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Show FAIRBANKS YIELDS TO SECOND PLACE v ; WASHINGTON, March E.-The Star last night said: "Senator Fairbanks will not resist a movement to make him the Vice-Presidential nominee of the Republican party. If the Convention nominates him he will accent More than that, he will not attempt at-tempt to discourage efforts looking to his nomination. ' "It Is only fair to say that no explicit declaration by Senator Fairbanks to that effeet has been made. The Indiana delegation dele-gation In Chicago was convinced today that Senator Fairbanks yielded to tho solicitations of men high In the councils outside of Indiana to take second place on the National ticket "Almost without exception his closest political friends have advised him. In his own Interest aralnst accepting th. Vice-Presidency. Vice-Presidency. Influential Republicans In the Sens e, such men as Spooner, Allison and Piatt, have urged hin to take it on th. ground that ha would strengthen the Republican ticket, especlaly In financial circles, and that his first duty Is to his party rather than to his own political future." |