'The platform upon which Governor London will stand, was, as are nearly' all political platforms, a hybrid affair designed to antagonize as few sections of the party as possible. But Governor London, before allowing his name to be put forward as a candidate for nomination, took an unexpected. and significant step. He sent a telegram to the chairman of the convention stating what he considered some of the vaguer features of the platform fo be. He refused to follow the example of President Roosevelt an fy to the party convention to accept the nomination.
'That he declared would be too theatrical and the country was tired of that sort of thing. They didn't want an imitation Roosevelt; " they wanted something entirely different 'Yet his telegram was, in a different' way, Just as dramatic a gesture. It showed that the Kansas" Governor did not intend to mere Agure head, speaking the words provided him "by the "party managers. He would be the master of his own campaign, The three problems which he clarified in his telegram to the convention were frst his views on Constitutional amendment, secondly his views on the currency and thirdly hhis views on the civil service, On Work of a political convention takes hotel rooms" where most of the real work of a political convention takes each of these questions @ stiff struggle had been waged in the "smoke fled place. The chief parties to the di bute were the old quard Republicans who were about to relinquish con. trol and the rising forces of Governor London, but Senator Borah confused the Issue with a version of his own.
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