Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1910 — ROOSEVELT READY WITH HIS REASONS [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT READY WITH HIS REASONS

Jan Tell Indiana Voters of Good Work Done by Beveridge. TEDDY’S RIGHT HAND MAN Indiana Statesman Helped Advance Roosevelt Policies Very Effectively. ———■— The Chicago Tribune, commenting on the -coming of Col. Theodore Roosevelt to Indiana, to speak for the Republican ticket, details the relations between Senator Beveridge of Indiana and the former president, and conclude* that Col. Roosevelt can give very good reasons why Senator Beveridge ought to be re-elected because of the good work the Indiana senior senator has done for the cause of the people. Here is the Tribune’s article. “ ‘ln their own interest as well asthat of the nation the people of Indiana should return Albert J. Beveridge to the United States Senate.* This declaration will be made by former "President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech he has promised to deliver in the Hoosier state. It will be an honest expression based upon intimate knowledge of Senator Beveridge’s course which Col. Roosevelt had while in the White House. “It will be an indorsement given to Beveridge less as the insurgeht than as the man and Republican. It will be the return of the former President; for the loyal, zealous way in which the Indlanian aided him in getting through legislation recognized as essential to the public interests. “Mr. Beveridge will be given credit for vital assistance in: “Molding the Philippine legislative policy, which has produced peace and order with civil government in the archipelago. “The removal of the tariff wall between the United States and Porto Rico.

“Statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Territory, as against a proposal to organize two states. “Enactment of the Federal meat Inspection law. “Enactment of the pure food laws. “Development of reforms in connection with child labor. “Protection against spoliation of the coal lands of Alaska. “These are the tilings done for which it is possible specifically to give credit to the Indiana senator. “There are many other laws enacted and policies enforced which he has influenced during the eleven years he has been in the Upper House of Congress. Take, for example, the debates in connection with the Aldrich tariff law.

“There is no doubt that the activity of Mr. Beveridge and the colleagues who fought with him caused a reasonable reduction in some of the schedules below that which had been contemplated, and also enabled the Indianian to obtain an amendment to the act which forced the Tobacco Trust to pay millions annually to the government that under the laws of 1902 it had been collecting and keeping for itself.

“Similarly their attitude was responsible for substantial and valuable modifications of the , railroad rates bill which was passed during the last session of Congress. It is true, likewise, that statehood for Arizona and New Mexico could not have been achieved had Mr. Beveridge objected. He occupies the post of chairman of the Committee on Territories and in that position easily could have prevented a statehood bill from being reported to the Senate. “These several matters are recalled at this time both because it is desirable from a public point of view to call attention of Indiana to Mr. Beveridge’s record as w’ell as to the fact that the points are being considered by the former President in connection with the speech he will deliver in Indiana.”