Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-18
PARLOUs TINES
FOR CANDIDATES
Prominent Republicans Now En-.
gagged in Chasing PreSiden-
tiaI Bee With ASSiduity.
GOOD STORY ON FAIRBANKS.
Operator Who Never Heard Of Hint
What l. Being accomplished by
Reclamation Service.

Special Correspondence
Washington. D. c., July % THESE be
parlous times for the Republican oaull-
dates for the presidency Shaw and
Fairbanks, Taft aud Root and Cannon.
are each chasing the presidential bee
with assldulty, and with the Democrat
ic nomination practically agreed upon.
as ID looks now. interest ceulers in the
eight that IS being Naged loo the Repub-
licau ranks for the Roosevelt success
sion. Shaw. while seemingly tempor-
arily out OF 'hc running because of the
black eye he BOT Zoo Iowa. is unlIs-
turbed by present conditions and Do Is
going ahead making friends both north
and south, hoping that the lightning
viii strike in his direction about cone
yeution time.
Fairbanks is gettiEs ready TO invada
the Chautauqua circuit and will lecture
ON The Ideal American Citizen while
modcstly refrainlng from mentioning
any names.
Root and Taft are busy With affairs
OF state, but both are making eyes 40
the Republican jade hoping TO attract
the lady Of the 'c0f1 silk hair"
Speaker Cannon Is a candidate Tor the
nomination only in the receptive sense
bat his secretary, Mr. L. Wright Bus
hey Is busily engaged making dates for
"Uucle Joe" and by the time the frost
Is ON the pumpkin n ls believed that
"Brer" Caunon's boom win Doe launch
ed ON behalf Of the plain people"
FAIRBANKS NOT SO SURE.
Apropos Of the Fairbanks candidacy
your correspondent Is Iu position y
say that the tail Sycamore Of the Wa
bash does not regard % as 'sure thing
that Secy, Shaw is % have the Virginia
delegation 10 the Republican national
convention IN 1905 IL Is said that Nj.
Fairbanks has several emissdHes at
work 600 Virginia all the time. and II IS
known that he has been especially nice
to Virginia Republicans in the course
OF he past six months or so. Several
of them have been entertained az his
home and elsewhere in the city. Mrs.
Fairbanks showing most cousummata
tact in her reception of the vice presi-
dents friends.
4 good story Is being told concerning
a Virginia friend Of the vice president.
though the joks may also be- construed
o. reach Mr. Fairbanks himself Some
weeks ago a Virginia Republican who
knew Mr.. Fairbanks more than easy
ally was invited 10 come 10 Washing
ton and take breakfast with hin, on a
certain day The Yirgnian. On trying to
keep the engagement. found on reach
Ing the Colonial beach. 40 miles down
the Potomac. that he could not reach
Washington IN time 10 breakfast with
the vice president he wrote a tele-
/ gram 10 MIR. Fairbanks. expressing his
| regrets, and took Il into the telegraph
| office. The operator read the massage
Say said the operator you've not
\ given any address
That's all right" said the other
everybody knows that man"
7 do not replied the operator who
is he?"
He's the vice president Of the Unit
| "a States"
Well, guess you'd better put HE adj
| dress on the telegram" replied the
operator and the Virginia Republican
/ was Obliged 10 add Seventeenth and X
/ streets. y. ", Washington. u. C.to the
/ very meager address he had first given.
/ He now swears that getting people in-
! teres,ed 10 Fairbanks as a presidential
! candidate Is very uphill work.
LETTERS LOST IN MAILS.
Nobody ever believes his correspond
ont who IS remiss IN answering let
: ter. when the excuse Is given that the
letter never came So few letters.
| comparatively, are lost IN the malls.
! that an assertion that letter failed io
4 be delivered Is not accepted seriously.
| StIll iD the month Of June alone. ac-
| corflug 10 a statement made az the d.
! vision Of dead letters. p0stofiice depart
/ ment today, @i3i2 pieces OF unclaimed
! mail were received I'm the month of
| June. The number received in the
| same month last year was 76l. 373. a con-
| siderable increase this year.
! The total number Of letters returned
90 senders was 1902 The number Of
/ pieces unmalled was i35.625
The number Of letters received con-
| tanning money was $3.50 as against s. e.
I 136 Tor the same month last year. but
! the amount ~ money they contained
/ was $j,Sj,7S. as against NGis On the
| month ~ June last year which may lu-
| dictate that times are better. and each
! individual who sends money through
| the mail IS able 10 send a larger sum
this year than last,
ICE TRUST on THE RACK
The grand jury which is probing OBJ,
so-Callti ice trust Of Washington. has
brought io light "A rather humorous
state ~ affairs The jury seems G,
/ have established the fact that there
ore very few II any independent dell-
Crs' iu Washington. as an OF the soc
! called independent purchase their
/ stock 81 the American lee company.
4 which does not seriously deny being "a
{ Trust The independents have been
/ fighting for years soliciting trade on the
ground that 10 encourage them was
/ 90 fight the trust But the II. ud jury
! has about established the nct that The
independent les only myth. Posi-
I bly, the same state OF affairs may exist
iu other cities Richmond Tor example