The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-02-12

! FOR JOE CANNON
Will BE PERFUNcToRY AFFAIR
ABso' uTELY CONTROLLED
BY THE SPEAKER.
CANNON IS FOREMOST.
In the Race After TAFT Declares
Springfield Correspondence
GubernatorlaI Race Not Al
tracing Much Attention
Special to The Bulletin.

/ Special to The Bulletin.
i Springfield. Ill.. Feb 1.-THE Re
publican state tonyention TO be held
In the spring win be simply 4 Joe
cannon convention" That Is TO say.
II win hive nothing to do beyond Til
selection of delegates at large to tho
national convention, the nomination
loi presidential electors af,d the a4lop-
ton of a party platform. 1t is fore.
gone conclusion that the national
ldelegates will be instructed for Mr.
cannon for president There viii ia
two delegates from each congression
al district, to be selected by conveu
tions held within the district These
district delegates are not subject ID
instruction by the state conventions
but here Is no doubt that every dele.
gate seelcted will be a Cannon man.
that he will be under instructions
from his district convention ID vote
/ for Cannon MS long as he may Be
candidate before the national conven
tion, and that the delegation al
whole will be enthusiastically for
Cannon.
There IL peace In the Republican
party In Illinois, no far as .fyncln
Joe' IL concerned. There win bp no
opposition from any faction III the
party. Singularly enough. ne has the
support Of Gov. Deneen and uf every
other man who has been mentioned
I'm connection with the governorshfp.
Richard Yates. who was against fhe
speaker two years ago, is now Gan.
non man.
rniA ssssanfsaaity srr~ss &-ssx tfssss
fact that there has been steady de.
yeiopment Of Cannon sentiment ANA
the fact that. owing to the popular
conditions that prevail. Mr.. Canuon
stands q first rate chance to Be nonti.
nated for president. The presidential
situation has narrowed down to a
fight between Taft and the field, with
Cannon the foremost of the "ficld.r
A year on less ago there were good
many politicians who scoffed at the
Idea that Cannon could be nominated.
but the same men are now forced 10
admit that bis chances at least are
second to those OF no other candidate
now before the country. Taft In
Icrced to fight hard for his own stae.
Hughes inspires no enthusiasm even
among his own followers; Fairbanks
Is hardly more than possibility.
a my ha ct{ t.x
pennsylvania; but Cannon not enly
has Illinois solidly back OF him. but
70 astutely has his campaign been
that he will have on the
lrst ballot In the national convention
delegates from ALI parts of the union.
and offers the most promising pros
pect of being the compromise csndL
late" of the conflicting elements in
he party.
Thus the Cannon sentiment in mn.
rois Is increased by the general bc.
lief that Uncle Joe" Is ''iive one,
m the presidential race-not mere
favorite SON" to be complimented cn
he first ballot and then cast aside
Tor real candidate. That was the
experience In Illinois in 1883. when
Walter Q. Gresham was the states
But now the situation "a
'imilar to that Of former years when
he state had a candidate who com
landed loyal and enthusiastic SUP
'urt
The state convention in the spring
'fff be made also fhe Dccasfon for
iose feast" The candidates for state
dices will all be here. and a good
iany key note" speeches viii be
iade. II is possible that the adop.
on of party platform will be de-
erred until fall: for a careful psrusaI
the primary law discioses the fact
'at another convention must be held
" the nomination of candidates for
University trustees. and II may be
he policy TO put of the adoption 81
platform until after the primaries
Bye settled the fate Of candidates.