The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-06-20
Republican
Convention Will be
Largely a Cut-and-
Dried Affair

Chicago, June 2O.-The only unset
tied propositions TO come uefore the
Republican national convention are
the vice presidency and what shall be
done with the Wisconsin bolters head
ed by Senator suooner and Quarles.
Everything else is arranged for.
II is known that Roosevelt will be
nominated by acclamatioD. The plat
form is written, The nominating
speeches have been read to the presi-
dent and revised by him. The CON
vention hail is ready and all is pro
vided.
The convention will last three days,
so that the Chicago hotels and the
men in Chicago who put up the guar
antee fund can get their money back. !
The hotels will shove prices of rooms
up to $40 day on Sunday. The out
siders hope to get enough strangers
in town to recoup them. AS most
of the contributors we're from the ho-
tells and saloons, It is probably they
will get their money back
June p the temporary organization
will he made and the temporary chair
man. Elhu Root, will make his speech
On the second day, June p, the com
mittees will report 1t is thought there
may be squabble over the Wisconsin
muddle when the credentials commits
tee report it's re-arlrmatlon of the
action Of the national committee. on
the third day the candidates for pres,
ident and gice-president win be named
AS vet there is no sign of interest
in Chicago. The members Of the ma
tional committee sit around the Audi
torium Hotel and talk in sepulchral
; tones of the great uprising for Roose-
velt and that is as far as It goes
Fairbanks Must Speak UP at once.
rhe only possible matter OF interest
to the public outside of Wisconsin is
!. the nomination for vice-president
!. Senator Charles w Fairbanks. has
peen flirting with that nomination fol
several months. He VA be visited 10y
number Of party leaders as soon al
he arrives, and be told that he mus
n declare himself. No further evasion
" viii be tolerated. II he says he wants
the nomination he will be named. /
he bubbles. as he has beenquibblini
since last January, when he first cam,
forward as candidate for second plac
n with Roosevelt, he Will be told tha
n the Republican party has no time 70
N so spineless a statesman and the at
N tention OF the leaders win be turned il
other directions
b Fairbanks has a reputation for keel
ing closer to the earth than any othe
- politician in the middle west, and h
=. has increased it by his actions IN r'
- gard to the vice-presidency. He ma
never told anybody he wanted tn
~ place. and he has never told anybod
-. he did not want IT, He has been wal
ing for President Roosevelt to ask hii
- TO run. A few weeks ago he gave
- out in Indianapolis that he was goin
- east to see the President. Then b
- went 70 New York and stayed aroun
the Waldrof for a week, waiting fC
summons from the White Hous
= The President issued no summon
''e Fairbanks returned home disappoin
:, ed
!, II he says that he wants the pla'
a he
the President asks HIN TO run, he vi
be set aside and the leaders will loo
20 to somebody else, probably Hit. II
'e' President was LED into rather enth
'' siasue Endorsement OF Hit fe
weeks ago. He has reacted since, b
:, if Fairbanks cannot force himself
- make direct a statement about b
~ ambitions, Hit viii be selected al
~. Hit wants the opportunity
~ Fairbanks will be told frankly IN
there is no uprising among the p'
pie for him. He win be told that
~ viii take an effort TO nominate hi
.e,. but that effort viii be made II he "
come out of the high grasses and
clare himself. He will not be coax
ae nor caioled
- Roosevelt Prefers to Keep Hands
a. The President will never ask h
and to run nor viii he ask anybody e
81 to run. He win take no part in
I. selection OF the candidate unless
"A thinks his own interests are being
pardized. AS the matter stands TOO
. the vice presidential candidate will
trip either Fairbanks OF Hit.
up rhey put up picture Of Mark II
his ma in the lobby OF the Auditorium
long mex today While the electric hg