Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1904 — BEVERIDGE’S PREDICTION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BEVERIDGE’S PREDICTION.

Senator Beveridge, that manifest destiny statesman who once discovered some “good" trusts, has been to see the president. He was fresh from the Maine woods when he called on the chief magistrate, and when he reached New York the next day he announced that Indiana would give 25.000 Republican majority this fall. As the senator hadn't met anyone from Indiana for two months he must have gotten his information from the president. It is supposed that the president got his tip from Chairman Goodrich, who declared, when the boom for Hanna was about to sweep over the country, that Indiana would he a doubtful state if Roosevelt was nominated. And what Goodrich told the president, if he told him that 25,000 Republican majority yartn he probably got from Charley Hernly, who was one of the promoters ol the Hanna boom at the December love-feast, and who was certain then that Roosevelt couldn't carry Indiana at ail. It Hernly gave Goodrich that ■valuable pointer, he probably got it from Judge Brownlee, who called Roosevelt a "bronco-buster” whom the people would not again trust with office.

Warder W. Stevens, Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor, is a practical and, therefore, a successful farmer. He is a Kentuckian by birth and is fifty-nine years of age. He came to Indiana when a child, attended the public schools and later graduated at the State University at Bloomington. His real ambition in life was to be a farmer, and hie work as a lawyer and afterward as an editor was all with a view to saving money enough to buy a farm. How well he succeeded is shown by the fact that when he went *to Salem, Washington county, In 18*7, he had but twenty-five cents is his pocket, while now he owns 400

acres of well-stocked farming land in that county. Everything about his farm gives evidence of the thrift and energy of the possessor, and many of the farmers who have heard his lectures will bear testimony to the progressive ideas which he has followed in the management of his business affairs.

WARDER W. STEVENS.