The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-02

ranked with Carlisle's. Schurz's, Lind |
says and Cockran's. Fairbanks made |
no such speech. but he spoke hundred
times, whereas Harrison spoke but
once, possibly twice. To make d proper
estimate of the splendid intellectual ca
pacities of Harrison one must read his
campaign speech of 1896.
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Indiana went Republican and Fair
banks got Dan Voorhees, job in the
senate. No two men were loss alike
than these two-one a man of magnet
ism and the other a man of detail: one
husbandman. the other a prodigai;
one Democrat. the other a Republi-
can. In the senate Fairbanks was d
party man. A favorite of the admin
istration, it made him the most power
full individual in Indiana He made a
machine, not so effective as Morton's
had been. but good enough for prac-
teal purposes, and Indiana will sup
port 1t in the convention of 1908 If the
Taft cyclone leaves any opposition in
the Republican party above ground and
under sky, which is doubtful. Fair
banks, the gOldbug. voted for and adj
vocated the nonsense of sending abroad
at public expense a commission to chop
financial economy with the statesmen
and bankers of Europe. Mckinley had
been as rank a silverite as Bryan or
Teller, and with his own hand writ in
the Republican platform of 1898 these
words: I'VE arraign the Democratic
administration for it's hostility to sill
YER" And it was not until October
1896. was very nearly three weeks old
that Mckinley got rid of his silver
ideas. He did it then in parentheses
and it was manifest that his heart die
tated that it
BE said to wind, or write upon the
sand"
fancy, the emancipationist, rendered
the bred Scott decision, and Mckinley,
the bimetallist, signed the act provid-
ing for the gold standard, which shows
what tyrant mighty and memorable,
circumstance is.
Fairbanks was q pillar of the admin
istration as long as Mckinley lived
The two were much alike. made in the
same mold. holding the same religious
| faith, and belonging to the same polit-
zeal party. Fairbanks supported the
little war with Spain, and then cham
pioned expansion. He was a party man
always, and everywhere q lieutenant of
Mark Hanna in every party enterprise.
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Against his own inclination and con-
trary to the advice of some of his
friends, Fairbanks accepted the nomi-
nation for vice president when the
nomination was equivalent to election.
/ he EofIltu Ills SuCCRSSOT III the senate
| a most excellent man. by the way-and
got out of the senatorial melee over the
rate bill. He is classed as a reaction
| airy, along with Foraker Cannon
Shaw, Knox, Hale. Elkins, Scott and
the others, including the Hon. Elihu
Root. The opposition in the Republi-
can party may center on him. He is
strong at the south among the "outs"
of that section. He will have Indiana,
ho ordc ra1ox Cit
fully as Mark Hanna used to play
them, he will get Pennsylvania on the
| final ballot, il the Taft cohorts leave
the Pennsylvania ring a chance.
| Martin Van Buren,, Thomas Jefferson
and John Adams were the only
| vice presidents whom the people pro-
NOTED TO the presidency The constitu-
ton made Tyler. Fillmore. johnson and
Arthur presidents. as it did Roosevelt,
who-was fiven another term. Calhoun
| expected to reach the presidency by
/ the route Van Buren, took, but circum-
stances defeated his ambition. There
| is little doubt that Breckenridge would
| have reached the presidency if the
north had accepted the Kansas-Ne-
braska bill and the bred Scott deci-
sion as the settlement of the slavery
question But for many years the vice
presidency has been diseTedited as a
place of political vantage 1t has even
been put up to auction for campaign
funds by both parties. Politically it is
a ribbon that one may wear in his
coat. George NJ. Dallas cast the vote
that made the Robert J. Walker tariff
of 1916, and that is about the only act
of political virility of which the Office
has ever been accused that I know Of
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They tried to screw Levi p. Morton
up to the point of playing Tom Reed
when the Lodge bill, to make il illegal
for the south to vote the Democratic
ticket in presidential and congression-
al elections, was Republican para
mount; but Morton declined. offering
to let John ]. Ingalls, do IT: but when
they heard from Isham G. Harris they
abandoned the notion.
For times of political tranquility and
business serenity the Hon. Charles
Warren Fairbanks would make a
model president.
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