The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-24
Roosevelt s Promotion.

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welt to distinction and popularity has
excited surprise chiefly because he
never was a sycopant Of men in politi-
cal power, never curried favor by
fawning, and won his way to the first
place just as he, in private life, be-
came an expert ranchman by personal
and practical study of the. industry
in the very atmosphere and realm of
the rancher. He enjoys the rare dis
tinction Of being the first vice presi-
dent since Van Buren, to be nominated
to the presidency after serving as vice
president.
In opening the first place to. Van
Buren, after officiating as vice presi-
dent in Jackson's second administra-
ton March 4, 1888, to March 4, 1870
it was doubtless Jackson's idea to re-
sumo the former order Of presidential
succession, as when Vice President
Adams succeeded to the presidency
when Washington retired, and Vice
President Jefferson succeeded Adams
| in 1901. But this kind of sequence
could not be maintained, as not one
nominee of the federalist and demo-
cratic-republican congressional eau
cuses in 1900 had majority and the
election went to the house, which
elected Jefferson and Burr as president
and vice president respectively. To
avoid trouble in the future, the twelfth
amendment to the constitution was
proposed, adopted and put in force
September 25, 1904, defining the
1oa 9th nf ale 17io
president and counting and declaring
the vote.
The national convention mode of
nominating national candidates came
into use in 1881 and 1892, and was
found to be an improvement over
nominations by congressional caucus
and state legislatures, altho very rad
ical defects have occasionally been
discovered in the workings Of the con-
vention process.
1t is noticeable that the republican
party sees no peril in nominating a
man, chosen as a running mate for a
deceased president, to the presidency,
who has very admirably, with exalting
distinction, indeed, filled out the I'M
expired term of the president NOM
mated in 1900. There is no doubt that
it will remove the impression, largely
prevalent, that vice presidents ought
to be considered very poor presiden-
tial timber. The impression is GER
tainly false. Roosevelt corrects the
baleful impression. His career as
president accidental, if you please)
since September, 1901, has strongly
brought out the mettle Of the man
and no republican wants more illus
trious proof of his eminent fines!
than the great record of his officia
acts.
And here is Charles Warren Fair
: banks, whom men call Roosevelt
I running mattel His friends arr
: talking of his outlook for the frs
l place in 1908. Certainly, after tn,
$ experience of Roosevelt the vice presi
: dency will take on a more allurin.
aspect than it has had for the highe
class of statesmen since Van Buren,
o time. For, Senator Fairbanks yield
: a very high and useful office to sue
n cessor when he accepts the vice presi
: Dental nomination, and, indeed, Their
would be something melancholy in tn
change if the senator had only tn
prospect before him of presiding owe
the federal senate and airing his dig
7 mites in a kind of dress parade i
Washington, waiting for a Whit
House funeral. Roosevelt has s
! magnified the Importance of the vic
: presidency by showing, in his ow
: person, the necessity Of nominating
: man to that position who is abun
dainty capable of meeting the presi
= Dental responsibilities If called upo
to go up higher, that the en1inen
! statesman from Indiana is willing
: strengthen the ticket and enter tn
| great campaign at hand