Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — Mr. Fairbanks the Favorite in the South. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Fairbanks the Favorite in the South.

- (San Antonio Republic.) 9 • • The Southern states will most probably divide in their choice! .! Witlf President Roosevelt out of the rum ning, indications point to Vice- President Fairbanks agMithe favorite. Though Senator Forakerhcd Speaker Cannon will each have strong and ardent friends laboring in their behalf, Secretary Taft, as the Republic has more than once asserted, is net in the running. With half a dozen avowed candidates in the field, It would be idle "to! suggest upon wliom*the choice of the convention will fall; but with the light before us, It may be confidently 'asserted that at the present time condition! appear most favorable for the nomination of Mr. Fairbanks. Re has the "enthusiastic and undivided support of his home (Indiana) delegations'he has Virtually the pledged support of the Kentucky delegation, while un-. questionably he 'win have the support of Speaker 'Cannon and Senator Foraker and their followers should at any moment their names -be withdrawn from before the convention. ~ • With suclr a nucleus, and with the record and reputation of a clean, eonsservattve, conscientious and capable public official, it is difficult at this time to "see how he can fall of nomination. Lord Guram of Kedleston, chancellor OC Oxford has agreed to allow himself to be nophtafod-for-the vacancy among the representative peers of Ireland, caused-by-the death es Lord Kllmiahie.’ -