Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-09
THE PRESIDENTIAL BEE
Appears to Be Buzzing in
Many Bonnets.
CANDIDATES ACTIVE
EACH TRYING TO EMULATE OR
sURPASS THE OTHER.
Fairbanks, Cannon, Shaw and Cortel-
you Talking to the People-Forakex
and the Taft Boom.

Il see by the papers that the various
| presidential candidates are fussing around
the country at lively rate said poll
tician uptown today.
"So?'
Yes; they appear to be mighty watchfuf
not to say jealous, of each other, too. It's
interesting to note their evoutions. What
| ever one does. the others rush off to emu
| late or to surpass. It's like woman
| in the block getting a new green settee for
the front yard: all the others rush off to
get one, too, and there's a whole row of
green settees down the street.
Take the cases of Vice President Fair
banks and Secretary Shaw. Mr.. Fairbanks
scores first blood in the south by going
down to North Carolina and making a
speech that Is read by every prominent re-
publican south of Mason and Nixons OFF
posts Mr.. Shaw to Chattanooga and other
points of interest in the sunny south where
the Methodist vote is strong, and the papers
say that he is cuddling up to the southern
republicans in fine shape.
Cannon and Fairbanks.
Speaker Cannon sets out for the far
west, contemplating a trip to the Portland
exposition. Immediately Mr. Fairbanks
hot-foots it to the west also. and now the
westerners are fairly surfeited with great
ness, what between a Speaker of the House
and the Vice President of the United
States.
IAN this time Mr. Cortelyou is not idle.
Hardly has Mr. Fairbanks got on tie
other side of the Wabash before Mr.. Cor
telyou drops in on the Indiana folks and
delivers address before the university
He is going in for the intellectual vo,e in
Indiana and is eminently qualified to inn
press the hgh-browed. Having had ex-
perience in presidential campaign, 1t is
not surprising that Mr.. Cortelyou should
know how to find his way about.
Mr.. Taft goes to Ohio and makes a loud
splash in that political puddle Now the
reason why the others have not followed
him up is that they expect Senator For
aker to take of the Taft boom. AS
long as there is a Foraker and Taft in
Ohio the rest of them think that it will
be hoss and hoss' for the present and that
the Ohio delegation can be dealt with later.
Il see that the Fairbanks papers in lndi-
ana make dig at Senator Foraker, though.
whenever they get chance. and one In
dianapols paper the other day had an edi-
torial claiming that President Roosevelt
had rebuked Foraker for talking patron
age when the President was dealing with
great international questions. / wonder IL
that is a part of the game to set FORAKER
and Taft by the ears? The idea is being
assiduously circulated that President Roose-
velt is backing Tart.
Lookout for La Toilette.
"IaFollette is attending strictly to his
knitting and paying no attention to any OF
the Others. He seems to have definite
plan in his railway rate regulation bill, and
you can look out for him as soon as he
gets it through the Wisconsin legislature
Van SAINT of Minnesota and Cummings OF
Iowa seem to be clear out of it. Cummings
has ridden his tarff-revision hobby, but the
stand-pat Iowans have pulled all the hairs
out of it's tail by this time New YORK
alone seems to be quiescent. We don't
hear from any one. That is because odeLI
III ola 1riy1 a 90 q
and no one knows how to make a move.
Il reckon you'll find that the race Will
narrow to a contest between members or
the administration set. l am looking every
dav now for some one to flush Charles j.
Bonaparte. That would add to the gayety
of politics.