The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-06
DINNERS GALORE
At WASHINGTON
President to Give the First One
in Honor of Speaker TO-
seph Cannon.
THEN ONE BY FAIRBANKS
MUCH POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE
ATTACHES TO THE EVENTS IN
THAT THEYsEAR ON PREsIDEN-
TIAL POSSIBILITIES.

TIAL POSSIBILITIES.
Washington, Jan. 5.-(Spl)-In
these feverish days of ante-convention
political skirmishing, aspirants for
Preside ntial honors needs must have
unblemished records as trenchmen.
There is to be veritable orgy of poll
teal dinners within the next few
weeks, and incidentally much impor-
lance is being put to the one given
at the White House in honor of Speak
er Cannon. 1t is the first time that
President Roosevelt has given a dim
ner in the Speakers honor. Political
wiseacres will go long way toward
shaping coming political events. Fol
lowing close on the heels of the White
House dinner will come the one to be
given by the elongated Mr.. Fairbanks,
whose yearning for the Presidential
chair is we'll known. Practically ey-
erybody who is anyone in Washington
has been invited, and among the
guests will be seen a number who are
entertaining Presidential dreams
themselves. There is no doubt that
Mr. Fairbanks guests scarcely VIII be
in good trim again before they are
summoned to the reyels planned by
the portly Mr. Taft, and, not TO be out
done. Mr. Foraker probably will have
a function. The silent Secretary Shaw
also is expected to entertain within
the month, and Uncle Joe will not let
l.. J;rrJ, in, 1nncr hidden hane9th
the bushel. From present indications
the next Republican Presidential can
didate will be decided upon at some
one of these feasts, although the de-
cision, of course, will not be made
known. Uncle Joe may lead in the
political handicap with the appearance
of the blue points, but before the
entree is served MIR. Foraker or Mr..
Fairbanks may be contesting for his
place. In the number and Importance
of the feasts this season. Washington
may well be compared with the palmy
days of imperial Rome.
While the Republican leaders are
skirmishing over the viands for the
honor of heading the ticket in 1908,
the Democrats are somewhat at loss
In the South there has been we'll
defined and extremely popular boom
for Representative John Sharp Will
liams. the leader of the minority in
the House Mr.. Williams this week
put a uuietus on the movement by de-
claring that he had not taken any
steps whatever toward securing the
nomination at the hands of his party,
and added that it might be stated that
he had decided not to axe the place
were it offered him. This droll way
Mr.. Williams said that his principal
objection was the fact that the White
House is too damp and that Mrs. Will
liams declares she is irrevocably OPP
posed to risking the health of their
daughters, Kit and Sallie. in the Chief
Executives home.
Secretary Root is said to be pre-
pairing a statement supplementary TO his
New York speech on the subject OF
Capitalization. 1t is reported that the
Secretary of State is decidedly dis
yruntled at the manner in which the
country received his recent New York
address He had not intended it to
y
believes that it has been thoroughly
misinterpreted by the press. 1t is ex-
planned that the Secretary meant only
to arouse the country to a realization
of its shortcomings in the individual
state governments, a condition which
is arising through the great growth
of commerce and the consequent re-
organization in the lines of general
business He especially desired to
call attention at the time to the danger
of enacting laws that would conflict
with the federal laws or with legisla-
ton enacted by neighboring states.
Because of the wonderful and rapid
growth in all lines of business. organ
fzations of men, known as corpora
tions, have come into existence in or
der to reduce expenses and cheaper
the cost of production, to the end that
the nation may capture its share of
the worlds trade. These big corpor-
atoms properly conducted, have made
the United States one of the greatest
commercial nations in the world. Prac-
ticalIy all their business is interstate,
and because of the so-called trusts
violating the laws of the land, the
States have endeavored to remedy
what should have been left TO the ma
tional government. Consequently
there has been a conflict in authority
that endangers the commercial struc-
ture. not of the individual State but
of the nation at large. The Secretary
believes that the danger OF this sit
uation to existing prosperity is eyi-
dent. and he was seeking TO point out
this legislative error in his New York
address He undoubtedly will seize
upon the earliest opportunity TO dis
cuss further the subject, and make
clear what he believes has been mis-
interpreted
The Panama cocktail, according tc
the report of President Roosevelt, who
says that it is drunk with coffee al
dinner every evening by the great ma.
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