Evening star., 1919-02-16

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Have you concluded to support
Gov. Roosevelt2' l asked.
Return about midnight" he said.
AT ll:5o O'Clock the candidate was
declared. Since President McKinIev
ts to be renominated without a dis
Senting voice." Mr., Hanna formally
stated In a notice to the country. ut
y my judgment that Gov. Roosevelt
should be nominated for Vice PresI-
dent with the same unanimity."
Also. he stated, particularly and. he
hoped, impressiveiy. that the claims
Of all the candidates first had been
placed In my hands" The decision.
then, had been his own. He had con-
sidered the Claims" examining them
and balancing them carefully. And
now the great leader of the republic
can party had spoken. Roosevelt was
to be nominated
The notice to the country really
meant, back of the seeming pleasure
and harmony of it's words. that Mr..
Eanna was reconciled TO the action
that the convention although still un-
organized, already had determined to
take No one could have prevented
the nomination of Theodore Roose-
Welt for Vice President at Philadel-
phia In 1900. Roosevelt himself
dould not have done So
They are coming to me now" Mr.
Hanna referred to state and minor
national captains. The delegates
were running wild in the streets, and,
with banners and music, were march
Ing and shouting through the hotels.
Not for Mckinley, but for Roosevelt,
Leadership always must retain some
semblance of order and authority.
Otherwise there is a mob and not
machine. The broken and exploding
lines were re-established "Roose-
velt Is to be nominated" the cheering
and insubordinate delegates were
told
And Mr. Hanna. riding at the head
OF his troops, was still the general in
command. The issue, on the face of
events. had been left to him, He de-
Sired nothing more. When that fact
was acknowledged and published he
felt that the choice Of Roosevelt had
been his own.
The convention adjourned. Mr..
Hanna. accompanied only by myself,
returned to Cleveland in the private
car of President Cassatt of the Penn
sylvania railroad. over whose lines
he yearly sent great quantities or
freight He was In high spirits and
believed that he was stronger at that
moment in his party than ever be-
fore.
II would not swap my power for
President Mckinley's." he said. and he
was never an egotist, but among his
friends Invariably an open-hearted
man.
The nomination of Gov. Roosevelt
had left no sting In his memory. In
Philadeiphia he had said to me that
n am not for Roosevelt nor against
him" A day later he was maneuvered
In what seemed to be position of
antagonisn.
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Yet, as know, he hoped from the
first that Cornelius N, Bliss would be
chosen to run with MIR. Mckinley.
The President and MIR. Hanna hon
estly felt that they had caused busi-
ness prosperity again to smile upon
the country. The Vice President"
Mr.. Mckinley was in the habit of
saying to Mr.. Hanna, ought to be as
wise a man and as safe a man as
the President" Something might
happen. as something did happen in
Buffalo.
A violent outburst by MIR. Roose-
Welt, while he was assistant secretary
of the Navy and just before the Span
ish war, caused President Mckinley
to look upon him with renewed alarm.
Mr.. Hanna tand he was my authority
for what followsl and Associate Jus
tice William r. Day of the Supreme
Court who was then assistant sec
rotary of state, were in Mr., Roose-
velts office.
The administration and MIR. Hanna
were doing everything under. heaven
to prevent war. Mr. Roosevelt was
for war at once, sayagely and strenu-
ously. The subject came up between
Hanna Day and Roosevelt on the
occasion here mentioned. Perhaps
but i am not sure as to that--Hanna
and Day had called to ask Roosevelt
TO be a little less boisterous In ex-
pressing his views,
At any rate---and will use the
language of Mr., Hanna himself--"Mr
Roosevelt, walking back and forth
across his office, exclaimed; The
and children Is on the White House
steps,"
Judge Day Immediately left the
Office little later Mr.. Hanna met
him in one of the corridors or the
building. 'Roosevelts statement Must
not go unnoticed." he said to MI
Hanna.
When tho President heard of Mr.,
Roosevelt's explosion he asked MIR.
Long. Secretary of the Navy. to repri-
mand his vociferous subordinate. the
rebuke was administered and MIR.
Roosevelt was man enough TO say,
both to Mr.. Hanna aud Judge Day.
that 1t was deserved y was excited.