Show A PINCH ON THE LEG HEODORE ROOSEVELT wanted to THEODORE to be for governor of new mew york because it was a stepping stone to the presidency senator thomas 1 C I platt republican boss ot of the empire state had other ideas T IL had antagonized platts plaits wall street friends and the boss decided that the vice presidency then regarded as the graveyard for all political ambitions was the place tor for the rough rider platt tried to make roosevelt promise that if the new york republican caucus indorsed endorsed Indor sed him for the job that he would not decline it reluctantly T it agreed then added but I 1 shall certainly urge them to name some one else at till point F rank frank platt the basss son interrupted all right but ill pinch you it if I 1 see any signs ot of your getting up and declining in the caucus roosevelt did speak emphatically against his candidacy for vice president and urged that it be given no support then he sat down on the speakers platform several of oc his close friends gathered about him and pleaded with him to decline for a moment lie he wavered then young platt pinched him on the leg and whispered remember your contract with the senator so roosevelt kept faith with the boss and against the advice of his friends rose and accepted the nomination but the joke turned out to be on platt after all ue he thought he had 11 shelved roosevelt by mak making I 1 ng him vice president mckinley died from an assassins bullet and T IL went to the white house sent there by p pinch on the log leg 1 |