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Iff 1 I 48 PAGES PAGES 1 TO 12 VOL. XXV-XO. 31. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ILLINO S VOTERS NAME GANulDATES First Direct Primary for Senator. LIGHT VOTE CAST IN CHICAGO Cullom Gets Nomination by a Large Majority. LORIMER AND MANNY WIN Absence of Business People at Sum mer Resorts Cuts Total Vote. A'oters Strike Many Snags in New Law. CHICAGO. Aug. 4. The Republican voters of Illinois made it known at the primaries today that they wished Shelby M. Cullom returned to the United States Senate. After one of the most spectacu lar controversies ever seen in the state. Cullom won Cook County by a plurality of more than 15.000. while from down state what meager returns are in indi rate that he has secured districts enough to assure him victory over his principal opponent, ex-Governor Richard Yates. Cullora's plurality in the state is esti mated at from 25.000 to 50.000. All the parties in the state held their primaries today and the new primary law passed last Spring by a special session of the Legislature is pronounced an unquali fied success. Lorimer and Mann Win Fight. Of all the candidates, either Democratic or Republican, Congressman William Lorimer, of the Sixth District and Con gressman Mann put up the most spirited campaign for nomination. They both won teir districts by handsome majorities. In the Eighteenth district Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the House of Repre senatives. had no opposition, and his renomination is assured. National Com mitteeman Frank Lowden was up for nomination on the Republican ticket in the Thirteenth and from what Scattered returns have been received, the indica tions are that he has scored a victory. According to incomplete returns the following Congressmen were nominated: Candidates for Congress. First District M. B. Madden (Rep.), Martin Emerlch (Dem.) Second James R. Mann (Rep.), no Democrat candidate. Third F. W. Wilson (Rep.), Willis O Stone (Dem.) Fourth C. s. Wharton (Rep.), Thom as Carey (Dem.) Fifth A. Mlchaelek (Rep.), A. J. Subbuth (Dem.) Sixth William Lorlmer (Rep.), E. J. s::k (Dem.) Seventh Philip Knopf (Rep.), F. Lluhunan (Dem.) Klslith Charles. McGavin (Rep.), Stanley M. Kunze (Dem.) Ninth Henry S. Boutell (Rep.), Quin O'Brien (Dem.) Tenth George K. Foss (Rep.), no Democratic candidate. Eleventh B. M. Snapp (Rep.), no Democratic candidate. Twelfth Charles K. Fuller (Rep.), no Democratic candidate. Thirteenth Frank O. Lowden (Rep.), no Democratic candidate. Fourteenth James MeKinney (Rep.), Allen H. Mertz (Soc.) Fifteenth George W. Prince (Rep.), no Democratic candidate. Sixteenth Joseph G. Graff (Rep.), Rudolph Pfeiffer (Soc.) Seventeenth John A. Sterling (Rep.), J. A. Landes (Soc.) Eighteenth. Joseph G- Cannon (Rep.), E. G. Shouse (Pop.) Nineteenth W. B. McKinley (Rep.), no Democratic candidate. Twentieth H. T. Rainet (Dem.), no Republican candidate; T. A. Wakeley (Soc.) Twenty-first Zcno J. A. Rives (Rep.), F. E. Caldwell (Dem.) Twenty-second W. A. Rodenberg (Rep.). J. F. Breckenrldge (Dem.) Twenty-third F. S. Dixon (Rep.). M. D. Foster (Dem.), F. M. Riley (Soc.) Twenty-fourth P. T. Chapman (Rep.), no Democratic candidate. Twenty-fifth George W. Smith (Rep.), no Democratic candidate. Light Vote In Chicago. In the tempestuous districts in Chicago the vote was large, but in districts where there were no local contests apathy was manifested by the voters and in those sec tions the vote was so light that it pulled down the total for the city to slightly over 120.000 out of a total registration of 376.000. The greatest interest centered in the vote for Vnited States Senator and for that of Republican Congressman in the second and sixth districts, located in Chi cago. The voters cast their ballots for three candidates for United States Senator Shelby M. Cullom, ex-Governor Richard Yates and William C. Webster. The Dem ocrats had no candidates for United States Senator. Tho vote was merely an expres sion of preference, and is not binding on the members of the Legislature. The total vote cast in the city was: Cullom, 36.7S3; Tates, 21,297; Webster, JS71. HOW PRIMARY LAW WORKED Voters Strike Many Snags Where the Fight Was Hottest. CHICAGO. Aug. 4. (Special.) The first election in Illinois under the new primary law. which gives the voter an opportunity to show by his vote whom he prefers for public office, from. United States Senator and Congressman all the way down the list to minor offices that are uniform in every county, was held today. . Dog. days are not a good time of the year in which to hold an election, as was evidenced by the extremely light vote, so light, in fact, that it cannot be said really to indicate the will of the majority of the registered voters. As is so often the case, the "prominent citizen" and the "business man," who are always between elections the loudest in their cries against the "professional poli tician," failed to take advantage of the opportunity offered, and instead of going to the polls went to the many country and lakeside Summer resorts for their half-Saturday and Sunday holiday. Many Hit Stumbling Blocks. To many of those who did take the trouble to vote, the workings of the law proved to be an insurmountable stumbling block. Hundreds of citizens were debarred from voting because of the peculiar pro visions of the new statute. In most cases either the voter had moved since register ing or had signed the petition of a can didate of another party. At previous elec tions if a voter had moved since the last previous election, he could, by getting a transfer slip, present himself in his new precinct as a lawful voter. Today, how ever, under the new law this was not per missible., and ignorance of this provision lost hundreds their -votes. An interesting feature of the first test of the new law was that it threw light on the political affiliations of many citi zens who hitherto have been classed as doubtful. As the voter entered the poll ing place, he was obliged to announce whether he desired a Republican or Dem ocratic ballot. In some instances the voter refused to reveal his' politics and some left the polling place, preferring to lose their primary votes rather than disclose their political preference. Others declared that they were independents and were told by the election officials that they had no right to take part in a par tisan primary. Cullom Wins by Silence. The Senatorial campaign has been a peculiar one, while Cullom maintained a dignified oral silence, though secretly through his lieutenants pulling the strings, in which he is a post-graduate, his opponent, ex-Governor Yates, stumped every county in the state and indulged in a campaign of vituperation. Whether this course lost him votes or whether "Uncle Shelby's" hold on the people was so great as to win their approval in spite of the Yates attacks, the result shows that he has won without the fatigue consequent upon a personal stumping tour of the state. Hard Fights for Congress. In the Congressional race the element of personalities was a large feature through the campaign, and there were open charges of corruption and bribery. In the Second Congressional District Francis W. Parker opposed Congressman J. R. Mann. Parker made his strongest fight on the ground that Mann yoted for a bill that passed the House, but was killed in the Senate, to pay Congressional mileage for an extra session, when, as a matter of fact, no such' expense was incurred, one session having lapped over into the other. This action Was characterized by Parker as attempted graft. This will be the sixth consecutive term in Congress for Mr. Mann. In the Sixth District Congressman Wil liam Lorimer was opposed by Louis P. Freistedt, a well-known contractor. The struggle has been one of the hardest ever waged in Chicago, Freistedt being sup ported by the majority of the local news papers. Lorimer was charged with graft ing in county affairs for years past, but the principal feature of the fight against him was in connection with the meat-inspection bill recently passed by Congress, it being alleged that amendments fathered by Lorimer were distinctly in the inter est of the packers. Lorimer's machine served him well, while the opposition found it impossible to get out anything like a full vote. Helslngfors Strike Fizzles Out. HELSINGFORS, Aug. 4. The strike of the employes of the street railroads and factories is over. All the leaders of the So cialist Red Guards have been arrested and the organization has been broken up. SHELBY M. ': v j )l!P ,-1 "MUJ AWffiPfflt NOMINATED BY ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS FOR UNITED SENATOR AT FIRST DIRECT PRIMARY. HENDRICKS GUILTY IS JURY'S VERDICT Land-Fraud Defendant ; Quickly Convicted. ONLY ONE BALLOT TO DECIDE Culprit ",. Appears Crestfallen When He -Learns Fate. SENTENCE MAY BE SEVERE Extreme Penalty, Five Years' Im , prisonment and $2000 Fine. Conviction Has Important Bearing on New Cases. Indictment No. 2808, returned Feb ruary 8, . 1905. against Hamilton H. Hendrlcka, secretary and treasurer of the Butte Creek Land., Livestock Lumber Co., of Fosall, Wheeler County. Oregoni charging him with a v:olatlon of Section 6383, Revised Statutes, In having suborned George W. Hawk to commit perjury in giving testimony before the Federal grand Jury In connection with the tatter's homestead entry. Trial commences in the United States District Court Friday, July 27, before Judge Hunt and the following Jury: William Merchant (foreman), farmer, Yamhill County; W. 'E. Han dle, farmer, Clackamas County; Eute Johnson, liveryman, . Washington County; J. E. Jack, merchant, Clacka mas County; Arthur E. Kyrk, press man, Clackamas County; ., Julius Kraemer, real estate agent. Multno mah County; F. A. Mangold, mer chant, Marlon County; Elmer l!xon, farmer, Clackamas County; , Thomas W. Perry, carpenter, Yamhill County: Cass Gibson, farmer. Polk County; Bedford Laughlln, hotelkeeper, Wash ington County; Albert Brownell, nurs eryman, Lane County. Trial ends and Jury reaches verdict of guilty on first ballot Saturday, August 4. Only one ballot - was necessary for a Jury in the Federal Court last night to find Hamilton H. - Hendricks ' guilty of subornation of perjury under an indict ment returned against him February 8, 1905. The case was given to the Jury at exactly 6 o'clock. After dinner the jurors organized by electing William Merchant, a Yamhill County farmer, as foreman, and proceeding to determine the guilt or innocence of the man who had been on trial for the past eight days. At 7:50 the vote that decided his fate was taken, and when it was found that the Jurors were unanimous in believing Hen dricks guilty. Judge Hunt was sent for. On account of the delay in securing the attendance of the officers . of the court, as well as the defendant and his attorney, the verdict was not announced until 8:30. Hendricks received the an nouncement with an expression of deep pain, although it is thought he enter tained little hope of an acquittal at any stage of his trial. The best that could have been expected under the circum stances was a hung Jury, as the evi dence seemed overwhelming against him. CULLOM STATES Special Assistant to the Attorney-General Heney, in the closing argument, unmer cifully scored the defendant, which must have had Its influence on the verdict to a certain extent, Mr. Heney was not present when the verdict was returned, as he left for San Francisco on the 8:45 train, and was at the depot when the Jury came in. He was apprised by telegraph while en route of the findings of the body. Hendricks May Appeal. Defendant Hendricks returned to his room at the Imperial Hotel shortly after the Jury came in, and a few moments later gave out that he had retired for the night. Judge A. S. Bennett, of The Dalles, who defended him, also disappeared. It is presumed that an appeal will be taken, since Judge Bennett noted 11 exceptions to Judge Hunt's instructions after they were read to the Jury. The verdict carried no recommendation of mercy, and as the extreme penalty provided by law is imprisonment for five years, together with a fine of $2000, it is thought that Hendricks may receive se vere punishment next Saturday morning, at which time he was cited to appear for sentence. The conviction of Hendricks was re garded by Francis J. Heney as the open ing wedge to the complete annihilation of the defense in the case against Winlock W. Steiwer. Hamilton H. Hendricks, Clar ence B. Zachary, Adelbert C. Zachary, Charles A. Watson, Clyde E. Glass, Bln ger Hermann, John H. Hall, Edwin Mays, Franklin P. Mays, Clark E. Loomls and Edward D. Stratford. It is said that during the trial of Hen dricks much evidence was introduced as sociating these defendants with the un lawful fencing of the public domain In connection with the large pasture of the Butte Creek Land, Livestock & Lumber Company, of which Steiwer is president. (Concluded on Page 2.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER Tbe Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 81 deg. ; minimum, 52. . TODAY'S Fair. Northwest winds. Russia. General strike begins in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Page 2. Czar takes baby Czarevitch to visit sol diers. Page 2. Report that bankers will aid revolution. Page 2. Bomb explosion at Moscow. Page 2. Foreign. Member of Kaiser's Cabinet accused of grafting. Page 13 . Work of British Parliament finished. Page 13. Sarah Bernhardt refused decoration because she doea not pay debts. Page 2. Interesting gossip from Europe. Page 13. Rational. General Wood involved in feud between Army officers. Page 3. Secretary Root on voyage to Montevideo. Page 2. Pan-American Congress discusses Hague conference. Page 2. Politics. Cullom, Lorimer and Mann win hard fight In first Illinois direct oirimary. Page 1. Hearst' e scheme in iupportlna; Labor Federa tion In politics. Page 1. Judge Brewer Bay Roosevelt favors. Taft for President. Page 15. Domestic. Hartiman believed to be buying up St. Paul Railroad stock. Page 1. Russell Sage found to have unsuspected wealth. Page 2. Mm Thaw denies quarrel with her daughter-in-law. Page 15. Italian anarchist captured with dynamite for King. Page 3. Anthony Comstock gives Art League a re spite. Page 3. Important witnesses summoned against Stand ard OIL Page 3. Terrible wreck of electric cars In Ohio. Page 3. Sport. Ewry breaks world's record for standing broad jump. Page 18. Great yacht races thin week at Cowea. Page 18. Portland canoeists organize club. Page 17. Portland Automobile Club working for Im provement of Barlow road to Mount Hood. Page 17. Members of senior four of Portland Rowing Club, bound for Lake vjuinsiRmond re gatta, keep in condition by exercising on train. Page 17. Many California club and colleges refuse to accept Rugby game of football. Page 37. Beavers performances In California please lane, raie is. Portland crajks will compete In tennis tourna ment at Tacoma this week. Page 17. Approach of Autumn causes revival of foot ball talk. Page 17. Joe Gans and "Bat" Kelson to fight at Gold field Labor day. Page 17. Beavers win another game from Seals. Page 18. Pacific Coast. Elk In Northern Idaho dying of mange. Page 5. Washington Railroad Commission promul gates Joint rate order. Page 5. Senator Piles not mixing In politics at Se attle. Page 5. Three young women drowned In South Coos River at Allegheny, Page 4. Attempt to organize farmhands' union In KasterVn Washington falls. Page 5. Harrlman finds no easy grade into Tacoma. Page 5. Idaho Democrats will hold state convention tomorrow; Dubois in saddle. Page 4. Portland and Vicinity. Hamilton H. Hendricks convicted on first ballot In Federal Court of subornation of perjury in connection with Eastern Ore gon land frauds. Page 1. Harrlman system launches greatest adver tising campaign in Its history for Oregon and the Northwest. Page 14. Returning campers bitter over alleged bad treatment by half-breed owner of St. Martin's Hot Springs. Page 11. Business men speak enthusiastically of pro posed Alaska line and promise support. Page 8. Clem Horst enters hop market as an active buyer- Page 8. Anti-foreign disturbances In Mexico due to peons jealousy of Americans' .success. Page 8. Forty business men ready for excursion to Klamath Basin. Page 14. Justice of the Peace Olnen clashes with Food Commissioner Bailey over fining of milkman. Page 14. W. C. Noon takes fight with mother over father's estate to Supreme Court. Page 9. Summer realty market strong and building active. Pave 10. Student exodus from Portland , to various colleges soon to begin. Page 24. , Features and Departments. Editorial. Page 6. Church announcements. Page 33 Classified advertisements. Pages 18-23. Strange freak of F.'ckle Fortune. Page '48. 'Play Ball" by Edward W. Townsend. Page 46. General Grant as a man. Page 43. Too few Oregon trout; too many anglers. Page 38. To Mt Hood in an automobile. Page 30. When Joe Choate badgered Russell Sage. Page 45.. Bears that took their own photographs. Page 45. Sweet peas In Portland gardens. Page 43. Newport's 1006 beauty show. Page 40. Elisabeth's letter. Page 41. How Japanese punish criminals. Page 41. Susan Clegg. Page 40. Book reviews. Page 34. ' Social. Pages 26-27. Seaside news. Pages 30-31. Dramatic. Page 29. Musical. Page 28. Household and fashions. Page 42. . Youth's department. Page 47. HARRIMAN BUYING STOCK EN ST. PAUL? Suspected Purpose of His Borrowing. SECRET MOVE IN WALL STREET - Believed to Want Voice in Its Management. CAN'T PREVENT EXTENSION Control Secured Beyond His Reach, but Much Stock Picked Up De- lay About Floating Bonds for the St. Paul. NEW YORK. Aug. 4. (Special.) For some time past and up till lust recently E. H. Harriman has been a much less conspicuous figure than usual in the "Wall street field of finance. He had other things to think about for the time being and he let Wall street go on in its own particular way without giving it much at tention. He was making the preliminary steps towards a great inroad on the ter ritory of the Hill roads in Oregon and Washington, and then suddenly he was confronted by the problem raised by the disaster in San Francisco. But now he has faced these problems, taken their measure and solved them, at least to his own satisfaction. As a consequence he has become a factor in the stock markets again. Wall street is all agog to know what Harriman Intends to do. He is an inscru table genius, who usually manages to keep his own affairs to himself until he is very much ready to make announce ment of his plans. He trusts very few, and, as a natural consequence, his se crets usually remain secrets indeed until there is no necessity for them to be se crets any longer. These charY.iteristlcs are Just what keep Wall streot constantly Interested in Harriman and willing to give credence to almost any rumor as to what he is doing or intends- to do. Noth ing is too large or too unusual, in the opinion of the street, for Harriman to tackle. He has put through so many big things, and he has generally been so suc cessful, in spite of powerful opposition, that big things are constantly expected of him. Buying Stock of St. Paul Road. Just now the street believes that he is buying very heavily into the other West ern roads, now that he has such a sway over the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific. He is looking for new worlds to conquer. What are they ? Possibly he has been taking up a good deal of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul stock that has been floating about the market. That road is going to build through to the Coast, and possibly he thinks that It would be a good thing for his other railroad interests m the West to have an Important word in the shap ing of its policy. It is true that he has taken the trouble to deny the rumor that he or the Union Pacific had bought con trol of the Milwaukee, but then it is even likely that a large interest may have been gathered up in tne market without EX-GOVERNOR r ;-v: ;... -..V J. - . A . -. H , ':-,si:- i ' t ' liisiilll:. m 5r- . - - . . ;" I : YvV DEFEATED CANDIDATE FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR AT ILLINOIS DIRECT PRIMARY. the actual control passing out of the hands that have been holding it for years. In Line AVith His Policy. . This seems the more likely, because it has been the Harriman policy to buy Into Western roads for several years. He and his friends are an important factor in the directorate of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. They have been popularly cred ited with a holding of at least $25,000,000 of the stock. Besides, the Union Pacific holdings of Great Northern and Northern Pacific stocks are enormous. These lat ter were acquired on the dissolution of the famous Northern Securities Company, and at the market prices for the stocks the profit on the prices that were paid for them is estimated to have been in the neighborhood of $70,000,000 or JSO,000,000. With such large holdings in the Santa Fe and in the Hill roads, it will not sur prise the financiers of Wall street if Har rlman turns up with a large block of the Milwaukee stock some of these days. In fact, it will rather surprise them if he lets this road get through to the Coast and leaves himself without a voice of some kind in its affairs. Wants Voice In Management. It is not thought that he wants control. As noted, he has denied that he has bought control. And besides, the Mil waukee people state most emphatically that the control remains where it was, and that the road will unquestionably be built through to the Coast. It was ru mored that Harriman was after control to prevent the invasion of his territory before it was too late, but this was evi dently a rumor circulated for a purpose, because there can be no doubt about your correspondent's information that the man agement of the Milwaukee has gone into the question of the financing of the exten sion very carefully and earnestly, and has only been prevented from carrying through a plan by the unsatisfactory con dition of the money market. The matter has been postponed from time to time, so that the flotation of the necessary secu rities might be made at the best possible prices for the road, so as to yield It the largest amount of money. Great care has to be taaen about this matter, because even in these days of enormous financing, it is not easy to get in the neighborhood of $100,000,000. It is practically certain, then, that it is a matter of money mar kets, and not because E. H. Harriman stands In the way that the Milwaukee financing has been delayed. Hag Borrowed Heavily. But this is not the only thing that is puzling to Wall street about the actions of Harriman. It would like to know what the Union Pacific is going to do with all of the money that it is reputed to have borrowed from the banks recently on comparatively short time. Of course. Its construction works in the West call for a great deal of money, but then the bankers having an intimate knowledge of the affairs of the road said frankly some months ago that some of the Hill securi ties held by Union Pacific had been sold In the market, and It was considered that the money thus obtained would meet ail construction needs. Some of these days the Atchison com mon stock will undoubtedly receive a 5 per cent dividend. It gets 4 per cent per annum at present, and many of the wise ones think that Union Pacific will show a large block of this stock in its treasury when the next annual report comes out. Then, too, the Harriman party has accu mulated a great quantity of Illinois Cen tral stock, and some think that Union Pacific borrowings may be for the pur pose of taking over some of this stock. In any case there seem to be some big devlopments in the air. Oakland Man Dies Suddenly. NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-Speclal.)-S. H. McClintock, of Oakland. Cal., died sud denly from heart trouble early this morn ing at the Hotel Imperial. He was an of ficial of the Standard OH Company. He arrived here Thursday on business. Short ly after 1 o'clock this morning he was suddenly taken ill and summoned a phy sician, but expired within half an hour. He was 60 years of age. The news of his death was telegraphed to his family In Oakland. RICHARD YATES HEARST URGES ON LABOR CAMPAIGN Wants Credit if Gomp ers' Scheme Wins. FOUNDATION OF LABOR PART, Cannon Target of Federation's Fiercest Attack. AIM IS TO KILL OFF BOOM i Fairbanks Worried by "Uncle Joe's1 Strength Penrose's Trick to Bol ster Up Machine With Roose velt's Name Exposed. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Aug. 4. It develops that William R. Hearst is the instigator of the move ment of the American Federation of La bor to bring about the defeat of all can didates for Congress who will not pledge themselves to support legislation demand ed by that great labor organization. Foi obvious reasons Hearst is not posing aa the leader in this movement, but is con tent that the credit at this time shall go to President Gomners. who is posing as the director-general of the labor cam paign. Nevertheless, Hearst is doing hie best to promote the fight of the Federa tion and would be most benefited should the campaign achieve anything like a distinct victory. By remaining in the background at this time, Hearst allows Gompers to get what ever credit or renown may attach to the labor uprising. On the other hand, if the movement fails, Hearst escapes without a scratch. It is true, his papers are vig orously supporting Gompers and advocat ing the defeat of candidates who will not bow down and wear the labor yoke. This is necessary in order to connect Hearst with the movement, in case it should suc ceed. But the understanding between Hearst and Gompers is to the effect that Hearst, In return for his aid. is to receive the support of the American Federation of Labor, or so much of it as Gompers can deliver, whenever Hearst thinks this organization can aid him In his contem plated raco for the Presidency. Motive for Fight on Cannon. The fight Gompers proposes to make on Speaker Cannon is in the interest of Hearst. Cannon has many qualifications that make him a strong Presidential can didate. If Cannon can be defeated in his own district this Fall, it would seriously handicap him should he go before the next Republican National Convention seeking the nomination. In case Roose velt is not renominated. Cannon would be one of the strongest men In the field, pro vided he is not defeated In the meantime In his own district. With Roosevelt out of the way and Cannon handicapped, there would be a prospect of the nomina tion of a weaker man, and the weaker he Is the better the chances of Hearst. If he decides to go before the people In 1808 as a labor candidate for the Presidency. While the Federation of Labor is very angry with Cannon because of his attitude to wards legislation framed by Gompers, Hearst, has a selfish motive in aiding in this attack. Unfortunately for Hearst and for Gompers, the labor vote In Uncle Joe's district is not heavy, his majority is large and the odds are decidedly against the men who have planned to accomplish the downfall of the popular Speaker. May Compromise on Roosevelt. A Republican politician who recently re. turned from a tour of the Middle West expressed the opinion that the multiplic ity of Republican candidates would come very close to compelling the convention to renominate Roosevelt in vjm. tie nnas that Fairbanks has the Indiana organi zation behind him, has built up some strength in the South and has a campaign under way in pretty nearly every corner of the country; the Cannon boom is grow ing rapidly, with Illinois as Us center: Ohio and a number of other states ex hibit a marked preference for Taft, and a peculiar element In many states, no tably in New lork, looks upon Root as the right man. Even Shaw has enough of a boomlet to attract passing attention. When the clans gather, it is the opinion of this politician that each of the con testants will have such a lollowing that compromise on any one of the foregoing men will be impossible, and in his opin ion Roosevelt would be the only one on whom the delegates could unite. Inci dentally, he reports that republican lead ers in the Middle west exnmit no con cern over Bryan since he has let It be known that he still clings to 16 to 1. Cannon Worries Fairbanks. A peculiar condition of affairs exists In Indiana. It Is admitted that Fairbanks will have tfie backing of the delegation from that state when the convention as sembles. He will be the favorite son, but even this far in advance it is settled that Cannon will be a close second choice and there will be many delegates rady to turn to Cannon the minute It develops that Fairbanks cannot be nominated. Fairbanks Is not likely to have that en thusiastic support that he would desire at the hands of the Indiana delegation. Already Cannon has been traveling through Indiana, conferring with the Re publican leaders, and it is reported that he left the state with the warmest assur ances of friendship and the equivalent of a promise that he will get the Indiana vote if Fairbanks can't win. This Is disconcerting to the Fairbanks crowd and is causing the Vice-President a great deal of uneasiness. Since the President announced that he would make no political speeches in Penn- (Concluded on Fags 4.)