Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1909 — A POLITICAL PUZZLE. [ARTICLE]

A POLITICAL PUZZLE.

The Starke County Republican says: “The efforts of the opposition press to create dlsturabnce In the Republican ranks because of the fact that Senator Beveridge voted against the Payne tariff bill, which President Taft subsequently signed, will fail for the very good reason that the people know that both Senator Beveridge and President Taft were actuated by purely patriotic motivesNor can it be successfully charged that the action of either Mr. Beveridge or the president was in the least Inconsistent.” The same paper also says the following in the same article: “If Senator Beveridge had been president he would have signed the bill just as President Taft did, and if President Taft had been in the United States senate he would have voted against the measure just Senator Beveridge did.” All of this is puzzling. Perhaps the next Republican state convention will find a way to “work” it. Mr. Beveridge denounced the bill and voted against it. Mr. Taft approved it, and, it is said, is going to travel over the country to defend it. If the Republican state convention endorses Beveridge’s course, what will it say about Taft? If it approves Taft, what will it say about Beveridge?