Theodore Roosevelt

r the country. In 1884, the year of a Presidential election, he was one of the four delegates-at-large from New York to the Republican convention at Chicago. The leader for the Presidential nom

on this question

man named by the convention. Since, in later years, Roosevelt refused to abide by the decision of a party convention, and led one of the most extraordinary "bol

good of the whole country. This may happen when there is Heaven on earth, but not before. Even the good and honest men continue to differ about which is the wisest way to do things, and so the people who think the same way about most matters get together in a party. The suggestion, by t

out parties, have not made a great success of it. There must be some organized group to hold responsible if men in

y man, always voting the party ticket, and swallowing the party platforms whole. Such persons often get into the newspapers when they are elderly, as having voted for every candidate

es, because he knows that no large group of men can be perfect. He believes in remaining loyal to his party as long as possible, but he does not set it above his count

d wise citizens, who are of great value to the country, although they can usually be nothing but helpers in any good caus

y and every party, but he can be loyal to none. He is strong on leaving a party for the smallest excuse; never on staying with it. It is as if a member of a foot-ball team, half an hour before the g

Mr. Blaine was nominated. This caused a split in the party, and many of its members joined the Democrats. They were called by thei

yed with the party and voted for Mr. Blaine. Either they did not at all believe the charges which had been made against him-and it is as impossible now as it wa

on, but did not believe that he was justified in leaving th

s. The presidential election turned out to be close, and in the end several incidents besides the split in the Republican party worked against Blaine. He was narrowly defeated. The change of a few hundred votes in the State of New York wo

ed him for Mayor of New York City. He was about twenty-eight years old, and it is evident that

ffering a good man, now and then, to pull the wool over the eyes of persons who naturally need some excuse for voting to pu

cter, nominated by the United Labor Party. Mr. Hewitt was

hen he was a boy, and was his sister's friend. The groomsman was a young Englishman, Mr. Cecil Spring-Rice. Years later the groom and his "best man" came toge