The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-07
THB PRESIDENTIAL BooIs.
SHAW GETTING AFTER FAIR.
BANKS IN MS OWN STATE.

| SA~SW OAA INV M NAS
BANKS IN MS Own STATE.
Csnsressmen Lorimer. Crumpacker and
Overstreet setting Up Pins for the Iowa
Man--F0raker Expected to Enter the
Raoe-Troublea Of thu Fairbanks Been.
WARRINGTON, Aug. GA hot summer
has had tho usual clfect Of suspending
nearly all except routine public business
In Washington. The Official bigwigs arc
away, tho exception being such personsges
as Secretary Wilson. who had to forego a
Western trip TO watch q trap Get "a
graftss, and Attoney-G General Moody,
who has to devise q form Of punishment
for the game whom onoe entrappsd. $
But the hot weather has not wiltsd the
Presidential booms. They grow without
the nourishing influences Of nitroculture,
or any Of the agencies known TO Govern
ment science. The friends Of Secretary
Leslie M. Shaw are more than usually
active. Word comes from Chicago that
Congressman William Lorimer, Repub-
lican boss who wears many medals for
smooth work In politics. is setting up the
pins for Shaw in way calculated to mako
Uncle Joe Cannon reach for tho chunk
OF loo In the water pitcher a. he did at
Portland, Ore, few wesks ago, when he
nearly broke up the opening ceremonies
of the Lewis and Clark Exposition. Mr.
Lorimer, incidentally, IL showing q total
lack Of regard for the neighboring Fair
banks boom.
A stranger story Of tho ferret-like work
Of the Shaw men comes from the banks
Of tho Wabash. Congressman Crumpaoker
| Is openly avowing his preference for Shaw,
while Congressman Jesse Overstreet, who
lives In the classic environs Of North Meri-
dian street, indianapolis, few doors from
the vice-President's home, is buster than
the keeper Of q bowling alley at Hoosier
Fourth Of July, setting up the pins for the
Secretary Of the Treasury. Down in vir-
ginia the Republican children are carrying
young and ia arg prspa1ns for the ADVENT
Of Secretary Shaw. who IL shortly to address
the Republican State oonve ton.
The only discord at present Is the news
nom Iowa that Gov Cummins y to take
ACCORDING to The IOWA idea t ss the watch.
BY Secretary shaw's friends 6ere to Be over
estimated and to be largely the work Of
FsEsd + outside Of lG~e hut
Of his friends are quietly feeling the South
ern pulse. Within q week he has told
those anxious to start his boom that it is
a s :GH ss T. 9". sns ne ny bs ssrS
fall. II he decides that the skies are pro-
pitious he will embark with more zeal than
10 has shown up to this time. IT Is be-
lieved here that Senator Foraker will enter
e oSio III BIZ f p.ier tho seore sHs Of
War, Is In tho Philippines.
Tho Fairbanks boom Is having troubles
In its own household. They are not con-
secretary Shaw. The Mayoralty cam
paign in Indianapolis is the vice-Presi-
dents chief embarrassment. In tho re-
cent city primaries ex-Mayor Bookwalter,
Z, chG ss s aDsS sos hi dsfs y S a.
dents afternoon newspaper and the covert
opposition Of Mr.. Fairbanks himself, went
out again after the nomination for Mayor
and cleaned up tho Fairbanks candidate
On the heels Of this triumph the ex -Mayor
to Mr.. Fairbanks that he must fall into line
and support the Republican ticket or he
could not hope for a united State delega-
Overstreet Acting National Chairman Harry
New and other prominent Republicans de-
livered this ultiinatum TO MIR: Fairbanks
by word OF mouth. Meanwhile Mr.. Bev-
cridge Is getting control Of the State or
ment OF Goodrich, Fairbanks man. from
the head Of the State committee and the
selection Of q New man.
incidentally j. X. Gowdy, who endeared
himself to the Hoosier Republican heart as
Dom Jaok,' a State chairman with back
bone in the troublous times Of 1895, 10 hasten
ing back from Paris where he was Consul
General for eight years, to get an Ak out
for Fairbanks. This is because Mr.. Fair
hanks refused to assist him to keep his
JOB as Consul General.
Gowdy will bring back to the Hoosier
thing be took away with him eight years
ago except the chin whiskers. In lieu Of |
these, much remarked at tho time he went !
away. he acquired enough to buy about all |
the land In Rush, hi. home county. Gowdys |
return 70 Indiana viii be the occasion for |
expected Immediately to get busy in politics. !
1t has been said that Senator Beveridge
would like to restore to him the State chair
manship.
A dozen or more Indiana Republicans,
wearing broadbrimmed slouch hats. who
declare that Mr.. Fairbanks will have to
thaw out or a political dirge will supplant !
that Hoosier classic "On the Banks Of the
Wabash in the Indiana repertoire. Gum
shoe agents are traversing the country try
advance Of the national convention, but
leaving no tracks behind them. That wise
old political fox William Pitt Kellogg said l
to a friend to-day that In his memory. oov-
ering every national convention Of the
Republican party since its birth; he had
aoandidating three years ahead Of the con-
vention.