Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-03
SECOND PLACE ON TICKET.
Republican Interest Turning to
Vice. Presidency.
This Problem Of Party Candidacy VIII
Not Call for Democratic solution
Until the Inst Day Of the DcmO-
crutic Convention.

Az inc tlmo Tor opening tHc repupiicdii
national convention draws near, public
interest will centre. as in 1900. on the
vice presidential nomination. In the demo-
cratic convention no one can give the sub
tect any consideration till the last day.
Nothing can there be known OF the direc-
ton of the vice presidential lighting until
the larger question has been settled says
a Washington special to the New York
Post.
Republican gossip over the vice-prcsiden-
cy has reached a sort of standstill,
where it will remain until Senator Fair
banks of Indiana in some way makes
his purposes clear. As stated in dis
cussion Of the subject in these columns
last summer. there Is n general disposi-
ton to give Mr.. Fairbanks the vice
presidential nomination II he will take
1t. He has not yet siRnified that he will.
There are now. as there were then. strong
reasons to believe that he would not be
arcrse to such an horror were 1t presented
to him on the conventional silver platter
and vet he is too cautious man to say
that so long in advance of the meeting of
the convention. With all his friends who
discuss this question, he tells how en-
crossed he is in the work of the Senate
Immediately before him, how much he
enjoys the senatorship as Il career. etc.
| He does not saw in so many words that he
| would not take the presidency. al
though he leaves the way open to say that
at any subsequent stage in the case.
! The republican leaders are greatly de-
sirous of securing for the second place on
the ticket n high grade and conservative
man. They do not want any nomination
which rartakcs of tho nature of joke.
| The tendency in those later years has
been for men who would make good
enough State senators to come out for the
vice presidential nomination as if it were
] n tbpir
peculiar and anomalous office in many
| respects. and yet the occasions when it
means the presidency come with such
rcgrettable frequenc. rs to emphasize tho
need Of having the right kind of n man
always nominated for the second place.
John l.. Webster of Omaha is Il more or
less persistent candidate. His townspco-
pie d. not describe him in any WAY that
would Suggest any near relationship To-
! Daniel Webster. or paint picture of him
/ that would look We'll in the presding
officer chair of the Senate, much less in
the White House.
SHAW'S CANDIDACY.
Many Iowans now resident in other
| States look with favor upon the nominal
tion of Gov Cummns for vice president
There are. however not few practiCablc
objections to this nomination. the chief
of which is that the dominating influences
in the Republican party in Iowa are to-
day antl-Cummns one of the rcpubli-
can mcrhcrs Of tho House gave out th'
other day as a great Joke a letter which
he had received from constituent apply
ing for an office. in which the constituent
urged his record of answering party
loyalty aging that he had always voto'
the republican ticket. except that he hao
once voted for Gov. Cummins.
IT is. moreover, doubtful whether the
it,I, ion in Of "a 4 4,