New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-27

had a great time in the West and was
received with wild enthusiasm. Toward
the last, for fear Of tho people being
deluded into the belief thai. 7 attached
too much seriousness 20 my reception.
I made UP my mind that I had better
make a little statement, saying, ~
course, ! heartily favored the ran0mi-
nation Of President Mckinley
Roosevelt wrote % PLATE on August
81, 1899:
81 have just seen the President
too. and | told Mr.. Griggs that after
talking the matter over with you I was
going 20 submit the part Of my mes
sage this year which deals with trusts
20 him to look over that Is. after you
have seen II. my dear Senator"
Senator Platt wrote 90 Roosevelt on
August 2j, 1899:
81 send hearty congratulations over
the uniform enthusiasm and success
which has met you IN your recent trip.
have no doubt the meetings are do
ing you and the party great deal Of
good, and that all these agricultural re-
unions which you address W..l be very
advantageous politically.
Platt Expresses Annoyance.
Mr.. Plat wrote 20 Roosevelt on No
vember -, 1899, as follows.
IL am in receipt Of your letter OF
November IL, and have 90 inform you
as TO what n was you said 20 Frank
which has given mo so much annoy
ance. IL is regarding the state con-
stabulary bill. After working all sum
mer and ever since the adjournment o.
the Legislature 20 shape things So that
we could pass that bill. (Which / con-
slider very vital for the future success
of the party | was staggered by the
report which Frank gave me o. his
interview with you bearing upon that
subject
IL will not discuss 10 az present, but
want you 20 understand how deeply
feel on the subject, and that now that
We have got the Legislature ID shape
and IL is possible 20 pass the bul dld
not want you 20 damn IL with iaint
praise | would not say anything OF
the subject now, except that ! was
afraid you might indulge IN u'terances
and opinions such as you expressed a.
the Hotchkiss dinner in Buffalo.
Colonel Roosevelt replied 20 Plat on
November 81, 1899, as follows:
"A week from Saturday, remember
YOU are to take breakfast with me a,
my brother-in-law's a..
III confess | am very seriously as
I turbed at the protest against the state
oonstabulary bill I fear that, even 81
the Senators could be gotten 20 vote
for it, the general opinion among
persons not Immediately connected
with politics is so strong against the
bill that it will be a dangerous thns
to disregard their views. / could not
say how many letters ] received pro
testing against the bill. being as tneF
term il, TANNED through when tneIe
is no demand for II.
perhaps II. besides meeting the sen
ators, we could have an lnterVie" NI'A
twenty or thirty prominent Ne" lofH
Republicans, Seth Low, Charles Stew
art Smith and men OF that type, VINO
are not actively Identified with po"-
/ tics. we might get better tee.inS
about It, But | hope you wl.l not Gen
nitely commit yourself Cd any po"c1
until ! have a chance 20 see you.
have not said word about Do, as yo"
have doubtless seen. but ! am INDUS
/ triously collecting all the facts can
in private to lay before YOU
On December l3, 1899, the Oo1ohe.
wrote to Plat:
WAS tANNtAAAElg SUI =
my intention 20 appoint HcndrcAs 20,
out in New York. Hendricks has re-
| fused TO accept, OF which ] am sorry
Payn's interview in The sun seems
70 me hardly wise.
There is a strong feeling among me
/ judges and the leading members OF the
| bar that Judge McLennan ought no-
20 have Judge H.scock jumped over ms
head, and | do not see my way clear 10
doing it. I am very fond of h.scocA
and of Horace White, but 10 seems 10
me that il would be hardly wise or
proper 10 cast so deliberate s.lsnJ
upon McLennan. II did ] would nave
again 70 take up the consideration Oh
Russell and Warner"
Plat to Revise Message.
Colonel Roosevelt sent copy 81 MS
message TO Senator PLATE on December
10, 1899, with the following letter:
Herewith | send you proof o. my
message All the important parts !
have had gone over by the various
experts. Thus the entire cana. matter
has been laid before General Green
| Superintendent Partridge, state Ensi-
neer Bond and Fox and Mcfarland.
The part of taxation, franchise iaA'
public utilities, industrial conditions
and trusts has been laid before Strana,,
/ han, Elihu Root, President Hadley o.
Yale, and Professor jerks, Of Cornell
as well as in part before Professor