The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-05-29
FAIRBANKS
WON'T TAKE:
End PLACE
But His Friends Are In
sisting That the Vice
President Won't Have
to Play Second Fiddle
Will Try For Senate.
Especial to TIMEs1

lSpeclal to IIMESI
Indianapolis, May 29.-will Vice Pres
ident Fairbanks be back in Indiana
next winter seeking his old place in the
United States senate?
This question is frequently heard
these days in places wher politicians
are wont to congregate. It is creating
much discussion and much apprehen-
sion on the part of Senator James A.
Hemenway, who comes up for re-elec-
ton before the next general assembly.
Hemenway, it will be recalled, was
elected to fill the unexpired term of
Fairbanks when the latter resigned TO
become vice present. This term win
expire on March 4. next, the very day
Vice President Fairbanks will go out
of office
1t is thought by many and feared by
Hemenway's friends. that Fairbanks
will seek his former position If he finds
that he is not going to be on the future
government pay rolls in any other ca
pacity. Should he seek additional SEN
atorial honors, Hemenway might have
to step down and out as he could not
seek his old place in the house from the
First district inasmuch as John II.
Foster has already been renominated.
Should Fairbanks be nominated for
the presidency or should he be renom-
| mated for vice presidency, there would
be an end to the Hemenway fears. For
this reason it is charged that Hemen-
way is back of the Fairbanks boom for
denomination for second place on the
ticket. Papers outside the state charge
that Hemenway wishes to keep Fair
banks out of Indiana politics and that
he is booming the vice presidential gag
for all he is worth. The papers charge
too, that Hemenway fell back on the
vice presidency for Fairbanks. only
after he became convinced that there
was absolutely no hope for the Indiana
man to win the first place on the ticket.
Friends OF Fairbanks insist that he
will be the next nominee for President
and that he will be the occupant OF the
White House for the four years be-
ginning next March. They declare,
however, that If by mischarge he does
not land the nomination for the presi-
dency, he will not accept secondary
honors, even though they be forced his
way, nor will he come back in Indiana
to seize from others honors once held
by him and voluntarily forfeited. They
declare that the talk about Fairbanks
for the vice presidency is malicious and
unjust; that it was started by the vice
presidents political enemies to hurt his
: candidacy for the presidency and that
Fairbanks will not under any circum-
stances accept the nomination for sec
ond place on the ticket. Joseph B. Keal-
: ing, district attorney for Indiana and
manager of the Fairbanks campaign,
has SO declared in a statement issued
; at the Fairbanks headquarters in Chi
: cago.
TIL.
the national convention, next month
! that, they will go to Chicago ana seek
tc attend the convention. Probably
2 2, 900 residents of this city have planned
E tc go. The Marion and Mckinley clubs
!. are organizing Fairbanks marching
clubs and arranging to travel to the
5 convention city with brass bands and
drum corps in special trains. Harry S.
a New, national chairman is worried to
death over the ticket proposition. He
, has written pathetic letters to friends
S in this city explaining that the problem
of his life is to figure how to put 40, 600
persons in a hall holding $4,000 seats.
Fairbanks headquarters at the Audi
e tCrium are now in the charge of Keil-
ing and George B. Lockwood, secretary
d to Vice President Fairbanks Charles
: Henry of Newcastle, a former state
chairman and receiver for the c. c. & L.
= railroad with offices in Chicago, finds
time to drop in every few days and
keep in touch with the progress of the
: campaign. Gov. Hanly is to return
from the Methodist conference at Bal
{ timore within a day or two and will
: start in Immediately on the prepara-
ton Of his speech which will place Fair
banks name in nomination.