The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-06-19
Friends Made Last Desperate
Appeal to Vice President to
Gete His Consent to Renom-
ination, But in Vain.
CLAIM STATE MACHINE
WILL NOT SURVIVE NOW.
Indiana Republican Leaders
Fear Beveridge Will Lead
Younger Element of Party
Into Secession.
ESPECIAL to the Paiiadium.)

Indianapolis, June 19.-With the ad-
journme mt of the republican national
convention at Chicago, yesterday after
noon, leaving the selection of the
nominee for vice-president until today.
there was a veritable avalanche of
kilograms and long distance telephone
calls at the North Meridian street
home of Vice President Fairbanks.
Practically all the messages and calls
came from Chicago, where there ap-
peared to be under way a determined
move to force the Indiana man into
permitting the use of his name for
second place on the ticket Only a
few hours before the vice president
had made a statement for publication
to the effect that he would stand for
the presidential nomination and moth
ing less or else. There were no signs
of wavering in what he had to say.
There was nothing between the lines.
1t was simply frank, out-and-out
assertion that he would not consent
to the use of his name for any other
honor than that which Taft so easily
landed Nobody doubted his SINGER
ity, but the opinion seemed to prevail
among the leaders at Chicago that the
ce-president must go down under the
pressure and satisfy the demands of
his friends.
1t All Sounds Good.
"This pressure business sounds
good" said Beveridge man to your
correspondent. LAS a matter of fact,
it is the final effort to save the Fair
banks machine in Indiana. With the
exit of Chas. w. Fairbanks from active
politics, the disintegration of his ma
chine must naturally follow. Of course
there will always be those who pre-
fer to follow the fortunes of the tall
Hoosier, but the rank and file of his
following, appreciating the fact that
there is nothing to be gained by stay
ing with the wreck, will jump to the
Taft ship and take their chances. Just
watch Beveridge and his supporters
from now on. The delicate, disguised
tactics they have been following will
be cast aside and the fight for control
of the Indiana machine will be made
in the open. Roosevelt is an admirer
of the senior senator, who is young
and ambitious, and you may put it
down that some of those who snickered
when Beveridge was thrown down
ruthlessly for the temporary chair
manship will live long enough to learn
that he is closely in touch with Taft
and the logical recipient of such fav-
ors as may be handed out within the
borders of Indiana. Don't forget this" !"
Was All For Taft.
| A number of Indianians who went
to Chicago expecting to see a fight, or.
rather. with a false impression of the
strength of one named Taft, have al
ready returned. Oscar Hadley, state
treasurer, is one of these, and he was
greatly disappointed.
| 1T was all cut and dried for Taft, "
said he, ''and after l found that out
beyond doubt-which wasn't hard to
do came home. What was the use
of staying?"
| Mr.. Hadley witnessed the Roosevelt
demonstration and declares that it
was a hummer. 1t was a noticeable
fact, too, that the Taft delegates did
not, as a general thing, join in the out
break or encourage it. He saw Alice
Roosevelt and declares that tears
streamed down her cheeks while the
demonstration in honor of her distin-
guished father was at its height.
Mr.. Hadley thinks that this incident
furnished the only real enthusiasm of
ths ooarsatios.