The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-13

Thomas e. Plat wa l.v !. .
publican orsanisation 4 ~
state. Not even MI. 49,
emily opposed it then, ~
knew that he could MT ~ !,
welt down, so he decidA1 4.
Of him. He would ID \ Z
stairs.
Putting Roosevelt b W. q
Therefore he vent y =. 4
ican convention q nS
with his plans all laN ~
nation Of Mckinley ~
although there was 1 iiiS ~.
welt talk from the ~, 3
states that had gone a.
years before. Hanna ~ 4.
torial coterie ruled -;
There were Plat and ~.
banks and Allison, Dspes ~
aker, Wolcott and LON. ~
convention was going u y
rected.
Hanna wanted Corneliu I
or Senator Allison no0ln.ss;
vice president. Vice Riesi1sss
bart having died IN o0cs
took Quay into his oclens
must get rid Of Rooseveit =
organized the willinx v.s.s'
and began whooping Il n
Roosevelt for second pl,As
dangerous man was to y -
alive in the vice presideae,
Colonel Roosevelt NJ 49,
candidate for presidsnt ~
campaign Of 1904. He belirssl :,
his interests could b ai,,,.ss
more readily IL he renaapN \;
ernor of New York than Z Is :
made vice president. He ~
with earnestness and 49,
He fought as hard a. 10 1olS1
could, but the enthusiasn = \
one war hero who had -
the storms Of two years o
great that 1t could not b oVaes|
More especially when ,naaaaa |
two veteran 9 manipulasns +
Plat and Quay. So Il ~ +
Theodore Roosevelt was ~ ?
stairs and put on the shell ~
| he would never bother ~
politics again"
The Democrats met II =
City on July 4 and the silve l
publicans met in the same III
the same day.
There was q great tight III
David B. Hill of New Yofk, 81
vent the specific reitefatioa Il
free silver plank Of 1886. bEl
Bryan insisted and the plalkV
in. Adlai Stevenson. who NJ
elected vice president with 81
Cleveland in 1892, was siva
second place en- the dctA !
Silver Republicans promptly 4
mated the same candidates I
in the campaign the anti-impnt
convention met and 90
Bryan. The Gold Democrsb .
q convention, but it was u
not to make any nomination. ]
of the leaders Of the Palma
Buckner fol kwing came hael
the party ad supported NJ. I
but the lard majority Of Vi
and file Of The Cleveland D
went fhto tie Republican ~
Bryan's Decllhay Y
Mr.. Bryan again took the I
and made-a great speaking
HE was met everywhere viii
enthusiasm. but he did not u
depths that he had reached u
lMr. Mckinley, being preside&
very quiet in the campaip
Colonel Roosevelt took the I
and fiayed Bryan with chars
! tic zeal,
! MI. Bryan had attempted y
imperialism" the paramount
in the campaign. Many CO..
tives were intense in their q
; ton to the Inauguration o.
onial system. Republican
conservative Democrats who
: upon the Bryan Of 1896 win
! were willing to follow him y
, There is no question but ~
Bryan vote among the GU
, classes was greater in tho :
campaign than the first.
IA But among other classel
; Bryan could not hold his owi
Republicans made the "fun !. !
j pail the paramount issue. =
, the colonial policy, that w
!. fest destiny and duty to nun
) The thing to talk about vas
+ perity. The country was p
: Gus and was becoming @
!. every day. 1t was eatefist
: the most propitious era o. J !
, !, dustrial history. The people :
! turn cut an administration u
times. ,-
e Therefore Mr.. McKinley y
: elected by a much greater -
q than he had received four ~
fore. There was never . u a.'
( ing the campaign when IL
q was in any danger OF deleI
h Democrats accepted his re-
: as a matter of course. Inc Mn
o of northern and southern = !.
). lin the campaigns in CUBS !. !.
a Philippines had obliteratea ., =
: vestige of the old section, .,
e and when President Mckinls,
: his southern tour ne pu,,0
4 "bloody shirt" for all time y