Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-10-07
SETTLED BY FATE.
ROOSEVELT'S NOMINATION IN 1904
DEEMED CERTAIN.
MANY BooMs COLLAPSE
Vice President Selection the Only
Doubtful Element in the Immediate
Future-ShaW of Iowa Regarded
With Favor at the Present
Time.

Washington, Sept. 27.-The acces-
sion of Theodore Roosevelt ends
dozen presidential booms that had
started for the white house or were
about to emerge from the cornfeld.
Politicians say that no one event in
thirty years made such a change in
the map of politics.
Where had been an open contest for
the republican presidential nomination
in 1904, with Roosevelt against the
field, which probably would have in
Guided Senator Mark Hanna, politi.
clans now are able to see nothing but
the denomination Of the man whom
the assassin's bullet raised to the
presidency By retaining Mr. McKin-
ley's cabinet at the request Of Hanna,
it is pointed out, the president has
made of the senator from Ohio an
administration man.
Mr.. Hanna, has practically declared
himself out CT the contest for presi-
dent. He may even decline a re-elec-
ton as senator. He is weary Of pub
lie life. If President Roosevelt con
tinues the policy that was McKinley's
and does not disturb friends of Hanna
in office, the chairman of the republi-
can national central committee will
raise no barrier to the New Yorker.
What apparently was to have been
a hard fought battle in convention has
already been decided by fate. Mr..
Roosevelts accession to the presi-
dency has assured him the nomination
in 1904 almost beyond doubt.
In Illinois is one of half dozen as
pirants whose white house ambitions
have been hauled in out of public
sight. Politicians knew, if not the
public generally, that Congressman
Cannon was laying his wires and ex-
pected to go before the next republi-
can national convention as the ia
vorite son Of Illinois," His boom has
gone into a trance that will be final
unless the president makes some sur
prising error in his adoption of pub
lie policy.
The congressman may find partner
in grief by reaching no farther than
across to Indiana, where Senator Fair
banks boom has been sidetracked as
finally as Joe's. The hoosier politi
clans are declaring that presidential
lightning has but little chance to
strike Indiana's favorite son. Sena-
tor Fairbanks popularity is no whit
less, but it is appreciated that fate
has given the order:
"a clear track for President Roose-
welt and a second term"
The interest thus completely ex-
tracted from the presidential situa-
ton in 1904, so far as the republicans
are concerned, has been transferred
in a measure to the vice presidency.
Perhaps Congressman Cannon or Sen
ator Fairbanks might be willing to
take the second place. The impress
sion has not been encouraged by any
of their followers.
Iowa, in the meanwhile, has come to
the front with a live possibility He
is Governor Shaw. The arguments for
him are not merely geographical. 1t
is urged that, as the executive of the
great corn-g growing state, he has made
record that has won for him great
popularity.
That Mr.. Roosevelt's running mate
must be a western man there is none
to deny. But here is an opportunity
to give the nomination to a farther
west state than has been honored in
many a convention Trans Mississippi
holds out it's hands and asks for the
laurel with which to crown her favo-
rite son. Governor Shaw's chances
are considered as good as any mans,
but Gov. Yates of Illinois is said to
have aspirations.