Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1901 — SEEK THE PRESIDENCY. [ARTICLE]

SEEK THE PRESIDENCY.

Foraker and Fairbanks Booms Ar* Launched by Their Friends. Washington special: The decision of the United States Supreme Coj*rt upholding the position of the administration in its treatment of the islands acquired in the war with Spain, has caused two presidential booms to be launched. Republican leaders regard the platform of their party for 19G4 as practically settled by the action of the Supreme Court. As arosqit Senator Foraker, author of the Borto Rico bill, is announced as a candidate. To offset this, Col. New of Indianapolis springs Senator Fairbanks! Theodore Roosevelt, in New York, is watching with jealous eye the preparations of his rivals to wrest from him the honor which he was given cause last year to regard as practically certain. Friends of Ohio’s senior Senator have taken immediate advantage of .the prominence into which his name has been brought by the formal opinions of the justices of the highest tribunal in the land. Before there has been time to digest the judicial opinions in the insular cases some of the practical politicians point out that the Presidents have been .made in the past by the circumstances of a fiame identified with some public measure. McKinley is cited as the most recent instance. The McKinley tar,ff act, they declare, installed McKinley in the White House. The Foraker tariff act, they say, may do as much for another man. Harry S. New, Republican National Committeeman from Indiana, and a power in Republican politics in thjat State, is authority for the statement that Indiana will stand solidly -behind its favorite son, Senator Fairbanks, for the Republican nomination as President in 1904. “The whole State of Indiana will be back of Senator Fairbanks at the next national convention,” he said. “With his nomination Indiana would be assured to the Republican party. At present, at least, he is the logical candidate for the party.” Theodore Roosevelt realizes that unless his campaign for the honor he covets is pushed along with vigor the advantage hie gained over his rivals in the glory he acquired as a Rough Rider will be lost. His preparations are being made, therefore, to fight during the three years intervening before 'the next convention with characteristic vigor to keep his name before the public. He will also begin at once to organize his forces to work quietly in his interest among the leaders of the party.