Identifier: newenglandmagaziv37bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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in several States and is sure to have acertain number of delegates in the conven-tion. For three years he has been runninghelter-skelter all over the United States inan effort to popularize himself, and there isno doubt that as a hand-shaker, generalmixer, stump speaker, and all around per- former he has displayed qualities of whichhe was not supposed to be possessed. Whenhe began to have newspaper dispatchespublished from the far West, however, de-scribing his rescue of chambermaids fromwatery graves, his campaign was perilouslynear the ridiculous. It was rather unkind of the New Yorkillustrated publication much of whose spacewas recently devoted to showing up Mr.Fairbanks to prove by written evidence andphotographs that he was not born in a loghouse, as his campaign biography wouldhave us believe, but in the very comfortablehome of his well-to-do parents, and thatduring the eighteen or twenty years of hislife regarding which the biography is silent, MEN AND AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON 353
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Home of Senator Foraker, Washington, D. C. when he was supposed to be perfecting him-self in the law, he was acting as the agentof corporations and accumulating the for-tune which he now enjoys; but this seemsto be the fact. Mr. Fairbanks as a reformstatesman is indeed something of a joke. Whether born in a log house or a brickone, however, is not so much to the point.In Washington Mr. Fairbanks lives in afine house built of stone. It is one of threebuilt in a row by the late lamented BossSheperd of Seventeenth and K Streets whenhe was revolutionizing Washington, and ithas since had many wealthy and distin-guished occupants. Leland Stanford, of California, occupiedthe house when as a Senator he was aston- ishing the capital with his entertainments.Senator Murphy lived there afterwards,and since that time Congressman Morrellof Pennsylvania, whose wife was a Drexel.Mr. Fairbanks pays a pretty penny in rentfor this pretentious house, which, since hisoccupancy of it, has been the scene of

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