The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-04-02
TAFT MUST GIVE
UP TRIP TO fight.
FRIENDS TELL HIM He MUST
STAY AT HOME AND FIGHT
FORAKER.
FEAR RESULT IN OHIO
II Secretary Of War Goes On His
Intended Philippine Cruise
Fairbanks Boom is Active
In Indiana.


Washington, April l-Secretary
Taft may abandon his intended trip
to the Philippines this fail. His pres
ent hackers and close advisers in
Washington will urge him to forego
this long journey and stay here and
make a fight for the presidential
nomination.
Mr.. Taft's friends are thogoughly
aroused and plan to push his presi-
Dental boom with all the vigor at
their command. They believe that 1t
would be suicidal to Mr.. Tafts poiti-
cal ambitions 10 leave the country at
the very time The struggle in Ohio is
or to determine whether his name or
that of Foraker shan be presented to
the Republican national convention.
See Forake. Strategy.
According to the arrangement Of
Senator Foraker the primary fight for
the honor Of being Ohis's favor.te
son will' take place In November next.
Mr.. Taft now plans to he in the
Philippines that month. His chief
object in going to Manila is to attend
the opening of the Philippine assem-
bly,, which conyenes In October.
Meantime Senator Foraker is pre-
pairing to make things lively for Taft
in his home state. The senate mill
tary committee will adjourn its
Brownsville inquiry this week for
fortnight or more Foraker will go
al once TO. Ohio and repair his pollti-
cal fences and make new alliances
for the elimination of Taft senti
nent.
Foraker is breathing open defiance
tc Taft He SAYS frankly that there
can be no COMPROMISED that the fight
must be TO the end. Although his
talk is very warlike. Foraker has had
a couple If peaceful conferences in
the last two days with Elmer Dover
manager of the Taft campaign. Do
vcr is sill confident that there viii
be an amicable adjustment
Fairbanks Boomer laxative.
Jim" Hemenway, senator from In
diana, is onc of the most indefati-
gable OF the Fairbanks boomers"
"The political life of any man in
Indiana would moi be long If he op'
posed the nomination of Vice Pre5i-
dent Fairbanks for the presidency
he said tonight. Indiana is for Mr.
Fairbanks first. last, and all the time.
Not the slightest semblance of fight
will be made on him prior to or dur
ing the convention Mr. Fairbanks is
not a man who arouses so much
shouting as some do, but ihe people
believe in him. He has always been
unselfsh. and since his election to
the senate has abandoned his law
practice entirely, devoting hs abili-
ties and energies entirely to the pub
lie service.
In my opinion he has an excellent |
chance of receiving the nomna ion !
af the hands of the next Republican |
convention. Mr. Fairbanks is an ad
ministratipn man and always has |
been"
What Mr.. Hemenway has to say |
about Mr. Fairbanks as a consistent
apostle of Roosevelt will excite
amusement of the sophisticated.
Senator Scott, of West Virginia,
who in homely phrase. is looking
for a place to light has DISPLAYED |
his perturbed state of mind to one
interviewer.
Senator Taft has been aptly de-
scribed as a Fairbanks man with |
Taft leanings" He is waiting for the |
psychological moment to jump.