The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-28
.CAMPAIG OF
 REPUBLICANS Who Will Be Their Choice
 For President? NO DEARTH OF AsPIRANTS Next Convention Promises to
 Be Lively. Possible That Faction VIII be Present which win Ciamor for Renomina- tion of Roosevelt, Despite.
 His DisinclinatiOn.
Advertiser Bureau,
 501 14th St.. N. w, GA a.

nomination for President by the next national convention of the party has gotten so far along as to excite re. mark among people who are wont tc forecast political events.
 Already the antics of the aspirants are compelling conviction that they have set out to exhibit themselves tc the favorable consideration of prospec- tive delegates to the next national con vention of the Republican party. The very fact of their activity in theii several displays zeal to avoid and avert obscurity and indifference in the public gaze in strong evidence that they be- lieve President Roosevelt is still in earnest about renouncing further ambi- tion to be President. So it is that every Republican who fiatters himself he has a chance for the nomination for President has grown extremely busy planning and performing at every occa- sion that appears to promise influence and votes. So far no prospective can didate feels that Mir. Roosevelt will em- barrass the running by word or act for or against any candidate. They are being groomed upon the assump- ton that the race Is to be a free-for-all and for all ages The eyes of the dis interested speculator who dotes upon being a spectator In exciting encounters EItsten WitH interest us ne pTeutCIS that with Roosevelt out of it the next Re- publican convention will be the liveliest affair since, the Chicago convention of 1880 when the famous 306 for Grant went down to defeat by the combined powers of other aspirants giving the prize at last to Garfield. It is true that now and then is heard the in- teresting suggestion that the conven- tion may witness the presence and in- sistence of faction of Republicans who will clamor for the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt, and that in case of difficulty of agreement upon any of the aspirants. the President will be voted for by a formidable contingent who will stick to him first, last and all the time. But this is only 6 sugges- tion. Nobody who knows the Presi- dent very we'll has ever hinted that he will change his mind. He has said everything a man in his position could say completely to clear the way for any and everybody of his party. however devoted to hls fortunes. to compete for the party's supreme prize, with no one to make him afraid by the name of Roosevelt. Hence 1t is that the aspi- rants for the highest honors of the next Republican national convention are get ting to the front and making them selves heard and felt at every oppor- tunity.
 Fairbanks Busy.
 Vice President Fairbanks has been the busiest man of the whole bunch of candidates. indeed the busiest man on the continent who Is not an evan gelist or a lecturer or a crank on talking to crowds of people. He has accepted all invitations to speak even filling pulpits. dedicating tombstones and addressing secret societies, any day in the wek Secretary Shaw has gone energetically to work, beginning with the Southern possibilities. He has been down to North Carolina al- ready, and next will invade Virginia The green hills of Virginia" partic- ularly allure the Secretary just now A campaign is on in the old Domin- ion," and the Republicans have In a fit of unpredecented alteration nomi- mated the cleanest and ablest man the party in the State could afford. a man who has the respect of admiration of Democrats as well as Republican, Lunsford L. Lewis, a Richmond law yer in the prime of life and who, agreeable of course. to Virginia ethics, belongs to good people" his connec- tions relating him by blood to the best present and past families of the State. Judge Lewis, as he is familiarly known has evidently no expectation of victory
 
 under the election laws which makes the negro vote an insignificant factor in Virginia elections, but he is waging a courageous battle for principle" nevertheless. and the party such as 1t Is follows him with united front. Sec retary Shaw, going Into the campaign and speaking at tho principal towns in the State, and beaming affability upon the people from the altitude of the musings and across the intimate links of the cordial hand-clasp, must needs gather convention gear and pull toward him susceptible patriots of the surviving Republican party in old Vir- ginia. Secretary Shaw before he made 1t known that he was going over into Virginia did a favor for Congressman Slemp, the only Republican in Con- Rress from that State which Is taken as absolutely assuring the support and influence of Slemp in the matter of picking a delegation from Virginia to the next Republican national con vention.
 An Alliance.