Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-02-07
FAIRBANKS Is
MAKING GOOD BID
FOR NOMINATION OF PRESI-
DENT ON REPUBLICAN
TICKET IN YEAR 1908.
NOW PLEDGING DELEGATES
Fer Next National Convention,
Claimed That Friends Are U.s.
ing Methods of Hanna.
NOW PLEDGING DELEGATES

Washington, D. c. February g.
The statement is made here by per-
sons who claim to know what is 60
ieg on behind the scenes that unless
ether presidential candidates bestlr
themselves Vice President Fairbanks
will at no distant day have a sutflcl-
emit number of delegates pledged to
rake him the most formidable can
didate for the presidential nominal
ton.
Fairbanks is a silent, persistent,
rainstaking worker. He has had the
presidential bee in his bonnet for
many years. He was great favorlte
of President Mckinley, and many
persons believe that Mckinley de-
sired to see Fairbanks succeed HIM
in the presidential chair.
There was notable gathering OF
Indiana politicians in Washington
last week, and all of them are work
ers for the Fairbanks machine. 1t
was announced that the visitors had
come here to attend the dinner OF
Senator Hemenway, which was gwen
in honor of the vice president and
the Indiana delegation in congress.
There were long conferences between
these visiting politicians and FAIR
banks and his friends, and there IS
good reason to believe that a good
deal was done in the way of perfect
ing the organization formed for the
purpose of securing the Republican
nomination for Indiana son two
wears hence.
Everything is lovely for Fair
banks in Indiana. He has just clean
ed up the opposing faction In the Re
publican party headed by the youth
ful Senator Beveridge, who IS under
stood to have so responded to the
treatment applied to him that he now
Gives three cheers every time the
name of Fairbanks is mentioned IN
Eis presence.
Senator Beveridge is no longer In
G position to hamper the progress OF
The Fairbanks boom in Indiana. In
tie fractional fight over the state
chairmanship Beveridge suffered ig-
nominious rout, and if he does not
train with Fairbanks in the future
lie will not actively oppose him.
The vice president is certain of IN
diana's thirty delegates and he is
counting upon Illinois. His fortunes
in that state are in the hands of
Charles G. Dawes, former controller
e the currency, who is one of the
Young men who assisted Hanna in
the preconvention campaign made IN
the interests of the candidacy OF Nc
linley. Fairbanks has strong and in
fuential friends in Illinois and his
chances Of securing the delegation
from that state are probably better
than those of any other man who has
been mentioned for the presidential
nomination, with the exception of
Speaker Cannon.
The vice president and his friends
dard bearer of the republican party
will be western man. Ohio has two
favorite sons i'll the persons of See
rotary Taft and Senator Foraker.
Both are strong in Ohio and are
widely and favorahly known through
out the country. The Fairbanks men
believe that the rivalry of Taft and
Foraker will prevent either of them
from securing the united support of
Ohio's delegation to the next nation
nj convention. Therefore Fairbanks
is figuring on the Buckeye state.
Some of the Hoosier friends are en-
thusiastic and they believe that the
formalities of a nominating conven-
ton and an election might just as
well be dispensed with.