Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1910 — ROOSEVELT WILL ASSIST BEVERIDGE [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT WILL ASSIST BEVERIDGE

Colonel Has Promised to Aid in Hoosier Campaign. FI6HT IN INDIANA WARM ONE Mr. Roosevelt Also Receiver Visits from Several Other Notables — Beveridge Much Pleased by Assurance Given. Oyster Bay, July 8. There was a uew twist to the sefiaterial contests that are going to take place in various parts of the country, when Go). Roosevelt announced that he will go on the stump Jor Senator A. J. Beveridge, of Indiana. He said that Will lam Dudley Foulke and Lucian B Swift of Indiana, who are close personal and political friends had come to ask h|m to go to Indiana to speak for Senator Beveridge and he had consented to do so. The mere fact that the colonel has endorsed Beveridge, an insurgent, who did not break with President Taft during the last session ( of congress, is not taken here to bf particularly significant, for Mr. Roosevelt and Senator Beveridge have been warm friends for a good many years. Beveridge has always b>en veryclose In his }K>lltical relatoins with Col. Roosevelt Of late he has leaned toward ,tjie progressive movement that created some stir in congress during the past year or two. The Indiana senator came out flat footed against the Payne-Aldrich tariff law and voted against it all the time. He was active in the passage of the statehood bill, but slipped up on his attempt Jo get through congress the Alaskan government bill. In the last session of the national legislature, however, Senator Beveridge helped the president pass the railroad bill and worked in harmony with Mr. Taft. He is said to enjoy the friendship pt the president. He is running, however, on an anti-tariff and insurgent platform. The state situation in Indiana is in such precarious condition for the Republicans and, especially Beveridge himself, that any support that the colonel offers should* prove mighty helpful to Beveridge. The Indiana legislature is at present controlled by the Democrats. John W. Kern, late candidate for vice president on the Bryan platform, is out to make a hot fight against Beveridge. Col. Roosevelt is apparently unable to keep out of national politics even though he says be desires to for the time being. At “the end of his trip to Boston last week oh which he was the guest of Senator Lodge, the colonel promised to go down east and aid Lodge in his struggle against Congressman Butler Ames of Massachusetts. There were other guests at Sagamore Hill. Senator Thomas H. Carter of Montana, came for a few hours Winston Churchill, the author and progressive, traveled all the way from New Hampshire with John Bass and Robert Bass, to tell the colonel what is doing in a political way in the home state. Congressman Hamilton Fish Jr. and James R. Sheffield, of New York, completed the list.