The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-27

Ne. essssA IN door and shs aEpt AREs.
Piatt. Who was sitting opposite ths nrai
visitor. said:
Don't lot him issue that saAtsmsat
It's too cross. There are certain para
graphs in Il on pages 90 and 90 Whic
should be taken out
PiAtt was gone about ten minutes.
well. what do you think OF the state
mentg- he inquired. and the visitor to
whom IL had been entrusted and whose
advice was sought attempted TO he =
plav actor man.
He started % speak OF the statement in
Indifferent tones. said IL was all well
enough in certain ways. the English was
superb and all that sort % thing. but
perhaps there were one or two ga r. Rrnphs
on pages so and 80 that might better he
omitted. ~ they were extremely sharp
and so on. aud 80 forth.
'Oh. pshAw'- replied Piatt. you've
been talking with Mrs. Platt."
He did not change the statement
In Washington at the Arlington Hotel
on the afternoon before Mckinley was
sworn in as President. the very day on
which Platt made HE remittance to the
United States Senate fifteen years before
he and Conkling had resigned in anger
AZ Garfield Cornelius V. Bliss Of New
York citv called on Mr. Platt saving
.Major Mckinley would like TO see you
at the Ebbitt House
Mckinley and Platt had not met in
years. and while Platt worked like beaver
for McKinley's election he had neverthe-
less a. already noted bitterly opposed his
nomination. Plat left the hotel and on
his return the tears were running down
his face A. he said:
I'm the Ma jor's friend from this instant.
He 10 . real human man"
What did ne say 20 vou?"
He was just a. lovely "a he could be. :
replied Plat with his handkerchief 20 his
eyes. Just ~ kind and gentle. and he
grasped my hand warmly and sAid let
US forget everything. Mr. Platt. need
your friendship and you need my friend
ship. and we're both good Republicans
never really knew what a fine soul
Mckinley was" Mr. Plat spoke with the
deepest emotion.
RoosEvELT's NOMINATION. ToR vICE-P REsi-
DENT
Al Philadelphia in ian Plat and QUAY
decr~ed the nomination ~ Thsodor"
Roosevelt Tor President PLtt
wanted "a get rid ~ Roosevelt, as Governor
~ the State ~ New Work. Mckinley
didn't want Roosevelt Tie desired the
nomina tiOn ~ Elihu Root. then Secretary
90 War. hut finally decided that inasmurh
a. tho Philippine Island prnblems were
vet unra yelled he could not spare Root
from his Cabinet Mckinley ihsrsupnn
"a vorcd Cornelius y Bliss ~ New Work
city. Plat on his journey from New York
10 Philsdelphia had broken 'wo rih- 10y
being thrown against "a chair Ia tho train
4 Philadelphia physician bound him mp.
and although Plat suffered ~XcrIciatinR
pain he and Quay were here. there ana
eVeCywh~r" marshallng delegates FOR
Roosevelt. The late Marcus 4 Hanna
was dreadfully opposed 20 Roosevelt.
In the FIRST session Of the convention
Plat and QUAY fixed up resolution.
which QUAY presented calling for the
reduction in the number ~ delegates
from Southern Stats~ IN future Republican
national conventions. This idea had been
on the carpet = number 81 years and the
convention. IN fact the Republican party.
favored u. and Hanna knew this 80 10
true A. soon A. the resolution Was Rad
in the convention the Hanna tolhs called
for an adjournment until the follo~Ing
d@v.
what doe~ thar resolution mean
What il it's signihcance7- Plat was asked
1T means my son. replied Plat. that
tho Hon Marcus Aurelius Hanna viii
fling up the sponge tonight and com"
out for Roosevelt, for Vice President
Why -
MY cheerful friend suavelv replied
Platt. YOU don't suppos. Hanna wants
that resolution passed and his Republican
organization in the South cut ~ pieces
do yous And This convention - for that
resolution for we've taken a poll Of the
delegates
Sure enough that night A. y clock
az the Hotel Walton Hanna issued a
statement withdrawing his opposition "a
Roosevelt On the following morning the
Quay resolution was Withdrawn from the
convention Plat ALWAYS gave Quay the
credit for The authorship ~ this r~@o-
luton.
OPINION OF oUAY
Plat Was asked once upon a time whom
he considered the greatest Republican
politician Of hi- day and generation.
4 have often wished was his Response
that I had been Quay's Office hoy for 81
months or more
wARSER MILLER ASD INGERsOLL.
While senator Plat and Warner Miller
were always personally courteous IN their
bearing 20 each other. Plat had mo- high
idea 81 Miller a. a Republican leader oi
statesman. and Miller on the other hand
was given 20 the belief that Plat was 20,
much 81 practical politician. Conklnl
and Plat when they res igned from NE
United States senate m 1859 were sue
oseded by Elbridge q Lapham and War
ner Miller. Plat always spoke Of Miller
az a blundsrbusS
Plat was particularly disgusted witt
Miller in isss for Withdrawing Col. Rob"rt
g. Ingersoll from the stump. Miller has
been nominated for Governor on a high
hcanse plank. and InRersoll started in n
make speeches for Miller Miller. in rs-
sponse 10 a church sentiment. requested
that InRersoll 10 Withdrawn from the
stump. and IngerSoll retired IN huH