Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1910 — ROOSEVELT BALKS. [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT BALKS.

■% * ' [ For Some Reason He Refuses to Make Last Speech for Beveridge.

Although advertised to do so, Theodore Roosevelt absolutely refused to speak in behalf of Senator Beveridge at Richmond. That high words passed between Roosevelt and Senator Beveridge on the last stage of Roosevelt’s one-day trip through Indiana in behalf of the Senator, and that, in consequence of the split, Roosevllt refused absolutely to address the crowd that awaited him in the coliseum at Richmond are the underlying facts in a torrent of comment aroused throughout the state by the Richmqpd incident. Richmond was the last stop on Roosevelt’s schedule. He arrived a little behind time in Richmond from Muncie, remained in Richmond for thirty minutes before leaving for the east, but the best the Republican managers could force from him was a few remarks from the platform of his car —remarks that were half-hearted and did nob last a full two minutes. When it is recalled that with two or three exceptions, the stops made by Roosevelt in Indiana during the day of his trip were not more than an average of twenty minutes each, the full significance of his thirty minutes’ silence at Richmond becomes mani- ! fest

Something happened between Roosevelt and Beveridge on the train as they journeyed from Muncie to Richmond. At Muncie Roosevelt was apparently in good humor, but at Richmond, a little later, he absolutely refused to address the crowd that waited for him. He declined to give"Beveridge indorsement before that crowd although he had come to Indiana for that sole purpose. What happened to change him? In Richmond Roosevelt was determined and refused to do Beveridge's bidding. Beveridge was excited and nervous and his remarks to the audience in the coliseum, .where he went after Roosevelt’s refusal, were such as to disgust hundreds and dismay every one else. Clearly Senator Beveridge was laboring under intense excitement. The Richmond Morning News asks, without beating around the bush, whether the excitement was-due merely to the altercation with Roosevelt or whether the Senator had indulged in stimulants to excess during the day—or both.