The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-03
SENATOR IS A GREAT ADVERTISER
HIS COMMENT AFTER STATE
HOOD FiGHT-MAY CAUSE
DEFEAT OF FAIRBANKS.

lieVe he will be the republican nominee
for president in 1908. And what is
more, he believes he is the only repub-
lican who can beat Bryan in case the
other boy orator is nominated to head
the opposing ticket. These things are
we'll known in Washington, because
Senator Beveridge is continually talk
ing about them, and he doesn't hest
tate to express the utmost confidence
that he will be the party leader in
1908, is the report that comes from
Washington, D. C.
In point of fact, Beveridge is the
laughing stock of the senate, and his
boomlet is the standing joke of that
sedate body. Nobody takes the Beve-
ridge boom seriously except Beveridge
himself, but the bee is buzzing so in
cessantly in range of his ears that the
misguided young statesman has not
yet heard the first smoker that has
been going around the senate since he
launched his own boom.
A Good Advertiser.
Beveridge is one of the best adver-
tisers in the senate-that is, one Of the
best self-advertisers He doesn't mind
footing his own horn in season and out,
and he would as quickly toot it in the
faces of men who are actually presiden-
tial possibilities as in the presence of
an audience that might for the time be
carried away by his oratory. Beve-
ridge has talked with nearly every
member of the senate about his boom,
and they all discuss it seriously with
him, making him believe they are in
favor of his nomination.; but poor
Beveridge has yet to find out that his
colleagues are playing horse with him,
and would be only too glad of an OPP
portunity to sink his boom to the
bottom of Salt river.
A Redeeming Trait.
Senator Beveridge has one trait that
will be of value-he doesn't know when
he is defeated; he doesn't recognize de-
feat when he meets it face to face For
three long years Beveridge, as chair
man of the committee on territories,
endeavOred to force through a joint
statehood bill that would compel the
admission of Arizona and New Mexico
into the Union as one state. He staked
his reputation on that bill, and declared
hundreds of times that he would win
out. But he was bumped good and hard
by the senate and lost his fight, not
he had the support of the
president Yet Beveridge hobs up Sc
and is strutting about the cap
itol. patting himself on the chest and
saying to those who listen: Il tell
you, 1 am afully proud to be the recog-
nized father of a new state (Okla-
homa). It's a great honor" Thus, in
the hour of most bitter defeat, Beve-
ridge totally ignores the trouncing he
received at the hands of the senate,
and takes credit to himself out of
fight in which he was overwhelming
ly defeated. The man has nerve
that's all there is about it,
A Convention Prediction.
And so it will be with the presidential
nomination. He will stalk off to the
next national convention bent on Sc
curing the nomination. He will be
turned dowp. but he will emerge from
the convention hall, his hand tucked
under the lapel of his coat and he
will proclaim himself the peoples
favorite for 1912. The conceft of the
man is astonishing.
1t is strange that a man of Beve-
ridges build should have gained such
a wonderful reputation throughout the
country, but it is all due to the fact
that he is a good advertiser. When he
can't keep himself before the public
through his actions in the senate he
uses the magazines. The day will prob
ably never come when another United
States senator will exploit himself in
the monthly and weekly publications
of the country as Beveridge has done
since he became senator He writes
on any and all subjects. Some of his
writings are worth reading, others
are mere dribble. The magazines take
them because they come from a United
States senator. The writings of any
senator could find their way into print
as readily, but few senators care to
exploit their views and their theories
in this manner
May Cause Defeat of Fairbanks.
Notwithstanding certain defeat that
awaits Senator Beveridge at the next