The Irish standard., 1907-04-13

s Lincoln beat William H. Seward Evarts
wzs almost heartbroken. and yet with
Amotion he moved to make Lincoln's
4 nomination unanimous.
~ Foraker stumped his state for Blaine
4 and Roosevelt took no part in the cam
paign. Immediately after the conven-
ton he went to North Dakota and spent
most Of his time there for several
years on ranch, engaged in raising
cattle.
Blaine carried Ohio by 1854, but he
lost the state of New York by 1,1o0
and the loss Of New York lost him the
presidency. Roosevelt's unfriendly
critics have always said that If he had
1abided by the result of the convention
and had made one or two speeches for
Blaine in New York state Blaine would
have carried the state and captured the
presidency.
The subsequent careers of Foraker
and Roosevelt were widely divergent.
Roosevelt returned to New York city
80
but was beaten in a three-cornered
. fight, Abram S. Hewitt and Henry
George being his opponents. Hewitt
won.
On his election as president, Har-
rison appointed Roosevelt to the United
States civil service commission, and
on the advent of Mayor William L..
Strong OF New York city Roosevelt
was made a police commissioner, from
which place he retired to become as
sistant secretary Of the navy in Presi-
dent McKinley's administration. With
4 the outbreak of the Spanish war Roose-
& welt became lieutenant-c colonel of the
Rough Riders, and in 1898 Senator
Platt nominated him for governor of
New York and he won over Augustus
: Van Wyck, the Democratic candidate,
by 1000.
. President Mckinley did not want
Gov. Roosevelt nominated for vice.
/. president at Philadelphia in 1900, and
neither did Senator Hanna, chairman
Of the Republican national committee.
/: President McKinley's first choice was
I; Elihu Root, his secretary of war, hut
/, he finally concluded that he could not
Z. dispense with Secretary Roots services
& in the cabinet while the momentous
T. Philippine problems were uppermost.
Senator Platt and Senator Quay in
sisted upon the nomination Of Roose-
welt. Gov. Roosevelt was one of the
Z delegates at large from New York
i state. It was his first convention since
Il that of 1884, and at Philadelphia, where
Il he himself was nominated for vice-
I. president, he listened to the sonorous
speech of Seantor Foraker which re-
!. nominated William Mckinley.
= This was the second time that Sena-
/. tor Foraker had nominated Mckinley,
before. AS United States civil serv-
!. ice: commissioner and as assistant sec
-tiretary Of the navy Roosevelt had very
g cordial relations with Foraker. Their
relations were more than political. they
were social and intensely friendly.
Foraker from his first meeting with
Roosevelt in 1884 had had stormy
career. The year before he had been
defeated for governor. In 1885 he was
elected governor Of Ohio and was re-
elected in 1887. He was again nomi-
rote6 hut dafaafad ip 1890
H. He had been active in the affairs of
his party and was chairman Of the
Republican state conventions of Ohio
for 1886, 1890, 1896 and 1900, and a
delegate at large from Ohio to the ma
tional conventions of 1888, 1892, 1896
and 1900. In 1888 he had again pre-
sented the name Of John Sherman for
president, and had again lost.
!, In 1894 when Hanna began the sub.
soiling work in the southern states,
which was to culminate at ST. Louis
two years later in the nomination OF
Mckinley for president, Foraker was
not partial to the movement. In fact
he was distinctly antagonistic. Later
on, however, he and Hanna got to.
gether and he presented Mckinley s
name to the convention.
: The careers of Roosevelt and For
! Rker having been briefly traced, per-
haps it will be of interest to mention
the career Of Secretary Taft, who. ir
2 nice sense, must be looked upon as
the present bone of contention.
Taft is a Cincinnati boy, born there
50 years ago. He is a Yale university
]. man and a lawyer. He was appointed
prosecuting attorney for Hamilton
+ county in 1881, resigning in 1882 tc
become collector of internal revenue
: for the district of Ohio under Presi-
dent Arthur.
n s;s In 1895 Secretary Taft became pro-