Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-06-17
VICE PRESIDENT
STILL in DOUBT
"CUMMINS OR FAIRBANKS" SAY
THE WISE ONES, BUT NEW
YORK STILL HAS OPPORTUNI
TY TO CLAIM IT.

q, CHICAGO. June 17.-"Cummins
or Fairbanks is what the Cummins
men are shouting, adding that Fair
banks would not take the nomina-
tion IL rendered and that II he would
take it the administration would not
accept him.
The Fairbanks supporters do not
for an instant accept this analysis ct
the situation, but contend that with
the presidency disposed Of the sup
porters of the successful candidate
will be glad to welcome the renomi-
nation of Fairbanks and that under
the pressure which will be brought
to bear, Fairbanks cannot forbid the
use Of his name.
Despite all this activity, 1t is still
probably true that IL New York
wants to name the vice president, 1t
will be given the opportunity to do
SO. The New York delegation is in
a peculiar position. 1t is instructed
to vote for Charles E. Hughes for
president, and yet several members
of the party, on arrival here, declar-
ed that there was only one Hughes
man on the train and he was half
hearted about it. 1t was also declar-
ed that there was no talk about the
vice presidential situation. Senator
Chauncey M. Depew. one of the "big
four" said that this subject had not
only not been discussed but 1t would
be earnestly suppressed until after
the presidential nomination had been
made. Hughes, Of course, will not
be pushed for the place.
The only strong objection to Sec
retary of the Treasury George B..
Cortelyou is that to take TWO mem
ticket would emphasize the control
of the administration over the con-
vention and make it look like a per-
sonally-conducted excursion. AS for
Congressman James S. Sherman of
Utica, the New Workers seem to
think that he could be of more serv-
ice to the party by running for gov
ernor of his state than by taking the
second place on the national ticket.
Sherman has great many friends
among the delegates outside his own
state, and Congressman j. Adam
Rede of Minnesota today called him
the "man with brains to match his
voice" Those who remember the
hearty tones of the popular Utican
were disposed to cheer.
Fairbanks Possibility.
Vice President Fairbanks possibly
would not be Objectionable to the
Taft interests. But again he possibly
! would be an undesirable patriot for
that particular place. To begin
! with, he comes from Indiana, the ad
, joining state of the prospective nom
inee for the presidency. which is an
objection in itself.
In the favor Of the Indianan, is the
fact that tho allies want him very
badly. They feel that with him agair
as president of the senate they
would have guaranteed conserva
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| tism of the senate, so far as he could
make it so. He would stand. so t.
speak, as a sort of buffer TO with
stand radical legislation, as the allie
call it, from the White House, pro
vided that Taft, IL elected, should at
tempt to carry on the so-calle'
Roosevelt policies literally. Ant
then 1t would be the graceful thin'
for the Tafters to accept one of tn
allies as their chiefs running mate.
| Former Gov. Frank Murphy o
! New JERSEY is another candidate VIII
might be quite acceptable to the Tai
people. He comes from the East