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Show e FAIRBANKS POSITIVELY REfUSES TO ACCEPT THE SECOND PLACE CHICAGO, Juno 17. Tho promulgation promulga-tion of a letter from Vice-President Fairbanks reiterating his "irrevocable determination" not to again be a candidate candi-date for the office ho now holds, was the most important development of tho day in connection with the vice-presidential nomination. The letter was addressed ad-dressed to Mr. Fairbanks 's manager, Joseph B. Kealing, and the full text follows: "Indianapolis. June 16. 190S. "My- Dear Mr. Kealing I appreciate fully the compliment paid me by my friends in their insistence that I shall accept a renomination for vice-president, yet 1113- determination not to bo a candidate again, as announced before tho close of tho last session of Congress through you, is absolutely irrevocable. " My conclusion does not grow out of any want of appreciation of tho honor, for the vice-presidency is an honor which any man may well covet. No one is obliged to step down to it. "I have enjoyed the great honor which came to me unsought and by tho undividod voice of my party, for all of'which T am profoundly grateful. "This renewed expression of tho confidence con-fidence of my friends touches me most deeply. The3' need no nsMirnnce that I havo come to the conclusion I havo reached deliberately, and 1 trust that I the personal considerations which I have advanced will commend them- J selves to their approval. am the more confirmed iu tho wisdom of my conclusion because of the fact that there is no party or public, exigency which would seem to suggest a contrary course. "Accept for 3"ourself and other friends my grateful appreciation of your generous, unfailing and loj'al support. sup-port. T remain, faithfully vour friend, "CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS." A similar letter was written by the Viec-Preiiidont to Senator Homenway. Demand from White House. La Fayette Young, delogato at large from Iowa, toda' received a telegram from Secretary Loob which stated that President Roosevelt had not expressed a desiro to see Governor Cummin's name on the. ticket or that of any other j party. Secretnrj- Loob's telogram was in response to a telegram from Mr. ; Young in which the latter nsked for j an explanation of tho President's atti- 11 tudc on the vice-president inl nomina- 1 tion. I Mr. Young, who has heretofore been I classed among the opponents of Gov- 1 ernor Cummins, said tonight that ho would do nothing to prevent tho hitter's hit-ter's nomination. The developments of the day did not materially alter tho vice-presidential situationj and tho opinion tonight is as it was this morning, that tho nomination nomi-nation will go cither to Vice-President Fairbanks or to Governor Cummins. Tho only possibility of New York's getting tho second place on tho ticket lay in a unanimous movement for some man. The last possibility of such unanimity unan-imity apparcntl3' vanished todaj', and Chairman Woodruff announced that the delegation would not caucus at all. It was said tod.13' that a telegram to Edward Ed-ward Glines, who is regarded as Governor Gov-ernor Guilds personal representative in tho Massachusetts delegation, expressed the governor's intention to stand by his vice-presidential boom until the last gun was firud. Tho lines havo been drawn substantially betweon East and West in the situatiop, and New York being practically out of it, it became an interesting in-teresting question whether tho Fast could unite upon an3' man who could rally also support from West and South. 3n this connection the names of Governor Gov-ernor Guild and ex-Governor Murphy of New Jersey were most frequent' mentioned, men-tioned, The stead v tendenc3- of the da3 how-over, how-over, was plainly toward the selection of a western man, and the names in the forefront tonight are those of Fairbanks of Indiana and Cummins of Iowa, with Fairbanks apparently in tho lead. Tho California delegation in executivo execu-tivo session todav decided by unanimous unani-mous vote to cast its vote for George A. Knight of San Francisco for vice-president. Other western states are oxpect-od oxpect-od to gel. in lino for Mr. Knight. The Californians also count upon the support sup-port of a nunibor of southern delegations delega-tions for Mr. Knight 111 return for the. vote of that stato today in opposition to the Burke resolution. |
