Teddy Roosevelt kill in Cuba.

What if he was kill fighting at San Juan Hill.

Supposedly, McKinley's own choice to be his running mate in 1900 was Senator Charles Fairbanks of Indiana. (It's not clear, though, that Fairbanks would have accepted--in OTL he reportedly turned down overtures from Hanna, believing that the Senate was a better route to the presidential nomination in 1904.) Assuming that Fairbanks accepts and that McKinley's assassination is not butterflied away, we get a considerably more conservative president than TR. In fact, *all* the potential McKinley running mates in 1900 (if TR was not around) look more conservative than TR--if for example, he wanted to balance the ticket with an easterner (as in 1896) possible candidates would be Elihu Root or Henry Cabot Lodge.
 
Unless someone steps up, the conservation and "proto-environmental" movement will be set back a decade, maybe two.
 
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