The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-24

vacation. Fairbanks was graduated
from the college and its law course
at twenty and went to Pittsburg, Pa,
where he began reading law while sup
porting himself by serving the As
ISOLATED Press. Later he entered a
law school al Cleveland, supporting
himself in the same manner. At
twenty-five he was admitted to the SUI
preme Court of Ohio, and later he
went to Indianapolis. There he rose
steadily until he became one of the
leading railroad lawyers in the coun-
try. He took a lively interest in
politics but it did not lead him away
from his profession. Wesleyan Uni
versity evinced it's regard for him by
electing him one of it's directors in 1885,
but it was not until 1898 that the Re-
publican party in Indiana, gave him
it's unanimous legislative vote for
United States senator. David Turpie
the Democratic nominee was elected
however.
Indiana had come by this time to
know Fairbanks we'll, and to have full
confidence in him. His attachments
as a lawyer were acknowledged by his
professional brethren, and the Repub-
!ican party had shown it's admiration
and respect for him by making him, in
1892, the chairman of its state COM
mittee. His defeat by Turpie directed
a good deal of attention to his name.
but ii was not until the national con-
vention of 1896, and his appearance
there as a delegate-at-large together
with his selection as temporary chair
man, that he may be said to have re-
ceived an introduction to the Repub-
licans of the nation. He went to that
convention a soundmoney man, and
contributed, in the formative discus
sions preceding the adoption of gold
standard platform, to the declaration
of the decisive policy framed for the
party In that campaign.
After that he was no longer a strang-
err to his party. The Republicans had
won the Legislature of Indiana. in the
fight in which II had given its electoral
vote to Mckinley, and i'm 1897 Fair
banks was elected to the Senate to sue
coed Daniel w. Voorhees,, that Tall
Sycamore of the Wabash" who would
have been reelected indefinitely If he
had lived and his party had maintained
its ascendency. He at once took a po-
sition in the Senate of fitting impor-
lance, being assigned to committee op-
portunities and responsibilities for
which his education and training quail
flied him. He at once became admit
tedly one of the wisest of the party
counselors. He stood by Mckinley in
his effort to prevent a rupture with
Spain. He was a member Of the Joint
High Commission of representatives of
the United States and Canada which
met in Quebec in 1898 and afterward in
Washington, to seek solution of some
questions that have long vexed, and
still vex, both countries.
Indiana made him a delegate-at-larg
to the Philadelphia convention of 1900,
the convention put him at the head of
the Committee on Resolutions, and he
reported and read the platform OH
which Mckinley and Roosevelt were
nominated. His services in the Sem
ate were rewarded in 1908. when In
diana elected him to serve a second
term.
The Senator is of massive but we'll
proportional stature, standing. over six
feet. He is a forcible speaker, but cam
not be said to be a popular one with
the masses, his addresses being too SOL
i'd. There are few men, however, who
can so clearly define issues. He has
the reputation of being a millionaire.
Mrs. Fairbanks is the president-gen-
eral of the Daughters of the American
Revolution. She is a woman of grace
and accomplishments, and her manage
ment of D. A. r. affairs has shown
that she has strong executive ability.
She is known TO many Savannah ladies'
through her visit here during the
Daughters of the American Revolution
Convention two years ago.