The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-06-11
FAIRBANKS FOR
SECOND PLACE
BELIEVED THAT "HUNk OF FAT
AND STREAK OF LEAN" WILL
CONSTITUTE TICKET.

NEW YORK, June 1.-THE first
| party of New York delegates to the
republican national convention in Chi
cago will leave tomorrow. and will be
followed on Saturday by second party
for upstate delegates Little enthusi-
assn for Hughes is manifested by the
delegates. Astute' politicians Of the En-
pire state look upon the selection of
Taft as certainty and consider
Hughes only as presidential
possibility. Hughes does not want the
office which is known as "the tail of the !!
ticket and has declared that, if NOM |
mated and elected, he would not serve.
With all probability of securing presi |
Dental honOrs for New Workers re-
! moved. the Empire state delegation
goes to Chicago shOrn of any vital in
terest in the action of the convention
and content to play second fiddle
! There is confirmed belief among
some republican politicians here that
Fairbanks will be selected as the tail
of the Taft kite. "A hunk of fat and a
streak of lean one delegate has de-
| scribed the prospective ticket. 1t is
! likely that Fairbanks would be accept
| able to a majority of the New York
delegates although they will attempt
to boom Secretary Of the Treasury
COrtelyOu for the second place, and if
| he can be prominently brought be-
| fore the convention, he will most GER
| tainly receive the solid support of the
! New York delegation.
Taking all things into consideration,
! a good many persons are coming To the
belief that Secretary Cortelyou stands
/ as good. if not better chance. than al
most any of the others who have SO
| far been given Consideration. This con-
| clusion is based largely on the assump-
| ton that Mr.. Taft will be nominated.
If the presidential nominee is to come
! from the west, his associate it is arg
ued, must come from the east This
| year New York is the most important
, of the eastern states for the republi-
cans to consider and it is limited that
! Mr.. Cortelyou. after Hughes. could poll
| in all probability larger vote in this
state than any other man who has been
| thought of for the vice presidency. Mr.
! CortelyOu undoubtedly has many strong
| friends in New York. particularly in
New York city. While there was a
chance in the early pre- convention
| canvass many of them urged Mr.. Cor
| telyou to make an effort to head the
| republican ticket Those who urged Mr..
i COrtelyOu point out also that he is
strong where Mr.. Taft is notably weak,
! that is, with the labor element among
the electorate 1t is perhaps not gener-
! ally known that the secretary of the
! treasury has to an unusual degree the
| commence anu tSlt6lIl ol tue iduOi
! leaders throughout the United States
| He knows nearly all of them person
| ally and they like him.
/ 1t is still a moOted question wheth
er the proposal that Fairbanks should
| be renominated as vice president
| came from his friends or the Taft
| managers There are circumstantial
and deaailed stories af1oat giving both
versions. One thing seems certain. If
the Taft people feel certain when they
get to Chicago that they can nominate
the secretary of war, they will not put
Mr.. Fairbanks on the ticket They do
not want the Indianian except as a
matter of political expediency Two
! precedents will be broken if Mr.. Fair
banks should be renominated. No vice
president has ever been renominated to
succeed himself and no vice presden-
tial candidate has ever been taken
from the same geographical section of
J the country as the head of the ticket