The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-02
Chas. Warren Fairbanks
BY SAVOYARD.

have given him half the face either
one of them got out of either one of
half dozen speeches ne made in the
senate. The same Is true of Douglas.
Ii might be well enough to elect Albert
jeremiah Beveridge president just to
see what the craftsmanship and elo-
quence he delivers himself of in the
senate would be in action. 1t is won
derful in the abstract. What ii would
be in the concrete no imagination, how
ever exuberant or riotous. can con-
eeive.
! But if Fairbanks should be president,
the aurora borealis would not shed It's
brilliance over the White House with
! his consent. The administration would
| be what the fathers intended-the at
| taching of the executive sign manual
to documents official Congress would
govern; representative government
would be restored to the American re-
public The big stick would be split
| into cordwood with which to cook ba-
con and cabbage; no more White House
diplomas would issue 10 knights of An
anias. The superlative degree would be
abolished and American politics given
| a rest.
Indiana produced the greatest of the
war governors of the northern side
OnNef T MGFtOQ- next TO 11lDcOlQ, the
greatest man on the northern side. Aft
er ,the war Morton determined 20 be
and was the first man in Indiana.
Gresham was his follower and Fair
! banks was Gresham's follower. Two
men refused to bow to Morton-Ben
Harrison and George w. Julian. The
old lion was strong enough to keep
Harrison down, and he drove Julian
| back to the Democratic party, whence
I Tr1-f0 n oil DofA tod f<r.
the nomination for president in 1876,
| Morton was the man who put r. B..
| Hayes in the White House. Then he
| died and was succeeded in Indiana by
| the Democratic party, under Hend-
ricks, Voorhees, and Mcdonald.
The Republicans were divided be-
tween Harrison and Gresham, the lat
ter Democrat except in name, and
1 destined to be a Democrat i'm name also
and head of a Democratic cabinet
| Fairbanks was a Gresham man, and
went to Chicago in 1888 to help
| Gresham to get the nomination
against the Democratic candidate
whose cabinet he was to enter less than
five years later. Walter Evans of Ken
lucky, and of the immortal 300. was
also Gresham man at Chicago in 1883.
and it was by the merest whim Of
chance that Harrison defeated his old
rival for the nomination. Chauncey
| DepeW had something to do with it,
| Tom Platt has more TO do with ii, and
James G. Blaine had much 20 do with
/ it, and we may be sure of this, that if
/ Mr.. Blaine had dreamed thai Ben Har-
rison was half the man he was, Walter
.. Gresham, and not Benjamin Har-
| rison would have been Inaugural ted
president March T. 1889. Harrison served
one term in the senate; but he entered
/ that body the very day Bl1ine left 1t,
I and it was not until after Mr.. Blaine
entered his cabinet in 1889 that he dis
covered that that duck-legge1, dish
! faced, little man was the ablest states
man Of all living Republicans. Blaine
had nominated Garfield because he
could dominate him. Thrice he refused
TO nominate Sherman because he could
not master him. He expected that Har-
rison would be wax in his hands. Har-
rison saw to ii that If one of them was
to be a man of wax. it would ba the
secretary of state and not the president.
Platt thought he would be secretary OF
the treasury.
In 1892 Cleveland beat Harrison out
of sight, and all because of the legis-
lative debaucheries of the F'ifty-frst
congress that enacted rebber tariff
and condemned the treasury to the sill
yer basis. For that the people SEN
fenced the Republican party to a ban
ishment Of at least a generation; but
the Democratic party turned Pop. in
1893 deserted their leader, and then the
Republican party was relieved of the
ostracism. and the Democratic party
sent to Punishment, where II is yet
tramping round, and at this reading
there is no road back home open.
In 1896 came Fairbanks opportunity.
He was a goldbug. He did not learn
it from Morton: possibly ne goc it from
that sterling old Democrat Joe McDon-
aid John Sherman made the silver law
that bore his name because he was
afraid TO intrust Harrisons veto to kill
free coinage bill; but in 1896 Ben
Harrison made a goldbug speech that