Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1904 — FAIRBANKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIRBANKS.

Reports from Senator Fairbanks’ tour do not justify the hopes of those who were so insistent on his nomination. His speeches do not awaken any enthusiasm and, though he has been royally entertained by wealthy men of the party, there have been no great demonstrations in his • honor. Indeed, some of the Republican papers have mildly criticised both the senator’s style and the subject matter of his speeches. He has not met expectations by advancing any new ideas, and, of course, he is wholly incapable of those flights of oratory which catch a promiscuous assemblage and engender enthusiasm. Everyone knows that the nomination of the senator has not been productive of enthusiasm in his own state. He has long been regarded as a cold, calculating politician whose personality is not attractive and who is distantly removed by nature and by subsequent cultivation from the exercise of those sympathies with his fellows that stand out on the , surface and make men popular. In no sense is the senator a man to make Impromptu speeches from the tail end of a car, and his attempt to tour the country In such a way Is farcical.

It is the “greater issue” that Mr. Bryan sees. He confesses no change in his views on economic questions. But he insists that these are in abeyance while an issue involving the very existence of the constitution and American liberty is being decided. “Judge Parker believes in the gold standard," be says, “I believe in bimetallism, but I can vote for him In order that through him the country may rid itself of an imperial policy.”

The work of organization is only begun when the county central committee is selected, headquarters opened and the party machinery put in md tion. This is all an essential feature of the campaign, but there is need for work outside, of this, though not independent of it, for it is in that closer organization which reaches the voter in his own precinct that the most effective work of a campaign is done.