Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1907 — REPUBLICAN OPINION OF THE V. P. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN OPINION OF THE V. P.

Collier’s Weekly and the Saturday Evening Post, two independent publications with strong Republican leanings, have shown for a long time that they considered the candidacy of Charles W. Fairbanks as little short of an insult to the good sense of the country. The New York Sun and many other out and out Republican papers have taken the same view. Indeed Mr. Fairbanks’ effort to foist himself into the presidency by the free use of his own money and the money of such men as Qarriman, Rockefeller and other public plunderers, • has arroused the bitter opposition of the decent element in the Republican party all over the country. Of course Mr. Fairbanks will have the “solid delegation” from this state. His machine is powerful enough to choke the Republicans into submssion. The Fairbanks press agents are busy and his organs print padded and ridicuously fabulous accounts of the V. P.V “immense popularity” in different sections, but always so far away from Indiana that they are not likely to be contradicted. The following paragraph from a two page article in Collier’s Weekly of June 1, will show, however, how he is generally regarded: In school he was a mollycoddle; in early manhood the favored of rich relatives; as a lawyer, he advanced himself by gfiile and sub* tlety; and in politics he has come to stand for all that is insidious and evil. He buys his way. He trades in legislation. He is partly the tool and partly the subtle leader of moneyed influences that seek to overreaoh the people. Hie record tells the story—his public and offioial record. The paper that prints the above fortifies it by faots. But, nevertheless, Mr. Fairbanks will have the “solid delegation” from Indiana in the Republican national convention.