The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
CAROLUS TRIUMPHATOR
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun
IN o happier statesman than the
III Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks
= returns to Washington. His sum-
mer and fall have been full of cheerful
yesterdays and confident tomorrows. He
has stalked in triumph through many
states. The people have swirled and
surged around his tall and awful form.
Several times military rescue parties
have had to protect him from being over
laid by the crush and to carve out a
passage to his private car or automobile.
If Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma have
not chung to the republican standard with
the tenacty to be expected of commune
titles blessed with the sight and sound Of
him, the school children have been in
variabIy enthusiastic. He has been NOM
mated for President in several democratic
counties. He has affected and been wis
IDLY affected by the eager multitudes.
Tears have coursed down his ivory cheek.
in spite of his just reputation for funeral
eloquence he can unbend with all his lon
gitude. He has uttered repartees and wit
ticisms such as are followed in the Con-
gressional Record by the formula
"Laughter)." He shook hands firmly and
expressively. He mixed with a bon
homie that surprised his warmest admir-
ers. On political and non-political oc-
casions he was as dgnified as the capitol
and as genial as applejack. His ac-
complishments and capabilities must be
regarded in a new light even by his
rivals.
The most significant and yet the most
idyllic passage in all his victorious jour
neys was the beginning of the now stall
wart buttermik boom. AS he moved
through Joe Cannon's state in an auto
mobile the grand master of parliament
tary law would draw up from time to
time before some farmhouse door, knock
gently and ask "the lady of the house,
for a drink of butterwilk. As he slipped
it the breeze would wanton with his
lean and sinewy locks; the cows in the
four-acre lot mooed sympathetically; the
milk pals flashed welcome; here and
there a protected sheep poured out his
woolly note the woodchucks rooted for
Fairbanks the very hens forgot to
scratch, the pigs omitted their ordinary
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the meat law. All nature smiled as Mr.
Fairbanks drained the rural cup and
conversed with the farmers wife on the
high motto: Back to the farm. So the
minutes glided on and the buttermilS
glided down, touching on its way nothing
warmer than itself Mr.. Fairbanks is of
heroic size. Buttermilk and he are con-
genial The amount of that healthful re-
freshment which he can receive is beyond
belief
Every coward and farmhouse heard
the news in time. The winner of the
childrens vote had won the farmers
vote also. And not the farmers only.
Chicago caught the boom. The drivers of
ice wagons and beer wagons were or
ganized into temperate sodalities, swig-
ging and singing buttermilk Beer is be-
ing pushed off its throne. Everywhere
buttermilS is getting its job; and hence
forth who says buttermilk says Fair
banks, They are conjoined blent, coagu-
lated and curded together inextricably
and indissolubly. Meanwhile a rich and
benevolent physician of Chicago is spread
ing the buttermilk boom throughout the
country. His platform and that of the
Hoosier skyscraper are summarized by
the Albany Times Union:
ut is possible to subdue and finally to
destroy the desire for alcoholic stimu-
lants by drinking from three to six ounces
Of buttermilk whenever the desire for
whisky manifests itself.
'"rhe Tactic acid of buttermilll has a
direct and soothing effect on the coats of