Review of reviews and world's work . im to take theVice-Presidency. In fairness, it should be addedthat the governors belief in very radical canalimprovements was said to have alienated thefarmers in certain parts of the State, who aregreatly opposed to this colossal enterprise. TheRepublican organization, in short, took theground that Roosevelt would run brilliantly ifnamed for Vice-President, and badly if named for The governor and many of his friendsHow It Was jield the view that the very thinor Developed. -, . , • ^ ^ i i • which might have made him unpopu-lar with certain corporations was
Review of reviews and world's work . im to take theVice-Presidency. In fairness, it should be addedthat the governors belief in very radical canalimprovements was said to have alienated thefarmers in certain parts of the State, who aregreatly opposed to this colossal enterprise. TheRepublican organization, in short, took theground that Roosevelt would run brilliantly ifnamed for Vice-President, and badly if named for The governor and many of his friendsHow It Was jield the view that the very thinor Developed. -, . , • ^ ^ i i • which might have made him unpopu-lar with certain corporations was sure to makehim strong with the voters ; and that the threatto drive him out of New York politics would doas much as anything else to assure him a greatpopular victory. This revival of the talk ofGovernor Roosevelt as a Vice-Presidential candi-date came just before the opening of the conven-tion at Philadelphia. The governor adhered tohis position, however, and reiterated his Quay, Pennsylvanias unrivaled political. SENATOR ALLISON, OF IOWA. manager, was called upon to aid in solving theVice-Presidential problem, and in a few hoursPennsylvanias great group of delegates wasadded to that under Mr. Piatts control fromNew York in active promotion of the plan toconfer the nomination upon the unwilling The programme was aided not a little bythe fact that the administration itself, as repre-sented by Senator Hanna, had not selected acandidate, but had left the matter to take itschances in the convention. It is true that Sen-ator Allison, of Iowa, had been urgently requestedto accept the position ; and, if he had been will-ing, it would have been his unanimously. ButMr. Allison did not want it, and had said so in atone that was entirely conclusive. Meanwhile, THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 9 Governor Roosevelt 3 un-bounded popularity in theFar West, and the devotionto him of the young Re-publicans of the MiddleWest, began to crystallizeabout the nucleus that
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