Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-10
THE LOG CABIN.
(Des Moines Capitall


that in order to be president you must
have been born in a log cabin; frozen
many winters In garrets; suffered un-
told hardships on the farm; fought
your way thru college by saving wood
for the institution; then to have be-
gun the practice of law and lived the
first year on $500; must have turned
down all the rich clients having plen-
ty of money and accepted those who
couldn't pay a cent. Finally grateful
people made you county attorney, and
after that your progress was steadily
upward. You must marry woman
for love, spurning the hands of all
the rich girls, etc. This is according
to our best tradition. Golfers Weekly
says that Vice President Fairbanks
printed volume in regard to himself
makes up just such a career. Even
the log cabin in which the vice press
ident was born is shown by a 4picture
and Golfers editor says that it is false.
Intimation is given that Fairbanks was
born in big house under proper COM
ditions; that he didn't have to go to
work; that he did not live on corn
bread; that he did not saw wood thru
college and In fact charging that he
has misrepresented himself In nice
big volume printed at his own expense.
The vice president had evidently not
seen Iowa's new Red Book with its
pictures, produced at the expense of
the state. Golfers Weekly is cruel
publication and attempts to deprive.
the vice president of the necessary be-
glnnings of his career. The Weekly
says that he had two uncles who were
his promoters and boomers, and that
when he went into the law practice 1t
was their business to pass out receiver
ships and railway attorneyships to him.
All of this is sad, and demonstrates
that politics Is great game.
If Vice President Fairbanks had a
record like Beveridge his sailing might
be smoother Senator Beveridge was
born in one log cabin and possibly two.
He began to chop wood for the FAM
lily at the age of five years. At six
years he could harness up the roadsters
and drive to town. At seven years of
age he made a full hand on the farm.
At ten years he could read Latin flu
emily, tho having never gone to school.
He had the gift of tongues, He pur-
sued his studies at night in the glare
of the burning tWigs that he had gath
cred from the fields during the day
light hours. AT eleven years OF age
Senator Beveridge made full hand in
the logging camps Of Wisconsin, walk
ing from Wisconsin to Indiana every
day to recite his lessons. While in
the logging camps he undertook to
work great reform by attempting to,
induce the men to cease drinking al
cohol or urging the necessity of put
ting more water into alcohol, If they
were to continue the habit. Since that
date the senator has been reformer.
1t was while working in the logging
camps, at the age of eleven, that the
senator learned the evils of child labor.
from college, His. graduation suit was
borrowed. From photographs taken at
the time this fact was evident At
twenty years of age he entered the
law school and tho the term was four
years, he graduated at the age OF
twenty-one and opened a law office at
Indianapolis, or, in fact, while wait
ing for clients, the senator tramped
over the entire west as book agent
In his capacity as a book agent he
acquired that wonderful insight into
human nature which has enabled him
ever since to have some young man
handy who is ever willing and ready
to telegraph ahead that he is coming.
He could scarcely wait until he was
.hirty-fve years Of age to be elected
senator from Indiana Since that time
he has been reelected. He is in the
young mems class, and in 1925 expects
to be the young mems candidate for
president. The scriptural Injunction,
DO not put your light under bush
Ell" made an impression upon the sem
ator's mind in youth. He construed the
phrase to mean that it pays. to adver-
tise. Fairbanks believes in the same
doctrine, but his methods are not up
to date. His work in the advertising
inc might be called. coarse. Bever-
idge has the technique of an artist.
The statesman who does not keep his
advertising material in good shape is
behind the times, is back number, a
faded leaf, a rejected manuscript.
MORAL: While Fairbanks is court
ing the hired girl in the kitchen. Bev-
eridge will be making love to the sweet
daughter of the family in the front
parlo.-
Politics is a great game!