Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1910 — LIKES GAME FIGHTER [ARTICLE]

LIKES GAME FIGHTER

Roosevelt Praises Beveridge For Work On Behalf of People. I like a game fighter for the right and that is why I am here to speak for Albert Beveridge, and if you really believe that a public man ought to fight for the pub’ic good then you will send Albert Beveridge back to the senate of the United States. (Cries of “we will do it.”) And I want you to back up your words in favor of honesty, aggressive honesty, by your votes. Indiana sent more than her full quota of men to the civil war—my comrade here and those fighters wanted to know that Indiana was back of them—isn’t that so, my comrade? (A voice: hat’s right, and they are there now.”) And so now you can emphasize your devotion to the principles of honesty in public life, of courage, withstanding the interests that are against the people, only by your support of the man who embodies in his person that cause. Friends, make no mistake. If Indiana votes against Beveridge it will be understood and can only be understood as punishing the man who stood fearlessly for the right when It needed nerve to stand for the right. I have followed Senator Beveridge’s course in this campaign. I have read his speeches. He has hewed straight to the line and there Is not one thing that he has said on the stump that Is not backed up by his actions at Washington through the last twelve years. Words are of value only so far as they are backed up by deeds, and you can trust the man when his notions in the past have shown, that he is entitled to be trusted. Therefore friends, I ask your support of Senator Beveridge and for those on the ticket with hinfc who are supporting’him, and who stand necessarily for the same causes for which be stands. —Theodore Roosevelt, speaking at Veedersburg, Oct. 13, 1910.