Arizona republican., 1912-07-20
SATURDAY. JULY 20. 1912.
An "Insistent Popular Demand"


 MT Roosevelt's characteristic and utter disregard of facts was never more strongly illustrated than in the following statement in an editorial in the current Outlook of which The Republican yesterday morning con tained telegraphic mention: Tn 1900 against the wish of the most power ful politicians who then had control of the republican party, purely be- cause the popular demand was too insistent to be denied
 Mr Roosevelt cannot be so self deceived as to believe this. He must know what every intelligent man knows who recalls the political events of 1900. He must be proceeding upon his customary theory that there are more uniformed than intelligent vot- CTS and so he makes an appeal to what he conceives to be the majority.
 Even if one knows nothing of the circumstances of MT. ROOsevelts nom ination for the vice. presidency he would know this much: That there has never been an insistent demand for the nomination of any vice -presi dential candidate That nomination is only curiously considered by the people at large. There was no popu- lar demand for the nomination of MT Roosevelt in 1900. There had been no consideration of that nomination at the time of the selection of dele gates to the national convention Mir Roosevelt was known throughout the country only as the governor of New York, as having commanded the Rough Riders. as having been an un- derling in various departments of the federal government and as having been police commissioner of New York. Though his press bureau was already industriously at work there was little of that popular admiration of him that he afterward enjoyed
 It was well known at the time of the convention of 1900 that the in sistent popular demand" for the nOm- ination of Mir Roosevelt was the in sistent demand of Matthew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania, the most ac- complished and most interruptions politician this country has ever known, the premier of political bosses and whose son, by the way, the liv- ing representative of the Quay fac ton in Pennsylvania, is one of the present supporters of MT. Roosevelt.
 Why MT. Quay desired the nomina- tiOn of MT Roosevelt was not then understood MT. Quay presented the matter to Senator Thomas C. Platt, who was at first averse to taking part in any movement in favor of Mr Roosevelt whom he personally dis liked. However he realized that MT. RoOSevelt on the vice presidential shelf would be less annoying to him than Mir. Roosevelt in the guberna- torial chair Thus. he was brought to second earnestly the efforts of MT Quay
 The chief obstacle in the way of Mir. Roosevelt's nomination was Sena- tor Hanna with his powerful and con- trolling following in the convention. MT Hanna simply did not like MT Roosevelt and President Mckinley did not like him. There was no political animOsity toward him for they did not regard him sufficiently for that They merely did not like his manners perhaps, the color of his hair or the prominence of his teeth. While as vice president, he would necessarily be harmless, he was distasteful to MT
 But MT. Hanna finally yielded to the ''insistent popular demand" oi Boss Quay and MT. Roosevelt was made the tail of the ticket, it was well understood at the time. against his own wishes. How differently things would have been arranged 1T the convention if the manipulators ol it had known that there was a mar of the name of CzolgOz livingi
 The strange interest of MT. Quay in the nomination of MT. Roosevelt and the methods by which he over. came the objections of MT. Hanna were afterward explained in an inter view with Quay on the subject O Pennsylvania politics. and published soon after his death.