Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1916 — CONGRESSMAN WOOD TO NAME FAIRBANKS [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSMAN WOOD TO NAME FAIRBANKS

Tenth District Congressman Selected to Place Indiana’s Favorite Son Before Convention. To Congressman Will R. Wood, of Lafayette, has been given the honor of nominating Charles Warren Fairbanks at the Chicago convention. It is a custom to permit the friends of the candidate to name the man who shall make the nominating speech and three names were *» selected by friends, namely, Representative Wood, James E. Watson and Charles A. Bookwalter. Mr. Wood was chosen and it is said that he meets the approval of all. Congressman Wood is a splendid orator, a man of tact and resourcefulness in debate and fully familiar with the proceedings in great-conven-tions and while not a delegate to the convention it was decided-that upon him should fall the honor of naming Mr. Fairbanks, whose chances are getting better day by day for the nomination.

In April .Congressman Wood, who had been called home to attend the funeral of- his aged father at Oxford, remained and attended the state convention. He has during his brief service in Washington taken a most active part in the proceedings of the house and a speech he made on federal aid for the construction of highways secured for him favorable mention from coast to coast, from the lakes to the gulf. He has taken hold of affairs like a veteran and is fulfilling the claim made by his friends that his long service in the state senate had furnished him the experience necessary to make him a leader from the day he entered the halls of congress. He is so recognized and all the tenth* district should be and is proud of him. Mr. Wood has made a study of the tariff for many years and' since going to Washington has used all his spare time to a study of the present democratic tariff with previous laws and with the realization that with the close of the foreign war and the defeat of democracy there will be a new tariff law passed and that it should be the best tariff law we have ever had and he will be an active agent in making it so. Mr. Wood is 55 years of age, was bom at Oxford, Benton county, and graduated from Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1881. He was always a great friend of Purdue University and during his service in the state senate he always aided in securing for that institution large appropriations.