Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1908 — ROOSEVELT, FAIRBANKS AND FUGITIVE TAYLOR. [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT, FAIRBANKS AND FUGITIVE TAYLOR.

The following report of a Republican convention held in Vanceburg, Ky., on April 25 is interesting for several reasons: •’“The courthouse was not large enough to hold the crowd, and an adjournment was had to the yard so that a count could be made. W. C. Halbert was chairman and M. O. Wilson secretary. Resolutions were introduced indorsing Roosevelt and Willson. Former Congressman S. J. Pugh urged the convention to instruct for Taft for the presidency, but did not accomplish anything, the Taft men losing by three to one. In his speech Pugh said that President Roosevelt claimed that Fairbanks is a reactionary and a millionaire, not in sympathy with the common people. He referred to the political trouble at Frankfort in 1900, and said Roosevelt was a better friend of W. S. Taylor than Fairbanks. Secretary Taft, he said, would carry out the president’s policies, but would perhaps not be so impulsive as Roosevelt. He also said that Representative Crumpacker of Indiana had told him that Indiana was not for Fairbanks, but would compliment him by its vote, and that the people of his district were not at heart for Fairbanks." To fully understand the reference to W. S. Taylor it should be said that the Fairbanks part of the convention was asking support for him on the ground that he had been “a

good friend of Taylor’s,” Taylor being a fugitive from justice under Indictment charging that he was accessory to the assassination of Governor Goebel, The rest of the article explains Itself. It shows what Roosevelt thinks of Fairbanks and also what Congressman Crumpacker of the Tenth District thinks of him.