The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-29
REPUBLICAN rAcTIoNIsM.
Has Broken Out Tn Indiana--Roosevelt and Fairbanks PaPtisans.

Has Broken Out Tn Indisna--Roosevelt
 and Fairbanks Partisans.
 Indianapolis Special Correspondence to
 Brooklyn Eagle.
 the differences between President Roosevelt and Senator Fairbanks. his running mate, is the sequel to the clash between the diverse interests in the were set forth in The Eagle of last Fri day In a dispatch from Chicago Pres ident Roosevelt. through National Chairman Cortelyou, has replied to the cred to him through emissaries sent di- rectly to headquarters in New 1ork last week; and his answer Is equally a defiance. It has been disseminated among the Republican leaders of both the administration and Fairbanks camps here within the last twenty-four hours. and it Is obvious that the 1ndi- ana Senator's lieutenants. while writh- ing under the Presidents rebuke, re- cognize the fact that they occupy a defensive position, because they have underestimated the Presidents cour- age in dealing with personal or fac- tional party problems.
 MT. Roosevelt has declined to yield to the demand of Senator Fairbanks that the administration keep hands oh in the Indiana fight and permit MT Fairbanks to fortify himself in every possible manner as candidate Tor the
  President Is we'll aware that his Indiana opponents dare not knife the ticket, no matter how much. on his account they might desire to do so, and that even if they should perchance decide 10 com init political suicide by such methods to accomplish their ends ultimately, the loyal Republicans of Indiana would not aid in the treason. With his custom ary self-assurance he believes that the machine opposition will merely make votes for him in this State, and that Senator Fairbanks's future Presidential candidacy will never attain sufncient headway to get before a Republican convention If the Senator does not listen to reason in this campaign
 Tn word, President Roosevelt De- lieves he can virtually take Indiana away from Senator Fairbanks. and IS willing to incur whatever chances or than be dominated in the slightest de- gree by the vice-Presidential candidate, even in a remote affair of State politics. He recognizes, shrewdly enough. that Senator Fairbanks has many enemies among the Hoosier Republicans, and that Senator Beveridge, his junior col league, has a considerable following in the State that is hostile to the senior Senator. Mir. Beveridge has always been extremely loyal to him, and the MT Fairbanks before the controversy has developed too far; hence he filings back Senator Fairbanks's challenge without hesitation, and then, without waiting to learn whether 1t Is to De war or peace. strikes the first blow by seeing that his version of the clash Is the first to reach the public.
 Such tactics are typically Roosevelt ian for the President, his enemies admit fights in the open. His tactics are un- usually effective in this emergency, De- cause Senator Fairbanks, who is as much of a Matthew Stanley Quay or a Thomas c. Platt IS his intellectuai limitations will permit, fights only un- der cover. The Fairbanks forces have been thrown into confusion at the out set, and some of the leaders are coun- selling peace at any price, and casting about for a loop hole of escape from the predicament in which they find them selves Others want to carry the hght through the campaign and organize a national opposition to the President, IT he be elected. if 1t is to be assumed. as all good Republicans take for granted that he will be.
 This the Fairbanks leaders are ab- solutely confident they can do. They know-and the ti-Fairbanks forces do not-iust how absolutely the Repub- lican organization in Indiana is tne Fairbanks machine, and they know the mower of that machine. If the Repub- iican national ticket happens not to be elected. there is the chance that he will be the only Republican Senator from Indiana, In which event he can retain his grasp on the present organ ization easily and doubtless be able to name the delegates from Indiana to the National Republican Convention four years hence Then. with the backing of the ultra-conservative Mckinley eie- ment in the Republican Party, ne tiai nomination from MT. Roosevelt or snr rnan hacked by Mir Roosevelt"