Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1904 — FAIRBANKS AND THE JOURNAL. [ARTICLE]

FAIRBANKS AND THE JOURNAL.

When the Indianapolis Journal was absorbed by the Star and its publication discontinued, Republicans over the state were very indignant over the sale and Senator Fairbanks, who was known to be interested In the Journal, was roundly abused for selling out the party. He caused it to be circulated by his friends that he had nothing to do with the sale of the organ. and thus the whole blame was shifted to the shoulders of Charles R. Henry, who was associated with Fairbanks and who was actively engaged in publishing the paper. It develops that Mr. Henry has written a history of the deal in which he charges that he had very little stock in the paper and that Senator Fairbanks was the principal owner; that, when it was found that the paper was losing money in its competition with the Star, he advised that money be put into it and a fight made for its lost prestige; that Fairbanks refused to spend any more money oq it and opened negotiations with George F. McCulloch, through which the transfer of the paper was finally accomplished. W r hen it became known that Henry had written such a statement and proposed giving it to the press, Republicans besieged him on all sides and begged him to withhold it till after the election'. It was urged that, while the facts as he stated them were true, Fairbanks would be injured if publicity were given them, and he finally consented to hold the matter in abeyance till after the election. Thus, while Fairbanks is posing as the man who tried to save the paper to the party, Henry is regarded as the real betrayer of the party, and.the man who deprived it of an organ on the eve of an important campaign.