Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-27
Gets HOME STATE
Vice President Fairbanks En-
dorsed for President at Re-
publican Love Feast.
STRONG PRAISE IS GIVEN
Senator Beveridge Principal Speaker
and Declares War Against Tar
iff Revision Now.

indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 27.-Resolu-
tions were adopted unanimously yes
terday at the biennial love feast of
Indiana republicans urging the nom
ination of Vice President Fairbanks
for the presidency. The resolutions
were introduced by Governor Hanly
and were adopted with round of
cheers by the thousand more of active
party workers of the state who were
present. The resolutions were as fol-
lows:
I'VE, the republicans of the state of
Indiana, in biennial love feast assem-
bled, send greetings and fluctuations
to Charles w. Fairbanks, vice presi-
dent of the United States, and turn to
him for leadership in the pending pres
idential campaign. We often have
trusted him and have many times Civ
en- him high commission.
"His clean life in public and in the
home, his clearness of concept, his
poise of character, his conservative
courage, and his great ability long
nave Appealed 10 US.
Loves the People.
His love of the people, from whose
loins he came, the faith he has ever
manifested in American institutions
and in republican principles, his ripe
experience in public affairs, the sup
port he has given President Roosevelt
in the senate and in his present high
Office, and the memory of the conf
dence and affection in which the late
President Mckinley held him, lead us
| to declare him great and broad and
brave enough to deal with the new
conditions now before the country.
I'VE ask his leadership with ful
confidence in his wisdom and his pa
our highest effort and best endeavol
to secure for him the commission o
his party at the national convention tC
be assembled at Chicago next June"
| No Time to Revise Tariff.
Senator Beveridge presfded and mad,
the principal address. He said in part
After we elect our president W.
will revise our tariff ;any man in an!
party who proposes tariff revision OF
the eve of a national election is eithe
too uninformed or too inSincere to b,
trusted. Tariff revision unsettles some
what the legitimate business of tn
country, but a tariff revision before
presidential election would proloni
that disturbance for ruinous months
Meanwhile a tariff commission shoul
gather the facts and have them read
i for congress.
Amend sherman Law.
eve must amend the railway rat
law at points where it is defective
We must make modern the Sherma
law, which now shackles honest entei
prise because it does not fit presen
conditions. We must prevent owe
; capitalization and the Swindling fC
which it furnishes opportunity and e!
cuse We must drive the canal {
: completion and improve the nation
waterways that the people may hay
the transportation designed by natur
Must End Child Labor.
"And we must and will end the il
2 fanny of child labor IN this republi
. Those who say that it is unconstit
i tional for the nation to stop this N
tional evil deny the authority of Ii
supreme court and the validity of
: dozen similar laws already OH Il
+ statute books. We republicans regal
the constitution as Marshall regarde
. it = the chart of progress, not IL
shield of wrong