Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-28
SOME FAvoRITE SONS.
Most Prominent Presidential Timber
In Different States.

In Different States.
Regardless Of what the present ma
tional administration may think Of It.
says a Washington dispatch, there are
to be "favorite sons" in several states
The Republican state convention OF
Pennsylvania, which meets June g.
will put forward the name Of Senator
Philander Chase Knox. The indorse-
ment will not be perfunctory, either
The resolutions to be adopted have
already been prepared. The decision
has Just been made and Is irrevocable
They go to a great length in COM
mending the head of the government
at this time, but they go further In
pointing the way in which Senator
Knox has, at all times, held up the
hands Of the administration, and how
he is the logical man to succeed
Roosevelt.
Senator Penrose, who fell heir to
much Of the machine influence OF
Matt Quay, is in the movement in IA
vor Of Knox.
Senator Hemenway Of Indiana, the
manager in that state Of the interests
CT Vice President Fairbanks, is here
today, and makes 1t clear that what
ever may be the prosperity Of the Taft
boom in and out of Ohio, 1t will have
no foothold in Indiana, but that the
Hoosier delegation will be for Fair
banks first, last and all the time.
Still another favorite son Is assured
in the person of Mr.. Speaker Cannon.
Only the other day Senator Shelby
Cullom, on leaving the president and
while still in the shadow Of the execu-
tive office, made 1t clear that Illinois
would consider no other course than
the putting forward Of Mr.. Cannon.
The last state convention in his state
declared for him, and there will not
be another nor will there be a chance
for party expression on the presidency
in Illinois until the next state conven-
ton, which names state officers, and
at the same time names the delegates
to the next Republican national con-
vention.
Yesterday Mr.. Cannon was up at
Albany and called upon Gov. Hughes.
The meeting was watched from here
with the keenest interest. 1t is real
lied that the present national admin
istration has sought to work in with
Gov. Hughes, or to aid him in his fight
for control of the state legislature and
the management Of the political future
of the state, and has been rebuffed.
Now, soon after this exchange of
amenities, Mr.. Cannon drops into AL
bany and calls upon the state execu-
tive. One account Of that call, which
came to Washington today, contains
the following significant paragraphs:
Gov. Hughes was asked whether
Uncle joe came as. a messenger OF
peace or envoy Of any sort from the
White House and whether they talked
national politics.
"'Our conversation was general said
Gov. Hughes. Speaker Cannon came
here last night to attend the annual
banquet of the National Periodical
Publishers association. He was ac-
companied to the capitol today by st.
Clair McKelvey Of Brooklyn and Ar
thur Dunn Of Washington
"While the speaker and Hughes
were talking, McKelvey remarked to
Senator Raines: Wouldn't 1t be
strange If the ticket should be Cannon
and Hughes for 190S?' Senator Raines
later said that he told the governor this
remark, and the latter replied:
stranger things than that have
ha nnenedD