Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-01
FAIRBANKS ON THE
CAMPAIGN ISSUES
Republican Candidate for Vice
President Reviews the
Political Situation.
WHAT G. o. P. PROPOSES

Indianapolis, Ind, Aug, 3l.---
Charles Warren Fairbanks was noti-
fed formally this afternoon that he
had been nominated for the vice
presidency by the republican party.
United States Senator Lawrence Y.
Sherman of Illinois delivered the ad-
dress and Mr.. Fairbanks made reply,
accepting the nomination and discuss
ing the issues Of the campaign.
Republican leaders from different
parts of the country attended the
ceremonies, which were held on the
lawn at Mr.. Fairbanks home.
Mr.. Fairbanks Statement.
Mr.. Fairbanks said in part:
Il am deeply sensible of the high
honor of the commission which you
bring me. To be chosen as the can
-idate of the republican party for the
vice presidency of the United States
is distinction which any patriotic
American may we'll covet. accept
the nomination and pledge you my
utmost service during the campaign.
If the people ratify the choice of the
convention ! shall consecrate my best
efforts in the discharge OF my official
functions. AS you are aware, this is
call which was unsolicited by me;
that fact intensifies my sense OF duty
to those in behalf of whom you
speak.
"The platform adopted by the Chi
cago convention has my hearty ap-
proval. Carried into the public ad-
ministration and written into the
statutes, it will insure industrial and
national prosperity during the years
OF our ascendancy. ~
Free Trade or Protection.
"What protection and free trade
mean we know from our actual ex-
perience; they are not i'll the domain
of the academic.
"The present free trade, or tariff
for revenue law, which democracy re-
CARDS with such high favor, has work
ed indefinite damage This law, which
is to be maintained if democracy
triumphs, must stand or fall not by
what democratic conventions say OF
it, but by what it has said for itself
under normal trade conditions. Even
before it was approved by Mr.. VIII
son, who took pride in the executive
act, business began to furl its sails.
The coming storm was apparent and
prudence took possession of our peo-
pie The certainty of the new law
spread fear among us. Our compe-
titers in Europe and in the Orient
were filled with joy. Commercial
travellers from England, France, Ger
many and elsewhere were put upon
the road in the United States and
promptly began writing orders. The
slowing down process began with a
wrench. The workingmen, WHO were
the first to feel the blighting effects
OF the reversal OF our great economic
policy, began to lose their jobs; fac
tories we're closed; trains were taken
off our railway schedules; thousands
of idle cars accumulated upon the side
tracks; mines were closed; the work
ers in our charities Seceived increas-
ing appeals from the unfortunate vic
tins OF the free trade policy. That
democracy was again in power was
made evident throughout the repub-
lie.
Effect of Underwood Tariff.
so strong was the pressure OF the
unemployed that the administration
was obliged to organize for the pur-
pose of securing them work and
wages, This seemed like mockery.
To close the field of labor's oppor-
tunity and rob them by the thousands
of their chance for wage, and then to
organize search for work among
those who were holding fast to what
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