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Show IS NOT CANDIDATE BOBBINS DECLINES TO RUN SOK H GOVERNORSHIP. H Former Lender of Coal Operators Said H to Be After Senatorial Toga H Has Support of Miners and H Labor Unions. H Indianapolis,. Ind. F. L. Robbing, H president ot the Pittsburg Coal com H pany, who held tho center ot the- H stago during tho heated coal confer- ences lu this city, In which ho broke H away from tho "stand-pat" operators H and stood by the Bide of John Mitchell for tho rcndoptlon of tho 1903 scale, J has absolutely declined to bo a candl- J dato for the Republican nomination J for governor ot Pennsylvania. His fl stand In the coal conferenco placed tho B 250,000 voting Pennsylvania coal mtn- H crs behind him and also gavo him tho support of the labor unions of tho H great Industrial state. The United H States Steel corporation crowd and H other great Industrial Interests In Pennsylvania also wero urging htm to mnko tho race and Insisting that, though certain railroad interests J would lino up ngainst him, tho nom- H lnntlon would be given him on a sll- H Tho railroad Intorcsts have been H turned ngnlnst him because of his H stand at Indianapolis. He not only opposed nnd fought tho policy against ' H an advanco In wages adopted by tho bituminous railroads and their rail- jH road coal companies, but his stand H also was opposed to tho Interests ot H tho great anthraclto coal railroads H On top of that ho assisted John H FRANCIS L. ItOinilNS. (Prominent Coal Operator Who Hai- Do H cllncd a Gubernatorial Nomination.) H Mitchell, In tho Indianapolis confer- encc, In showing that tho rallroada fl owned bituminous coal mines, and J that their ownership brought do morallzatlon to tho trade and to yH Robblns wns born In Klpon, Wis., In ISfiG. In collego ho was an nth-lete, nth-lete, and especially a crack baseball player. Ho attended Cornell to com-ploto com-ploto his education. His athletic dayt he turned to account well. Ho built up wonderful rescrvo energy that hat served him bo well In tho long battlei In Indianapolis, lasting three and tout dnys and nights with hnrdly a break Ho has turned his musclo Into mil Hons nnd Is now known au "tht world's largest coal operator and i multi-millionaire" tho employer ot HH 70,000 mon. In 1890 Robblns was I HH large Individual operator when h HH evolved tho plan of consolidating the coal companies In tho western Ponn sylvnnla district. The Pittsburg Coai company, which has matured out ot that thought, has numerous subsidiary anil allied companies; It has Its own freight enrs, its own docks on the lakes, Its own lako boats, Its own mining towns and It mines, with Its subsidiary companies, 21,000,000 tone of coal a year almost doublo tho nor- mal output of nil of tho mines In In- dlann. Knbblns has lnvndcd Ohio and has established his interests In tho Hocking valley tnrough half n dozen companies, und ho has planted the Illinois Collieries Company In 1111- nols. It hns eight mines, with an out- put of 1, G00, 000 tons a year. He doml nates the coal trade over the great lakes. For many years Robblns was the leader ot the operators In tho Joint conferences with tho minors In In- ' dlanapolls. Decause of his "change IJ ot heart," which caused him to desert fH tho "stand-pat" forces of tho oper- Iftll ntorB, he was oClclally deposed In the rlfjl special conference in Indianapolis and VrmS J. H. Winder, of Ohio, president of tho XPm, Sunday Creek Mining company the Ijjfitfi; second largest producer was elected Wt"9 official chairman, nobblns wns not WfM only deposed but practically ejected Eflt and donounccd. His usual composure was not ruffled In the least. He moved l'-? ovor to tho miners' sldo of tho houso WftiH and sat down between two colored del- I'?; egntes from Indian Torrltory. From (v1? 1 that position he dissented from the stand of tho "stand-pnt" operators, tP"r-" who, ho said, threatened to precipitate tlty a great Industrial panic on tho coun ft try. Ho offered to readopt tho 1903 scalo with the present conditions and ' MCS he has done so and put his men to work. Had It not boen for Robblns' jyl stand a national suspension ot mining tf&r would have been cortnln. MM Though Robblns has declined to bo Hd a candidate tor governor, it Is under stood that whon tho time comes for him to slip Into tho United States senate ho will not show the same re-luctance. re-luctance. And In this plan he will', have tho support ot the miners, who v' U.T they, havo always found htm a.' 'MW hard fighter but a Just opponont mW |