Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-03
Remarkable Fact
 As to Roosevelt
FIRST NEW YORKER THE REPUB- lICAN PARTY HAS NOMl-
 MATED.
Nearly All of the Presidents Came From the West-The Democrats Mainly Sought Their Candidates From the Empire State.

Chicago, July 2.-It is a rather re- markable fact which, think. has es- capped the notice of most men that Theodore Roosevelt is the first New Yorker whom the Republican party, during the fifty years or its existence, has nominated for the Presidency. Many other sons of the Empire State have aspired to this distinction, but never before has that party gone to New York for it's nominee. The pres ent President has broken this record as well as others; he may break the hoodoo which has seemed to stand in the way of every other man who stepped into the presidency from the vice presidency, for he is the first of these men to be nominated by his party for the highest office to which all of them have asnired.
 The other twelve nominations made by the Republican party went, geo. graphically, as follows:
 1S56-Fremont, of California r 1S60-Lincoln, of Illinois 1s64-Lincoln, of Illinois.
 1S6S-Grant, of Illinois.
 1S72-Grant of Illinois.
 1S76-Hayes, of Ohio.
 1sS0-Garfield, of Ohio.
 1SS4-Blaine, of Maine.
 1SSS-Harrison, of Indiana
 1s92-Harrison, of Indiana
 1s96-McKinley, of Ohio.
 1900-McKinley, of Ohio.
 It will be noted, also, that the only eastern candidate of this lot, MT Blaine, was defeated.
 From 1864 to 1896 the Democratic party took their presidential candid ates uniformly from New York state, beginning with General Mcclellan. The others have been Seymour, Til. den, Greedy. Hancock and Cleveland Mir. Bryan is the only western man whom the Democrats have nominated since the birth of the Republican par ty. MT. Buchanan, who was elected over Fremont in 1856. was a Penn sy1vanian.
 Of course presidents count for little or nothing in the shaping of rerults. The world keeps moving on. Condi lions change daily. almost hourly Because the Republicans have once more taken an eastern candidate does not at all argue that he must gc down to defeat as Blaine did The Democratic party, on the other hand may or may not again take its candid ate from New York
 In considering this matter of the geographical location of the candidates We too often, I think, lose sight oi the fact that state pride cuts very lit tie figure these days. We are, rnInk, all getting to be Americans first. with state lines growing dimmel and dinner. Not so very many years ago the fact of mans residence within a certain state was generally believed to give him especial strength in that state, and it did when the con ditions of campaigning brought pub lie men in much closer personal touch with the people than they are brought today. The great increase in population has gradually made pol itics less and less a personal matter politicians-I use the word in it's bes sense-are brought into contact witt a smaller percentage of the population with each passing year; public men are known through the medium oi the newspapers rather than from the hustings: and the telegraph has op erated to give the newspapers 2 braoder vlsion-one that takes in the entire country at a glance. rather than one confined by county and state lines.
 All this has contributed 10 the con dition have described, when il makes very little difference from whai state a man may hail. What he stands e. Ak. IL ( I q -- people are pretty well informed or this point. In New York, for instance