The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-02
sCHAS. WARREN FAIRBANKS


end violated the law of the land every time opportunity afforded He held to the higher law" as does your 'anarch- ist of the present day. Understand me. l have no intention to slnnder or abuse the abolitionists of the middle of the last century. I merely describe them for what they were--men who held that the Constitution of the United States was "a league with death and cove nant with he'll" That was John Browns faith. Is not Brown a saint in our political calendar? Garrison. Phil lips. Sumner. Giddings, Wade, Beech CT, Stevens, Chandler, Wade, Gerrit Smith. and the whole bilin' of them believed that conscience was above all law. and thew advised the nullification of any law that came foul of consci- ence. No doubt they were honest. Ger tainly they were fanatic
 Charles Warren Fairbanks was born in 1852 and reared Methodist and an Abolitionist. His father taught him to work, made a mechanic of him, in- stilled into his character the lessons of self-reliance and self-denial. The boy managed to get an excellent edu- cation and studied law. He was indus trious and had no bad habits. By no means a genius, he outstripped many genius in the race of life What Tom Marshall would have been with Fair- banks conscience. Fairbanks dflt- gence and Fairbanks habits, we can scarce imagine except we know that he could have accomplished anything he set his mind to. Fairbanks was no such orator as Julian. no such lawyer as Harrison. no such statesman as Morton; but his success was as certain as that of any one of them. He mace a fortune at the bar. became candi- date for office, served eight years In the United States Senate. and is now vtce-President of the United States He is a candidate for President ana may attain to that exalted station . The American people do not draft their Presidents from the ranks of the pril- liant and the dazzling-your Clays' Calhouns websters, Douglases, Breck- inbridges, Blaines; as yet not from your Byrans Dobbin makes better race for that great place than Buce- | phalus; the tortoise beats the hare Tn | the, grand Presidential derby Fafr- banks Is in the class of Polk. Pierce. | Hayes and Mckinley. The office or President does not afford the best op- portunity for an American statesman | Jackson, Lincoln and Roosevelt are tho | only Presidents who made the most out | of it. and Jackson made himself nero | in the field before he got to be sage | in the cabinet Cleveland would have been as great as Jackson if his party | had not turned lunatic and forbade him | AS President Clay, or Calhoun, or Weo, ster could have done nothing thai would have given him half the fame | either one of half a dozen speeches he
 made in the Senate. The same Is true of Douglas. It might be well enougf
 to elect Albert Jeremiah Beveridg'
 President just to see what the states
 manship and eloquence he delivers him
 self of in the Senate would be in ac
 tion It is wonderful In the abstract
 What 1t would be in the concrete n' | imagination, however exuberant O
 riotous. can conceive.
 Bnt if Fairbanks should be Presi
 dent the aurora borealis would no | shed it's brilliance over the White Hous
 with his consent. The administration
 would be what the fathers intended
 the attaching of the executive sigi
 manual to documents official Consres
 would govern: representative govern
 ment would be restored to the Ameri
 can republic. The big stick would b.
 split into cordwood with which to cool
 bacon and cabbage; no more Whit
 House diplomas would issue to Knight
 of Ananias The superlative degre
 would be abolished and American pol
 itics given a rest.
 Indiana produced the greatest Of th' war governors of the Northern slo>