Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-29
IHE Fairbanks BOON
Roosevelt Not Giving Any Aid
to the Indiana Senator's
Aspirations
WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE MATE
While the Administration is Not Taking
AIRY Part in Vice Presidential Poll
tics, 1t is Known Fairbanks is Per-
soma Grata With the President =
The General News.

4 Washington, Sept 29.--The admins
| banks boom fer vice president. Sena
tor Fairbanks would be an acceptable
| running mate for President Roosevelt
but so would any one Of a dozen othe.
prominent republicans.
/ 1t can be said on authority that The
president and the members Of his cabi-
! net are not behind the Fairbanks boom
or any other boom for the vice presi.
deney.
They are not opposed to Senator
Fairbanks, but ON the contrary. regard
him as a very probable candidate, WITT
elements of strength which might be-
| effect If he or his friends should an
nounce his candidacy. But 1t is denied
any overtures have been made to tbs
Hoosier senator or his friends by rep
resentatives of the president.
President Roosevelt is not likely to
interfere with the prerogatives of the
next national convention remarked
one of his advisers yesterday. His OWN
nomination for vice president is too
strong reminder of the folly of tryins,
to dictate to a convention.
The president is not so short sighted
as TO forget the lesson of that conven-
ton and furthe, vice presidential
boom. He will not try to dictate to the
convention. He knows that 1t would
fail. and 1t would not help any candi-
date for vice president to have his
boom labeled Els approved by the presi-
dent, for the republican party does not
take kindly to that kind of dictation.
president Mckinley was one of th.
most popular men who ever occupied
the White House, and there was never
any question about his denomination by
reclamation. but the convention that SO
honored him refused to accept ready
made platform from the presidents
representatives, and refused to allow
them to dictate the candidate for vice
president.
Senator Fairbanks was chairman uf
the committee on platform at Philadel-
phia, and he knows how he had to re-
by members of President McKinleys
the presidents approval.
1T viii be safe TO deny all reports
of the kind regarding President Roose
velt's solicitation of Senator Fairbanks
to become candidate for second place,
no matter whose name Is used.
The president Is not looking for the
candidate for vice president. He is
leaving that to the conven ion. There
are number of strong and able repub-
licans who have been mentioned for
vice president.
The president has not presumed to
change from them or discriminate
against any of them. 1t is not his
privilege TO name the candidate for vice
president, and he knows it quite as
we'll as do the people, and so do the
members of the cabinet"
The revival of the Fairbanks boom
at this time Is here understood to bel
a strategic move agains, Governor
Durbin and applicable to Indiana poll
tics particularly. The activity OF Gov
ernor Durbin's friends in pushing him
for vice president is said to have
alarmed the Indiana senator's who do
not care to have the governor controll
the state delegation to the next con-
yention by having it instructed for him
The senator's prefer to have the dele
CATION instructed for Fairbanks that
they may be able to control It.
Some OF the eastern republicans Who'll
are looking to the west for candl
date for vice president regard Senatnrl
Long, OF Kansas, with favor. Long
Is young, popular and showed remarR.-
able elements of strength In the house.
He was only transferred to the sem
ate last winter, and has not yet become
a factor in that body, bus his record
In the house made him one Of the possl-
bilities to be reckoned with in the next
convention.