Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1915 — BIG BOOST GIVEN CHARLES FAIRBANKS [ARTICLE]

BIG BOOST GIVEN CHARLES FAIRBANKS

Charles Landis Says Roosevelt Is .Behind Hoosier—Held in High Esteem All Over Country. Washington, D. C., Sept. 2.—A big boost was given to the Charles W. Fairbanks presidential boom mer Represenattiye Charles B. Landis, of Indiana, who was in the capital city recently. That Fairbanks will be acceptable to Col. Roosevelt, and to the Roosevelt following ‘among the erstwhile progressives vho left the' republican fold in 1912 was the prediction made by Mr. Landis, Who sized the situation up as follows: “I have been in a position to get expressions from many people recently on the presidential nomination proposition and I am highly gratified at the warm esteem in which former Vice President Fairbanks seems to be universally held. “Every one concedes that there is a strong probability of his nomination and I have heard no one contest the statement that he would not only make an admirable candidate but a most excellent president. People almost universally associate him with McKinley and feel that if he were in the white house and congress was republican the mills would all be busy, labor would be finding employment at good wages and the American people would be in the midst at happy and prosperous times. With Mr. Fairbanks' level head and honest heart his' experience as a senator and later as vice president; with his broad conception of national ideals, conditions would juSt naturally readjust themselves in factories and .mines, on farms and railroads and indeed along every other line of business and industrial activity. “I feel that there is no man toward whom our late progressive brethren are more kindly disposed than Mr. Fairbanks. Roosevelt chose Fairbanks for his running mate and I do not recall that during Roosevelts administration any one ever charged that Mr. Fairbanks was not true and loyal to his chief. Indeed, why should not Mr. Fairbanks' nomination be more than satisfactory to Mr. Roosevelt and the latterS friends, whose support and co-operation every republican who has practical political sense surely desires."