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Show THE FATE OF VICE-PRESIDENTS. Harper's Weekly notes that more than three-fourths three-fourths of the delegates to the Republican convention con-vention have been instructed for Roosevelt and that with the others there is no thought of anyone any-one else, so that probably he will be nominated by acclamation, and thinks that not since the second nomination of Andrew Jackson can be found a great political paty so absolutely dominated dom-inated by a single man so far as the party machinery ma-chinery Is concerned, thinks the achievement surprising, sur-prising, and all the more so "when we keep in view the circumstances under which Vice-President Roosevelt acquired the ofTice of Chief Magistrate, Mag-istrate, and if we compare his triumph with the failure of the four other American citizens who became President by accident." Then it speaks of John Tyler, who never had the faintest chance of a nomination. He certainly had not, for he betrayed the party that elected him Vice-President, and while the opposition used him so long as he was President, Presi-dent, they had not a minute's use for him when his term expired. It tells how Millard Fillmore was easily beaten by Winfleld Scott. That was natural. Millard Fillmore was a fair lawyer and an honest man, but his rival candidates were the great Webster and the magnificent soldier whose honors, won in youth by desperate fighting in the Niagara campaign, cam-paign, had been supplemented by the unparalleled campaign in which, with a handful of men, he had , after half a dozen battles, fighting against tremendous odds, captured the capital of Mexico and subdued that country. Andrew Johnson betrayed the party that elected him, and by his appetites disgraced his office; it was not strange that he was never thought off for a nomination. As to Arthur, he had no show, not that he was not worthy, but because the antagonisms engendered by the Gar-fleld-Conkling quarrel and the subsequent death of Garfield were still rankling and Arthur was punished even as was Judge Folger. But President Roosevelt has betrayed no party, rather he has served his party so well that except for five hundred men in high financial station and for a dozen newspapers which are attorneys at-torneys for these men, his re-election would be as certain as is his nomination. |