Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-09
Party Leaders All at Sea as to
Candidate for Second Place
On the Ticket.
FAIRBANKS DOESN'T WANT IT.
Four Years Hence lie Himself Hopes
To be the Nominee for
President.
snoclaI Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Washington, d. c., May with the
Republican national convention only
six weeks eff the party leaders are all
at sea as to the candidato for second
place on the ucket. Until this week II
was assumed that Senator Fairbanks
was an active candidate for the honor
and those who came into daily contact
with him received no inumation at any
time that tive senator would not slanu
IA a candidate. But suddenly he has
announced that he desires that MS
name shall not be presented II Is very
well known that the senator hopes TO
head the tlcket four years hence nd
the sudden change In his apparent
plans leads to the supposltion that he
believes that man occupying the chalr
OF the presiding officer OF the senate IS
Handicapped in the race for the more
exalted place.
When the Brlstow report. number 2,
was sprung upon the house OF represeh-
tatlyes William Alder Smith made
speech nominating Joseph cannon Tor
president TIE effect Of that speech
was very much like that cross OF gold
and crown Of thorns Grafton In 1875
Mnltn MAS inc NllfNl NthuoN VI Ni'N
nation of william j. Bryan for the
presidency But Smiths speech was
| delivered to some 400 men who. while
| having the power TO vote appropr1a-
| lions OF 500 100000 for public purposes,
| hnd not a single vote for presdentlal
nominees. There Is no doubt that the
| Smith speech would have swept any
| convention had IT. been delivered under
| like circumstances Uncle joe IL in
many respects the most popular speak
| er that the house has ever had, And
| thar is one reason why he win not be
| the running mate OF Theodore Roose-
| welt. If there Is Republican majority
| IN the Fifty-ninth Congress 'Uhcle
Joe" win be its speaker as certainly as
| he lives The vice president has abso-
| htely no power whatever lie cannot
name the committees Of the senate ana
he can vote only to break tie-LeVi +.
| Morton is the only vice president who
| has cast vote I'm half century ana
| his vote enabled the senate 10 adjourn
10 attend a matinee. The speaker or
the house has more power In leBlsla .
| tive way than the president himself, IL
is not surprising therefore that Uncle
Joe" should positively, firmly and em-
phatcally crush his own vice preslden-
| tial boom just as Il was Matching out
lie does not want the nomination, tie
viii not accept 1t under any oiroum
stances. He has a better job and one
| infinitely more to his liking.
There are a score or more other can
ddates mentioned for the honor and
several thousand able men Willing TO
accept should tho nomination be thrust
upon them; but Just who IL to be chos-
en- nor one OF the leaders, who have
been In close consultation with the
president during the past we\ Is will
| ing TO guess. In the pOlitlcaNbetting
| ring the odds are still In favor OMAR
banks Of Indiana in spite Of ~ eX-
pressed desire 10 be left out OF theNal-
cuations, and Il IL the general beNf
that he win accept II named, becau\
no man has ever yet declined after tho
ticket has been made up.
UNCLE SANS BIG LOTTERY.
Uncle Sam will go into the lottery
business In the next few months as
the result OF legislation enacted by
Congress at the session just ended for
opening to settlement lands I'm several
Indian reservations In the west. So
successful was the opening OF the
Kiowa Comanche reservation In Okla
| homn according to the drawing method
| ORIGINATED by the commissioner OF tho
general land office w. a, Richards,
that this method viii be In vogue at
the opening Of all the Indian reserva-
lions authorized by Congress during
the session Just closed. There are not
able advantages IN the lottery plan. IL
not only determines the order OF choice
but keeps q record OF the people who
have entered the new lands and how
much they owe the government for
the lands they have taken. The reser-
walton lands 10 be disposed OF are not
20 be opened TO the public free Of
charge ar was done In Oklahoma and
other places several years ago but VIII
be sold at a fixed price. The following
facts show IN brief the opportunity FOL