Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-07-12
FAIRBANKS AS MEASURED BY
HIS ENEMIES.

II the people want to know who and
what is Senator Fairbanks. the Repub
lican candidate for Vice President, we
commend them to a character sketch
by the New York Sunday World, in
which the Senator is sized up from a
Democratic standpoint. The sketch is
fun of pithy comment which is natur.
ally shaped in such way that Fair.
banks shall not shine as a peerless
leader and grand commander of human
destinies. 1t is contemplated to give
Fairbanks the worst end of the bar.
gain while holding to the general
truths OF his career. Space allows
only portion of this pen.picture OF
the Republican candidate. The most
pointed portion of 1t runs as follows:
He has no amusements and no d.
versions. He doesn't care for horses.
He doesn't hunt or fish. He has no lik.
Ing for the theatre. He Is too strict a
Methodist to play cards. He reads
none of the new books. He has no IA
vorlte author. Pictures do not appeal
to him. although his homes in Wash.
lngton and indianapolis are beautifully
furnished. He takes no vacations. He
has few intimate friends. He Is Just
q clam.
His habits are correct. He doesn't
drink. he doesn't smoke. Once. a few
years ago. he was in a runaway accl.
dent in Chicago. He was thrown out
of carriage and shaken severely.
They carried him into house nearby
and gave him drink OF whiskey.
Months later he was talking with an
acquaintance. DO you drink whiskey?'
he suddenly asked.
Sometimes said the acquaintance.
"'Well.' said Fairbanks, I had a
drink of whiskey once. They gave II
to me when I was thrown out Of car
rage in Chicago. Do you know, can
taste 1t yet. Do you really mean to
tell me that people enjoy the taste Of
that compound?
"'I have reason to suspect that some
people do replied the visitor.
well said the Senator after ma.
ture reflection. 1 assume that that may
he the case. and must confess that
that whiskey once drank impaired a
pleasurable glow; but he added has.
| tily, this must In no sense be consid.
cred an Endorsement of liquor. There
are many temperance people among
my constituents.
He is prodigious Worker. He
says his work is his recreation. He
plugs along at his desk for hours. His
office in indianapolis is In two dingy
rooms in one of the old Office build
ings. The walls are lined with books
The only picture is one of the late Wal
ter @. Gresham.
| Fairbanks Is self-made man, with
some timely assistance from Walter
Q. Gresham. He was born on farm
in Union County, Ohio, on May H.
1852. His father was poor, and young
Fairbanks was obliged to work hard
He went to college and worked his
way through. The late william Henry
Smith. of the old Associated ress, was
his uncle. and when Fairbanks deter
mined to study law his uncle gave him
a place with the Associated Press In
| Pittsburg. There Fairbanks carried
copy. wrote some OF the smaller items
and was a general handy man. He
tells on the rare occasions when he
unbends of reportorlal experiences no
had with Andrew Carnegie and other
Pittsburg men who have since become
famous. He went from Pittsburg to
Cleveland and finished his law studies,
and later went to Indianapolis, and has
there remained"
So Fairbanks is lust a clam! Not
a few people Judge political candidates
by what their enemies say of them. A
leading Democratic paper says that
the Vice Presidential candidate has
worked his way to the front, does not