The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-06-16
ROOSEVELT OPPOSES NOMINATION OF FAIRBANKS
Runor Circulated Among Delegates After Seating Had TAX
en- Place to the Effect That President Desires Some 9th
er Man Than Fairbanks as Running Mate for Taft.

on the minority report and use it as a
basis for its fight against Taft. The
| Taft people are for Harry NJ. Dough
erty as chairman of the committee.
The selection of this official means
warm battle early today. Senator
Fulton has Ioomed NJ as a possible
occupant of this important position
as chairman of the committee. The
credentials committee will meet night
and day until it's work is done, but it
is not believed it's report will be ready
until at least Friday.
Tafts' Get Stares.
The center of interest from social
standpoint today at the Coliseum was
section sixty-three in center east gal
turned over to Charles p. Taft, broth
er of the secretary of war, for his
friends and relatives. Every eye
sought one woman who had a seat in
that section-Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, daughter of President Roose-
welt. She had one of the prominent
seats with her husband being here
to see how her fathers program of
naming his own successor is to pro
gress. Another person who attract
ed attention was Robert Taft, son of
the war secretary, who arrived in
Chicago today Mrs. Mark A. Hanna,
widow of the former party leader was
also among the guests in the box.
Convention Cheers Band.
AT 1890, when the musical program
began, the hall was we'll filled with
distinguished guests and visitors and
state delegations. One by one the lat
ter began pouring in with their
badges of different size and color add
ing to the brilliancy of handsomely
dressed women and the hall decor
ations. The first burst of applause
| came when the ruffle drums. in Dixie
time, pre- eceeded the Georgia delega-
| ton with mingling rebel yells and the
band struck up Star Spangled Ban
| ner," bringing out tremendous cheers.
There were about twenty thousand in
the hall when the convention was call
ed to order.
The seats allotted to the Indiana
delegation are exactly midway of the
great hail. east and west and are al
so Immediately in front of the chair
mans table. On the front row of the
| Indiana seat sit Governor Hanly. Sen
ator Beveridge, Senator Hemenway,
CHARLES Bookwalter. mayor of Indiana
| polls, Charles Campbell of Shelbyville
| and Rudolph G. Leeds of Richmond.
| Roosevelt Run,or Starts
When the convention opened at
12:l5, cheers and waving handker-
chiefs greeted Chairman of the Repub.
ilcan Convention Harry S New, as he
stepped TO the edge of the speakers
! platform, raised his hand and declar-
| ed the convention open for the nomin-
alton OF candidates for president and
| vice president of the United States
and to draft a platform and outline
the work of the party for the next four
years. The. noise of the busy conven,
uo9 chamber, with its 10000 dele
gates and visitors. had subsided only
enough for the exercises to progress
! When rumor spread from delegate tc
delegate that caused the widest ey
eitement. IL was to the effect that
PRESIDENT Roosevelt had signified a
desire that the convention refuse tc
nominate Charles w. Fairbanks for
vice presidential candidate. Up tc
this time it has been pretty generally
believed that Secretary of War w. H
Taft and Mr.. Fairbanks would be the
respective candidates for president
and vice president
New Accepts GaveI.
When Chairman New was presented
with the gavel he said the hour has
arrived for representative republicans
TO meet in their national convention
at the end of almost twelve years OF
the most brilliant administration in
the history of the world. There are
those present in this audience who
participated in the party's first con
Vention. The accomplishment of thai
party within so brief space as the
life of men Yet living is almost be
yond belief. We here assert our pride
In what has been done, to approve the
achievements of the past and more