Arizona republican., 1904-06-25
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JUNE 25. 19O4
Charles Warren Fairbanks.

d pie have known that MT. Roosevelt would be the republican nominee for president this year. Moreover, MT Roosevelt is the best known man in the United States today. Furthermore, his election in November is generally re- garded as so certain that many ele- ments of interest are removed from the campaign at its outset. For these reasons public attention has been di- rected chiefly to the nomination for ce-president.
 Charles Warren Fairbanks, nominat- ed for the second place on the ticket Thursday, is unknown of the masses to a remarkable degree, considering his great abilities and eminent public services. The reason, however, Is to be found in his natural reserve and dis inclination to stand in the footlights and play to the galleries, and to a shy ness not usually found in public men. The average citizen. If asked to tell something of the republican candidate for vice-president would say: Fair banks? why, he is the senior United States senator from Indiana. He suc- ceeded Senator Voorhees," and that would be about all. The biography of Senator Fairbanks, prepared under his direction for the Congressional Direc- tory, is in these words:
 Charles Warren Fairbanks, repub- lican. of Indianapolis, was born on a farm near Unionville Center, Union county, Ohio, May II, 1852; was educat- ed in the common schools of the neigh borhood and at the Ohio Wesleyan uni versity, Deleware, Ohio, graduating from that institution in 1872 in the classical course; was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio in 1874; removed to Indianapolis in the same year, where he has since practic- ed his professions; never held public of flee prior to his election to the senate; was elected a trustee of the Ohio Wes- leyan university in 1885; was chairman of the Indiana republican state conven- tions in 1892 and 1898; was unanimous ly chosen as the nominee of the repub- lican caucus for United States senator in the Indiana legislature in 1S93 and subsequently, received his entire party vote in the legislature, but was defeat ed by David Turpie democrat; was a delegate at large to the republican na- tional convention at St. Louis in 1896, and was temporary chairman of the conventions; was delegate at large to the republican national convention at Philadelphia in 1900, and as chairman of the committee on resolutions report ed the platform; was appointed mem Der of the United States and British joint high commission which met in Quebec in 1S9S for the adjustment of Canadian questions, and was chairman of the United States high commissions CTS; was elected to the United States senate January 20, 1884,, to succeed Daniel w Voorhees,, democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1897; was re- elected in 1903. His term of service will expire March 8. 1909.'
 Leslie's Magazine for July has a sketch of Mir Fairbanks which fur nishes some information concerning him in addition to what he has given to the Congressional Directory. We are told that his parents were poor. and that his cradle was a sugar trough. As a boy his life was that Of the average American farmer boy. His father was a wagon maker by trade. and young Charles, after doing farm chores and blowing until he was old enough for heavier labor. became an assistant 10 the elder Fairbanks in making wagons. His parents were de- vout Methodists, and so is he. At the age of 15 he had saved forty-one dol lars from his wages at wagon making. and with this capital he entered the Methodist university at Delaware. He and his roommate did their own cooking. and the fare was meager. It comprised potatoes, mush, bread, and batter r-cakes-mostly batter cakes.
 The magazine writer, MT. E. I. Lewis, tells us that a few weeks after young Fairbanks arrived at college "he fell and split his only pair of trousers be- yond immediate repair. It was neces- sary for him to borrow a pair from a fellow student, and the loan had to be continued because he was denied credit for a new pair at the stores.' His mother made him new pair. He earn ed a little money by odd jobs at car- pentering.
 Readers are apt to associate these experiences with the dim past, and the primitive surroundings called up by this sketch are supposed to belong to the early history of our country. As a matter of fact MT. Fairbanks is still a young man, and that he has made a success in the world is evidenced by the fact that he is now one of the wealthiest men in Indiana.
 After graduating from college he studied law and supported himself by working as a reporter for the Associat-