Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1910 — SIDE TALKS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS [ARTICLE]

SIDE TALKS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS

By Old John Henry.

To the Editor: I have been reading Senator Beveridge’s speech on opening the Republican state campaign. I read all of It. I think every vdter ought to do the same. I have read Senator Shively’s Democratic campaign opener. I think all citizens should do the same. I will give time to Governor Marshall’s' belated “opener,” and I shall read what Mr. Kern has to sar. I expect to read all the speeches this year. I want to know. Senator Beveridge spoke like a real leader. He rose to the occasion. His address was an epoch-maker in national as well as in Indiana politics. His campaign will rally to the cause of progress the best that Indiana boasts in the way of citizenship. I do not know what you think about it, Mr. Editor, but I feel that next to Roosevelt Senator Beveridge is the best asset the Republican party can show to the people today. I may be partial to Senator Beveridge. I have been for him for a long time. He doesn’t know it. I have never told him, nor have I shouted it from the house-tops. But I was glad all through • when he was elected. I was tickled when he went to the Philippines and when he made that wonderful speech on what he saw in tfie Islands. I was glad when he Won for meat inspection and pure foods. I gloried in his spunk during the historic debate In which he led. I rejoiced wheq, he spoke against the child labor evil and survived the hazing of that occasion. I was exceedingly glad when he became the foremost campaign speaker of his party In thfe nation and the best debater in the senate. More than all I was gratified when he used his powers consistently and employed his skill courageously, zealously, intelligently, industriously and without rest on the side of the people. This is the biggest thing about Bev-' eridge—that he has resisted all temptation, all dazzling things, all hypocrisy and all cant, and has become the direct, simple, forceful, earnest, tribune of the masses. How the boy has grown! That Indianapolis speech of September 27, 1910, in which Senator Beveridge proclaims the Lincoln idea and pleads for popular help in the fight against wrong, ought to be a political text book for every young and old voter. As for me, I, believe Lincoln is mighty good even yet. And I am glad Roosevelt and Beveridge and men like them are turning to Lincoln and to the Bide for guidance and inspiration. Let’s go and do likewise and vote accordingly. OLD JOHN HBNRY. .