The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-15
WITH THE EDITORS.
Warm Buttermilk.


It has been a part of our duty and
happiness in the last year or two TO
dissipate the clouds that lowered
around the tall and awful form of the
Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks, and
to show him as he is, as a poet of
his own state has sung of him:
sunny, blithesome and debonair,
Happy he roams Ger a happy land;
Gay as morning and fresh as air,
Our openest heart and our gladdest
hand"
He has moved through many states,
and everywhere the police and the mill
itary have had to combine to protect
him from the multftudes of his wor-
shippers. The uninterrupted triumph
still blazes. Tuesday Mr.. Fairbanks
took advantage of the holiday and
spent his day off in Baltimore His
Maryland started and stirred. At a
Lincoln dinner Mr.. Fairbanks was
presented as the next president of the
United States and an amazing ovation
was accorded him, the 500 subscribers
rising tc their feet and cheering many
minutes, while the tall form Of the
president beamed down upon
them" This report is taken from a
Democratic source. the Baltimore Sun.
1t was Mr.. Fairbanks night for
beaming down and looming and boom
| ing up:
In all this gathering Mr. Fairbanks
| doomed. smiling and pleased a good
head taller than any man in the room,
with the single exception of Mr.. John
J. Hanson. Thanked on either side
/ BY Mayor Timanus and ex-Ccn-
gresham A. a. Blakeney, and
dwarfing both. the vice president
plainly enjoyed himself He was ge-
nianty personifed. He beamed i'm
partially and cordially upon everybody,
shook hands with a long. lingering
clasp, and was actually affectionate
with those whom he knew"
No formal and perfunctory hand
shaker, but long and lingering
clasper, who imparts an accent of in
dividuality and personal emotion to
every ripper in the line Read. YER
juiced cynic, Of this feast of uncon-
fined joy:
Those persons who have accused Mr.
Fairbanks of being cold and have made
his name synonymous with the word
ice should have seen him that night
No person could possibly have been
less icy. He was all smiles, all glad
ness. all joy and he won his way with
the Maryland republicans in a truly
remarkable manner.
Hailed as the next president Of the
United States. he seemed almost tc
radiate happiness. and the prolonged
and enthusiastic cheers with which this
prediction was greeted did not annoy
him in the least"
Even If he felt any annoyance he was
too thoughtful of the rejoicing of 9th
ers TO show it. Why the HARLEQUIN
ice" melted IN the refrigerator a hun
dred feet away before the celery and
olives were put on the table. The
/ Lynnhaven oysters, usually so undem-
onstrative, wept pearls. The consum-
me dubbed and boiled over. The chick
en- croquettes tapped and crowed three
times three. The tenderloin Of beef
mooed sympathetically. honoring the
friend CT cows" The boiled potatoes
jumped out Of their skins with rapture
The mushrooms grew from the toast
into shadowy trees, emulating the
swift waxing of the buttermilk boom.
The roast turkey gobbled at the ton
of its voice and left wishbone en-
every plate. All the lemons in the
buttery turned into large red apples
The cakes piled themselves up IN 4
! pyramid nearly as skyscraping as the
I highest Hoosier. The cigars burst
their bands and lighted themselves in
the radiated flame of him. The stern
and unbending head waiter laughed for
the frst time in twenty-one years. and
the chef refused yellow charfra11Sa ap5