Teddy Nominated
as Vice President;
Starts Campaign
(lolonrl Reconciled to His
Fate and Jumps Into Po
litical Rattle With
Rryan.
(Copyright, 1926.)
(At has been shown In previous letters
of this merieu. Roosevelt tried for month*
to avoid runninn for vice president. ile
"as finally commandeered, although he
knew that his foes, the corporatIons, were
behind th** scheme to get him out of the
governorship of New York. The next let
ter below was written a few days after
hi.* nomination. He Immediately went
Into the campaign with hi.* usual vigor
and became its central figure, a.* Mc
Kinley stayed quietly at the White House
or In Canton tine Incident of the fight
was the charge by George Fred Williams.
Massachusetts 'democrat, that Roosevelt
sad Lodge were drunk at Senator Wol
cott's Colorado home. It was disproved:
all the correspondents on Roosevelt's tour
signed a round robin of denial.)
STATE OF NEW YORK,
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
ALBANY.
June 9, 1900.
Dear Cabot:
You have exactly my views of the
matter. The ice trust is a heaven
sent piece of business for us. Our
people have short memories, and Ice
Is not of much account in November,
but I cannot help thinking that this
will count seriously, and It takes the
pitch right out of them on the one
great issue which they thought thgy
had. But haste and over severity on
my part may undo all the good ef
fects. It Is not an easy situation,
It cause tailure to act may look as If
# I were condoning thrir wickedness.
Still I think I shall te able to steer
through it.
Ever yours.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
STATE OF NEW YORK,
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
ALBANY.
At Oyster Bay, June 25, 1900.
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge,
Nahant, Mass.
Dear Cabot:
Well, old man, I am completely
reconciled and 1 believe it all for the
best as regards my own personal in
terests, and It Is a great load of per
Ime. Instead <5f
having to fight
single - handed
against the trusts
and corporations
I now must take
pot luck with the
whole ticket, and
my anxiety on be
half of the nation
Is so great that I
can say with all
honesty there Is
none left. As re
gards my own
personal election,
on one thing you
may rest assured
—I am most deeply sensible of the
honor conferred upon me by the way
(he nomination came. I shall do my
best to deserve It and not to disap
point those who trusted me and think
well of me. I should be a conceited
fool if I was discontented with the
nomination when It came In such a
manner, and according to my lights
I shall endeavor to act not only fear
leasly and with integrity but with
good judgment.
Nannie's letter was just dear. Give
her my warm love and say to her I
do wish she could have seen my hour
of trumph.
As for you, old trump, I shall never
forget how, as I mounted the plaf
orm, you met me with a face of al
most agonizing anxiety and put your
head down on the table as I began
In speak, and, as I turned for a glass
of water In the middle of the speech,
you whispered with a face of delight
that I was doing splendidly. It Is
certainly odd to look back 16 years
when you and I sat In the Blaine
convention on the beaten side w’hile
i h» mugwumps foretold our utter
ruin, and then In this convention, over
which you presided, to think how you
recognized me to second McKinley's
nomination and afterwards declared
re myself nominated in the second
lace on the ticket.
Faithfully yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
UNITED STATES SENATE.
WASHINGTON. D. C„
Nahant, Mass., June 29, 1900.
Confidential.
Dear Theodore:
As you well know, I have never
had the slightest doubt that for your
futtire the vice presidency was the
best thing, but I loyally suhmltted to
your decision last winter. Now It has
come, and In a manner which was
perfectly Irresistible. Any man tpight
# lie proud to take that great nomina
tion coming ns It did from the heart
of the convention. I am sure It Is
• for the best, although I do not pre
tend to say that the office In Itself
is suited to you and to your habits,
but for the future It Is, In my judg
ment, Invaluable. It takes you out
of the cutthroat politics of New York,
where I am sure they would have
destroyed your prospects, if you had
remained two years longer, and It
gives you a position In the eyes of
the country second only to that of
the president. All my views are
fixed upon the future, and It Is In
regard to that that I want you to he
\rry careful. You probably realize
all I am about to say Just as well as
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I do, but «tlll there l» no harm In
my saying it.
The president, being the president,
ran take but a alight part In the.
campaign. It would not he becom
ing or possible for him to make
speeches aa he did in lSHfi. You will,
therefore, be the central figure of the
active campaign. Our enemies are
going to make this a feature of their
attack. I enclose a cartoon front the
Boston Herald—one of the meanest
of our foes—which shows what I
mean, and there have been doswns
of others like it. Now we know that
there Is no foundation for such a
thing as this, but nothing finds
lodgment in the human mind to
easily ns jealousy. \Ve must not
permit the president, or any of his
friends, who are, of course, in con
trol of the campaign, to imagine that
we want to absorb the leadership and
the glory.
I want you to appear everywhere
as the champion of the party, and
above alt as the champion of the
president,. That Is. on every oc
casion I want you to appear as you
did at the convention, simply as a
lending advocate for McKinley and to
make this clear In everything you
say. Fortunately his policies on the
great questions are our policies. He
Is doing admirably so far as I can
see in all directions and especially
In the difficulties In China, and I
am anxious that your advocacy of
him should appear in everything you
say. My purpose In this Is to secure
by every righteous means the con
fidence and support for you of the
president and of all his large follow
ing. This Is going to be of im
mense impQrtance to us four years
hence, and that Is why I desire that
you should appear, not only during
the* campaign hut after the election,
as the president's next friend, Just
as Hobart was.
There is today no one who could
stand against you for a moment for
the nomination for the presidency,
but no one can tell what will hap
pen in four years. I believe myself
that by judicious conduct we can
have it just as surely within our
grasp four years hence as It would
he today, but we should make no mis
takes.
This Is a long lecture, but I have
had It on my mind to say ever since
the convention, because my thoughts
are running so steadily to your fu
ture.
I have thought a great many times
of the dramatic meaning of my de
claring you the nominee for vice
president. It Is one of the things that
is very pleasant to think about, al
though I doubt if anyone but
you and I thought of It, which, per
haps makes It all the pleasanter.
a I am surprised at the manner in
which you noticed my expression
when you took the platform. I was
so anxious that I bowed my head
over the table when you began, and
I did not know that you saw It
was all right, however, for you never
spoke better In your life, and what
you said could not have been Im
proved.
I do not want you to become too
vain, and so I enclose herewith a
view taken of you by William Lloyd!
Garrison and Edward Atkinson. I
should also like to call your attention
to the, fact that the Springfield Re
publican said the day after the nom
ination, "that the republican party
was now given over to the corrupt
materflalism' of Hanna, the cynical
political ethics of Lodge, and the
swashbuckler fervor of Roosevelt."
so there we are, all three in a bunch.
I see that the Anti-lmperlallsts
are going to have a great meeting in
New York and perhaps start a new
ticket. They are vocal, but I do not
think they have many votes.
Give my best love to Edith. T am
sure that she will soon come to see
that It is all for the best.
Always yhurs,
H. C. LODGE.
Honorable Theodore Roosevelt.
UNITED STATES SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
Nahant, Mass., Aug. 2, 1900.
Personal
Dear Theodore:
Do you forget your promise to me
to make one speech In Boston. It Is
very Important to us to have that one
meeting, and I want you to bear It In
mind when making your arrange
ments. I suppose, of course, that It
will be when you return from the
west, and the sooner you can fix the
date the better.
I have Just read In the Boston Her
aid a long Interview with Godkln.*
which you will pcohably see. It Is
quite astonishing the nay In which
you and I seem to neigh on his mind.
He Is unable to leave us out of an>
thing and his agony of impotent hat
red is pleasant to witness. It is very
fitting that he should support Bryan.
Give our best love to Edith.
Always yours,
H. C. LODGE.
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt.
•K. t. ilodkin. editor of The New
York Evening Poet
UNITED STATES SENATE
WASHINGTON, 1). C.
Nahant, Mass., Aug. IS, 1900.
Personal
Dear Theodore:
I start in In Maine on Wednesday.
I fear we shall be disappointed In the
majorities both there and in Vermont.
I cannot quite make up my mind as
to the right interpretation of the
apathy which is very apparent. As I
see It here. It exists on both sides, ami
l am inclined to think llie same Is
true of the country. If it means that
the country has made up its mind and
is going to elect McKinley as a mat
ter of course and therefore does not
care to be bothered with an exciting
campaign, very good; but if it means
that the republicans are over confi
dent, or for any other reason are not
going to exert themselves to get every
vote ouf, then we may get beaten in
some of the doubtful states, because
the democrats always come out bet
ter than we do.
Always yours,
H. C. LODGE.
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt.
STATE OF NEW YORK
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER
ALBANY
Oyster Bay, N. Y.
Aug. 27, 1900.
Hon. H. C. Lodge,
Nahant, Mass.
Dear Cabot:
Henry Payne writes me a rather
discouraging letter from the West
where he says the apathy Is as great
as here. Odell* is to be nominated for
governor, and it is unnecessary to say
I shall do everything I can to help
carry him through. Platt and the
machine generally have spent the last
two months in making it just as dif
ficult for me as possible to get the re
publican independents to support the
ticket.
With best love to Nannie.
Ever yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
•Benjamin B. Odell, jr.. afterward
governor of New York. ,
UNITED STATES SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Nahant, Mass , Aug. 30, 1900.
Personal
Dear Theodore;
I think very well of Odell, as you
know; in fact I have always had a
very high opinion of him, and under
the clrcum"*'"" it seems to me he
is a very strong
man for governor.
I had rather
thought that Co
lors nomination
would be the best
thing for us In
view of the hos
tIUty of Tam
many, but I am
not at all sure
that his defeat
may not work as ,
well. Coler would ,
have drawn, I i
suppose, a certain
number of Inde
pendent and un
certain republican votes which no
man picked out by Croker can do. I
think his defeat will tend to solidify
our party and help Odell.
The apathy and Indifference are
hard to understand. I have been try
ing to analyze them and determine
on what they rest. It seems to me
that the principal pause lies in the
fart that the people are busy and
prosperous, and with the easy going
temper so characteristic of Ameri
cans decline to admit to themselves
or to think that there Is the elightest
danger of changing the conditions
under which they are now doing welli
r think we shall carry in the east all
that we carried before, by reduced
majorities. I think we shall make
very large gains west of the Missis
sippi and in the inter-mountain states
and have very much the same fight
In the middle west that we did in ’9fi
with much the same result. The
states which I think are In danger
are Indiana, Maryland and West
Virginia. As I have watched the cam
paign, [ have come to the oon
elusion thst the net result will be
that we shall get as many, and prob
ably more, electoral votes than we
did before with smaller popular ma
jorities in the east where they were
perfectly ahnormal In ’3fi, which will
tend to reduce the total popular ma
jority. After it is all ove^ we can
see how had a prophet I am.
Always yours.
H. C. LODGE,
iloa Theodore Roosevelt.
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In viewT of scoundrelly statement of
George Fred Williams* I suggest you
immediately dare him to tell all he
knows, stating there is not a detail of
trip which cannot be given widest
publicity. You might as well call the
bluff.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
•I Joined Roosevelt at Cheyenne find
spoke with him during his trip through
Colorado. After speaking constantly
front the train we spoka in Denver end
thoroughly worn out drove out to Sena
tor Wolcott's place at Woodhurat where
we passed the night. The next day we
began at Colorado Springe, then went to
Victor and we had a atormy time anti
were mobbed and ftnlahed at Cripple
Creek. Mr. Williama put out a story
that we ware drunk at Wolcott’a houae
and apparently the next day and thle
was tha cauae of tha disorder at Victor.
At Woodhurat we were a very tired com
pany and after a aimpla supper went at
once to bed. Mr. Williams' etory wu
entirely false and a pure fabrication. My
wife and niece wera with ua on tha trip
—H. C. L.
UNITED STATES SENATE
Nahant. Mass., Oct. 8, 1900.
Personal
Dear Theodore:
I reoelved your telegram yesterday
and I hope you got my answer Baying
I had denied what Williams said at
once, invited him to tell anything he
thought he knows, and Informed him
that we were not to be blackmailed
into silence. I confess to an emotion
of surprise that you should have
thought it possible I should have al
lowed such a statement to go un
noticed. Williams' interview appeared
In the Evening Globe on Friday. My
reply appeared Saturday morning in
the Journal, Herald, Advertiser and
Globe. I send you clippings from the
Herald and Journal. You will see that
It was complete, and by the headlines
that It was not hidden. If there is
anything more that I can say, let me
know and I will say it, but the ap
pearance is here that I have driven
Mr. Williams into a complete retreat.
I suppose the Associated Press, as
usual, sent out his statement and
omitted to send my denial. That ap
pears to be the way they usually treat
me.
I will send this letter to Mr. Youngs
so that he can make sure of Its reach
ing you. and when you. get It If you
will send me a line to say whether you
are satisfied or not I shall ba very
much obliged.
Here In the east I think everything
Is looking well. I do not like the re
ports from Indiana, but otherwise I
see nothing but assurances of victory
With best regards,
Always yours,
H. C. LODGE.
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt.
Spring Valley, Ky., Oct. 14, 1900.
Dear Cabot:
I have your letter of the 8th. You
did exactly right. All the newspaper
correspondents Joined In a round
robin which was published In the Chi
cago Times Herald, and other Chica
go papers of October 7th. If It had
not been published In Boston I would
suggest getting a copy of the Chicago
Times Herald of October 7 and having
it published there. It smashes Mr.
Williams in fine shape.
1 think we shall carry Indiana. I
have waded Into brother Bryan pretty
heavily and he Is beginning to feel
sore. What a thoroughpaced hypo
crite and demagogue he is, and what
a small man!
Ever yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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