and prosecution of dishonesty in the post-office department.

Charles W. Fairbanks,

Vice-President of the United States.

Plans for the convention had all been matured in advance with the

exception of the selection of a candidate for Vice-President. By the

time the convention assembled the opinion was general that for

geographical reasons some one from Indiana should be named for this

office. Charles Warren Fairbanks, a leading lawyer in Indianapolis, who

was serving his second term in the United States Senate, was nominated