Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1910 — BEVERIDGE A NON-RESIDENT. [ARTICLE]

BEVERIDGE A NON-RESI-DENT.

Every vote east in favor of the return of Mr. Beveridge to the senate is a vote in favor of the ship .subsidy graft and against an income tax. Beveridge voted for subsidy graft bill, and :.s

not said a word on that subject during this campaign. He still, stands If there is any tax-payer in this state who wants the ship subsidy graft attached to his pocket book he can get it by helping to send Albert J: Beveridge, back to the United States senate. He voted for the subsidy bill when it was up for consideration a year or sd-ago. Governor Marshall continues to insist that 80 per cent of the people are at heart Democrats. Perhaps so large a per cent of. them will not vote the way they feel oh November 8. but it looks as if about 60 per cent of the voters of Indiana will do so. This will mean a pretty big majority but it will be no greater thin it should be -under the circumstances.

Roosevelt came into Indiana to tell the people that they should return Insurgent Beveridge to the senate in order that he might reform the tariff. Then he hustle i ver to Massachusc is and told the people there that they should return standpatter Lodge to the senate .in order that he may prevent the tariff from being reformed. Which’ does he consider. fools and ignoramuses—the people of Indiana or the people of Massachusetts? Or is it both? A newspaper < -correspondent whd is friendly to Mr. Beveridge says that “If Senator Beveridge has failed to bring the masses to the belief that the only issue is between him and the bosses, then it is conceded by the leaders of his 'own party that he will be defeated.” Well, he surely has failed. H ; s attempt to make-‘■-he J ■•eop.c believe aay such rpijsensei

was ridiculous to begin with. It is known to every reading man in Indiana that Beveridge's only disagreement with the other bosses grew out of their refusal to allow him to be the sole boss, as he wanted to be. and as he finally became at the last state convention. No party has ever been so absolutely bossed as the Republican party of Indiana is now bossed by the Beveridge organization. Said Theodore Roosevelt at Indianapolis: “We are going to do the trick and do it well.*’ No other word so clearly illustrates the Roosevelt method as tbat lit-tle-word “trick.” He tries it out -wherever he goes. He tfninks the .people of Indiana' can be tricked into voting for Insurgent Beveridge and that the people of . Massachusetts can be tricked int&.voting for standpatter Lodge,

both of whom he is supporting. No man in America puts as low an estimate upon the intelligence of his fellow countrymen as does Theodore Roosevelt.

Do the people of Indiana want a resident or a non-resident representative in the L’nited States senate? i Mr. Kern lives in this state. If elected senator he *will continue to live in this state. But it is -not so with Mr. Beveridge. He maintains a legal residence for voting and office holding purposes in Indianapolis but that is about all that can be said. He was elected senator nearly twelve years ago and since his election it is doubtful if he spent as much as six months’ time in Indiana. When congress was in session he was in Washington or somewhere else outside

of the state he was supposed ,to represent. When congress was not in session he was in Europe, or in the woods.” or the “New Hampshire hills" or on the “Atlantic edast’’—but never in Indiana. It was only when he wanted something that he came home—when he had a favorite candidate in a convention, or was a candidate himself, or felt that his confidential man, “Baron” Rothschild, needed some advice about giving out the federal offices. It will be different when John Kent is in the senate. /