Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — A UNITED FORCE [ARTICLE]

A UNITED FORCE

Some State Press Comments on Fairbanks. The biennial Republican love'feast, held at Indianapolis Thursday, was a complete success. The crowd whs large, enthusiastic and all expressed themselves as more than paid for their visits with each other during the day and for the time and attention given to hearing the flow of oratory. The meeting had all the signs of victory. —Martinsville Reporter. , ' ■> ‘ * After seeingHhe various Republican candidates for governor theP platform at the love feast to Thursday and hearing them talk the averagevoter reached the conclusion that any of them will do? That is a way the Republican party has—it always offers men Of such character that no mistake will be made in selecting any one of them.*—Greensburg Review. -~• * • It was to he expected that the Republicans of Indiana woqld make of their regular biennial love feast an oocasion of enthusiastic indorsement of their loader, tie Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, lor the nomlnationtor pres* ident, That fact is Just now uppermost in the minds of the Republican

toflts of the state, and nothing more certain than that It should find fitting expression in in the resolutions and In tjpEeart-to-heart talks ot the party leaders assembled on this occasion.—-Kokomo Tribune. . • •' ••• '■ When Governor Hanly presented the resolution Indorsing Vice President Fairbanks as Indiana’s choice for president it aroused an enthusiasm not easily allayed and which made it quite apparent that the Republicans of the state are in earnest in their support of our candidate. —Newcastle Courier. • * • The Fairbanks boom having received the enthusiastic indorsement of the Republicans of Indiana in love feast duly assembled, may now be said to be officially launched. From this time on every Hoosier has a standing invitation to get behind and boost for the state’s favorite son. Craws ordsvflle Journal. • • • The Indiana Republicans indicated at their love feast Thursday that they were most earnestly and enthusiastically for Charles Warren Fairbanks, Indiana’s distinguished son and now vice president, for president. Dr. Ben L. Bruner, the young and good-looking Republican recently elected secertary of state In Kentucky, made one of the happiest speeches of the convention. He said Kentucky Republicans had taken Indiana Republicans for a pattern and had begun to do things in the Old Blue Grass state. To show thoir - gratitude to Vice President Fairbanks for what he did Tor them in their recent campaign they proposed to give him Kentucky's solid delegation, twen-ty-Blx in number, for president at Chicago next June. He proposed to do even better than that —they ‘would carry the state for Fairbanks next November. —Greenfield Tribune. * * • At the Republican national convention to be held In Chicago June 16, Indiana will present the name of her honored son, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, for the nomination as the party’s ‘ candidate for president. He is not only one of Indiana’s favorite sons, but among the nation's greatest men; strong in every element of his make-up, profoundly wise in the councils of his party and conservative to a degree that make him a safe director of all nation’s most important interest!/'' both at home and abroad. The mantle of the matchless Teddy Roosevelt could fall on no more trusty shoulders, and the people in every state are fast coming to a realization of this fact. As Indiana knows her trusted vice president, so the nation is just ooming to realize his merit. Indiana is for him and the government would be absolutely safe in his hands. —Covington Republican.