| Show WHAT IS PLATS GAME One of the most interesting cam Jags In any state thIs year is that In I New York The Republican candidate Is Colonel Roosevelt of rough rider fame He Is well known in EmpIre state politics having achieved his greatest notoriety a a police commissioner commis-sioner o New York City He is withal arther picturesque person When he came back from Cuba he was taken up by the hero worshIper of hIs pay and put forward a the most desirable and available candidate for governor the party could pick up Tom Plat the Republican boss of New York dIscerned the trend of thIngs I and made the popular candidate hIs candldate I Roosevelt was necessary to him he was still more necessary toRo to-Ro sev lt Well Roosevelt became the gubernatorial guberna-torial candIdate of hIs party and when he was put In harness he quietly sub mited to have the Platt collar place upon hIs neck Now there comes a story from New York tmat Platt Is not only anxIous that Roosevelt shall be elected and that If he should be defeated Plat will shed no teas unless they be those of joy And why would he not He would not as the story goes because he is not anxious that Colonel Roosevelt shall develop into a formIdable presidential presi-dential candIdate I Is recognIzed that If I pe were elected governor and made a good record at Albany he mIght become be-come ambitious to make a record In the WhIte House Of course Platt has I no such ambition but it Is generally conceded that McKinley 15 anxious to I succeed hImself as president Natur idly he is desIrous of havIng no strong I riyals for the nomination Hence Plat is not particularly anxious to see RoosOVdlt elected And then Roosevelt Is in no sense the kind of a man Platt would pIck for governor had he been free to make his own selection In selecting se-lecting Roosevelt he merely joIned In tile chorus not leading It In any way Of course no one thInks for a moment mo-ment that Platt would scruple to betray be-tray Roosevelt the only question Is WoUld it be to Piatts advantage |
