The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-29
ROOSEVELT DEFIfS
Ills RUNNING MATE
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President OPENLY Fights Secret
Opposition of Fairbanks and
His Indiana Machine

NEW YORK, Sept. 2S.-A staff corr
respondent of the Brooklyn Eagle sends
q following from Indianapolis:
"A serious complication arising from the
-0iHerenceS between President Roosevelt
Senator Fairbanks. his running mate.
verse interests in the Republican parfv.
Roosevelt, through Nationaj
CHAIRMAN Cortelyon. has replied to the de-
nance OF Senator Fairbanks. delivered
aaySfo h~eadqnarters in New York city last
Week. and his answer is equally a de-
snancs. 1t has been disseminated anon
the Republican leaders of both the adj
fninlstFation and Fairbanks camps here
within the last twenty-feur hours. and
# 1s obvious h the aia senator's
presidents rebuke, the fact thst
tney occupy a defensive position because
they have underestimate the presidents
courage IN dealing with personal or fac
MI. Roosevelt has declined to yield to
Ine demand OF Senator Fairbanks that
the administration keep hands off the
indiana Highland permit Mr.. Fairbanks IN
fortify himself In every possible manner
as a candidate for the presidential nom
nation in 1908. The president Is well
not knife the ticket, no matter how much,
On MS account, they might desire to do
SO. that even IL they should per-
chance decide to commit political suicide
lAO0S ~ dSSO1aPffSt1 lllGlI GlluS
ultimately the loyal Republicans of Indi-
ana would not aid in the treason. With
MS customary self-assurance, he believes
that the machine opposition will merely
make votes for him in-fhis state, and that
Senator Fairbanks future presidential
candidacy will never attain sufficient
Roadway to get before a convention il
the senator does not listen to reason In
this campaign.
Thinks He ts Stronger Than Fairbanks
In a. word President Roosevelt believes
ne can virtually take Indiana away from
Senator Fairbanks, and Is willing to IN
cur whatever chances of defeat that
course may entail, rather than be derni-
mated In b slightest degree by the vice
Presidential candidate. even in a remote
shrewd1y enough, that Senator Fairbanks
has many enemies among the Housaerz Re-
pubaicans, and that Senator B~everidge, his
junior colleague, IA a considerable fol-
lowing IN the state that Is hostile to the
senierssenator- Mr.. Beveridge has always
been extremely loyal to him.. and the
president relies on him to checkmates Mr..
Fairbanks before the controversy has de-
afor Fairbanks challenge without hesita-
ton, and then, witheuf waiting tn learn
wfHether 1t is TO be war Or lei strikes
the first by seeing that his version
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Such tactics are typicaIly RooseveitIan
for the president, his enemies admit. FIGHTS
in the open-His tactics are unusually ef-
fecttve IN this emergency. because Senator
Fairbanks. who is as much of q Matthew
Stanley Quay OF a-Themas C. Piaft as his
Intellectual limitations VIII permit, fights
only under cover. The Fairbanks forces
have been thrown into confusion at the
outset. and some of the leaders are coun-
selling peace at any price. and casting
about f0f1a iooDhole of escape from the
predicamcnt IL which they find them