Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08
BOOM FOR FAIRBANKS
Republican Editors FavorHim
for President in 1908.
Is GIVEN AN OVATION
VICE PRESIDENT BRIEFLY AD-
DRESSES CONVENTION TODAY.
President Schleicher's Annual Report
Read-Addresses on Panama Canal
and Other Themes.
rs GIVEN AN OVATION

vice IIeSlueHI TdlIDdllkS III dli
address, which was applauded to the
echo, welcomed to the capital to-
day the delegates to the conven-
ton of the National Republican Edi-
torial Association. His presence at
the convention was attended by sig
nifcant incidents which made it evil
dent that large majority of the edi-
tors present will favor his nomina-
ton for President in 1908.
The frequent mention of President
Roosevelt's name was the signal fo1
outbursts of applause.
The diplomatic -wielders of the repub-
lican party, the opinion molders and
"thoughtometers," as they have been term
ed, comprising the National Republican
Editorial Association, assembled in annual
convention at 1890 o'clock this forenoon
at the New Willard Hotel In the repre-
sentative gathering were editors of dailies
and weeklies from Maine to the Golden
Gate Of California; from the Icy boundaries
of Canada on the north to the Florida reefs
on the south. Men who have helped to
stem the tide of political defeat or to
flush the exultant and triumphant flood of
victory. Men who create political ideals
and policies, and smash political idols and
threadbare tictions, all were represented
In the distinguished gathering of editors
in the picturesque hall on the tenth floor
of the New Willard today
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tiser of Evansville, N. Y, secretary and
treasurer of the association, called the
meeting to order and announced that
President John A. Sleicher of New York
and would be unable to preside over the
forenoon session. He called Vice President
William S. Cappeller Of Mansfield, Ohio,
to the chair
President Charles w. Fairbanks, who was
to have delivered the address of welcome,
and Senator Chauncey M. Depew of New
York, who was also to have delivered an
tanned, and could not therefore attend the
opening session of the association.
Annual Address Read.
Secretary Bunnell then read the annual
address of President Slicher.
I'VE assemble two centuries after the
first American newspaper appeared. 1t may
that paper, the Boston Newsletter, was
the postmaster of his town. Today any one
of our leading great dailies has a larger
circulation than all combined of the 2O5
daily and weekly newspapers of a century
ago. Now, with 2,4O0 dailies and 10000
weeklies, we have the freest, best-governed.
best educated, best natured and most pro-
gressive and prosperous people in the
world tc in arf no
many newspapers and because so many of
the people read them that we are SO con-
tented and prosperous. Lord Balfour may
continue to boast that he never reads a
daily paper, and he may continue also to
lament the decadence Of England. If any
thing helps a people to reflect 1t is to read,
and we all would be better off II we read
and reflected more and talked less. We are
editorial profession, that we do not take
kindly to admonition ourselves But a
friendly word of admonition is always in
season.
I've have passed through a strenuous
presidential struggle. We have won an un-
precedented victory and have permitted the
democratic party once more to retire to the
oblivion of that simple life which BELTS 1t
so well. The republican party still has a
record and the democratic party still has an
obituary.
I'VE have just inaugurated President
Roosevelt. His temperate and conservative
UeltteQ the solemn occasion. with
that imposing event still fresh In our
minds. let us record a stronger determine
ton than ever to consecrate our best en-
deavor in an effort to sustain the cherished
institutions of the republic and to preserve
them, not only from dangers without but
from the still greater dangers that threaten
from within. Above all, let us not be mis-
led. in this era of the disturber and the
demagogue. by the noisy shouts and tu-
multi of the thoughtless crowd. History
has told US more than once Of q populace
moved by hysteria. After the Mysteries
always has come insanity and, finally, the
torch"
Growth of The Organization.
Secretary BunnelI made a short verbal
report. He said the National Republican
Editorial Association was organized in 1900
at Philadelphia, when the national repub-
lican convention nominated Theodore
Roosevelt as Vice President Since that
time President Roosevelt has grown in
strength, as has this association. Mr.
Bunnel spoke of the unprecedented ma
jority President Roosevelt received at the
last election, and said the editorial as
ISOLATION had contributed to that great
result.
Eastern Republicanism.
DIR. A. E. Winship of Boston then de-