The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-02-21

sides, 1T was added Il tlEa pr ises OF
delegates from Virginia and North 4
Carolina and Florida h ana s4other
States IT. Was sasidt 3ere secured
only by special ne ISStw AGENTS a!p-,
pointed during tha R al atfflnihistfa-
tion Of the = TTsnsA5y ssp6rtfolio,
which Mr.! Shaw iist to3 elindaish on
March 4 4, 4 s, 5 III IN ;sy,ss, : t.
), The Fairbanks people gaye it to
be their opinion speaker Can
non will have yhisg owH State Sof Illi-
nois solidly at his tbASk In the con
Tention and Il; NJ IS; IN
earnest ovor his own Nandidacy and
believes that he will Ee nominated.
OF course the FairbaHks boomers
spoke Of Secretary TaM Of the War
Department, bit theNS&aid that SEN
ator Foraker and S4aator Dick of
Ohio would see to$fft HAT the, Secre-
tary Of War did mt ilge a delegate
from his own >Stata.sS These =. Fair
banks folks were exGSBdingly criti-
cal of Secretary Taftsaat tho same
time admitting thatsst31e' Secretary
was very friendlys 10 president
Roosevelt and tthatsSh president
was just as friendly 9tG his Secretary
Of War. But WtonaTsF a Fairbanks
man can give the Seffh$ary a thrust
he does not hesitate toSdo so, accord
ing to all that was heard yesterday.
Should the Supreme Sourt of; y the
United States declar8&the rate bill
toE be unconstitutionRa Senator For
aksr, in the tjudgmenH8of the Fair
banks adherents, WdHA himself be-
come Ohio's candidatin the. con
wention. He was the9Dnly Republi-
can Senator who spGake and voted
against the rate bill Hsleging openly.
It's unconstitu tionaitt ~. r.. !.
The Fairbanks peopae said that
California and the 8Bacific Slope
States were now I'M Mseh Opposition
to President RooseyelN8and that. thia
opposition would extaM to any, can
didate--wf1o- had thetWApport Of the
President. This feeIhg had been
created by the PresiAent's attitude
on the Japanese, seH9Ha question in
California. SpeakingS the Browns
Vile affair, the FaiHAnks boomers
declared that there 9uld be 1OOi
colored delegates tom Southern
States in the nnYernApn, every Eone
Of whom would be oDposed to! Pres
.ident Roosevelt, andsSSny candidate
the President WanteGs AS to New
York State they WeKR#fstill ryin the
dark, although theySA gIieved that
political machine Wag beingSg.. con-
structed by Republicans friendly to
Gov. Hughes and thA this anachine
would eventually be &sendly,to Fair
banks's nominationS These Fair
banks people we're; ,,i srl VI candid as
they spolse OF the sef FIR. Har,t
Tfinan to Teffabif ifat, B5r 0iei I'm
New York State, and they remarked
that recent events at Albany as di-
rected by Republicans close to Gov.
Hughes were all in the interest of
Fairbanks, Hartman and Odell.
But probably the most candid
statement of the Fairbanks boom
ers yesterday was one in which they
very plainly said that they were
hoping much from William r..
Hearst Strange as this may ap-
pear, they recounted with approba-
baton their belief that Mr.. Hearst
is to try on the Democratic national
convention the same methods which
were so successful with the New
York Democratic State convention
held at Buffalo in September; in
other words, that he was to have a
national convention Of thelIndepend-
ence League which would nominate
him for the Presidency, with a per-
feet knowledge that the Democratic
national convention could not under
any circumstances accept Mr.. Hearst
after he had been nominated by his
own personal organization. Mr.
Hearst, according to the Fairbanks
people, would then run as the Inde-
pendence League candidate for Pres
ident, the Democratic national con-
vention would name It's own man,
and Fairbanks Gf nominated) could
easily be selected. They were very
frank in saying that if Bryan sup
ported Hearst or Hearst supported
Bryan, or Gov. Folk Of Missouri was
nominated by the Democratic ma
t1onal convention and received the
united support Of the Bryan and
Hearst men, Mr.. Fairbanks would
be defeated as the Republican can
didate for President; and they gave
their reasons for this belief when
they said that the opposition to Mr.
Fairbanks would in times like these
make momentous political capital
out Of the fact that Mr.. Hartman,
Mr.. Reid and Mr.. Leeds, three rail
road capitalists, were the foundation
and Keynote Of the Fairbanks boom.
The Fairbanks people said that
there has been more or less Of a
friendly feeling among Mr.. Harri-
man and Mr.. Hearst and Mr. Odell
for some time, and that this was
marked in the recent
campaigns for Governor In New
York and California. Mr.. Hartman
during the campaign in New York
State was outspoken at the Waldorf
Astoria and DelmoncO's in favor Of
Mr.. Hearst. Republicans and others
who heard these commer1ts at the