Kammala wannan magana: Wakilan 926 zuwa taron Jam'iyyar Republican, wanda ya hadu a Philadelphia a watan Yuni 19<unk>21, ya sake zabar William McKinley ta hanyar yabo. Thomas C. Platt, "shugaba" na Jam'iyyar Republican ta Jihar New York, ba ya son Theodore Roosevelt, mashahurin gwamnan New York, ko da yake shi ɗan Republican ne. Ƙoƙarin Roosevelt na sake fasalin siyasar New York - ciki har da siyasar Republican - ya jagoranci Platt da sauran shugabannin Jamhuriyar Republican na jihar don matsa lamba ga Shugaba McKinley don karɓar Roosevelt a matsayin sabon mataimakin shugaban kasa, don haka ya cika wurin da aka bari a bude lokacin da Mataimakin Shugaban kasa Garret Hobart ya mutu a 1899. Ta hanyar zabar Roosevelt mataimakin shugaban kasa, Platt zai cire Roosevelt daga siyasar jihar New York. Kodayake Roosevelt ya ƙi karɓar takarar mataimakin shugaban kasa, wanda ya ɗauka a matsayin ofishin da ba shi da mahimmanci kuma ba shi da iko, babban shahararsa a tsakanin yawancin wakilan Republican ya sa McKinley ya zaɓe shi a matsayin sabon abokin takararsa. Ba zato ba tsammani, Roosevelt zai zama shugaban kasa a watan Satumba na 1901, lokacin da McKinley ya kasance
an kashe shi a Buffalo, New York.