The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-06-15
FIND BUT LITTLE
SUPPORT FOR
{. ". FAIRBANKS
indiana Workers laboring
Among Delegates in Chica-
90, Seem to Have Given Up
Hope of Nomination.
URGING HIM FOR
VICE PRESIDENT.
Notwithstanding the Activity
Of Taft Workers Along This
Line, Healing and Others
Are Directing.

Chicago. H.. June 15.-After forag-
ing all day on the hunting grounds of
the enemy. the scouts commissioned
for important service by the hangers
of the Fairbanks presidential boom,
returned empty handed last night TO
their own reservation They had
nothing of an encouraging nature to re-
port. The best the most optimistic
had to offer was that they had found
sullen resentment against the Big
Stick method of President Roosevelt In
attempting to bring about the nomina.
tion of his favorite candidate, Secreta-
ry Taft.
1t was admitted behind the closed
doors of the Fairbanks reservation
that the scouts had failed to bring
home the tidings they desired. but
some satisfaction was derived from the
reports that bitter feeling Is abroad
in the land against a one-man policy
of running the convention. Hope of
winning first place has not been aban-
doned entirely by the vice presidents
managers. although they realize they
thousand of winning.
Like a man playing long shot they
are sticking to the belief that when all
the delegates arrive they will share
their views and resent the weli-defined
administration program here and up
set II. Then may come the only oppor-
tunity they think exists to nominate
their entry for first place.
Working In Squads.
The Indiana republican workers are
being drafted as scouts as rapidly as
they arrive. They are working i'm
squads of twos and threes under the
direction of George Dinwiddie, of
Frankfort, life long friend of the vice
president aud vice chairman of the
state committee of Indiana. Dinwid-
die said tonight that the information
brought to headquarters indicates that
many delegates are in a sullen mood
over the Taft program, and IL some
good leaders can be obtained a fight
could be made on the floor of the con-
vention that would play havoc with
the carefully laid plans to nominate
Taft.
His statement was merely an echo
however. of what the allies have been
giving out for several days. but IL dis
closed the outline of a plan to have
some powerful speakers take the ini-
tiative on the floor against Taft and to
| drill IL into the delegates that they are
being led around by the nose and that
a machine-dominated convention
means the ruin Of the party in the COM
ing campaign.
Big Chief Joe Healing, of the
Fairbanks Indiana machine, who has
managed the vice presidents boom,
repeated last night that the vice pres
ident's name will be presented.
| This fight for president is not ov-
er yet" he declared. We do not in
tend TO quit. and We believe there is
chance for Mr.. Fairbanks to be nomin-
ated.''
Efforts to learn what strength the
vice president will have outside of 30
instructed delegates IN Indiana and
two in Kentucky were baked. Ii was
rumored that his managers have been
assured of some votes from Missis-
sippi, Georgia and Alabama Dinwid-
die stated that deleg ates from Califor-
MIA and other western states lean to-
ward the vice president and would
come to him in preference to Taft IL
they could be shown that he had =
show to winning.
Say Taft 10 Weak.
| The plan pursued by the Fairbanks
scouts was to show the delegates that
Taft is a weak candidate: that he can
not carry Indiana and other states
that are necessary 10 the success OF
the ticket They were very active
during the day among the federal
office-holding delegates from the
southern states. II was represented to
| this class that the chances Of Taft's
winning are not bright and that the
defeat of the ticket means the loss OF
their jobs. Just how far they have
succeeded with this line OF attack was
not known tonight by the vice presi-
dents managers. but they are keeping
it up as a last resort The ground
is taken by Healing and his asso-
ciates that ii is more creditable TO die
/ fighting for the position they have CO.
veted SO long than to quit at the elev-
lenth hour and attempt to land second
place. This view explains the opposi-
ton of Healing. Colonel George B.
lockwood and other Fairbanks man.
ayers to the strong movement of the
rank and file of the Indiana workers
| here to start boom for him for the
vice presidency
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