Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1910 — THE BREACH WIDENS. [ARTICLE]

THE BREACH WIDENS.

Acting upon Mr. Beveridge's instructions, Mr. Beveridge's state committee has decided to play him up as “a paramount issue.” This leads the Indiana correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer (himself a Republican) to sav: “Republicans who great!j deplore '.■ ' V

the bitter factional struggle, fear that a mistake has been made in attempting to push Senator Beveridge forward as an issue instead of an asset. They say that the Organization has played right into the hands of nothing better than an excuse to bolt the ticket, on the ground that he, and not the old-time doctrine, is to be considered.•The organization is deferripg to Senator Beveridge in everything, which seems to be adding to the resentment of the old-timers, who no longer, make any pretense of concealing their anxiety to bring about his defeat. The breach was widenedthis week by a statement of Senator Beveridge, who claimed that the election in Maine was a repudiation of Senator Hale and the standpat leaders generally, in that state. The standpatters in this state are now drawing their lines tighter for the purpose of repudiating Senator Beveridge and his insurgent doctrines. “Senator Beveridge, it is said, intends to cut loose in his keynote speech on Sept. 27 with a line of argument that .will increase the bitterness. He is manifesting a disposition to disregard entirely party lines and to make his appeal on a non-partisan basis. Under the circumstances the leaders of the regulars say that there is no reason to look upon him as a Republican. They assert that a Republican need have no hesitation in voting against Senator Beveridge in view of the stand he has taken. But while all the above —and a good deal more—is going on, the Beveridge organization, on the one hand, is begging the regulars to support the ticket in order to keep the Democrats from carrying the state, arid on tfie other hand is asking the Democrats to support the Beveridge ticket as "non-partsans." The whole game i~ hypocritical and silly.