Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1910 — CALLS BEVERIDGE MILD INSURGENT [ARTICLE]

CALLS BEVERIDGE MILD INSURGENT

John W. Kern Opens Campaign With Stirring Speech on Current issues. FLAYS PROTECTIVE TARIFF Says That it Is Only Legalized Rob-bery-Speaker Says Roosevelt Has Surrendered. % (By Guernsey Van Riper.) .naianapolis—John W. Kern, Demov vatic nominee for United States Senator, opened his campaign at Evans..l.e last Saturday night in a stirring which he. pictured Senator oevc-riuge as a mild sort of insurgent, attacked tae protective tariff system -s legalized robbery, and referred to - heocpre Roosevelt as “the general of -i-fc* progressive movement” who trailed -* :s colors in the dust in the first .•.iimisa, and surrendered to the • standpatters in the New York state convention last week., Mr. Kern paid his respects to Senator Beveridge. “He denounces the Republican party for its betrayal of the interests of the people,’ said Mr. Kern. “He denounces ae present Republican administration cr having violated the solemn pledg's .ade uy the party in national convention. He denounces the principal legislative enactment of his party in” the last Congress voted for by four-fifths •cf the Republican members of that iody who voted at all, and approvec -T a Republican president not only by his signature, but by expressions of hearty commendation, -as a law which plunders the people, robs the poor, makes their lives more miserable and their struggle for existence more difficult —as a law which promotes and encourages lawful monopoly—and surrenders the rights of the people to the Powers of Pillage. “And then, after this terrific arkigh treason to the people who gave it power,'he makes eloquent appeal to the same .people ta vote the Republican ticket and continue that party in power. “The impudence of such an appeal reaches a degree of sublimity never before approached In the history of American politics. Verily, the old order change-h .and hath given place iQ that which is new, since the days

of the great Republican giants, 3Tor ton and Harrison.” Mr. Kern declared for an immediate revision of the tariff without waiting for the services of a tariff commission and said that the only way it would ever be effected would, be by the elec tion of a Democratic Congress pledged to revise the tariff to a revenue basis. He pledged himself to a dollar-a-day pension law for old soldiers, declared that the Democratic party stood foi conservation and reform and paid a high tribute to Governor Marshall, the state ticket, Senator Shively and the Democratic Congressmen from Indiana. -