The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-21
Even the Allies Are Beginning
To Look at the Second
Place on National RepubIi-
can Ticket.
SEVERAL GOOD MEN
ARE LOOKED TO.
Governor Guild. Fairbanks,
DoIIiver, Woodruff and Cor
teIyOu Are Given Some Con-
sideration.

sideration.
Columbus, Ohio. May. 2l.-Returnins
from his visit to the national head
quarters al Chicago. Chairman Arthur
| l. Eorys reiterated his confidence in
the selection of Secretary William III.
Taft as the republican presidential
candidate upon the first ballot Ad-
! vised of the issuance of statement by
the bureau Of allies" at Washington
claiming that Taft had but a few more
than 300 votes clear of complications,
Chairman Vorys INDUCED in a laugh
that indicated both scorn and con.
tempt. On being asked If the Taft
bureau would issue a revised tabula.
tion of votes claimed he replied that
none was necessary
| In his stay at Chicago he met the
! supporters of other candidates. and all
| seemed to agree that there was moth.
| ing in the situation but the nomination
OF Secretary Taft. They took it as an
accepted fact and talked mainly of
other things-the vice presidency. for
| instance. This is a subject that the
Ohio candidates managers have stu.
| diously refrained from discussing up
! TO the present time for reasons that
must be perfectly obvious II is now
admitted that 1t is a matter that can.
not much longer be repressed. The
republicans generally throughout the
country are taking IL up as witness to
the gossip concerning Vice President
Charles w. Fairbankss prospects for
! denomination.
Chairman Vorys met Joseph b Keat-
| ing. of Indianapolis, the Fairbanks
! manager. at Chicago, but said that this
question did not come up during their
| conversation. Since the seeming set.
tlement of the race for first place last,
week suggestions are beginning to flow
into the national headquarters con.
cerning the suitability of certain
statesmen and the advantages TO be
derived from favoring certain localL
ties.
Gives EN- Some Rope.
In all conventions those who domi.
nate it are always shrewd enough ia
permit the free and untrammeled del.
egates to do something on their own
account. and the suggestion that this
nomination be made a free -for-all has
already arrived. OF course. If all Of
the candidates brought forward are ac.
ceptable it would be the part of wis,
I dom IN a of ha oh -,
nit the convention to run freely. But
as that eminent student Of men and
conditions political-Georse Barnes
dale Cox, of Cincinnati-is wont to say
in like situations: That's farther
along"
Since the recovery of Governor
Curtis Guild. Of Massachusetts. who
was given up TO die last winter. hi.
dormant boom for the vice presidency
has been revived.
With the waxing of this boom there
is corresponding waning of that Of
United States Senator Murray H.
Crane of the same state.
Gov. Charles p. Hughes. through his
own act and utterance. has removed
himself from the field of possibilities
and there is not so much talk else.
where throughout the country that he
be made the presidential running mate.
II appears almost certain that he will
again be a candidate for the governor.
ship. and this takes him out of the cal.
culation.
TWO Up the Sleeve.
This being the case New York still
has two availabilities in the persons
Of former Lieutenant Governor Tim
othy Woodruff. of Brooklyn. and
George Bruce CorteIyou. secretary Of
the treasury and sometime candidate
for the presidency itself While
Woodruff is well known and favorabIy
regarded at home in New York, yet IL
Is a question whether he will be ac-
ceptable 10 the party at large. He il
best known in these parts, as the car
tOonist pictures him. dudish person.
addicted to the fancy waistcoat habit.
The red shirt of anarchy was fatal TO
Bryan. and no doubt the red vest Of
plutocracy would be equally as deadly
TO Woodruff
AS for CorteIyou. the objection n
raised that II would not sit well with
the common people to select two cab
met officers, especially RooseveIt's
for the first and second places upon
the ticket. The reactionaries would
certainly howl. They would charge
that the administration was proxy
one. and that the real power would be
the present president
II the candidate is 70 come from the
west and il is not to be Fairbanks,
then the name Of United States Sena-
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