Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-06-06
A D IT UNANIMOUS.

MADE IT UNANIMOUS.
Senator Fairbanks Of Indiana, who
had been mentioned casually in con
nection with the Republican nomina-
ton for 1904, has just been asked
about the political conditions in Indi-
ana and Ohio. He says Senator Han
ma is q Roosevelt man, and intimates
that he has been 30 all along. In
diana, also, he says, is ''for R~oosevelt's
election next year." So far as Fair
banks knows, there will be mo oppo-
sition to Roosevelt in Indiana. The
President will be Endorsed by this
state This takes out Of the field
the man whom the Democrats placed
most reliance on as an opponent OF
Roosevelt in the convention next year.
They have been talking about Fair
banks and Hanna as distractions in
the way of the Roosevelt candidacy.
They predicted that Ohio this week
would refuse to recommend the Presi-
dent for the nomination next year.
They said that Indiana would throw
all possible obstacles in the way Of
the Presidents path. Both Hanna
and Fairbanks, however, have knocked
all these forecasts obsolete says the
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
There was no good reason at any
time in the past twelve months to
suppose that Indiana was hostile to
Roosevelt. All the big Republican
papers of that state have been favora-
BILE to the Presidents nomination. It
would have been strange, had Fair
banks been an aspirant, that the prin-
cipal journals of his party in his state
would be against him, as they have
been in talking for Roosevelt. It has
developed now, from what Fairbanks
himself has said, that he, too, is a
Roosevelt man. There has not been
for the past six months any reason
to suppose that Hanna was hostile to
~@..1serelt. The Ohio senator has fire.
quently said that he did not desire the
candidacy for 1904, and that he would
no accept it if offered to him. AS
nobody else was mentioned in Ohio for
the nomination, it was easy to see
that Hanna and the state would be for
the President, as it turns out now that
they are. The Democrats have been
placing great reliance on INT
which We're probably started by Demo-
Gratis, that the Ohio leaders-all ex-
cepting Foraker-were against Roose.
welt, and would oppose him in the
coming convention.
OF course, the thing to do after
Ohio meets will be to make Roose-
velt's nomination unanimous. True,
the conventions of 1902 and 1903 do
not choose any delegates to the as.
semblage which will put up the ticket.
Twelve months must pass yet before
the candidates will be formally named.
These 1902 and 1903 conventions.
however, show the drift Of political
sentiment throughout the country at
the time. and as there has been no
change in the tide since 1902 except
to make the Roosevelt wave mount
higher. there is no reason to suppose
that anything will take place between
this time and the meeting of the con.
vention in 1904 which will affect any
OF the predictions based on present
conditions. Ohio will declare a day or
two hence just as enthusiastically for
Roosevelt as Pennsylvania did last
week, and as Missouri, Kansas and
more than a dozen other states did
last year. The convention Of 1904 will
be as tame an affair as was that of
1900. 1t will meet to put up a candi.
date for vice president only. The
man for President is revealed Ions
ahead Of tae convention time, and
that body will merely register the
choice which the Republican masses
have already made. Roosevelt's no
mination in 1904 will probably be by
reclamation.