The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-08

an episode in national politics of no
minor Importance.
! Jfnder tale rostrum where nominating
speeches Were being made for half.
dozen vice presidential aspirants, Charlie
Murphy of Tammany hall; George Bren-
nan of Illinois, who, the-successoE-
the late Roger Sullivan; Jim Nugent OF
New Jersey; Fred Lynch of Minnesota;
Wilbur Marsh of Iowa; Norman Mack
of New York and Ed Moore, the cam
pagn manager of Governor Cox, gath
cred for conference and in full sight
Hof ionlooking correspondents held an in
formal debate on the merits of Edward
Meredith of Iowa, secretary OF agricul-
ture; Victor Murdoek of Kansas, mem
Der of the federal trade commission, and
Bull Mooser of 1912; and Bainbridge
lby, SECRETARY Of state and also Roose-
Is progressive. ms
f..jy4rndr. Cox. wisely Ieft@the choice to
th.- managers here. Mr.. iHeafst would
haze liked. to see. GolbF named ana
a. ~p some thought that the support
III L 4a "a 1T news papers would be easily
~s si4I. 4 fl colby were chosen. But while
= 3.~ favored Colby and gave indi-
ca an 35f B,4Ting the Ratchet with Hearst
IN fsrs effort to re-elect Al Smith
ooy4r A ii ew York, the leaders ar
eued 9:t's M,~phy that Roosevelt's
name SC ~ - r0rth more votes to the
ticket t,t e selection would please
the Med ccs which had been led by
Roosevelt r! wcetcrn men-AIeredith
and NTrlrdoa' -rc~n minated when it
was decided H. on account of CoX's wet
laaninos the canna;ga had better be
~ ,N-rk1A mo
contq1ded. woulI aivo assurance to
westerners that the tcl-et was progress
siye. Furthermore, it was suggested that
he was popular with navy men. Ot
course Roosevelt's anti-Tammany record
i'm New York state viii helps get indie
pendent Democratic votes for the ticket.
IT is an interesting sidelight that many
here ventured the opinion that the name
Roosevelt would appeal to those voters
who may not exactly confuse franklin,
b. Roosevelt with Theodore Roosevelt,
but who would consider that all Roose-
velts must be worth while folks. Asa
matter of fact the vice presidential candi
date whom the Democrats have named is
a second cousin of the late Colonel Roose-
velt. 1t is a coincidence that the colonel
started in as an assistant secretary of
the navy. TOO. ana resigned ltdJ JoD 10
60 into the war after which he entered
rolitics on a large scale as governor of
New York The name of Franklin ID.
Roosevelt has often been suggested for
governor of New York and the independ
cnt Democrats were this year thinking of
naming him for the United States senate
10 oppose Wadsworth.
Franklin Roosevelt is popular with the
newspapermen in Washington, who knew
him throughout the war as the man who
was continually urging a naval offensive.
There has been some talk that Roosevelt
didn't agree with Josephus Daniels in the
management of the navy department, but
All thoughts of tiscord were swept out of
consideration by the fulsome speech
made by Secretary Daniels for Franklin
Roosevelt after the latter had been
named by aeclamation as the vice -presi-
Dental candidate of the party.
One after another tne vice presidential
aspirants withdrew from the race as soon
as the conference under the stage of the