This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...whom Roosevelt, the preacher, says, "There must be no compromise." He knew he could not have the re-nomination for Governor, if Piatt opposed it; and if Piatt wanted him to be the Vice-President, that was all there was in it for Roosevelt, and he was never the man to pass up the only things in sight. It was an open ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...whom Roosevelt, the preacher, says, "There must be no compromise." He knew he could not have the re-nomination for Governor, if Piatt opposed it; and if Piatt wanted him to be the Vice-President, that was all there was in it for Roosevelt, and he was never the man to pass up the only things in sight. It was an open secret that McKinley didn't want Roosevelt for a running mate, and Marc Hanna, McKinley's manager, who was a "practical" politician of the old-fashioned pattern--with no misleading "reform" frills basted on him--had no fancy for this newly risen Rough Rider type, whose chief political asset was a perennial circus parade. Piatt, Quay & Co. were in the lead in that Convention. Hanna was overruled in the matter of the vice-presidential candidate, and told to confine his personal attention to the "barrel." From this it will appear that Roosevelt as governor had not proved an acceptable quantity to "his Feline Majesty," and this of course is seized upon by the hero-worshippers as presumptive and inductive proof of Rooseveltian virtue. But it was a fact observed by all, that as governor, Roosevelt was openly friendly with "the machine"; he himself had announced before election, in a letter to his friend Leupp (one of those strictly personal communications of his, which in some inadvertent fashion always find their way into the public prints), that, if elected, he "would consult and treat with the leaders--not once, but continuously, and earnestly strive to agree with them on all important questions." Yet it would be difficult to imagine two men more opposite in temperament and methods, than Piatt and Roosevelt, --albeit possessing practically the same standards of political ethics...
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