The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-30
CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS.

CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS.
The following description of the
republican candidate for the vice
presidency is so true to life that we
clip it from the editorial columns
of the Washington Post:
Here is the element of conser-
vatism. A grave, and serious, and
potent force, Mr.. Fairbanks will
appeal to the confidence of the
thoughtful. He is representative
product of American institutions.
Sprung from Puritan New England
stock and mellowed and broadened
by the spacious West, he retains
the stern and simple virtues of his
race, while he subjects them to the
saving dicipline of larger standards,
wider sympathies, and more COM
prehensive vision. He is strong
man and safe. He has made his
own way in life, by faithful effort
and clean ways. Studious, en-
lightened, animated by pure am
hilton, he gave his early youth to
industry. He scorned delights and
lived laborious days, so that when
he came to the United States Senate,
in 1897, he came with the approval
of his neighbors and fellow-citizens
and with the prestige of honorable
achievement and established merit.
He is neither trickster nor an ac-
cident. He Is the beneficiary of no
dramatic surprise, or calculated
manipulation, any more than he is
the instrument of malign and hidden
influences. A Republican by con-
viction, a faithful advocate and
champion of his party, consecrated
to the principles and policies of
the organization he concientiously
espouses, Mr.. Fairbanks0is an open
leaf for any one to read. There is
no doubt possible as to his political
ideas, purposes, and hopes, nor any
imaginable question of his pa
triotism or his ability. That he
will lend strength to the ticket is
outside of speculation. The record
speaks for him. His character and
his distinguished services bear wit
ness with convincing eloquence.
He is both safe and stronghold
dignified and powerful. There is
no Office in the gift of the American
people to the duties of which he
would be inadequate no trust
which he would not discharge for
their advantage and his own renown.
We are in receipt OF speech
from Congressman McCleary en-
titled "Why first voters should be
protectionists" and we move to
amend the title so it will read,
"Why all voters should be protec-
tionists." 1t is written in the
pleasing and convincing style so
characteristic of the ''Little School
MASTER" and is one of the cleverest
worded pieces of sophistry that we
have seen in long time. His argu-
ment is based on the proposition
"that you can't have too much of a
good thing" protection is a good
thing therefore you can't have too
much of it, and practically states
that the only revision tariff that
should be made is a revision up
wards.
The people Of this state have
great confidence in McCleary but
we do not believe that in this case
he represents the sentiments of the
voters of the state or his own dis
trict. We do not believe that if
the question was put squarely to
every republican voter in the state,
500 you believe that there should
be no revision of the tariff except a
revision upward?" not one in ten
would answer in the affirmative.
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