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1 "eddy Sees Plan fo "Shelve" Him in \ ice Presidency * I ooscvelt Insists He Does Not SkViant Place on Ticket Eve of Con vention. Washington, Feb. 2, 1900. Theodore pad a long talk with Senator Platt yet erduy about you. I’latt is going to re vim Saturday morning and talk with you further. If it was a ques tion of your tak ing the vire presi dency for itself I should beg you most earnestly not to do It. My belief is your tak it arises from my conviction that it is the true step ping stone for you either toward the presidency or the governor gen eralship of the Philippines. I think It is the best road to the former, hut the presidency is always uncer tain. I believe It is to lie an absolutely sure step to thjj latter. AA ith the existing taw as to the succession to 1 he-presidency there is no good reason w-sSC-fhe yiee president should not re st |2tf there was a sufficiently strong re son for his doing so. In tills case th t reason would exist, and it would lie , clear to everybody that nothing wt uld so Impress the Asiatic mind, an 1 nothing would so satisfy this co ntry, as sending you the second of irter of the government to be the fit t governor general of our new pos sei dons. It would give the office the im im-tance which it deserves, and Avr t!(l impress the inhabitants of the PI Uppincs ns nothing else could do. .understand your objections per fec :ly to the place (the vice presi de: cyt. I see the importance of the qu stlon of money, hut you must re mt aiher that if Morton and Hobart llv d in a certain way Stevenson lived in hree rdoms at a hotel, and there is a f Msonable medium which you could fol dw Avith perfect dignity and pro prl ity without going beyond your in cor e. The vice president, as you know, ha: Sts,000 a year, and I certainly shjlild lie the last to suggest to you evi r iuver-runnlng your income, and I see no necessity for it if you took the pin -e. There can be no question about the president's Intention, for he stated it ; ot only to me but to Schurnran,* am Sehurman has promised to press it ipon him again so as to have It all very clear. • ... T ow you know the whole of my vie vs in regard to It. I honestly till k the trend of events Is such as to nuke it almost impossible to de (lit e the vice presidency. As for AV< ldrttff having the delegates, the da; you sn> h<\i will he a candidate, ’ wit t the support and approval of Mr. I*](i t, AA’oodruff could not get « del igato in the state. If New York offfrf AVoodruff as the vice president thelvjce presidency will go elsewhere, anf New York does not want to lose it. tfyd if I am not much mistaken the r will insist on your taking it. t «’ for what I do for you, you km w very well 1 do it because it Is one Of the greatest pleasures and int res*s in my life. J r. Platt said yesterday (hat you hate.no enemies now who would in ter ere with your great strength as a via presidential candidate at the polls in iew Yor*k, but he added that no mu i can tell how long It would be bef re any governor of New York wot Id find himself surrounded by a lari e crop of very dangerous enemies. I ihlnk we shall manage to keep our net*rail*v, and that the government will he kept from doing anything In the! way of meddling in the Trans x: J xv,ir. There is a x'ery general afiii solid sense of the fact that, how evef, uim h we sympathize with thp pi acs, the downfall of the British empire is something which no l-nt final American could tegard as unifying hut a misfortune to the Vnped States. ' II. C. HODGE. •fut-ob n. Ri-hurmsn, pr««td#nt of Corfell university. Albany, February 2, 1900. Pejr Cabot: its you know, I feel that to con siller the presidency in any way a* a possibility would be foolish. Amer ican polltira are kaleidoscopic, snd long before the next five years are out, the kaleidoscope is certain to have been many times shaken and some new men to have turned up. The only new thing for me to do Is to do exactly as I have always done: and that is, when there is a chance of attempting a bit of work worth the (rial to attempt it. You got me the chance to be the civil service commissioner and assistant secre tary of the navy, unil It was by your advice that I went Into the police department. All three Jobs were worth doing and I did them reasonably to my own satisfaction. Now the thing to decide at the mo ment is whether I shall try for the governorship again, or accept the vice presidency, if offered. I have been pretty successful as governor, I have got the departmental work of the state on a really high plane of execution. I have committed myself to a great policy In refence to the canals. There Is ample work, left for me to do in another term—work that will need all my energy and ca pacity—In short, work well worth any man's doing. I understand perfectly that In New York with the republican party shading on the one hand into corrupt politicians, and on the other hand, into a group of impracticables of the f!odkin-Parkhurst type, the task of getting results is otre of incredible difficulty, ami the danger of being wrecked very great, and tlris without regard to one's own capacities. For instance, if the machine were very strong and could g£t; the com plete upper hand, they would undoubt edly like to throw me over, while the Evening Post style of independent al ways tends to lie so angered at my securing good results along lines which he does not understand, ttint 'lie will Join Tammany to try to destroy me, as he did when I ran before. But tills is slmplv the Inevitable risk In such a slate «s this. It is not possible to count on a political career In New York a.« It Is In Massachusetts, and the only thing to do Is to face the fact, do good work while the chance lusts, and show good humor when.-as Inevitably must happen, the luck turns, and fot no fault of one's own, one Is thrown out. I could not do anything as vice president: and yet l would be seeing continually things that I would like to do, and very possibly would like to do differently from the way in which they were being done. Finally the personal element comes In. I have not sufficient means to run the social side of the vice presidency as It ought to be run. I should have to live very simply, and would always be In the position of “poor man at a frolic." I would not give a snap of my fingers for thit; If I went into the cabinet nr as a senator, or was doing a real lilt of work; but 1 should want to consider it when the office is in fact merely a show office. Edith bids me to say that she hopes you will forgive me! Ever Yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. To Senator H. C. Lodge, Washington, D. O. STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ALBANY Feb. 9, 1900, Dear Old Cabot: Of course I should jump at the sen ate if there was a possibility of get ting there. I think that a senator oc cupies on the whole the most useful and most honorable position to be found In any civilised government, and I should never think twice about the money In such a position as that. But, of course, Senator Platt will he a candidate for re-election, and equally of course, I shall support him. So the senartorsbip Is out of the question. As for the vise presidency,’ the "possibilities'’ which your preju diced eyes see In my career are re mote Improbabilities, and 1 had better take the position. If offered, which gives the chance to do immediate work of use. • Best love to Nannie. Ever youra, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, lion. If. C. Lodge, Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C. STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ALBANY March 12, 1900. lion. If. C. Lodge, Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C. Dear Cabot; X am having ugly times here at present. Among all my woes’the most vivid at the moment Is the Ramapo water job* This was- sneaked through a few years ago by a combination of republicans, who controlled the legislature, and bemocrats w h o ’ controlled the city government. We ought to draw its fangs at this session of the legislature; hut for the first time this year I have seen what the pa llet's so often talk about; that is, the alliance between the republican and democratic machine leaders for personal and pecuniary objects. Some of Mr. ('coker's** lieutenants and possibly Mr. C'roker, and some of those who have the ear of Senator l’latt and are In the Inner ring of the repjuhllcan machine, are pectin! arlly interested in the defeat of any anti Ramapo legislation. They want to try that perfectly cheap trick of making believe to do something, and not doing it: that Is. they propone to pass the bill (which Is and ought to be permissive in form) and put its ! execution in the hands of those whom they know favor Ratnapo Comptroller t'oler*** is the only man surely against it, and they want to cut him out of the bill; and they try to Influence me by saying that he may lie my successful opponent for the governorship on the demo cratic ticket if I now build him up. Very possibly they are right about this, but it is just one of those cases where we cannot afford to take such - a possibility Into account: and, as a matter of fact, they are now build ing him up Inth must effective fash ion by convincing the people at large that both machines are down on him because he is for the people's inter est, I am taking measures to see that he is left In. They also want to |>ass the bill so that the mayor can veto it after the legislature has adjourned and thereby to shift the responsibility on him. As a matter of fact whatever they do as a sham will be recognized as such, and will hurt them accord ingly. But with their queer short sightedness In great matters like this they fail to understand the interest of the people. There has been an effort made to prevent my becoming! active in the matter by holding up my forest, fish and game commission, whom I have headed with Austin Wadsworth. However, I of course, cannot afford to have mv commissar, confirmed on any such terms. Heav ens, how thankful I shall be when the session of legislature 1* over; and still more thankful when some time early in May I can get down to see you! Warm love to Nannie. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. •The ft a m * i>o water arab wa* a trheme to «ive the city of New York » water supply from the Ramapo mountain*, where the people behind the plan had secured »re«t land Interest*. ••Richard Croker. Tsmmsny bose In New Yark city, - •••Bird M foler, comptroller of I he r|tv nf New York, *ft#rw*r*1 doroo*-*» . mndblat* for irovcrnor wh^n R R <M*h Ji . w»» oloctrtl by ih« republican*. (To lie C’antlwiNl Titmurrnw.i ADI l M Ml NKN1 FRIEND SAVED MRS. WILHELMV "Overwork, worry, no appetite, i . ■deep, I looked like a corpse." says Mrs. Mary tVilhelmy of St. Taul. Minn., “and to add to my troubles my physician advised an operation. A friend, however, asked me to tt . I.yilia E. Plnkhant's Vegetable Cot, pound. I did ao. and you should ste the improvement. I eat well, sleei well, have gained In weight and strength and feel fine." That is what Lydia E. Pinkhnm’s Vegetable Com pound did for Mrs. Wilhelmy. and it will do as much for any suffering woman. — Photo by R^'hmin. HOHKKT Cl MM INK. a Ionic time and until about nao I was run down In health sn^ almost constantly sick,” said Mi . Robert Cummins of lift W. tith Ht. tyloux City, Iowa. “I felt so weak air tired out most of the time I waa nof able to do my housework. The doi tors said It was n feminine all mi it and that an operation was my on >’chance. Hut before I consented to that a lady told me Dr. l'lerce'a Kn orlte Prescription had cured her an then I decided to try It. Al th> JRh I was tired of medicines, I toi c several bottles of ths 'Prescrip tlo ' and it made me stout and well, cut s-d me completely. The first bottle tie] ,«d me wonderfully.’’ I lialth brinks beauty. f>o not fall to take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pro Wrlptlon in liquid or tablets. Kami 10c to Jq- Pierce's Invalids’ Hotel In HiiT fulL N V for trial pkif., and write lonjlr'k.- advice. Jptm • •• ' —tv7TljFni3uTriTTf?TvTTTuP^TjlanT<TTyi —® 13th and 13th and Capitol Capitol /^v LOWEST PRICES UHk IN OMAHA ON Imrm quality ^ GROCERIES Startling Pre-Easter Sale of y COATS i \ Ivy Plain or Fur Trimmed I \ And they are by bif odds the most amazing V\ \ Coat offerings in the city. Made possible V~ M -a through our low rent location, our very low j j overhead and our enormous purchasing Wigwam Rujt Saddle Beige Tan Gray i/ f If you want to shara in tha moat daring Coat valuta ever known in Omaha retailing, be here Saturday, and J \V come early. j gJUfc. Never Before Such Startling Values Thouaonda of Othor In Beautiful New Easter Bargains for Mon, DRESSES V'-‘ Ladies’ Spring HATS Stunning New Spring Hat* and wa offer them Salur- (d 0 Q day at lets than Half w I w u Price. Street, Sport | and Dress Hat*. <8---9 Ladies’ Spring SHOES Satin, Patent and C4 7Q Calfskin Pumps and ▼ I J Slippers .I ®---—-« Porch Dresses Ginghams and Linene Porch Dresses, plain and \ 4 fancia*. all sixes) * I clever style*, wall | made, cut full, at. »-—-<*) Bungalow Aprons Many alyle*. Amoskeag Ging hams, Scout Percales, ^ ^ Chambrays. solid col- I IA or* and fancies, all f M sixes. ®-------« Boys’ Shoes Sturdy quality, built €4 QQ for long wear. Sixes v I 9 to 13 !i. Special | Sixes 1 to 6 .*2.45 . ~ Hundred* of them, pretty color*, rich materiel*, and alyle* that you aimply cannot reaiat. You will rarely want two or thrna of them when you *aa ' what attract!** Dre*»e* can be had for only (B. Printed Crepe Flat Crepe Georgette Flowered Silk Crepe Canton Crepes Rayon Silks Roshanara Crepe Worth Double, Treble ind Four Times This Ridiculous Low Price Mail Order* Filled | I* We know it sounds slightly far fetched to state that dresses telling at $6 are worth to four times this price. But the proof is in the dresses them selves. We invite your most critical inspection. S>---*-------« Boys’ Wool Suits All wool or wool mixed cataimero sf> jm jm M A few corduroys and serges. Sixes J Girls’ SPRING DRESSES Rajah. Voiles, Crapes, Organdios, Basket Weavos A a aa —sixes 7 to 14 years; smart now % I «U spring styles; daring values «V I • vU at..... 9> Guaranteed Pure Thread Silk Hose We guarantee this hose to bo pure thread silk and to he at good at any sold in any other store fo* $1.50. All shades—white, atmos phere, sand, French riude, freckles, Russian tan, tandlewood, black.,,,,,, ,, Men’s Dress SHIRTS Stripaa and chacka, plain white and Ian, neckband and col- IMA i:;i.:"*eh-d... lob —' - - AS* Men’s Spring SHOES Brown Calfskin, rubber keels, Goodyear AA AA :ou.Uh 53.98 1 . Men’s Socks Fineit Rayon silk in A A drop-stitch; wonder- £ fa ful quality, at, per J MI. pair.. ^ Piece Goods SATIN FACED CANTON CREPE, Yard $2.39 Bright satin face in finest qual ity. beautiful colors. Especially adapted to present day styles. Worth $3.30, Special. (?>- ———~ --—-Af) 5 GINGHAM Ncwr.t color, and pat- IMa tarn., yard. I VV PERCALE All ihad.i and pattarn*. J |a A yard.I UU --Kl Orchard-Wilhelr i SIXTEENTH AND HOWARD STREETS Come Friday To the Special Purchase Sale of M. E. Smith and Company’s RUGS, LINOLEUMS. and DRAPERIES After four days of most enthusiastic buying, by customers who have crowded our floors from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m., we have made a complete check up and find that there are still just wonderful reasons for attending this sale. Savings are greater than in the ordinary sale because this is a WHOLESALE STOCK bought at a very low figure. I —the Floor Coverings 9x12 Seamless Tapestry Rugs From the Bigelow and Sloane mills. In good colors and patterns, suitable for bedrooms. Four grades at less than Smith’s wholesale prices— 19.75 17.75 15.75 13.75 A few 8-3x10-6 are also in the sale. Cheap, Large Size Rugs Including Axminsters, Velvets and RrusseK 11-3x12 feet. Offering some of the biggest savings in the sale 43.50 32.50 23.50 9x12 Axminster Rugs Three good, heavy qualities are offered in pat terns suitable for living rooms. Prices present . . big and -obvious savings. 42.50 30.50 31.50 27.50 Very Large Wool and Fiber Rugs There are only a few of these rugs, but the prices are ridiculous. See them early. 12x12 size. 12.'.t» 12x15 size . 14.75 9x12 Seamless Velvet Rugs This is the size you need for your long living room; at the prices we have put upon them they are wonderful bargains 47.50 59.00 Extra Large Wiltons in both worsted and wool qualities at big sav ings. Most of them are neatly fringed and in Oriental patterns, as follows: 10*6x13-6 .105.00 11-8x12.110.00 167.50 11-3x15 .125.00 197.50 11*3x18 . 175.00 215.00 A few Axminster Rugs in the 11-1x15 size at 59.00 and 77.50 11-3x12 at .48.50 and 39.00 Printed Linoleum Rugs 9x10-6.12.65 9x12.14.50 «x9.7.25 Prices le?s than Smith5’s wholesale. Small Wiltons ' Savings from 25 per cent to 40 per cent. 27x54 Wilton Velvet Rugs.3.75 each 27x54 Fine Wilton Rugs.7.50 each 27x54 Worsted Wilton Rugs.. . . 11.50 each 56x65 Wool Wilton Rugs.12.50 each 56x65 Worsted Wilton Rugs.... 13.75 each 36x65 Finest Wilton Rugs.18.50 each 6x9 Velvets and Axminsters This popular size ran be sren in three very de sirable grades in new patterns and colorings. Special purchase sale prices— 20.50 18.75 17.75 Fine Body Brussels Rugs for dining rooms and bedrooms. These are easy to sweep and in good patterns. Several designs. 6x9.20.50 9x12.47.50 9x15 Axminster Rugs Of extra quality, closely woven and in designs such as are seen in the better gTade Wiltons. Three -qualities at less than wholesale prices, at .45.00 39.00 35.00 Felt Base Rugs (Large Stock) Congoleum and Armstrong grades in perfect goods are offered at the following reduced prices— 5x9.6.25 9x12.12.25 7-6x9.7.75 3x4-6.1.25 9x9........9.25 3x6. 1.75 9x10-6. 7.25 Prices le*s than Smith’s wholesale—• 9x12 Wilton Rugs K This is a splendid offering, presenting many nualitie* of Wool and Worsted Wilton Rugs— the largest and most desirable part of the “Smith purchase." The rugs are now offered at wonderful savings. 107.50 73.50 67.50 —the Draperies Curtain Nets Including Filet*, Super Filet* and Shadow or Casement effects. Saving at least 50 per cent . ... .25* 3S* 45r 85* Marquisettes With hemstitched edge in white, ivory and ecru 45c values, per yard.25* Voiles and Grenadines In white, ivory and ecru with bar dots and figures. 75c values, per yard.38* Colored Grenadines White with colored dots and figures, 58 inches wide, 58c and 85c values. .. .38* and 50* Sheer, Plain Marquisette Ruffled Curtains In ivory and ecru, with tiebacks, pair, 1.80 Remnants Of all clos'es of curtain and drapery materials from a fraction of a yard to 5 yards lortg, at HALF PRICE ANI> LESS Cretonnes Sold by the bolt (shout 28 yards! 28 inches wide, with green backgrounds and beautiful floral designs. Regular 25c quality. Per Yard.10* Cretonnes Two tables of very fine 50c Cretonnes in ex cellent colors snd new designs, over 100 h'dts, per yard .25* One table of Cretonne* fn particularly desir. able designs that usually sell for 75c to 1.00, per yard .38* Flat Extension Rads Single and double, ordinary and extra length*. HALF PRICK. 8*. 10*. 20*. 35*. 15* Plain Denims In plain red, blue and green, .'10 inches wide, piece dyed quality. Par juio .i*.. 10c* Artificial Silk Overdrapery Materials Several shades of rose, blue, gold, mulberry and brown in plain and figured effects. Some guaranteed Sunfast. —' 1 50 values, :>fi inches wide, per yard . 75c 2.00 values, 50 inches wide. per yard. f)oC "1.85 and 4.75 values, 50 in. wide. yard. 1,95 Madras, Silk Sunfast and Damask All 50 inches wide. Reduced to HALF PRICE and in many instances has. 1.85 2.25 2.95 3.25 3.95 Broun and Bose Poplin This excellent portiere and overdrapery fab ric. 50 inches wide end worth 1.50 per yard. ia offered at . . . 75«* Plain natural colored Monk’* Cloth, 60 inches wide, also on this table, per yard. 95<* Window Shades Of excellent quality, made of remnants from the 'I E. Smith shade cloth stock in Opaques and Hollands. Mounted on dependable rollers in several very usable sites. Lot 1 504 Lot 2—954 Bring your measurements. Plain Burlaps Sold by the boh t about 50 yards! In natural and red, 3rt in. wide, a 35c quality. Per yard .'. 15<* Fringes and Trimmings A very large assortment ia offered at price* that register lug savings Tor yd., 54 to 50<* Silkolincs Sold by the bolt (about 40 yards) W e do not carry Siikohr.es in our Drapery de partment and we are therefore effermg the stock at a ridiculous price. Plain and figured, g.'o.i quality materials constitute the stock. Plain colors: eroen, gold, rose, lavender, blue, cream and white. 25c quality per yard.12l«4 Figured Silkolincs 30c quality, per yard. .154