The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-12-27
Address Was One of Most EIo-
quent Ever Heard in Indiana
And He Aroused Intense En-
thusiasm With His Remarks
FORMAL CAMPAIGN OPENING
REPUBLICAN BATTLE FOR CON.
TiNuED SUPREMACY IN INDl-
ANA WAS SOUNDED AND PoLiTI-
CAL WHEELS SET TO GRINDING.

lhuldhdpoilS, lHa., bec~ - I2e
President Charles Warren Fairbanks
was indorsed for the republican pres
identiai nomination at the biennial
midwinter love feast of the republi-
cans held yesterday afternoon at the
Ciaypool hotel The Endorsement was
intended by his managers as the for
NAL launching of his boom.
Two years ago Senator Beveridge. IN
an eloquent speech from the same plat
form on which he appeared yesterday.
declared that Indiana would support
the vice president for president. 1t
fell to his lot again yesterday after
noon, as chairman of the lovefeast. 10
take the lead in launching the boom.
Governor Hanly offered the resold-
ton indorsing the vice president. As
he finished reading Ii Captain Wal
lace Foster. the grizzIed flag man. of
Indiana. let drop from n balcony rail
ing above his head a large banner,
containing the words. Charles w.
Fairbanks for President in 1903"
There was some applause when Gov
ernor Hanly moved the adoption of th4
resolution endorsing Fairbanks.
Senator Hemenway. Congressman
Watson, Lieutenant Governor Miller,
former Attorney General c. w. Miller.
former Attorney General w. l.. Taylor
and other speakers praised the vice
president.
George Dinwiddie. of Frankfor',
vice chairman of the state committee.
I'm the absence of Chairman Goodrich.
presented Senator Beyeridge as the
presiding officer. Senator Beveridge
made a characteristic speech and was
received with enthusiasm.
Must Enforce Laws.
Among other things. Mr. Beveridge
said: There is a present murnur by
certain men against the republican
policy of writing honesty into our stat
utes-a restlessness under impartial ex-
ecution of the country's laws Some
politicians counsel a truce to the war
we wage against evil practices. and
those who profit by those practices are
declaring that We have gone too far
already. Yet what man proposes the
repeal of any of the laws that we have
passed in working out the moral re-
generation of American business:
| What man proposes the repeal If
the law establishing the department of
commerce and labor. the pure food
law. the railroad rate law. or any OF
those historic statutes which have for
| their end the placing Of American
prosperity on unshakable foundations.
And what public man will openly de-
clare that our laws shall not be enforc-
ed equally: What public man Will
announce a policy of law neglect:
We mean to go on until the rules
of common honesty. by which the av-
erage man does business. shall be the
rules by which the exceptional man
also must do business: go on until the
ravishing of the nations resources by
land and timber robbers shall be i'm
possible: until desperate adventures
| in high finance. which ruin investors.
oppress the people and shake the con-
/ fdence of the business world shall be
made difficult and dangerous; until
there can be no more looting of the
Alton no more secret rebates. by
| which the few wickedIy wax in wealth
&
/ til as a people We have achieved IN
our everyday life that righteousness
| by which and by which alone since the
world began nation is exalted.
| Work to BE Done.
There is still work ahead We
must amend the railway rate law at
points where 1t Is defective. We
must make modern the Sherman Law.
which now shackles bones TO enter
prise because it does not now fit pres
eut conditions We must drive the ca
nal TO completion. and improve the ma.
tion's waterways that the people may
have the transportation designed by
nature Our platform and our candi-
dates must personify the movement OF
the times. After we nominate and
resolve, we must justify and elect"
i Senator Hemenway. who followed
Senator Beveridge. was well received.
He was frank enough to admit that
there is a depression in business o>--