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Roosevelt Told • *»• w iiYice Presidency Is His for Asking Political Buzzing Start* in Earnest for 1900 Cam paign; Tetldv Visits * j*; Comity Fairs. (The flr*t letter In today'* Install ment- of t h«» Hoosevelt-TjodK*1 aeries was after Kllhu Hoot became nftcre i*py of war in M« Klnley'a * ablnet. At the time <Jen Nelson A Mile* wa* thinking of making himself nresident. Fcnatoir Platt whs staying in the saddle as New York republican boss. T. H. ■v*n* ■'fnioylnR himself hs governor, de spite hi* Coes in anil out of the tna rhlne. Thn reformers who n I lacked him Included the late Carl Schurz.) - STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE sCHAMBER. . ALBANY. At Oyster Kay, N, Y., ■■ August 10, 1899. Worg.H. C. Lodge, Kear- Cabot; J, hav* just lunched with Hoot, who 1* taking hold of his work In just the right- way. He went Into It at all only task na so serious, of eurh vital im portance to the nation. Other wise, ns it Is really out of his line, he would never have left his great prnr tire for It. He has been a little disgruntled with me, or at least was last spring, because of my action on the franchise tax matter, he being so difficult and a great corporation lawyer and re tained hy Whitney and the street railway men. But he is such a good fellow that I was sure it would not. last; and now I think every shade of i: has vanished. I am confident he will do exceedingly well as secretary of war. I very much fear that he will find difficulty in getting on with Miles. As^you know. Miles unfortu nately has the presidential bee in his bonnet,' even to the extent of wish ing me to run as vice president on the ticket with him. AboVe all, Bust realizes that the first thing to da is to smash the Philippine insurrection, and be has go“t the president's authority to on list additional regiments, but is keep Ing hfs mention absolutely secret, as be wants first to select the volunteer officers and escape as much political pressure in the matter as possible. Irked hy Developments. J,«/n not easy over some of the <1e velopments of popular feeling here. Foftupatjely there la nothing much up this year: hut we have an under swell against us. In the west I be lieve we are better off than in the last?'presidential election. In the east we are very considerably worse offt'"The agitation against trusts is taking an always firmer hold. It is largely unreasonable and Is fanned ^fc'rfttl arllvty by the Bryan type of demagogue, ably seconded by Oor man.'- Croker, et si., who want to change the Issue from free silver. B tit "When there Is a good deal of misery and of injustice, even though it is mainly due to the faults of the individuals themselves, or to the xnefeLpperation of nature's laws, the nuteelf'who announces he has a cure all TO? It is a dangero’us person. Around the state of New York I am surprised to find how many of the working men who were with us threwevears ago are now sullenly gritfln ding that McKinley Is under JlanWl's dictation; that Bryan Is the only man who can corned tike trusts; and that life trusts are crushing the life out of the small men, etc., etc. In our local affairs, hy industrious working I have got the republicans a ibj " the Independents pretty t horoikghly In line for a union on a legislative ticket. Qulgg and the New York machine for once have acted with equal wisdom and virtue. Morn McKinley Opposition. The Brooklyn people are a small lot, and they have their own troubles, while in New York City the Post is Bo busy denouncing Platt and my im petlAljem that It can't see Tammany. 'Whltdaw Reid* feels vindictively towards McKinley and Platt, and therefore towards the whole repub lican party, and he la deliberately striving to bring about our defeat. I r« has attacked Root most malicious ly. saying that the president haa nlded to his council merely a clever orporatlon lawyer. Insinuating that be was appointed more to please ’ great .financial Interests than to tight the wrongs of the War department. Decently he has even attacked me quite as bitterly as be has Root. I am soon to start off on a tour Bf the county fairs. I have a spec ial car and Edith had most unexpectedly volunteered lo go with me. I rather think she has before her some ex periences she wots not of. There is a pioneer picnic at Silver T.ake, for Instance, where I think I can ace her row circulating among the wives of the prominent pioneers. (N. B. She Is listening as I dictate this.) Did I tell you I hat I am writing a sketch of Cromwell for Scribner’s? it Is to be about the length of my Hough Hidera, appearing in six num bers. and then in book form, anil I get $3,000 for it and 13 per cent on the book. Give my best love to Nannie and all. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. P. S. I have just returned from a Visit to Senator Platt at the Oriental, and y°U have by this lime seen that Loot has been made secretary of war. I rather doubt if the president would have appointed me. even If 1 had not told him that I was not a candidate, for he has announced publicly to Senator Platt that he —— wished to appoint a lawyer to the office and not a man who had any past connections with military nf fairs. Personally, the desire to have a lawyer In the War department seems to me elmply foolish—so fool ish indeed that I can only regard It as an excuse. But Hoot is an absolutely upright and very able man, and he will make a good secie lury. No dishonesty can exist tinder hint, and I believe that from sheet force of events he will be oblig'd to work for radical reform in the de pertinent. T. R. •Mr. Haul, proprietor of the New- York Tribune, rn arieiwaitt ambeaaaUor at I.(Melon, that time a bitter fnn nf ThotnaN C. Platt, New York s republican bora. STATU OK NKW YORK, KXKCIJTINK CTIAMBKR, A I.MANY. At Oyster Bav, New York. August 28, 1899. Hon. H. O. I.odge, Hear Cabot: T was overjoyed with your last let ter. T hsva wished often this sum mer that j could hade been abroad with you However. I have thor I'ughly enjoyed being at home In fact, t 'do not believe any other mat has ever had as good a time as gov ernor of New York. I am not, thank heaven, under the least illusion as to the permanence of my position; for both my good qualities and my' de fects— Including the last, live habit, to which you have once or twice tin feelingly alluded, of expressing a great variety of opinions on a great variety of subjects, and, formerly, at least, with some Intemperance of ex i pression—will tend to make my offi cial life short. I should like to lie reelected governor, but I do not ex pect it. ami 1 should be quite willing to barter tlie certainty of it for all isisslbiiltles of the future. As for the vice presidency, I do not think there is anything in that. But in any' event. I shall do Just as you advise— that is, lei it take care of itself. .Meanwhile, T am having a splendid time, and I really have for the mo ment a strong hold on the people of the state. Edith and I spent eight days going around to the pioneer picnics, county fairs, etc., and I really think she enjoyed it as much as 1 did. We ended by a visit to .(he president at Plattsburgh. He was, as always, most pleasant. My rela tlnns with Platt are as cordial as ever, and Ihe machine, aa a whole, is a good deal impressed h.v th» way 1 am received around the state. Root 1* doing x'ery well. He has called for a number of additional regi ments, and the mere fact of having done so will help matters in the Philippines. I believe they will all be needed there. Of course, I still feel very doubtful about Otis* per sonally, but I earnestly hope that the president is right—that no great difficulty will be found In pacifying the islands after the dry season be gins. Wnod is continuing to do splendid work In Santiago, but thinks the whole policy of managing ihe island needs revising. The beloved Speck** is here fresh from Samoa, where he lias worked to good purpose with our man Tripp. He Is going hack to Germany in a fortnight. I wish to heaven he would instill a little common sense Into the kaiser! Give my best love to Nannie anil the boys. Kdith is very well. We spent about six hours In our rowboat yesterday. Ever yours, THEODORE ROOSEYE1.T. •timer*! Oil*. In commsnd In th* Phil PpIlM ••Baron Sp*»»*U vnn Fturnbrrg, aftttwar) from muny. STATE OF NEW YORK. KX KOI TI \ E l HAMPER. ALBANY. At Oyster F.a\, N. V. Sept. 11, 1999. Hon. H. Lodge. Dear Cabot, I am still In the midst of the coun ty fairs. It has been very tiresome, and in some way, a liore: but on the other hand. 1 have been glad to meet the men "ho make up the backbone j"f the bulk of the republican party old style Ameri can countrymen. I am greatly im pressed with the strong, rugged, simple nature of the great major ity of these men. Tliev are hcnltjty, -1 hey are power ful, they are em phatically good material out of which to make a strong, self poised republic. Did I write you of my delight a t meeting one Hiram Tower, his wife and his 17 children? I ha\e had very few un comfortable incidents and think my trips have on the whole done good. The only trouble at all has conte whore one county felt jealous be cause I went to another, Inasmuch as J could not possibly go to them all; or where there haa been hostil ity on thp part of outsiders to the men in control of a given fair. It is a dreadful task to try to keep the republican party united here. Aside from the deep seated causes of division between the two wings, which shade off Into the Irrational and unscrupulous machine men on the one hand, and the quite as Irra tional and unscrupuloua indepen dents on the other, there aae the bit ter factional fights and splits caused by mere personal vindictiveness and soreheadedness on the part of some men. Moreover, while the great bulk of the seroundrels in any job are democrats, It Is exceedingly difficult to prevent just enough dabbling in scroundrelism by republicans to give Hie independents a chance to say that both parlies are equally bad. As for the antics of the Indepen dents, they are or course past belief. At present Tammany Is in disfavor. Many of the independents want Van Wyok* legislated out of office, while others blandly declare that in any event they desire to run their own candidates, and would just as soon ac cept Tammany help as republican help. It Is a dangerous thing to leg* Mate a man cut of office, fOr It is easy to create sympathy for him, ■ nd I am not certain what is the wise and proper thing to do In the p-emises. I wish that Senator Platt, oho has an extraordinary mastery over all the leaders, great and small, of the organization Itself, not only In the city, but In the thoroughly heal thy country tommunltles. could gauge public opinion better. We shall go up to Albany about the first of October, but I hate to leave Oyater Kay, ami shall come hack here whenever I get the chance, so as to get a little exercise. Our rowing 'ripa have become the great est pleasure to tis this summer, and we have succeeded in teaching every child, bar Quentin, to swim. faithfully yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. • Hubert A Van Wyek. Tammany may or of »w York City. AT ATE OF NEW YORK, EXECUTIVE CHAMBER. Albany, October ‘JO, ISS't. lieu. H. C. Lodge, Boston. Mass. Dear Cabot: 1 didn't read what Sehura* said; 1 don't cure whal that prattling foreign er shrieks or prattles In this crisis, and I would no more read his speeerhes than r would read the edi torials of the Evening Post, unites for some reason it was necessary to answer them. The leather-tongued .Warner** has been denouncing me. I had a good meeting and hit straight at Tammany. Of course I am having a rather hard thne, as I have got a heavy cold and this traveling about is perfectly infernal. With best love to Nannie and again telling you what 1 know you know how deeply concerned I aril shout your mother and about your anxiety, I ant As ever yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. •Tii** late furl Schurz. ••John DeWitt Warner, active in re form circles In Ntw York i ~ ~ - — Washington, 1). C.# Hecrmbfr 1, Personal. My Deai Theodore: The genera! impression of c ourse is that you would be very foolish to take the vice presidency, although I have never failed to convince the two or three people with whom I have talked ——————s fully about 1' My own opinion has not changed 1 ran put It most terse ly by saying If 1 were a candidate for the presidency I would take the vice presidency In a minute at thla junc ture. Of course I may lie all wrong, and 1 am not going in tha least to push my opinion on you. I did not hesitate to urge you to take the as sistant secretaryship of the navy, or the police commissionership of New York, hut this Is a very different mat ter. When a man is a candidate for the presidency, no friend, however close, has the right to urge him to follow a course In the slightest degree against his own judgment In such a very momentous matter a man must himself ho sole judge. Your own in clination is against it, and very likely it Is correct, for I have gieal faith in your Instincts about yourself. The opinion of mostaof your friend* points probably the same way. You can 'have It If you want it by simply saying so. There Is no doubt on that point, but under these circumstances f shall not urge you to take It. or indeed to say anything further about If. and I am sure that you will stay where you are. You are In a splen did situation in any event s*i far as the future is concerned, and what ever you do or decide will satisfy me, and I shall work along the line you prefer to follow just as vigorously and zealously as if you were pursuing some other which I might think more favorable. I feel very sanguine about your future, and von sre quite cer tain to be re-elected, which is the next step, and beyond which there la no need of our looking at present. I see that Dooley has been making game of you, ami as be once devoted; *- — — - ... • ■ 4 paper 10 me. I naturally take plea: ure in the miefortunes of my friend-, although I am bound tn say that l felt that when 1 was made the sub ject of a Dooley i*ap«r I had ad vanced far on the high road of fame With best love to Edith and the children, Always yours, H. C. LODGE, (To H# ( ontlnuerl Tomorrow.)_ The Daily Cross Word Puzzle. -j Hy RICHARD H. T1NGLEY. Horizontal 1. A band. * 4. To chill. 7. A gambling game of cards. 11. A wing. 12. Amidst. 14. Male sheep. 15. Animal secretion. 17. Compound of oxygen with an other element. 19. Equal. 20. Mischievous child, 27. A streak of metal in rock for motion. 22. A plural prefix. 24. Parts of legs. 2K. Musical note. 77. Preposition. 22. Congenital. .20. Fifty-one. 92. To deface. 39. To employ. 24. For instance (abbr.) 2il. An imposing parade. 99. And, in French and Latin. 40. Bachelor of Arts (abbr.) 42. I lesignations. 42. Life guards (abbr.) 44. An inland Asian sea. 45. By. 47. An angel debarred from heaven. 49. A popular broadcaster. 51. To pep-up. .52. Period of time. 52. Indicating the presence of nit rogen. .55. Estate, (abbr.) 57. Inclination. 59. Point of the compass (abbr.) 59. Similarly. Vertical 1. Depraved. 2. XI. .2. Roman household gods. 4. A prefix for not. 5. Annual June functions in col leges. 5.- Printer's measure. 2. Spirit of air. 9. Pertaining to lines drawn from the center of a circle. 10. A portent. 12. Part of "be " 13. Proceed! 1H. Prefix signifying not. 18. Fifteen. 20, a tavern. 21. A vegetable. 21. Mohammedan scriptures. 25. Renders insensible. 27. ] have (contraction). 28. Headgear. 29. Estate (abbr.) 31. Interest (abbr.) .35. Automobile home. •37. An operfing. 38. Relation to air. 3t). Exit. 11. A Herman city. 43. A horizontal plane. 41. A homeless street urchin. 45. I.ong Island (abbr.) 47. A Hreek letter standing for a number which, multiplied by the dia meter of a circle "ill give the cir cumference. 48. Preposition. 50. A city mentioned In the Bible. Same as Heliopolis. 51. Behold. 54. That is (abbr ) 55. Musical note. The solution will appear tomorrow Solution of yesterday's purrle. • *" r s . 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