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to be fixed. Several men close to the
President profess to have positive
knowledge of the fact that when lie
returns from his foreign travels he
Will become the head of great ma
tional university. which Andrew Car
negie will found hers in Washington. It
has been limited very strongly that the
President would make some public
statement outlining these as his plans
for the next few years before the Chi
cago convention assemblies. BY this
means he will prevent all possibility
Of his being made the presidential
nominee.
Tnfts Circumstances.
1t is impossible to say what effect
the defeat OF Secretary Taft for the
nomination, If this should become rec
ognized as a fact accomplished prior
to the assembling Of the convention,
would have upon the Presidents plans
He does not believe that Secretary Taft
will fail to win the nomination, and
those WIN should know the President
best do not believe that the nomination
of any other candidate would cause Mr.
Roosevelt to swerve in his determine
ton not to be a candidate again.
AS to whether Secretary Taft Will be
the nominee, there is doubt-grayo
doubt. Ills chances are the best. They
are not good enough to make his se-
lection anything like foregone con-
clusion. There Will be great many
ccntestng delegations at Chicago. In
every case the contestants will be dele
gates opposed to the nomination of the
war secretary.
Illinois, Pennsylvania and Indiana, a
total OF l42 delegates, instructed for
Knox, Cannon and Fairbanks, respect
lively, Will form nucleus around which
all the antl-Taft delegates may rally,
possibly to begin fight which will re-
suit disastrously for the administra-
ton candidate.
Allies Hnvcn't "settled."
peculiar feature OF the campaign
of the "allles" is that they do not seem
to have centred upon any candidate.
AS has been SO often said In this cor
respondence. It is simply the field
against Taft. and his opponents APP
pear to have paid much more atten-
ton to accomplishing his defeat than
to selecting the candidate to go on the
ticket in case this contamination Is
brought about.
But little has been heard concerning
the probabilities as to tho second place
on the Republican ticket Edward 3.
| Clark, Washington correspondent OF
the Chicago Post. following the gen
eral suggestion of the Post, n Repub-
| lican paper. that 1t would he wise for
the Republicans to put Southern man
on the ticket this year, mentions the
name of Judge l.. l., Lewis, OF Rich
mond, as promising presidential TIM
Der Mr.. Clark says:
with Secretary Taft at the head OF
| the ticket there Is an excellent light
ing chance IN kentucky, North Carolina
and Virginia. Tho Republican party
is much stronger numerically In Wiz
ginia and North Carolina than the PEG.
| pie Of the North realize. OF course
| II is generally understood that KIN
lucky can be carried BY the right Re-
publican in political year of the right
kind, There are three Southern States
| therefore, In WHICH Mr.. Taft, who u
exceedingly popular south OF tho line
has a fair fighting chance OF success
With u Southerner OF standing on thf
ticket the Prospect for carrying these
States would pass from the mart
lighting chance class,
Why judge Lewis IL strong,
One or the most promising Nir-
y sinians, u man born TO the state, Ol