The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-07
ON STILL HUNT.
Fairbanks Is Out After Dele
gates for 1908 Convention.
His Agents Are at Work in the
South.
las INDIANA FIXED
And Is Laying Plans to Capture
Illinois From Cannon.
Relies Upon fractional QuarreIs
to Give Him Ohio.

Washington, Feb. THE statement is
made here by persons Who claim to
know what is going on behind the
scenes that unless other presidential
candidates bestir themselves Vice Pres
ident Fairbanks viii at no distant day
have a sufficient number Of delegates
pledged to make him the most formula
bic candidate for the presidential nom
nation in 1908
Fairbanks is silent. persistent.
painsta.king worker. He has had the
presidential bee in his bonnet for many
years. He was great favorite of Pres
ident Mckinley and many persons be
lieve that Mckinley desired to see Fair
banks succeed him IN the presidential
chair
There was a notable gathering of In
diana politicians in Washington last
week, and all of them are workers for
the Fairbanks machine. 1t was an
nounced that the visitors had come here
to attend the dinner of Senator Hemen-
way, which was given in honor of the
vice president and the Indiana delega-
ton in congress. There were long con-
ferences between these visiting p.titic-
ians, and Fairbanks and his friends,
and there is good reason to believe that
a good deal was done in the way of per-
fecting the organization formed for the
purpose of securing the Republican
nomination for Indianas son two years
hence.
Beveridgc Converted to Fairbanks.
Everything is lovely for Fairbanks in
Indiana. He has Just cleaned up the
party there headed by the youthful
Senator Beveridge, who is understood to
have so responded to the treatment ap-
piled to him that he now gives three
cheers every time the name of Fair
banks is mentioned in his presence.
Senator Beveridge is no longer in a
position to hamper the progress of the
Fairbanks boom in Indiana. In the fac
tiOnal fight over the state Craftsmanship
4 Beveridge suffered an ignOminious rout,
and if he does not train with Fairbanks
I in the future he will not actively oppose
/ him.
In his campaign to secure delegates
! for Mckinley in 1896 Marcus Hanna
! began his operations in the south. He
! had nailed down that section before
j the representatives of other candidates
/ had begun work. Hanna enlisted in
4 the cause a number of young men who
went out looking for delegates and got
/ them. Fairbanks knows something of
tsentatives are now treating with the
! leading party men in the south.
Strong Friends in Illinois.
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
of the currency, who is one of the
young men who assisted Hanna in the
+ preconventiOn campaign made in the
interests of the candidacy of Mckinley.
Fairbanks has strong and influential
! 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
T for the presidential nomination, with
/ the exception of Speaker Cannon.
The vice president and his friends
! profess to believe that the next stand
ard bearer of the Republican party
will be a western man. Ohio has two
favorite sons in the persons of Secre-
tary Taft and Senator Foraker. Both
are strong in Ohio and are widely and
favOrably known throughout the coun-
try. The Fairbanks men believe that
the rivalry of Taft and Fora ker will
prevent either of them from securing
the united support of Ohios delega-
ton to the next national convention.
Therefore Fairbanks is figuring on the
4 Buckeye state. Some of his HOosier
friends are enthusiastic and they be
lieve that the formalities of a nOmi-
mating convention and an election
might just as we'll be dispensed with.
While all others who have been
mentioned for the honor of the presi-
Dental nomination have been appar-