Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1910 — Senator Beveridge’s Speech In Full in the Republican. [ARTICLE]

Senator Beveridge’s Speech In Full in the Republican.

In this issue of the Republican it published in full the speech of Senator Beveridge at the republican state convention today. The senator in a well studied speech sets forth his position on the tariff question fully. He declares for a protective tariff high enough to accomplish what he deems to be the needs of the manufacturer and the needs of labor, but not high enough to foster trusts or illicit combinations of capital in restraint of trade. He insists on a commission for the adjustment of tariff schedules, which plan he has long advocated and which meets much approval all over the country. Democrats will get little consolation out of the Beveridge speech, for he points out the position that democratic senators took in favoring high tariff on a number of articles for which there was a popular demand for reduction or free admission. The speech is calculated to harmonize the republicans of the state who have been at variance largely with the belief that Senator Beveridge was too liberal in his views for tariff reduction, and in the belief that democratic newspapers, including the Indianapolis News, had endeavored to create a sentiment throughout the state for radical reduction, in opposition to republican doctrine. In this connection, republicans of Indiana should not forget that the Indianapolis News has for years been a radical free trade paper and they should not be influenced by its clatter about either the manner in which the present bill is working nor about its arguments against the schedules of the bill.-

There are no serious differences with Indiana republicans and the >■ i cech of Senator Beveridge and the platform adopted at the state convention should be the working basis for all true republicans even though they no net in every respect meet the approval of individuals. Let us not set ourselves up as greater than the party and let us not be influenced by the scheming of democratic politicians who have influenced some of the weaker party papers as well as having inspired to an effort to deceive republicans all the democratic papers and many of the commercial papers that are always on the market. Read the speech, then read the platform, inform yourselves as is your duty, but don’t accept the argument of democratic .or mugwump newspapers that are inspired for your deception. We have started in on a great campaign and we can win if we will be fair with ourselves and study conditions with impartial clearheadedness