The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-10-16
FOXY FAIRBANKS
HANDS OUT BOUQUETS INSTEAD OF
ARGUMENTS
Does Not Discuss Issues and Says
Little About Candidates

TheRepublicans of Carroll county
who expected Vice President Fair
banks to sound a keynote or to clear
up any of the issues of the present
campaign must have felt sorely dis
appointed when he had concluded his
speech at Odd Fellows Hall last Fri
day evening. Not one single word
did he say of the publicity of cam
paign contributions, the guarantee of
bank deposits, the regulation of trusts,
the election of United States Senators
by the people, nor of the abuse of the
writ of INDUCTION. He did mention the
tariff, but even this he did not discuss,
did not say whether he thought the
taxing of one vocation for the sup
port of another. was right or wrong;
did not say whether labor or capital
got the benefit from high tariff; did
not say what effect it had upon the
production of manufactured articles;
did not argue the subject at all, neith-
er from the standpoint of principle
nor from it's results upon the manu-
| featuring industries of the country.
| The vice president might have spok-
ell his piece in church without Of
Tending the properties. 1t was much
like a lecture. He mentioned the
names of Roosevelt, Taft and Sherman
just once, and there was no extended
eulogy of either of them. The names
of the Democratic candidates we're
not mentioned at all. The speech
showed that it had been carefully pre-
pared, and it was we'll delivered, in a
clear and pleasing voice. He said a
good word for Mr.. Garrett, who surely
needed it, because he was not able
to say much for himself.
Mr.. Fairbanks, who was also can
didate for the Republican presidential
nomination, is evidently still smart
ing under the treatment he received
from President Roosevelt, who refus-
ed to allow his own State of Indiana
to instruct it's delegates for the vice
president, and that neither he nor his
friends are making herculean efforts
! to elect Mr.. Taft is shown by the con-
ditions in his home state, which is
almost certain to give its electoral
vote to Bryan.
! The first speaker of the evening was
our felloW-townSmaI1, H. P. Gorsuch,
who discoursed upon the rise and fall
of pig iron. He told how the Wilson
bill crippled this great industry; mills
closed, thousands of men thrown out
of work, desolation, stagnation and
starvation throughout the land. He
! ~, nj hue OF
mont, and he said it made his heart
bleed when lack of orders compelled
him to turn away the men who applied
to him for work, all because of the
terrible Wilson bill. This awful scene
upon Brother Gorsuch, so much SO
now and then in the quiet hours of
the night and causes him much men
tai anguish and more loss of the scar
let liquid. 1t being our duty to pre-
vent suffering and relieve distress, we
hasten to inform our esteemed fellow
townsmen that the production of pig
iron, as shown by government statis-
tics, was 100000 tons more the first
year under the Wilson bill than was
ever produced under the Mckinley bill
or in any year previous, which goes to
show what wild statements public
speakers sometimes make when car
ried away by partison impulses. When
you hear a speaker talk of the dep1or-
able conditions produced by the Will
son BILL just bear in mind that the re-
ductions were so slight that President
Cleveland refused to sign it.
After Mr.. Gorsuch came Robert
Garrett, Republican candidate for
Congress, of whom it need only be said
that if he does not run any faster than
he talks he will not get far from home.
Col. Baker made one of his usual
red-fire and sky-rocket speeches,
which brought the audience out of the
chill into which the frigid Mr.. Fair
banks had thrown them.
A large crowd was present, and
many persons stood throughout the
evening.
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