The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-09
CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT.
JUNGLE JOE" BELIEVED TO BE
WILLING TO RUN.
other Asplrants' for the Honor Keeping
Their Weather Eyes on Hlm-Foraker
VIII BE Presented as OhlO's Candidate,
Partly. Perhaps, to Head OF Fairbanks.

IntT NtuulCT Eyes Ol an VI
VIII BE Presented as 0hlO's Candidate
Partly, Perhaps to Head on Fairbanks
WASHINGTON, April s,-There are many
good people in Washington who believe
that Joseph G Cannon Of Illinois, Speaker
Of the House of Representatives, despite
his threescore and ten years and protesta,
lions to the contrary, is a receptive candi'
date for the Presidency.
When Mr., Cannon's name was publicly
mentioned IN connection with the Presi
dental nomination a year or so ago, ar
unfee!ing critic sprung the age records
which showed that the old war horse from
Illinois was rapidly approaching tne Il
year mark. Friends Of the Speaker declare
however. that when it comes to a discussion
o! age he cannot be judged by ordinary
standards. They assert that. he IS as young
as many men twenty years his junior, that
be is strong, vigorous and aggressive, both
mentally and physically, and that, unlike
many old men. he has not lost the pow
NJ initiative.
The conviction Is growing in Washington
that the next big gathering of Republicans
VI! witness one of the ~liveliest fights fol
The Presidential nomination in the history
o! the party, The list of availa bles so far
is made up of Root. Taft, Fairbanks Shaw
Spooner, Foraker and Knox. while Dolliver
and La Toilette have just appeared in the
ofing Recent developments here would
seem 70 indicate that, whether or not he
has knowledge Of it, Mr.. Cannon's friends
are grooming him for the first place on the
Republican national ticket two years
hence
Whatever other people may think about
Mr. Cannon's intentions, it is safe 10 say
that from this tim forth Candidates Fair
banks and Shaw, who are out in the'open in
the race, and those who are awaiting the
psychological moment to get into the run
ming will keep their weather eyes on Uncle
Joe. They have forgotten that he is 20
years Of age and must look upon him now
as at least q. possibility. This significant
statement was made to-day by a close
personal friend of the Speaker during a
discussion of the statehood situation:
There was a good deal more the at
titude Of the Senate on the sta, lood bill
than appeared on the surface. The Senate
chamber houses a number of presidential
candidates. They were perfectly willing
that the Speaker should be put in the po-
6lIOu cl dppSdIu ing W uSly pubic sSUll-
ment in opposing the admission of Okla
bona and Indian Territory into the Union
unless statehood was given the other two
Territories at the same time. I am of the
opinion that these Senators will be disap-
pointed. The Speaker has made his fight
for two States out of the four Territories,
and, realizing that sentiment is stronger
on the subject than he first thought, he
will hardly oppose a report joining Okla
homa and Indian Territory and permitting
the people of New Mexico and Arizona to
declare separately by vote what their
wishes are. Some Senators have been
playing politics with the statehood bill and
they are the men who really believe that
Mr.. Cannon has his eye on the White House. ="
An important piece Of news having
q gearing on national politics came from
Ohio last week. It was to the effect that
the breach between the Hanna and Foraker
factions had been healed and that Senator
Foraker will be presented TO the next Re-
publican nationsl convention as Ohio's
candidate for the Presidency. Secretary
Taft to the Supreme Court bench or not,
notwithsta nding. The Foraker Presi-
dental boom has been started. and addi-
tional significance is given TO it in that
il is started by men who we're formerly
identified with the Hanna faction in Ohio
politics. Representative ". B. Baldwin.
a member of the Ohio lie ~islature. who
classes himself as a Hanna man, and who
Is a close personal and political friend of
Senator Dick, stands sponsor for the
Foraker boom in a formal statement. in
which he says
There Is nothing to it but Foraker. I
have felt the temper of the Republican
members of the Assembly and they are
- a man for the elevation of our senior
Senator to the Presidency. The mem
bers Of the Legislature will take the initia-
tive IN the movement. We are for the
strongest man in the State as Ohio's candi-
GATE for the Presidency. That man is
undoubtedly Senator Foraker, and it would
he foolish to think Of any other M me in
this connection
There is good reason to believe that
FORAKER Is being brought forward as a
Pre'da7t!al candidate partly 70 head of
Nce-PreSident Fairbanks. Political OBJ
servers IN Washington are awakening tc a
rea..Iation of the fact that unless they
Ret a move on them the tall statesman from
the banks of the Wabash may have the
'!S7N.rLl!dl p!tH III lIs UdSkSI bSICIe CIey
discover that the fruit is ripe for the pick
ing The duties OF the presiding officer
Of the upper house are not irksome, and
Nj, Fairbanks is finding plenty Of time
20 looS out for his fences. That he is using
bis opportunity to good advantage is indi-
Gated b. reports coming from all parts of
the country. Fe is building a personal
machine that reaches throughout the South,
INTO the far West, has some force in the
East, ard is eTrected to prove particularly
Elective IN the middl West,