The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-18
JUNIOR SENATOR FROM INDIANA
SEEMS TO HAVE THE IN
SIDE TRACK
FAIRBANKS IS TOO SLOW
Elder Senator I'm Danger of Being
misunderstood, and Right Merry
Political HOp-Scotching
May Result
FAIRBANKS BOOM w1THERs
GLOBE WASHINGTON BUREAU,
Post Building. Room 40.

GLOBE WASHINGTON BUREAU,
Post Building. Room 40.
WASHINGTON, Nov 17.-Some pretty
politics is developing in the merry state
of Indiana one Fairbanks and one Bever.
idge, senators both, and both honorable
and ambitious gentlemen, are likely soon
to present the spectacle of two cats from
Kilkenny, suspended by their launches
from the same clotheSline. In Snort
watch and see the fur fly. A new state
committee is going to be chosen pretty
soon. In days of yore it was the wont
of Senator Fairbanks, on occasions like
this, to call his trusty henchmen to his
office and make up the list of the commit
tee as it should be. When the last
chairman was chosen to succeed Hernley
it was done that way.
But now-well. now there is an enter.
prising young man who is determined tc
let Hoosiers know that he is on the map
In the short time Beveridge was in Wash
ington, after his return from his tro1
around the world he ate six meals at the
White house and spent seven hours In
private confab with Roosevelt. When
Fairbanks came to the capitol he cooled
mis- heels in the ante-room and got q
handshake There was nothing doing ir
the luncheon line, nor any invitation tc
dine This was enough for Indiana. Here
was a new Richmond in the f1eld-or, &c
be more up to date, new Henry or Ma
varre. The white plume of Beverage Is
the standard to which all the brave young
political blades do flock. Albert Us stock
has gone up at least 500 per cent. Ole
friends of the long, slim statesman. who
was candidate for presidential honors
in 1904. speak of him derisively as Cum
Shoe Charley" thus making an unseen
ly lest of his well known conservatism
His most admirable caution is stigmatizeo
as tinidity; his reluctance to talk is pu'
down to owl-like stupidity; his aftabllty
is uncharitably denominated SMOOTH.
ness Thus do the unfeeling natives OF
an unfeeling state traduce one OF its most
gifted sons.
Il Beveridge Ambitious.
People will have their own opinions
as to the true reasons for the growing
feeling between Fairbanks and Bever-
idge. Some will say it is the native
antipathy of their respective characters
and that would be reason enough; oth-
ers political jealousy, and that wouo
account for the phenomena. 1t is re-
ally not necessary to go so far as TO
say that Beveridge is grooming himself
for the vice presidential n171inat1on IN
1904 on the Roosevelt ticket, and Is pre-
pairing to deliver the Indiana delegation
to Theodore for the presidential nomina-
ton.
Nor is. it necessary to suggest that
Fairbanks may not have abandoned his
homes in connection with the Republic
an national convention in 1904. Asa
matter of fact, the organizers OF the
Fairbanks boom-the one which had z
summers day existence few brief
weeks ago-have not abandoned hope.
They hope that the present administra-
ton will go bump. They hope that Ted
dy'' will become more strenuous than
discreet They think-and the wish is
father to the thought-that Roosevelt
will depart from the path marked out
by his illustrious predecessor, and be-
come radical They would like to see
him stir up enemies to himself and do
things which the public will disapprove.
Then they figure, 1t will be the turn
of the wise, the conservative, the eau
tious gentleman from Indiana. natural
heir and administrator of McKinleyfsm,
to come to the rescue of the country.
That's the way they figure, and that's
what they hope. On the ruins of the
Roosevelt administration they hope to
build their fortunes.
Perhaps some thought of this sort was
in the mind of the rough-riding presi-
dent when he made much of the junior
senator from Indiana and omitted to take
salt with the senior. In this connection
an interesting report has reached Wash
ington that Harry New, the national
committeeman from Indiana, is on the
verge of an open break with Fairbanks.
The trouble is partly due to patronage
and partly to other things. But there
is no doubt that there is trouble. New
Sy+0 i,-1,o ,Iyr
as heartily as he might have done, and
those on the inside will not forget now
he tried to frost it by premature ex-
posure, to-wit, when he formally sprung
it in an interview given out in Chicago,
much to the distress of Senator Fair
banks. So there will be doings in In
diana.