Governor Roosevelt
Visits the Sick Chamber of Senator Platt at New York.
Freshly nominated for vice president, Theodore Roosevelt pays a courtesy call on ailing New York political boss Thomas Platt, in a brief item capturing the political choreography of 1900.
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The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Page 1
1 min readNew York, June 22.
New York, June 22. Governor Roosevelt left this city for Oyster Bay. After sleeping at the Union League club he went with General Francis V. Greene to the Fifth Avenue hotel, meeting Chairman B. B. Odell and the trio made a call on Senator Platt. There was nothing more than an exchange of courtesies between the senator and the vice presidential nominee. Platt is better.
Governor Roosevelt announced that he will stay at Oyster Bay until June 29, when he will go to Oklahoma to attend the Rough Riders convention. It was intended that he should address the local ratification meeting at Carnegie hall on June 26, but his nomination for the vice presidency has made that impossible. No one has yet been selected to take his place on the speakers' platform.
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