The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-06-20
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Fairbanks Will Make No Effort
To-Secure Vice Presi,
Dental Nomination.
Illinois Man is Ill But His Inter.
ests Are in Hands Of
State Delegation.

Chicago. Juno Politics IS fho
main subject of dis ussioll Al thG
principal. hotels whaae prominent i2e.
it.pHbicafls are gatheusi -Aa hcnational
convention, the vice presidency being
a preferred topic.
| Congressman James a IiemenWay
4zof Indiana made tho most specific
statement that has yet hacn made re-
garding the desires oi Senator Fair,
banks for the vice presidency
4 "Hc will take tho position said
Congressman lIemenwayl '.but he viii
mot ask for it, nor Will he express a
desire for it. He does not think that
| there should be a scramble for rho
Eolllce and lie will only say that he viii
accept ii after he has been elected
| for it,
Does that mean shat whea the roll
of states ii; called Tor the presentation
of candidates for the vice presit'encs
( that Indiana will not present the name
OF Senator Fairbanks:
at means exactly that said the
congressman. Indiana will not pre-
sent the name OF Senator lsairbaiiks
1 or any other man according to tho
\ present programme.
IF the senator is nominated he will
take the place, and that is all, and
might as well add riaht here that all
|attempts 10 get5bim ~ make a state
ment will be fruitless. He Will say
Nothing One Way or the Other.
but if the Republican party desires to
have him in the second place on the
ticket he will accept il alter he has
been -ehese4t-fef it.fflat is as ! III a j;
| he will go and that is as far as Indiana
Twill go in pushing his candidacy. 0f
course the state takes its cue from t!e
attitude of the senator and the silua.
lti0n have described VIII continue
until somebody is nominated.
II was expected that headquarters
would be opened during / hn iHo;ltina
at the SCtatlord hotel b Gate8fltt5a
Hit ol Illinois, Sjro Is a t;lndlaata ~.
vice president. 0ying. lloAI1,Ilatc g
1.-THE fact thai MI IIili. is i'll in s,fasii-
| iinston twas eetfatA--Ahstt ttfs ffEtErr rttatU
run his campaign ttom the hesftlalta1=
ters Of the Illinois delegation he l3iaa
of an independent gathering place tof
Mr.. Hits friends being abandoned.
Twenty members Of the California
delegation, together with the Philip.
pine and Hawaiian delegates, arrivrG
i shortly before noon. j. w Mckinley
of Los Angeles will be chairman oi the
California delegation and he an
nounccd that his state had no especial
preference fer vice president, but m
lderstood thai it would 90 o#Sellat0r
Fairbankstif if the senator wanted it7ln
the opinion of adr. Mckinley he man
flor the position would he prat tinallg
agreed upon before the time came los
| his nomination ard not more tktnl enc
ballot would he necessary To nominate
| him, whoever he might be.
| The number of visitors who llngc
come in advance Of the convention
proper is smaller than at any national
convention tor long time. Tie hotel
keepers ascribe this condition To the
settled condition in the convention
programme, which promises excite
merit en1.-irr- -rt1crIatrer Of he choice
of vice president and not a great deal
of it In that direction ---.--s
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