Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1909 — EDITORS LISTEN TO BEVERIDGE [ARTICLE]

EDITORS LISTEN TO BEVERIDGE

Senator Makes Address at . Association Banquet: CALLED LEADER OF PARTY He Declares Himself Against Bossism and Cliques and States He Will Do AU In His Power to See That Any Yc. rg Man Can Enter Politics Withcv* a Pul!— He Expresses Himself as r.-eji j In Favor of Direct Primary . (i.n.aticns For Al| Offices. -.ap.-ds, Feb. 26. —Senator Al>i J. Lee- ridge was enthusiastically ■" ..lii.t,d :he leader of the Republiea.i part; in Indiana at a banquet in tile Claypool hotel, given by the State Republican Editorial association. The Republican members of the legislature were present and Beveridge was the guest of honor. Harry Strohm of Kentland, president of the association, was the toastmaster and when he said that the mantle of the party leadership in Indiana had fallen upon the shoulders of Beveridge there was a storm of applause. The senator’s speech In part follows: Condemns Machine Politic*. “A man should belong to a party only because he believes that its deeds, purposes and tendencies are bsst for the nation. Where a party degenerates into a mere organization, trying to keep voters together not for the welfare of the nation, but for mere partisan success and the personal advancement of particular men, it becomes unworthy of the support or respect of the thinking citizen. Candidates are now as important as platforms. The whip of an organization can no longer drive citizens into line.” The speaker said that the man who tries to create a faction within a party is a . traitor to the party, and that a faction within a party means death to the party. He continued: “One instrument for organizing factions and building machines is the distribution of patronage for those purposes instead of for the purpose of the public service. That part of the spoils system which still remains must, in its turn and in the ripeness of time, also give way to a simpler and juster method which will better serve the people.” Talks of Tariff Legislation. “Opposing senators will have the absolute power to prevent any bill passing that keeps a tariff on lumber- hides, wool or sugar, but I say that they will wage only a sham battle against duties on those articles, if Indeed, they wage that; and that they will take practical measures to see that protective tariff duties are retained on things produced in their pwn states, of which the above are illustrations. I say now that the only real fight for a reduction of duties on steel, hides, linnber, wool and sugar will be made by Republican senators. “We propose to modify the power of the fedora! courts in issuing injunctions so that no citizen beneath the flag can feel that courts have been oppressive, and yet that the property of no citizen shall be in ganger.” The senator said he favored a primary law for the state by whieh the people at the ballot box will nominate every officer from constable to congressman and senator, and also nominate the party’s state committee and state chairman. He. declared he would do all in his power to help any young Republican to get into politics without a pull.