Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-18
THEY LOOK To- DURb|N
Indianians Want Second Place
on the Ticket.
INCLINED TO HUSTLE
DISSATISFIED WITH FAIRBANKS
PASSIVE ATTITUDE.
Reported Feeling Of the Delegation in
Congress-More Aggressive
ness Desired.
INCLINED TO HUSTLE

The visit OF GOV. DurDlIl VI liluidnd Inlay
result in some new alignnents among In
diana republicans. 1t also may result in
flushing a definite candidate for the vice
presidency in the person of Gov. Durbin
himself
When the governor came down here sew
eral days ago he announced that he was for
Senator Fairbanks for the vice presidency
if the senator wanted it. The senator has
not said that he wanted it the Indiana re-
publicans have not been aule to find out
really whether he does want 1t, and 1t is
even limited among the Indiana men today
that it will soon be too late for the senator
to act if he should conclude to want it.
The Indiana delegation in the House are
said to be favorable to the nomination of
Gov. Durbin to the vice presidency. 1t is
said that Senator Beveridge, the colleague
of Senator Fairbanks, is also favorably in
clined to Gov. Durbin.
Indiana Wants Second, Place.
Indiana wants the vice presidency Some
of the Indiana republicans feel that it is
advisable and in fact necessary, to get up
and make fight for the honoi for some
distinguished Indiana citizen. They are
said not to sympathze with Senator Fair
banks position that the Office must seek
the man. They say that the illustrious head
OF the party, when he wants something gets
his gun and goes after it.
There have been complaints against Sen
ator Fairbanks for what the Indiana men
term his coloIless and indefinite attitude
upon the question of his being candidate.
These men were afraid the place would get
away from Indiana's grasp.
Gov. Durbin gave a, dinner the other
night at his hotel in this city to the 1ndi-
ana delegation in Congress. All the re-
publican representatives and Senator Bev-
eridge were present. Senator Fairbanks
was conspicuous by his absence
1t was a kind of harmony reunion, intend
ed to bring the delegation together, and in
that respect is said to have been success.
Gov. Durbin is being talked of among the
Indiana statesmen here as the probable re-
cipient of Indana's strength unless the
Fairbanks boom takes on an aggressive and
definite front.
The President to Rsmain Silent.
The talk regarding Governor Durbin for
vice presidential nominee on the republican
ticket next year leads a pretty CLOSE friend
of the President to an expression OF opinion
that the President will "foor' a good many
politicians by declining to indicate to any
body whom he would prefer as his running
mate and leaving the whole question open
for settlement by the convention without
the least influence from the head of the
ticket. The President, 1t is said, would re-
gard his interference in the matter as high
ly improper While 1t is natural that he
would like to see some one nominated who
would add strength to the ticket, he is so
placed that he can hardly express prefer
ence.
1t is said that there is scarcely any doubt
that Governor Durbn will be a receptive
candidate .Hor the nomination II Senator
Fairbanks himself does not care for II. Tne
friends of Senator BeVeridge declare, with
every evidence of apparent knowledge or
the situation and the facts, that Senator
Beveridge has not spoken 70 the President
in favor of Governor Durbin and that he
will not do so, for to favor Governor Dnr-
bin until Senator Fairbanks is eliminated
from the field would place the young In
diana senator in tie position of being
against his colleague in the Senate.
It is also declared that it has not been
necessary for Senator Bevefidge to pledge
himself 10 Governor Durbin in any way. in
asmuck Governor Durbin, and practical
ly ali the other politicians of influence OF
Indiana, have pledged themselves to the re-
election of the junior senator from the
state, having done so long before there was
suggestion of Governor Durbin for the
vice presidency.
Awaiting Word From Fairbanks.
Senator Fairbanks presidential aspira-
tions were eliminated when the certainty
of the nomination of President Roosevelt
became generally admitted some time ago,
but the senior senator from that state has
not, 1t is pointed out, declared against the
use of his name by the republicans Of his
state for the vice presidential nomination.
The silence of Senator Fairbanks in this re-
spect Is in direct contrast to the attitude
of Senator Beveridge, who, upon the men
ton of his name some time ago as possf-
BILE vice presidential candidate, declared
that he would not permit its use in that
ination il made by the convention.
Senator Fairbanks friends have no such
utterance to guide them, and in consequence
many Of them believe, it is stated on good
authority, that he would not object to the
nomination for second place on the ticket.
This uncertainty has much to do with keep
ing Governor Durbin from openly entering
the field for the nomination, as he and his
friends recognize that Indiana will have
some unusually good claims next year for
second place on the tickets of both parties.
Sentiment in Indiana.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, November 49,
Two hundred leading Indiana republicans,
in answer to inquiries from local paper,
say they believe Gov Durbin's suggestion,
made in Washington Sry that Senator
Fairbanks should accek ke vice presiden-
tial nomination is the 1at thing.
There is not dissenting voice. In the
list are over half of the republican mem
bers of the Indiana legislature and such
men as Republican StafA Chairman Good
rick. Supreme Judge fIsRAy. Charles E.
shively, Henry w. Mafshail. Commander
Grubbs of the G. A. r. ss
The one thought expressed by all is that
Fairbanks should accept Some democrat
ic politicians say that this would leave the
present senatorial tosa OF Fairbanks to
Gov. Durbin and that this. in truth, is
what Durbin wants