The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-07
FAIRBANKS AND ROOSEVELT.


founding strength for their candidate,
Vice President Fairbanks, and cor
respondingly astounding weakness for
Secretary Taft and President Roose-
Welt, This was to have been expected
as these two papers for the past few
years have been enlarging and distort-
ing everything they could to favor the
vice president in his presidential aspi-
rations. The Palladium is republi-
can newspaper and believes in fealty
to the republican party as long as that
party shall be worthy Of honest sup
port. and as long as it is headed by
the right kind Of men. But it can not
gulp down and support any man, even
though he is a republican and native
son Of Indiana, who is so darned anx-
ious to force himself by the power OF
a rotten and corrupt political machine.
upon a people who do not want him.
We can not support a man whose
"holier than thou public life is belied
by the political organization he heads.
The Indianapolis Star and News, how
ever. show by their editorials and news
articles that they can support such a
man.
These two Indianapolis newspapers
at present consider that the Kentucky
election, by which that state installed
a republican governor, greatly re-
bounds to the credit Of Vice President
Fairbanks. The vice president during
the past summer, made several speech
es in Kentucky for the republican
party, and now that the republican
party has been victorious at the polls
in so far az tho election Of governor is
concerned, the Indianapolis newspa-
pers are claiming that Mr.. Fairbanks
deserves the credit for this. Not so.
The republican candidate for governor
won because the people of Kentucky
revolted against the democratic gov
ernor who used his high office in an at
tempt to procure the conviction OF a
man without fair trial. A year or
so ago, during the last congressional
campaign, Vice President Fairbanks
tried to pour the oil of his smooth
words upon Mr.. Watson's troubled wa
IN
banks was listened to by the smallest
audience that ever assembled in Rich
mond to hear a republican orator.
much less a vice president. And what
was the result? Mr.. Watson's major
ity in Wayne county was slaughtered
from $500 to less than 400. Do the
Indianapolis newspapers give Mr..
Fairbanks all due credit for this?
We are interested in seeing the re-
publican party at the next election
come out victorious, and to do that it
must have a man of, for and by the
people, to lead it. If that man can
not be President Roosevelt, then he
must be some man whom, we can feel
sure embodies Roosevelt principles.
President Roosevelt and Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks represent two distinct
types of men. President Roosevelt is
not afraid to assail the criminal cor
porations and their criminal leaders.
Vice President Fairbanks has trained
with the corporations all his life and
is favored by them for the presidency.
He Is looked upon as the kind OF man
who will follow "let we'll enough
alone" policy, and hence his popularity
with the corporations. Our corpora
lions as they are at present being man
aged are nothing short of anarchistic
in their makeup. If law prevents
them from making profit at the ex-
pense of the people. they override that
law They manufactured impure food
products because they could make a
greater profit, and that was at the ex-
pense of our health. At present they
imprison thousands of little children
in stuffy factories and foul MINES in
order to make a greater profit by saw
ing the difference between a child's
wage and the wage of grown man.
But they do not consider, nor do they
even care, that that imprisoned child
is being dwarfed, mentally and physic-
ally. by work too arduous for its frau
and undeveloped body and mind. And
the men who do these things in the
name of business, are the men who
want Fairbanks for president-are the
men who have helped bring about the
recent panic in New York and who
tried to lay the blame for it on Presi.
dent Roosevelt.
II those men are allowed, by the peo-
pie of this state and by the people of
this country, to elect a man favorable
TO their policies. the people will have