Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1920 — ROLL CALL OF REACTION [ARTICLE]

ROLL CALL OF REACTION

Beveridge Read Record In 1914— Sama Story This Year Silences Orator.

We are told ex-Senator Albert J. Beveridge is to speak in Indiana for Senator “‘Jim” Watson, to urge Mr. Watson for six years more in the United States Senate. We do not believe Mr. Beveridge will speak for Watson in Indiana or for the Watson crowd. We are told Mr. Beveridge is to campaign in Indiana for Warren G. Harding for president. It doesn’t look possible. In 1914 on September 14, at Terre Haute, Mr. Beveridge very plainly set forth the good reasons why he can not make such speeches as he is reported to contemplate making in Indiana. In that remarkable speech Mr. Beveridge ‘‘called the roll" of Republican leadership, at a time when, as he said, ‘‘they (the Republican leaders) declare that the Republican party has cleansed itself of those leaders an(J> influences which overthrew that party.” “Let the roll call answer this,” said Mr. Beveridge, and he then “called the roll,” as follows: “In Maine, the Hale-Burleigh machine is more firmly in the Republican saddle than ever —Maine, into which this moment scores of thousands of dollars are being poured by evil interests to corrupt this week’s election. “In Massachusetts the Crane-Lodge-Weeks machine is in absolute command of the Republican party. "In Connecticut Senator Brandegee is the Republican candidate to succeed himself —Brandegee, who was and is an Aldrich lieutenant, who stands for all that Aldrich stood for and worse. (Brandegee is once more on the ticket this year.) “In New Hampshire Senator Galllnger 1$ the Republican candidate to succeed himself —Gallinger, dean of all the reactionaries in congress. Raps Barnes and Root. "Tn New York the Barnes-Root combine owns the Republican party in fee simple—l hold in my hand the New York newspapers hostile to the Progressive party, each of which states that the recent Republican convention was a machine convention ruled by Barnes and Root; and everybody knows that the so-called ‘retirement’ of Boss Barnes from the New York state committee, but who is still N°w York’s national Republican committeeman, is a cheap trick which pulls the wool over the eyes of none except those already blind. Barnes will name —already has named —the Republican candidates for governor and senator from New York. “In Pennsylvania Penrose is the Republican candidate to succeed himself; and the notorious Republican Pennsylvania machine is stronger today than in many years. (Penrose named the 1920 Republican Presidential candidate over a private personal telephone wire from his Philadelphia home to the Chicago convention.) “IN OHIO, HARDING OF CHICAGO CONVENTION FAME, THE DISCIPLE AND UNDERSTUDY OF FORAKER WITHOUT THAT BRILLIANT MAN’S "LABILITY, IS THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PENATOR. “In Illinois, Cannon, McKinley, Mann and others of the oligarchy which overthrew the Republican party, are Republican nominees for congress; (McKinley this year, for senator) the crafty standpat Sherman is the Republican candidate for senator, and the vicious Illinois machine is today running the Republican party in the state of Abraham Lincoln.” And so runs the roll call, on and on, to South Dakota and Burke, Kansas and Curtis, to Colorado and the Guggenheims, to Utah and Smoot, California and the Calhoun-Southern Pacific gang—according to the 1914 Beveridge speech. “If Penrose is a Republican, Cummins cannot be,” declared Mr. Beveridge. If Watson is a Republican, If Harding is a Republican, what is Mr. Beveridge. The 1914 speech is the answer.