Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1910 — SENATOR SLACK’S SPEECH [ARTICLE]

SENATOR SLACK’S SPEECH

He Points Out Absurdities of the Republican Campaign. Hon. L. Ert Slack of Franklin had an attentive audience at Ellis opera house Monday evening, and, while he told us little that we did not already know, he told it in a pleasing manner, and a convincing way—better than we had read it and better than we could tell it to ourselves. He pointed out the absurdities of ths. Aldrich-Payne tariff bill and of rile campaign Senator Beveridge is making; how he was denouncing his own party for betraying the people in passing this bill and denouncing every republican who voted for it. Yet. when in the districts of Congressman Barnard (the Sixth) and Crumpacker (the Tenth) he tells his hearers to vote to return both to congress, notwithstanding they were notorious standpatters and voted for every extortion in the tariff bill Beveridge so loudly denounces. He said that Beveridge was for one thing in one locality and another thing in a different locality, and all the-time ready to be anything to anybody to get votes for Beveridge, a la Roosevelt. He showed that Beveridge voted 35 times for the 129 schedules in the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill and was absent or did not vote 40 times, so that about all he has in his favor on the insurgent side is his one act in voting against the bill as a whole. Roosevelt was also touched up by the speaker a little. “Roosy.” of course, is the greatest insurgent of them all —when in insurgent territory—and a standpatter when with the stand-pats. When he comes to Indiana he will whoop ’er "up for Beveridge for voting against the tariff bill and praise Crumpacker and Barnard sos- voting for it. Mr. Slack is a pleasing and earnest speaker and held the close attention of his audience throughout. He said nothing, to offend anyone, but drove home some truths to the republicans who heard him that they will do well to ponder over.