The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-11

But even the open switch has failed be-
fore now.
The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt and the
Hon. Alton B. Parker must be included
among 1.-THE silent voters" whom we hear
so much about.
George ]. Gould, who with his wife
and daughter returned on the Philadel-
phia from a two months automobile tour
in Europe. predicts a republican victory,
declaring that business interests demand
the election of a republican president
this fall
1T looks to me" said Mr.. Gould, "as
il a republican victory were a foregone
conclusion. The business men of this
country are afraid that the election OF
democratic president would mean a slump
of values on every hand
1t is announced at tie speakers bureau
of the republican national headquarters
that Philander C. Knox, ex-Attorney-Gen-
eral and Senator designate for Pennsyl-
vania, might formally open the repub-
lican campaign in New York state by
speaking at a meeting in this city soon
after the Saratoga convention The de-
are in the hands Of the state committee
but the national committee 1t was said
at headquarters, was cooperating with
the state committee and was using its
influence to persuade Senator Knox to
address big mass meeting here.
IT started out to figure once" said
Luther Little at republican state head
| quarters, "how many buttons l could
| give out in the course of campaign
| If l granted every request made upon
me. l got up somewhere In the neighbor-
| hood of eighty million, or one for each
man, woman and child in the country.
! and then L quit. 1t is something re-
markable the number of people that want
| buttons They came in a steady stream.
| There Is the occasional who wants just
one; then there is the fellow who would
like half dozen; then there Is man with
the club who wants five hundred, and
SO it goes"
Philander C. Knox, the former Attor-
ney-General, and now Senator from Penn
sylvania, arrived on the Baltic, accompa-
MED by Mrs. Knox and their son, H. s.
Knox.
The senator after his five weeks abroad
appeared in splendid health. He refused
to answer questions concerning politics,
other than to say that he expected to
take part in the campaign and make
several speeches, although he did not
know just where they would be made.
The senator asked many questions as to
the war In the far east and other events
of public interest. He will remain in this
city a day or two before going to his
farm at Valley Forge.
1t Is reported here unofficially that an
agreement has been reached in wiscon-
sin between the La Toilette and Spooner
factions. 1t was said that the supreme
court would decide that La Toilette has
the right of the contest for the place
on the ticket under the regular republican
emblem, and that La Folette will cease
his opposition to the return of Quarles
to the United States senate.
Quarles is one of the leaders of the
Spooner faction. La Toilette has opposed
his return to the senate by the legisa-
ture to be elected this fall. La Folettes
candidate has been Isaac Stephenson, g
rich man who has served two terms IN
he house OF representatives and who has
backed La Toilette in all of his political
ventures.
The democrats are waiting. to see what
the decisions of the courts will be before
planning a Wisconsin campaign. If the
decision, contrary to the report that came
here today, is against La Toilette they
If the decision is with La Toilette they
will have little hope of carrying the state
because they know Spooner will not fight
and effect compromise. Indeed, they
suspect that that is what has happened
already.
Some Of Mr.. Fairbanks friends say
he took the vice presidential nomination
as party duty, and not because he
wanted 1t, and should the democrats con-
troll the legislature he would refuse to
take the office rather than to see two
democrats-one to succeed Mr. Beveridge
and the other to succeed himself-enter
the senate from this state. They say the
senator by simply refusing to qualify
would cause a vacancy In the vice presi-
dental office which would be filled by a
republican under present laws. and that
he would still be senator because he
would not have resigned
1t Is reported that Senator Fairbanks,
while not conceding that the democrats
may carry the state. has said that he
would never voluntarily cause a, vacancy
that would be filled by the election of a
democrat. and he Is said to have had in
mind such a contingency as his election
TO the vice presidency and this state 60
ing democratic when he made the state
ment