The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-11-21
AN APPRECIATION OF
CHARLES w. FAIRBANKS

= Charles Warren Fairbanks
. comes from stock which has
. for forty years produced the
. strongest vertebrae in the back
. bone Of the country; the gov
. erning men Of the Central
. States pioneers grandsons
. and farmers sons. Most of
. them have been tall men, all
. have been hardy. They are the
. men in whom common sense has
= amounted to genius, and in
. those states the tide of emigra-
. tion from the South met that
. from New England and min
. gled with it in the early years 4
. of the nineteenth century. 1t
. is fusion which has caused the 4
. Central States to produce 4
. more Enthusiastically than
. any other section gives evi-
. dence of it, what may be broad 4
= ly called "the American Spir-
. it, 1t is possible, too, that 4
. this fusion OF New Englanders
. and Southerners was the cause
. of the vehement political activ-
. ity Of their descendants.
. Nowhere was that activity
. itself more wildly than in In
. diana, both in the lesser and 4
. the greater politics. OF the
= eight presidential campaigns
, which have been fought since
. General Grants presidency,
. six have seen citizen of Indi- 4
. annapolis the nominee for pres
. ident or vice president on one
= of the two great tickets. Dur
, ing the last campaign Senator
, Fairbanks was the! logical can 4
= didate' Of his party nationally
, for the vice presidency, just as
. he had been the ''logical candi- 4
. date Of his party in Indiana
= for the senatorship in 1902; in 4
A-the latter instaneal it-nas bes
= said, that he was more the can
. didate of the whole state than
, of merely his party. for the
, opposition to him was nominal.
. Senator Fairbanks is, Of
. course, polite. and he is prac- 4
. teal. To be both as practical 4
. and as polite as he is means 4
more than Il practical politl-
, clan; it means statesman. 4
. Moreover. he is one Of the
, most energetic men alive: his 4
, great frame contains an infinite
. capacity for work and for bear
. ing fatigue, but his is an energy 4
. not to be confounded with i'm 4
, petuosity, for he must be eS-
, teemed one Of the shrewdest 4
men in the country. and his
. shrewdness is of that kind
, which means cool head.
, though not temperamental cold
, ness. He is a man whom ii is
. almost impossible to confuse.
= mentally. He sees his point al
, ways clearly: he can not be de- 4
, waited from it and is persistent 4
, beyond computation. I'm a word 4
, he is man who ''makes things 4
, happen.' a man who achieves
, by service to the country. his 4
? state and his party.
, He is Of the modern order 4
, of public men, not Of that older 4
generation Of thunderers. pie
, turesque figures that they were
, living on glitter and orator
, worship, but so many Of them 4
, useful only TO themselves. Sem
, ator Fairbanks has reached his 4
, present position not so much I
, because of his unusual capac- 4
, ity for organization as because 4
, of his public utility. He is
, lawyer. a business man, able to 4
, handle, carefully and heedfully,
, small and large affairs, 10 carry 4
: them through surely-what is 4
. called ''safe' man.
, I'm political management he
. has not been one Of those who I
? bludeeon men in opposition un-
, Ill they are ready to take re- 4
, wards for ':coming the right 4
, way He does not antagonize.
, He moves quietly and surely,
, understanding and dealing with 4
, all compromises which can be 4
, made with honor. He is 4
, peacemaker. calm, steady-ney-