with his COM
mission certain amount of advertising
as vice presidential candidate, but
1t Is assumed that experienced legis-
lators like Hopkins of Illinois, Long
of Kansas, and Alger of Michigan.
would think twice before they allowed
themselves to be tempted by the vice
presidential bait.
From this summary of the situation
it will be seen that the suggestions
made as to Roosevelts running mate
are not particularly enticing from a
political standpoint 1t is assumed that
the democrats will nominate some east
ern man like Parker or Hill in New
York, Olney in Massachusetts, or Cor
man in Maryland, for place on the