The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-09
in time OF CRISIS
Fairbanks Served Mckinley
in Spanish-American War.
Would Make Greatest President
the e. s. Ever Had.
INDIANA'S "S0N" NOMINATED
William Wood Speaks for For
mer Vice President.
Has the Confidence of Ameri-
can Business World.

Chicago, June 9.-Charles w. Fair
banks was presented to the Republic
can national convention today by Rep
resentative William r. Wood of In
diana, as Indiana's candidate for the
presidential nomination, and as the
man who not only would make one of
the greatest presidents the country
ever has had, but whose election
would assure the election of a Repub-
lican majority to both branches of
congress.
Mr.. Wood pointed to the former
vice presidents record as spokesman
for President Mckinley in the senate
before and during the Spanish war, to
his part in framing the policy of the
nation toward territorial acquisitions
and to his championing OF sound
money and a protective tariff as proof
that he was fitted by ability and ex-
perience to guide the destinies of the
nation during the trying times ahead.
He declared that Mr.. Fairbanks, who
had marched from an Ohio log cabin
to senatorship and to the vice presl-
dency of the United States, was IN the
zenith of his intellectual powers Re
ferring to the split in the party four
years ago, he said Indiana's son spoke
whenever called upon during the en-
Uttered campaign that folloWed' al
WAYS eXpounded Republican doctrine,
but at no time imputing evil motive 10
anyone who stfor the time had depart
ed from the house of the fathers
Indiana Is Battle Ground.
With Indiana again the great pollt-
ical battle-ground of the country, Mr.
Wood suggested that wisdom in the
choice of a presidential candidate
would make certain the election OF
two senators from that state.
an selecting our candidate said
Representative Wood at the outset,
1--WE will be actuated by but one prime
purpose. and guided by but one SUI
preme desire, that is, to name man
who will stand four square to all the
winds that blow against the honor.
the dignity and rightful prosperity OF
the republic, and who will. at the
end of his tenure of office, leave, as
the brightest heritage of his admins
tration, his entire country and all It's
citizens prosperous and at peace with
all the world, and the Republican
party, that confided to him its trust,
firmly entrenched in the confidence
and affections of the nation.
'In order that this may be, our
candidate should be a man who pos
sesses as nearly as possible all the
are so requisite to the fullest discharge
of the duties of this great office.
Acts Upon Reason.
"He should be &. man with a grasp
of the necessities of the hour, a states
man in every sense of the word,
broad-minded and just, who knows not
only the needs of his country and its
people but who knows how to admin
lister to those needs. A man who has
firm convictions as to right and wrong
and who has the courage of his con-
victions and will right q wrong that is
done to the humblest of our citizens. A
man who acts not from impulse, but
who bases his action upon reason,
and who, when he makes up his mind,
will not change it except when con-
WINGED that he is in error; and who
when 80 convinced is broad enough
and just enough to acknowledge his
error and correct it. A man who be-
lieves in the fundamental principles of
the Republican party and that they
are essential to good government, and
who knows how to apply those prin-
cip1es to secure the best results for
all our people. A man who has the
confidence of the business world and
who has gained that confidence by
reason of his steadfast adherence to
business integrity in the administra-
ton of public office. A man who has
an abiding faith in the people, and
they an abiding faith in him because
he has been tried in the crucible of
experience and has not been found
wanting.
Indiana presents to this convention
for it's consideration a candidate who
possesses all of thse qualifications, in
the person of Charles Warren Fair
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