Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-17
TRIBUTE TO FAIRBANKS
NoN-PARTISAN TESTIMONIAL TO
THE VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT.
Party Lines Obliterated - Pleasing
Words From Democratic Leaders
Friendly Political Repartee.

| Political affiliations We're forgotten last
! night at Indianapolis when several hundred
representative men of both republican and
democratic parties assembled at the Com
merclal Club to congratulate Senator
Charles w. Fairbanks, Vice President-elect
John w. Kern, democratic nominee for
governor, sat side by side with Senator AL
bert j. Beveridge ana Senator Fairbanks.
and the combination added enthusiasm
when the leaders of the two parties en-
gagged in friendly political repartee. The
club rooms were crowded and many were
forced to stand. John w. Kern acted as
chairman of the meeting. and called upon
Senator Fairbanks. Senator Beveridge,
Judge F. E. Gavin and Addison c. Harris.
formerly minister to Austria.
Senator Fairbanks was given prolonged
applause when he rose to speak. In his
Introductory address Mir. Kern paid high
tribute to the Vice President-elect, saving
that in the whole campaign he heard no
bitter word fall from his lips, and that he
yielded the same liberty to his opponents IS
he himself claimed under the American
flag.
Hold Faith in Fairbanks.
I'VE are all democrats and good ones,
during the campaign. he said, but when
the campaign is over We add something 10
democracy by remaining American citizens.
faith in the man whom the people have
lected''
Senator Fairbanks touched by the
welcome given him.
"Al words of the human tongue he said.
ARE too poor to express my appreciation
of this kind and generous greeting.
Senator Fairbanks remarked on the lack
of bitterness in the past campaign.
In all my political experience" he said;
mo word has escaped my lips that j would
not utter to dearest friend.
Mr.. Kern has a glorious victory,
he continued. although he was not elected
governor. in winning the hearts of all the
people of Indiana by his high and manly
conduct during the campaign"
Senator Fairbanks then went on to speak
of the value he placed upon home ties and
home friends.
Friends and Neighbors.
THE honors ! value most are not in
other states he said with feeling. They
are here in this room, in this city. in this
state. The honors that abide in my heart
longest not those that ! win in other
realms, but those that | win in the hearts
of my friends and neighbors | value the
friendship of my opponents as | value that
of my own party.
During his talk Judge Gavin said that
the people of the country rejoiced in the
election of man fitted and equipped not
only for the second position of the nation,
but the first well.
At the close of the speeches the recep-
ton was informal. and the members were
given opportunity to personally congrat-
ulate Senator Fairbanks.
Senator Fairbanks and Mrs. Fairbanks
will leave today for Springfield. Ohio,
where the Vice President-elect will visit
his mother during the evening. leaving on
the following day for New Haven for the
Yale-Harvard foot ball game Senator Fair
banks will reach New York Saturday. He
said last night that he might not return
west until after the next session of Con-
gress had been called.