Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-01
Vice President May Have Any
Diplomatic Job He Desires if
He Will Ask For 1t
PLAN TO soLlDlFY INDIANA
Fairbanks Shows Diplomatic Ability
on Recent Official Visit to Quebec
Appointment by Administration
Would Insure Republican Success in
Hoosier State.

Especial Washington Correspondence
Washington. Aug. 1-Vice Presldeht
Fairbanks has Won a great array OF
e.,ifien opintons by his conduct OF MS
n ission to the Quebec ter-centeh Try
celebration There is great satisfa =
ii n among people who have to do
with international relations, that the
duty of representing this country Oh
ficiallv has been in the hands of one
so skilled.
There are indeed few Americans who
measure up more completely to the
continental requirements of a real Dip
lomat, than does Mr.. Fairbanks. In
this connection there has been a good
deal of intimation, both during ana
since the Chicago convention, that the
vice president could easily secure his
choice of European embassies, under
the Taft administration, if he would
just indicate a willingness to take one
of them. He would be, stepping out
of the vice presidency into such
post, rather the most distinguished
diplomat America has sent to the Cd
world in a great many years. The
impression is that he may yet coll
clude to accept such a position ard
continue in the public service.
1t is no secret that an arrangement
by which the entire and enthusiastic
= Noi Tr5 fS1.
lowing could be enlisted for the repub-
lican ticket would be most gratifying
right now to the republican campaign
managers. They do not admit all the
democrats claim for Indiana. but they
do commonly admit that if there is a
doubtful state at the north, that state
is Indiana, and that it is probably the
most promising battle-ground for the
democrats thus far developed in the
campaign. If therefore Mr.. Fairbanks
home friends could be made definitely
to understand that he had particular
reasons to be devotedly for the ticket,
there would be much less misgiving
about the state.
At Chicago during the convention
there was much talk of the possibility
of Mr.. Fairbanks going to the court of
Saint James. There is little doubt that
at one time he could have had the as
surance of the appointment without
the asking. Whether that time is past
Is not known, but talk Of such a con-
sumroat,tn las naturally been revived
by reason ci the felicitous appearance
the vice president has made at Quebec.
If all the rest of the people under
the American flag We're as devoted to
President Roosevelt's anti-race suicide
country would rather more than dou-
bile it's population during the next two
presidential administrations.
When Theodore Roosevelt became
president the Igorrotes were listed as
savages. They were exhibited as
such at st. Louis, and nobody who
saw them doubted the application. But
they have been reading presidential
messages and announcements and
moral lectures and things, and have
got the presidents idea firmly fixed
in their minds. that their business is
TO increase and replenish the earth.
Ut appears from the report of Gov
ernor Pact, that whereas eight years
ago there We're only 10000 Igorrotes,
there are now about 10000. 1t is con-
coded that few have come in by i'm
migration, but vastly the greater part
of the increase is due to natural pro-
cesses of multiplication. The governor
attributes it largely to better economic
conditions. The women are no longer
slaves as they used to be, and the
problem of living is not so uncertain.
The opening of 100000 acres of In
dian lands in what was once Indian
Territory, is expected to be followed
by almost endless trouble for the in
terror department.. Under law passed
by the last sess on of congress, the
restrictions on alienation of these
lands-that is, the old prohibitions
against Indians selling their lands
without the approval of the interior
department-are removed today Here
after Mr. Indian may sell his land to
whomever he chooses, at whatever
price looks fair, without saying by
your leave" to the interior officials.
The redslin is a bad bargainer The
white man always bilks him; and the
white man is sitting around in great
numbers, waiting to get these lands for
about 25 per cent of what they are
worth. He will get most of them;
the Indians will get jags; then the in
terror department will get trouble. The
Indians will presently awaken to real
ize that they have no land and no ra-
lions coming. and that they must work
or starve. Some few will prefer work.
ing.
The real estate agents are said to
have rugged up a most marvellous sys-
tenn for handling the Indians and get
ting their lands away from them at
ridiculous figures. What the Interior
department will be able to do about 1t
is not clear; but there is no doubt that
it will be called on good many
times to prevent alleged frauds. The
lands are very valuable, and the man
ip,1lators expect great harvest.
BOYCOTT U. S. GRAIN?