The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-06-16
FAIRBANKS NOW
FACES POLITICAL
HUMILIATION
He May Not Get the Vice Pres
idency Unless He Speaks
Up in Time, 1t Is Now De-
Clared.
HAS NO SHOW AT ALL
FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
Taft Has That Neatly Tucked
Away Much to the Chagrin
Of indianian-WiII Speak
Wednesday.
Especial Correspondence

Indianapolis. June 16.-As was fore |
cast by the Palladium. it has come TO a
showdown and the vice presidential
nomination has been put up to Chas.
w Fairbanks. A long distance con-
versation with an Indiana delegate who
is on the ground at Chicago. brought
out the definite assertion. yesterday af
ternoon. that the tall Indianian has
had the matter put up to him and that
he is now wrestling with it. 1t is stat
ed that he will give a positive answer
not later than Wednesday morning.
1t is a rather uncomfortable hole
that the vice president finds himself
in. He has no chance for the presiden-
tial nomination, as it is conceded that
Taft has the honor sewed up and laid
away in his bureau of political histo-
ry. The allies are urging the whole
list of field" candidates to stand firm
at least. a good stiff bluff is being
put up in that direction. Fairbanks
knows full we'll that il is the vice
presidency or nothing. If he waits too
long he will be caught in a squeeze
that will put him out of the running If
he consents to stand for the honor he
may be beaten anyway, and there ap-
pears to be nothing in view but the
strongest kind of risk of experiencing
political humiliation. 1t may be put
down as certain that Fairbanks will
never consent to the use of his name
unless it can be proved to him that he
will be nominated. At least there
must be a strong measure of certainty
about it, for he does not intend to
stand before the country as sweep
stakes candidate who was out for any
thing in sight, taking what was left
after the Tafties cleaned the platter
| The vice president has been consulting
with prominent republicans who will
not leave for Chicago until Tuesday
night. and it may be asserted that he
considers the situation as presenting
the most puzzling problems of his ca
reer as politician.
Don't Know Why They Go.
The Marion club boosters will get
away tonight. They really don't
! know why they are going, and it is a
| common sight to see members of the
club laughing over the predicament
| they are in. Not till the club mem
! bers, some four or five hundred strong
reach Chicago, will they know what
| they are expected to boost-Fairbanks
| for the presidency or Fairbanks for
the ce-presidency. Nobody is in
clined to back out, however, as the big
show will be there and they want to
witness the nomination of a presiden-
tial candidate. The club members in
| sist that the program will be carried
| out-that Fairbanks will be placed in
nomination for the presidency, that
Governor Hanly will be starred in his
great nominating speech, that the
boosters from Indiana will shout
themselves hoarse, and that-then-
Taft will be nominated. These things
their instructions and whop 'er up for
Fairbanks for second place, it being
the opinion here that he will agree, al
the last moment, TO the use of his
name. He desires first to know, be
yOnd all question, what the Taft vot
ing strength really is. There still ex
lists that same faint hope that some
thing will happen to break the Taft
combination, but once convinced that
it would be futile longer to hold out
he will go out for second place. II
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