The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-22
FAIRBANKS.
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north. Fairbanks did his devoir in that
campaign after fashion the country ad-
mired. He had contributed greatly to the
done even more for his election. His
speeches had great effect on the sane
electorate, and he was in demand every
where. 1t was now that he made a ma
tional reputation.
The last term of Mr.. voorhees, as a SEN
ator in congress from the state of In
diana. was about to expire and the leg
stature was Republican in both branches
Mr. Fairbanks sought the office of SEN
ator and was chosen to 1t. He became a
member of the senate the day William
became president of the United States.
The president had the utmost confidence
in this brother Republican and brother
Methodist from Indiana. They were ear
nest men they looked on life as a serious
laborious thought to public matters, view
ing them from every available standpoint
They were both Republicans to the mar
row Ihey believed IN the party OF Lin
coin, of Sumner, of Wade They abom-
mated the Democratic party as the widow
of slavery and the servant Of economic
heresy. They believed in the dogma Of
protection and Otehr species of paternal-
ism, and, with a single exception, 1t is
probable that no man had more influence
in the councils of William Mckinley than
Charles W. Fairbanks.
atOr Fairbanks refused to seek political
preferment on the conscientious grounds
that his time was not his own, but had
been bought and paid for by his clients.
1t is true that he made frequent speeches
in hotly contested political campaigns,
but none of them was at the expense OF
a client. and, perhaps, it is not improper
to say that no speech OF CHARLES w falr-
banks ever cost the Republican party a
cent. He always paid his way. No po-
litical committee ever lost anything by
And so it was the same when he en-
tered the senate He declared that his
time belonged to his country, and lie
had a public duty to perform, and that
it was not his purpose to serve two mas
terS. To this end he wound up his law
business and has steadfastly refused all
retainers. He is Well-tO-do man. but by
no means the muIti-miiliOnaire he has
been rated by some people He is eco
nOmical in his personal expenditures but
he is exceedingly generous with his purse.
He never counts the cost when a le&lu-
mate demand is made on his charity or
his generosity.
When Senator Fairbanks got to the SEN
ate there was much of faction in Repub-
lican politics in Indiana BENJAMIN liar
risOn was the states most 1llustriouS cltl-
zen and ablesr man. Gen Harrison never
conciliated an enemy, probably because
he cOu1d not Combativenessi COmbative-
over that strong countenance-mentall ally,
morally, physically Harrison was a fight
mics. He coulds not get along without
them. They We're as much a part Of him
as the spots are a part of the leopard, or
the pigment cell is a part or the k1thlo-
pian Next to Morton he was Indiana 5
Greatest son, and Intellectually he sur
passed even Morton. Thus it was bound
II be-affer Harrison left the White
House-that the Republican party OF In
diana was divided into Harrison Republic
cans and anti-Harrison Republican,.
| Though he supported the Harrison ad-
ministration cordially, Falrbanks was
l never wars what was called a HARRISON
man, and he got to the senate over the
/ onrosifion OF many of that faction
But the Republican party or Indiana Is
/ today united as it has not been since the
1 close to theh big war of 186l-'65. Faction
4 has vanished, and the man VINO dlo II Is
1 the senator from Indiana