The Irish standard., 1907-04-13

there called tne dude assemblyman
for the reason that on all evenings,
whether in the assembly or out Of it.
he wore evening dress.
The Republican party Of New York
state was passing through the confiict
precipitated by President Garfield and
his secretary of state, James G.. Blaine,
in their war upon Roscoe ConklinE
great Stalwart Halfbreed war. Conk.
ling was in practical retirement after
his resignation from the United States
senate and the refusal of the legisla-
ture at Albany to return either him
or Senator Platt to the United States
senate.
Warner Miller. the new leader OF tho
party in the state. was not securely in.
trenched. and the New York delega-
tion to the national conyention was
headed by Theodore Roosevelt asch,ef
ldelegate-at-large, the e"dude,.assenrbly-
man. at Albany. and he was supported
by Andrew D. White. Senator Foraker's
old president OF Cornell university.
The next most notable man in this
New York delegation was George VIII.
liam Curtis, whose flowing and re.
sounding oratory is still remembered.
from Owego.
Roosevelt was at the head of q
nondescript organization. He met in
that convention two presidents who in
after years appointed him to Office.
William Mckinley and Benjamin Har-
rison. President Mckinley made hin,
assistant secretary of the navy and
President Harrison appointed him to
the United States civil service commis-
sion.
1t was the first national convention
of Roosevelt. Foraker, Mckinley and
Hanna. Then. too, i'm that convention
were Joseph N. Dolph of Oregon and
Hamilton Disston and Christopher l..
Magee Of Pennsylvania. w. P. Brown.
low Of Tennessee, Redf1eld Proctor Of
Vermont, and William Malone Of Vir-
gina. It will be observed that there
was plenty of political talent in that
notable convention. and that both For-
aker and Roosevelt. the former heading
the Ohio delegation and the latter the
New York delegation, had ample op-
portunities for political observations
and reflections. to say the least.
Roosevelt was for George F. Ed
munds Of Vermont for president and
Foraker nominated John Sherman.
And yet the Ohio delegation was all
and James G. Blaine until the fourth
and last ballot, when the entire forty
six delegates of the state went over to
Blaine. te'
On the third ballot Blaine gained
rapidly and Foraker saw that he would
be nominated on the next ballot and
he moved suspension Of the rules so
that Blaine could be nominated by ac-
clamation. Roosevelt objected and
asked for a roll call and then he made
a. demand for a call of the roll and
Foraker withdrew his motion that
Blaine be nominated by acclamation.
On the fourth ballot Blaine was nomi-
mated overwhelmingly.
AS chairman of New Yorl1's delega-
|tion it was Roosevelt's duty. according
to political tradition, etiquette and Gus
tom. coming from the state of Presi-
dent Arthur, who himself was can
didate before the convention, to move
that Blaine's nomination be made
unanimous. This he declined to do.
and Henry G. Burleigh, for many years
la notable Republican in the state,
moved in the name of President Arthur
that Blaine's nomination. be made
unanimous.
While Roosevelt was bitterly opposed
to Blaine, some of his old friends have
recalled to him that William M. Evarts