The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-12
A MEMORABLE DAY.
One of the Greatest Creations
Of a Decade.
Ten Columns Delivered With
out Manuscript or Note.

The State Journal was the first paper
IN Kansas to print Beverages great
speech on the Philippines.
Anticipating that the speech would
attract worldwide attention, this paper
made early preparation to give its read
ers the promptest and fullest service.
The speech was furnished in full by
the Associated Press and was given our
readers in full-nearly two pages-on
the afternoon of its delivery few hours
after the words were spoken in the
United States senate.
Thousands were waiting to hear what
Beveridge would say. Those VINO agrees
with him and those who may think ne
is wrong in his conclusions, concede the
Tenarkableness of the occasion, anu
were eager for the facts he gatnereo
by months of personal investigation.
Eastern papers are glowing IN their
description of the orator the scene anu
the words. The papers say that not IN
a decade is heard a speech such as thsSI
in the senate chamber.
one of the most graphic depictions. a
thrilling description and q character
sketch combined is that written by Lhe
noted correspondent, Walter Wellman,
for the Chicago Times-aera1d wen
man says:
In the senate today there was re-
1narkable scene. 1t was as II two cen
Is
ators had met and crossed SWORDS IN
forensic combat. The new century, the
new era of national life, was repre-
scented by the young senator from LII
diana, Mr.. Beveridge, while the depart
ing era, clingtng fondly to its tran.
fions, was the venerable Mr.. 1oar u
Massachusetts,.
Extremes met The champion OF the
old order Of things hailed from staI -t
New England, the apostle OF the new
from the free and breezy west one
was the veteran of senatorial DEBATES
running back q quarter OF century
the other today made his debut as d
congressional orator. The old man elo-
ouent. oddly enough, began his leg1sla-
tive service as a member OF ms STATE
the very year the young man eloquent
was born.
and the newcomer, prophet Of the pres
ent and coming life of the republic, met
as one century and one era lapses into
another. They were able spokesInen-
Both were eloquent, both intellectual
both forceful, both patriotic, both AMI
mated by high ideals of their country
and it's duty. Fit champions OF the
ideas now clashing and contending Tor
the mastery in the intellectual lie OF
America were they who met TO-DAY at
the parting Of the ways.
But the young man, the new idea, the
broader national life, won the day. FRO
greSS prevailed over the LrAQiIlOHdllslAA
Typical Of what is going on in the
minds of the American people was the
result in the senate champer this after
noon. Both sides are heard, all argu--
ments are weighed and considered, ana
the verdict is given for expansion Tor
growth. for throwing down the walls
of prejudice and going out to the sea
TO build make and uplift.
The storm of applause that rolled
through the senate chamber when the
apostle of the new idea concluded his
address, wave of applause that came
from crowded floor and crowded gal
leries-meant much more than mere tIl-
butte to the amazing young orator VINO
had come out of the west-it slgn1neo
popular sympathy with his contention,
spoke of the awakening Of the masses
to the opportunities and duties Of the
hour
Right nobly did the youngster acquit
himself His was a speech such as we
hear in the senate chamber once or
twice only in a decade. All the condi-
lions precedent and present were fav-
orable The speaker had visited the
islands wherein the American flag IS
assailed by armed insurgents. He had
pursued most carefully and labor1ously
his Investigations there. Returning to