Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1910 — CRAWF. FAIRBANKB IS FOR TAGGART EVEN YET. [ARTICLE]

CRAWF. FAIRBANKB IS FOR TAGGART EVEN YET.

Predicts That if Democrats Win Tom Will Get Toga. Indianapolis, June 16.—At the time of the Democratic state convention, when Crawford Fairbanks, called by John E. Lamb the “multi-millionaire brewer,” was mingling with the delegates and.quietly telling the boys about the liqu.OT plank that Steve Fleming had ready for them to pass, he dropped into friendly conversation with a group of politicians, and talked of many things in a good-humored way, Incidentally he was asked why it was that Ben Shively was awarded the United States senatorship in 1909, when much trouble could have been prevented, and the John Kern wail could have been stilled by putting John W. Kern in the senatorship, as seemed to be demanded at the time. Mr. Fairbanks, the brewer, chuckled as he replied that Shively-“refused to let go of a sure thing and wait for such an uncertain thing as the issue of, a fight against Beveridge." “In 1909 Shively had a bird in the hand," said Crawford Fairbanks, “and he could not be coaxed to let go of it We all knew that the candidate this year has got a game of chance, and an uncertain game ahead of him. “Shively preferred not to take chances. You can see where Shively is. He is all set. If things go Democratic this year, you can mark my word for it, it will be Shively and Taggart in the United States senate. “Shively would have made a better candidate this year than Taggart or any man we’ve got. But you can put it down now that Taggart will be junior senator if the Democrats carry Indiana this year.” The convention went on and indorsed John W. Kern for United States senator. But that action has not altered the sage observation of Crawford Fairbanks. That prediction stands without revision. And so far as can be Been with the naked eye, there is no reason for Mr. Fairbanks, the brewer, to change his mind or to edit his prediction. Taggart can eliminate Kern any day he desires to do so.