Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1910 — TRUSTS TO PEOPLE [ARTICLE]

TRUSTS TO PEOPLE

Beveridge Like Rqosevelt In Hie Appeal to Masses. I am here today to speak in t Indiana for the tieket headed by Albert Beveridge for senator [Applause and cries of "Beveridge”] because during twelve years’ service In the United States senate, a service I have watched closely, he has shown that he possessed honesty, courage and good, sound common sensq. [Applause.]. We could not have got that pure food bill through if it had not been that the fight against the beef trust, in which Sena- ’ tor Beveridge led, awakened the public conscience and the 1 public interest so that we could ■ make our point with them. 1 I fought for a good many > things while I was president, 1 and 1 found that in nine cases ’ out of ten I had to get them, > not by appealing to*the men > who were especially the lead- > ers In congress, but by appe&l- ---’ ing to the people behind them. ' The” leaders were not very sen- « sitlve to my appeal, and they > developed an enormous amount > of conscientiousness when the 1 people awakened. [Laughter.] > To Senator Beveridge it was > not necessary to appeal in that > way. Senator Beveridge trust- > ed entirely to the people them- > selves for his support. > There was not an interest « that had any concern in put- > ting him in the senate. He > trusted to the people and tried > to do what they desired and » what they needed, and, there--1 fore, instead of having to try > to wake him up by an appeal ■ to the people behind him, I > found that I could always slm- > ply consult him as to how we > could wake up somebody else. > He has gone on in the same • way since I left. It was his ■ amendment which took away 1 from and put a stop to the rob- « bery of the government by the • tobacco trust. And what he > tried to do in connection with > the tariff was done along just > the same lines. Theodore • Roosevelt at Indianapolis, Oct. > 13, 1910.