Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-10-14
TARIFF IS SUBJECT
Former Vice President Enjoys
Meeting Old Time Hoosier
Friends
CAPTIVATES STUDENTS :;
IN HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH
Earnest and Forceful Appeal in
Support Of the Candidacy Of
Hughes

Charles Warren Fairbanks, former
vice-president and candidte for this
high Office again, as cold and distant
as reported.
They found him a warm, affable and
genial man with firm grasp Of ma.
tional affairs. He entered into the Wig.
orous program mapped out for him
with vim and during the day made
several telling speeches in behalf Of
the candidacy of Charles Evans
Hughes. 1t was dignified and logi-
cal discussion of issues unmarried by
any attack upon President Wilson.
Fairbanks appearance here helped
the candidacy of Hughes and he rid.
died some of the foolish campaign
slogans of the Democrats such as
Peace and Prosperity" and HE
Kept Us Out of War"
At Home Here.
Mr.. Fairbanks felt at home in Bis.
marck at once. One of the first men
to meet him was Mr.. Maurice Martin,
superintendent of schools, whose par.
ents owned a farm in Ohio, adjoining
the old home of Mr.: Fairbanks. As
they met in the hotel, Mr.. Martin
handed the former vice.president =
copy of his old home paper. The
Marysyille Tribune" 5.'
Another old acquaintance is Supt.
Taylor of the Indian school, who was
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home in Ohio. While Mr.. Fairbanks
is now a citizen of Indiana and gen.
orally classed as a "hoosier', his boy.
hood day we're spent in Ohio. Z
Speech at High School. ,.,.'~
Following the luncheon at tho
Grand Pacific hotel, Mr.. Fairbanks,
accompanied by w. L. Prater. chair
man of the county committee, Supt.
Martin and press representatives..
motored to the high school where the
high school students and those of the
higher grades were assembled. As
Mr.. Fairbanks entered he was given
an enthusiastic reception and won tho
students in an appropriate speech.
Tribute to Martin.
Mr.. Fairbanks paid q high tribute
to Supt. Martin in which he said:
ut was indeed pleasure to meet
your new superintendent of schools
here. ] know something about him.
having been raised in the same neigh
borhood. knew his father and moth.
er and there are no finer people any.
where"
The former vice-president then
spoke Of the object of education. Tell.
ing of trip to Japan, he said that he
had visited the schools to find out tho
hopes and aspirations of young Japan.
$50 it is here,' he said. "You must
go to the schools to learn Of the fu-
ture. For the future sits in the
schools. The responsibility Of this
government will some day rest upon
your shoulders and there was never
so important a time as the present
when changes are so rapid"
His speech throughout was strictly
non.political. It was q fine opportun-
ity for the students to hear man of
national reputation and one who serv.
ed the nation as vice.president.
Mr.. Fairbanks fingered at the
school as long as possible and seemed
to enjoy the brief respite from the
political part of his mission to Bis.
marck.
He was then taken to the Grand Pa.
cific for the chief speech Of the day.
The hotel was appropriately dec.
Grated in the national colors and the
formed vicepresident spoke from an
automobile in front Of the building
More than 500 people heard him and
frequently applauded. He discussed
the national issues, chiefly the tari6
policies of the Republican party.
Mr. Fairbanks said in part:
The Reunion. "a
81 am glad to hear about the re.
union of the different elements that
constituted the Republican party a
few years ago. The men who differed
four years ago and whose difference
resulted in the election Of Mr.. Wilson
as president have known splendid
poise and magnificent patriotism In
forgetting the differences Of four
years ago, and am glad to ind ~ I
go up and down through tho country
that our countrymen, almost to . man
have buried the old differences Of four
years ago beyond the reach Of tho
hand of resurrection. Why? Because
there are great questions to be solv-
ed, vital questions, and they can only
be solved in the fullest and best de.
gree by all who believe in the sounds
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