The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-02

I support it in the convention or lsoe l if the Taft cyclone leaves any oppo sition in the Republican party apo.s ground and under sky, which is doubt ful. Fairbanks. the goldbug voted Tor and advocated the nonsense or senu- ing abroad at public expense com mission to chop financial economy Witn the statesmen and bankers or Europe. Mckinley had been as rank silVerlle as Bryan or Teller. and with ms own w, hand writ in the Republican platform of 1888 these words: We arralsh tue Democratic administration for it's nos tilfty to silver. And it was not un- til October, 1896. was very heariy three weeks old that Mckinley got riu of his silver ideas. He did II then in parenthesis, and it was manifest that his heart dictated that u ..o
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 Fancy. the emancipationist, rendered. the Dred Scott decision. and Mchlhiey. the bimetailist signed the act proviuin. for the gold standard, which shows what a tyrant mighty and inexofapIe' circumstance is.
 Fairbanks was a pillar of the admin istration as long as Mckinley lived. The two were much alike made In the same mold, holding the same reilsious faith, and belonging to the same poiltA cal party. Fairbanks supported tne little war with Spain, and then champ toned expansion. He was q party man always. and everywhere lieutenant or Mark Hanna in every party enterprise
 Against his own inclination and con- trary to the advice of some Of ms friends, Fairbanks accepted the noni'- nation for Vice President when the nomination was equivalent to electlon He named his successor in the Senate
 
 and got out of the Senatorial melee over the rate bill. He is classed as reactionary, along with Foraker can non. Shaw. Knox, Hale, E1kins, Scott, and the others. including the Hon. EIihu Root The opposition in the Re- publican party may center on him. lie is strong at the South among the outs" of that section. He will have Indiana, and If the cards are played as skiIlfully as Mark Hanna used to play them, he will get Pennsyivania on the final ballot if the Taft cohorts leave the Pennsylvania ring chance. Martin Van Buren, Thomas Jener- son and John Adams were the oiilS Vice Presidents whom the people pro- | noted to the Presidency. The Constl- | tutfon made Tyler. Fillmore, Johnson and Arthur Presidents. as 1t did Roose- | welt, who was given another term Car | houn expected to reach the Presidency l by the route Van Buren LOOK, put CIT | oumstances defeated his ambition. I There is little doubt that Breckinridge would have reached the Presidency II the North had accepted the Kansas Nebraska bill and the Dred Scott de- l cision as the settlement of the slavery question. But for many years the Vice Presidency has been discredited as a place of political vantage, It has even been put up to auction for cam paign funds by both parties. Polltl- cally. it is a ribbon that one may wear in his coat. George M. Dallas cast the vote that made the Robert J. Walker | tariff of 1S46 and that Is about the only ,act of political virility of wnicn the office nas ever been accused that | I know of.
 k They tried to screw Levi F. Morton up to the point of playing Tom Reed when the Lodge bill to make it illegal for the South to vote the Democratic ticket in Presidential and Congression- al elections was a Republican para mount; but Morton declined, oHerlhe to let John J. Ingalls, do it; but when they heard from Isham G. Harris they abandoned the notion.
 For times of political tranquility ana business serenity the Hon. Charles
 Warren Fairbanks would make moo-
 el President.
 Copyright. by E. W. Newman)