politically, to give him a place on the ticket.

Copyright by Clinedinst, Washington.

Joseph G. Cannon.

To outside observers the convention was a harmonious one, ready and

anxious to adopt and indorse the Roosevelt policies and to accord a most

hearty support to the candidate who best represented these policies. The

platform which was drawn up was a strong political document which not

only stated the Republican policies clearly but was also a piece of

campaign literature of some note from the stand-point of literary worth.