Weekly journal-miner., 1916-01-05
TEDDY IS DEAD "SOT" AGAINST
 FAIRBANKS
IF INDIANIAN IS NOMIN- ATED BY THE REPUBLI- CANS COLONEL WILL DON WAR PAINT.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 3. If the republicans nominate Charles w. Fairbanks of Indiana for president they need not expect the support of Colonel Roosevelt or any consider able support from progressives any where. The fight will be on as in 1912.
 Recently Colonel Roosevelt had h;s attention called to the fact that the Muncie Press, newspaper owned in part by Fairbanks and edited by Geo. B. Lockwood, former secretary O. Fairbanks when he was vice-presi- dent. had printed an editorial stating that Roosevelt had expressed his pref crence for Fairbanks. Had this ap- pcared in any other newspaper than a Fairbanks organ it would at once have been dismissed by Roosevelt's friends as a joke" But appearing seriously in a Fairbanks organ caused an in quiry to be made and the response was dynamic. All of the Colo1els old antipathy to the Fairbanks boom flashed back in a moment. He re- ferred to the alleged libel published in the Fairbanks organ, the Indiar- apolis News, whose publisher, Fair banks cousin, Delavan Smith, was in dicted in the District of Columbia by Attorney General Bonaparte under di rections from Roosevelt. He referred 10 the plotting against him by the Fairbanks clique in Indiana while he was president in his first term which was directed towards nominating Fairbanks or Mark Hanna against him in 1904. The Colonel was not un- aware of this treachery towards him by the followers of the man who find ing they could not defeat Roosevelt's nomination were glad to get second place on the ticket with him for thei- favorite in 1904 Colonel Roosevelt expressed forcibly his opinions Of Fairbanks relations to Big Business. He made it clear that he would re- gard his nomination as the worst possible. Ii was recalled in that con nection that Fairbanks friends were ar the Chicago convention of 1908 seeking from Roosevelt and other promoters of the Taft boom second place on the ticket with Taft. Even then Colonel Roosevelt had taken the measure of the Fairbanks boom and when he was asked from Chicago whether he preferred Fairbanks or Sherman for the vice-presidency on the Taft ticket and it was intimated that unless ne took Sherman that the Fairbanks people might get away with the nomination as matter ot sympathy, the Colonel replied: "ln that case we'll take Sherman"
 The attitude of Colonel Roosevelt himself towards the Fairbanks move ment has been echoed in Indiana where the bringing out of Fairbanks for the presidency and the obtrusion of the old Fairbanks machine on the republican party again in the form ct Goodrich for governor, Watson for senator and Healing and Hemenway as chief bottle-holders, has suddenly halted the efforts to bring the wings O. the republican party together and has caused the activity of the pro gressives who are now organizing by precincts and expect to retain most of the votes they boiled in 1914 and probably bring back many of those who voted for T. R. and the progres sive movement in 1912 when Albert J. Beveridge and Roosevelt carried a greater vote in the State than the re- publican nominees.