Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-28
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is a small army of newspaper CORE
spondents, highly trained to their work
and able to improve opportunities now
to make the daily newspaper readers
far and wide more intimately ac-
uuainted with the man who is well in
tho way of becoming the next Presi-
dent. 1t is rare that a successful
candidate for the Presidential nominal
ton has spent the preliminary period
before the convention and before tn"
campaign here under such auspices
Such candidates have generally lived
at some small town in the country
for example Mckinley at Canton;
Parker at Esopus; Bryan at Lincoln,
etc: so that the country has had to
get it's daily pictures of what their
candidates were doing from few cor
respondents of the largest Journals
whence it filtered down second hand to
the great mass of the reading public
But it is now Taft at Washington
Congress out of the way and no longer
monopolizing the Washington date
line, Taft will become the object of
1nuch of the daily chroncling in the
two weeks before the army of cor
respondents pull up stakes and move
away to Chicago.
The doings of the rival candidates
are naturally receiving less and less
attention and in few days little will be
heard of them i'm the current political
news, except an occasional mention in
connection with the forthcoming con-
ventiOn. The moment he gets Con-
gress off his hands, Speaker Cannon
goes packing to his home at Danville,
Ill. There he will be within earshot of
the Chicago convention, but he has no
plans to go up there at that time
Vice President Fairbanks will tarry in
Washington but q few days longer. He
will soon go to indianapolis, but does
not expect to attend the Chicago con-
vention, although it is only about three
hours distant from his residence. Four
years ago he was one of the conspicu-
Gus personages at the Chicago convcn-
ton which nominated Roosevelt and
which put him on the second place of
the ticket. Senator Knox will lock the
big doors of his X street residence in
Washington within a few days and
journey lcisure]y in his big buzz
wagon up to Valley Forge, Penn. He
convention, but he will have his ear
to the long distance telephone oc-
casionaly to ascertain what his follow
ing of loyal Pennsylvania delegates are
doing.
AS a matter of fact the long distance
telephone wires out of Chicago will be
used by number of distinguished
patrons during convention week. There
is hardly a candidate for the Presi-
dcncy but will keep within speaking
touch" as it were of that great con-
vcntion. Perhaps one ought to except
Gov. Hughes, who is likely to keep on
saving wood at Albany. as he has been
doing all winter long; and possibly
Senator LaF'ollettc, who is very in
dependent kind of a man, will not
deign to display such haste in finding
out what is going on in the big hall or
what pins the politicians are setting up
in the conference rooms at Chicago.
In any event Washington, the home
for the last eight months. of so many
Presidential aspirants, is being
stripped of all such eminent personages
save the one who is the real thing, in
the language of the street. He will
have the stage all to himself and is
likely to have for quite a time to come.
For while he will continue coming and