The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11

MI Nicholas Nickleby'S legs? That
is the way many of our calIow poiiti-
clans look upo1 the eloquence of Sena-
tor Albert ]. Beveridge, with this diff
ference-everybody could see the SYM
metry of Mr.. Nickleby's legs; nobody
has sounded the profundities of Mr.
Beyeridge's eloquence. To make an
adequate study of the Hon. Beveridge
} one should begin by reading Disraelis
"Contarini Fleming" and round up by
reading some of the New England his
tories-Henry Cabot Lodge. Henry
Adams, and that set that teach that
America is confined within the geog-
raphical limits of the commonwealth
of Massachusetts and that the great
American republic was forged in a
convertible of Puritan fanatics. who
abused Gods patience with imperti-
nent prayer and made money out of
the African slave trade
No other statesman ever came to this
town so well heralded as Mr.. Bever-
ioge- No other speech delivered by an
American senator had such abundant
and persistent advance advertising as
Beverage on the Philippines. The SEN
ate gallery and corridors were never
before, or since so densely packed as
during its delivery. Unfortunately it
was not couched in the English tongue
or if it was, nobody understood what
the man was driving at. l gathered
from casual reading of it that the
senator meant to convey, in reconcile
Il speech, the idea Joe Pickett of Ten
nessee had when he made that figure
OF John c. Breckenridge and the Amer
lean eagle in his fervent appeal to the
irish or Nashville in the campaign of
1860. On both occasions the eagles
! wings rested on the Orient and the
Occldent, and she rose and scared and
rose and scared, and rose and scared.
A misfortune overlook Joe's bird: but I
op1ne that the eagle Beveridge cast
off his verbose gauntlet is now some
where in the vicinity of Arcturus
screaming Bunker Hill, Appomattox,
and San Juan Hill. Let us hope she
viii not return from her wanderings
! BeVeridge was born in Ohio. Oct
3, 1862, and 1t is supposed the family
was from Virginia, though, with the
possible exception of Serene E Payne.
l do not suppose there is another man
IN public life who has so little syu-
pathy for the southern section of this
country as Albert ]. Beveridge The
elder Beverfdge was federal soldier
and after the war. went to Indiana
The family met with financial reverses
ana were very poor. Ere he was in his
! teens the future Senator was a dav
/ /
bring forth to thee, and thou shall eat
the herb of the field" In the sweat
of his face did young Beveridge eat
| bread. Let us honor him for that if
we cannot admire him for his states
| manship.
| Not Lincoln nor Johnson. nor Car
field, endured greater hardships in
youth than did this man, nor did one
OF them discover more grim determine
ton to succeed in life There was
| lnuch IN DlSraelis declaration: "A
man can be what he wills to be-" Note.
/ 1t is not wishes" but wills" Rev
erlCge willed to acquire an education.
! he got it. though he was many a time
supperless to bed ere he was grad
Uated. He Willed to be q lawyer, He
came to the bar, though he many a
| time slept on a hard counter instead
of bed during his student days. He
Wilied to be a senator in congress. a
station to which he attained, though
some OF US do not understand what he
| is doing there.
| Beveridge was a student In the law
| office of that bully old Democrat. Jo-
seph e. Mcdonald. Where he got his
| Politics L have no idea, In view of
| certain publications now fresh in the
public mind touching railroad receiver
| ships in Indiana, it is well enough to
dwell on the fact that Beveridge had a
| brief in case in which the question
| involved was whether a mortgage lien
| on railroad is superior to the claims
Tor wages of the operatives of the road.
The first time that question was de-
cIded in this country it was before the
court of last resort in Kentucky and
| that intellectual Ajax and Democrat
TO the marrow, William Lindsay. later
| a senator in congress. decided that
wages had the preference over interest
/ on bonds. Beveridge, then a clerk and
a student in McDOnald's office. sug-
gested this decision and it was held
| Sood In Indiana. They are putting
some rather Searching questions tn
another HoOsier statesman of and CON
corning receivership of that nature.
A Mr.. Gardiner is interrogating Mr.
Fairbanks in that behalf.
But 1t seems that the stump and not
| the bar was Beveridge's first love
Every campaign he went up and down
the state of Indiana in the role of that
holy terror, "a boy orator" There
ought to be law in this country that
no man should make a stump sDeech
before he is 30, at least. Ignorance and
youth are twin. Take a young fellow
with half-baked education. fill his
mind with vanity and his chest with
lungs, and he can do a heap of harm
on the stump. Above all men an orator
ought to know something of what he is
talking about. Most of them when
under 80, are densely and defiantIv ig-
norant not only of the principles of
American politics but of its history
Politics is made up of a score of things.
mostly lies, and it takes a wise man.
even when past 80, to separate the
mountain of lies from the hillock of
truths. | would give a deal to have
heard one of Beveridges bloody south
speeches in the campaign of 1882. +
would give a great deal more to hear
E. w. CaTmack answer Beveridge on
that child labor bill
X X X
After Morton was gathered to his
fathers. Ben Harrison and Judge
Gresham were left to contest for the
primacy of the Republican party of
Indiana, now become Democratic and
dominated by Hendricks, VOORHEES,. Nc
Donald and Turpie. Gresham moved
over to Illinois and Harrison got to be
president. which latter fact drove
Gresham into the Democratic party. In
tellectually. Harrison was the greatest
man Indiana ever produced, but his de-
feat by Cleveland, in 1892. send him into
retirement. The failure of the south