The Minneapolis journal., 1904-11-11
FAIRBANKS, ODELL
And ROOT IN Line
Three Figures Already Loom Up
as Presidential Possibilities
for 1908.
FOLK IS STRONGEST
AMONG THE DEMOCRATS
Missouri Governor-Elect Seems
to Attract as Compromise
Candidate.
BY w. w. Jermane.

Washington, Nov. 11.-Already fig
publican horizon as possible candidates
for the 1908 presidential nomination
Fairbanks, Odell and Root.
Fairbanks undoubtedly accepted the
with q view to seeking first place later
on. If Roosevelt could break all prece-
dents and establish a new order Of
things, SO far as the vice presidency is
concerned, Fairbanks may want to know
Why he should not be able to follow in
Governor Odell won an astounding
victory in the election Of Higgins, as
governor of New. York. He staked his
all on the cast Of single die, and has
made good. The Higgins victory, will
and make him moro of national figure
than he has heretofore been.
odell May Fight Depew.
There is no way Of telling at present
whether he will try to succeed Depew in
the senate. He would like to go to the
dentisl oce, ana f thngs thing are enH IN geod
but if 40 such @ ss' program lnsS nn'S should nou
promise to iiniure his presidential
chances by making doubtful his control
of the New York delegation to the next
Depew to succeed himself,
1t has been known for some time that
Odell has had his eye on the senate. 1t
is a risky business however, for man
having presidential aspirations to an
tagoniize both United, States senators
scalp last summer at the state conven-
tion, which nominated Higgins, and he
might get more than he bargained for,
if he were to attempt to lift Depew' $
in January. DepeW realizes that he is
sa asnges If Is said m that td he has
paign in New York than he has given
this year.. He was in the field almost
| continuously, speaking night and day,
and sleeping on his car.
| Roosevelt Likes Root.
! While the president will take no hand
in the contest, he is understood to have
remarked privately that he would not
object to being followed by Elihu Root
Should Mr.. Root be a candidate for the
nomination, he would have to fight the
OdeH machine, ms and the odds might be
cans who dislike Ode1l would favor
Root or anybody else, if by so doing
Odel coHfd be defeated.
i Root is the best Of the three named.
His availability will. be determined by
the trend taken by the trust question
y
ing the cabinet he has been in the en-
ploy of several of the largest corpora.
tions in the country, among them the
Northern SECURITIES company.
Now that Roosevelt has removed the
vice presidential hoodoo, it is believed
that both parties, will find it easier to
select higher grade men for that office,
than, as rule, have heretofore been
chosen.
Folk Leads Democrats.
Talk in the east is beginning to CEN
ter on Folk Of Missouri as a strong
compromise democratic candidate for
the presidency in 1908. Bryan certain
ly could not refuse to support him,
for he was Folks especial champion
this year, and there is nothing in his
record which makes him objectionable
be advisable in four years to go to
Missouri for a candidate if the demo-
cratic party is to recover the ground
which it lost last Tuesday.
The chief objection to Folk is that
he is not a man Of great ability; that
tial standard. But after the nomina,
tion Of Parker this year, that objec.
ton ought not to be unsurmountable,
in the light Of Folk 8 availability and
, the record he will be expected to make
,, as governor. -
.Iho~aOdreSSeS winch Bryan ana Far'
ker have made to the country are re-
garded here as the opening guns Of the
coming struggle between the conserva
tives and the radicals for party con
troll. Bryan reads the party lecture
t for it's shortcomings under oonserva
l tive management and points the way
e to radicalism. Parker wants the con
: servatives to remain in control ant
: says the chief issue Of the next cam
: paipn ought to be the trusts, with theil
9 contributions to presidential campaign
8 as a prominent side issue: He say
: in his address that he will not agar
seek office, which is interpreted t,
8 mean that if the nomination shoult
; come his way he would not turn hi
It back on it.
q Factions Rallying Point.
d IF the contest between the faction
n should become very bitter, with tn
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