Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1904 — FAIRBANKS AT A REUNION [ARTICLE]

FAIRBANKS AT A REUNION

Speaks to Old Friends la the Home of His Youth, bat Eschews Politics. Marysville, 0., Aug. 12.—Ten thousand people gathered at Marysville, Union county, for the home-coming exercises there, interest in the event being added to by the presence as chief speaker of Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, Republican nominee for vice president.' Fairbanks was accompanied to Marysville by his wife and his aged mother, the latter a resident of Springfield. On his arrival at Marysville he was mat by the reception committee, while •Id friends, some of whom he bad gone to school with, crowded around to say “How do you do Charlie." Senator Fairbanks was born in Unionvllle, but a short distance from Marysville. In hia address he alluded to his boyhood days spent In Union county, told of old associations and called up many forgotten events of the past He declined to discuss politico.