The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-08-13

-,r.ght 1907, by L. W. NeWnan-)
,.ou all remember the enthusi-
aGmiration Miss Fanny Squeers
for Mr.. Nicholas Nickleby's legs ?
Il -... is the way many Of our cal!ow
...r#anS look upon the eloquence Of
..-,r Albert J. Beverage, with this
.-.rce-cverypody could see the
e,~y of Mr.. Nickleby'S legs; no
has sounded the Drofoundities OF
,- ueveridge's ~eloquence. To make
.acauate study Of the Hon. Bever-
.. one should begin by reading
I.aeIls Contain Fleming and
....a up by reading some of the New
..a.and historIes-Henry Cabot
..ge, Henry Adams, and that set
hat teach that America is confined
l..a.n The geographical limits Of the
4 -aa.monwealth ON Massachusetts and
,.t the great American Republic was
-.--l IN n conventicle Of Puritan
..t.c=. who abused Gods patience
,.t. tmpertiaent prayer and MADE
-.rcv out Of the African slave trade.
E1 other statesman ever came to
town so well heralded as Mr..
a..cridge. No other speech delivered
~. an American nat had such
lIluda4t and persistent advance ad-
'lr-refng as Beveridge on the Philip
,.ras. The enate galleries and cor
4 -..rs were naser before. or since. so
Il 7ar-elv packed as during it's delivery.
\ ~-rtortunately it was not couched in
| h. English tongue, or If it was. no
4 ..H. understood what the man was
Il 7rf.ln1 at. I gathered from a casual
\ -eaainE of it that the Senator meant
9 convey, in ~recondite speech, the
den Joe Pickett, Of Tennessee, had
when he made that figure of John G.
ararkinridge and the American eagle
n his f~ervent appeal to he irish OF
<a-tnillc in the campaign of 1860. ON
10th occasions the eagles wings rested
an the orient and the Occident. and
saa rose and scared. and rose ana
scared, and rose and scared. A mis-
fortune overlook Joe's bird; but |
7pfue that the eagle Beveridge cast OF
Il bi- verbose gauntlet is now somewhere
In the vicinity of Arcturus screaming
Bunker Hill, A~ppomattoX, and san
Iuan Hill. Let US hope she Will not
return from her Wanderings.
Pcveridge was born in Ohio Octo-
her 6, 1852, and it is supposed the
FAMILY was from Virginia, though, with
thp possible exception Of Serene Il
PAYNE, | do not suppose there Is an
other ma in public life who has SC
f,on of this country as Albert j. BeV-
rridge. The elder Beverage was q
Federal soldier. and after the wal
went to Indiana. The family met WIFI
financial reverses. and were very poor
Ere he was in his teens the future
Senator was a day laborer. "Thorns
and thistles shall it bring forth to thee
and thou shalt eat the herb of tht
GnId" In the sweat Of his face dc
yaune- Beyeridge eat bread. Let u!
\ honor him for that If we cannot al
j mIre him for his craftsmanship.
NOT Lincoln nor johnson nor Gar
i field. udure greater h~ardships II
q youth than did this man, nor dld on'
j of them discover more grim deterlnl'
nation to succeed IN life. There wa:
- - l. 40 / M . "a m n T
can he what he wills to be-" Note. l
II is not wishes" but wills" Bever
idge willed to acquire an education. IL
got it, though he was many d Ini'
III suDperless to bed ere he was sradu
III ated. He willed to be a lawyer. II
81 came to the bar, though he many
81 time slzut on q hard counter insteat
Isl of IL nc5 during his student days. III
E viIled to be a nat in Congress-, {
# station 10 which he attained, thougf
@ some 0f us do not understand VIVA
81 he is doing there.
Al Bavertdge was q student in the Law
IL Office of that bully old Democrat, 10
sopn Z. Mcdonald. Where he got M
politics We have no idea. In view o
certain publications now fresh In tn
II public mind touching railroad recelV
ershipS in Indiana, it is well enough
TO dwell on the fact that Beveridg'
1 had a brief in a case in which tn
I question involved was whether
mortgage Len on a railroad is superlo
10 the claims for wages of the opera
tives of the road. The first time ina
1 question was decided in this countr'
il was before the court of last re
sort in Kentucky and that intellectual
Ajax and Democrat to the marrow
William Lindsay, later a Senator II
Congress, decided that age had tn
preference over interest on bonds
Beveridge, then a clerk and a studen
in McDonald's office, suggested thu
decision and it was held good in In
diana. They are putting some rathe
"sarching' questions. to anothe
HoOsier statesman of and concerning
a reCeivership Of that nature. A Nh
Gardiner is interrogating Mr.. Fair
banks in that behalf.
But it seems that the stump an,
not the bar was Beverages first love
Every campaign he went up and dow.
the State of indiana in the role Q
that holy terror, "a boy orator.
There ought to be a law in this cou
try that no man should make a STUN
speech before he is thirty, at tn
least ignorance and youth are twin:
Take q young fellow with a halt
baked education. fill his mind wit
vanity and his chest with lungs, an
he can do a heap of harm on tn
stump. Above all men an orato
ought to know something of what h
- tanning dbObt. NOSC VI Ii4CII
when under thirty, are densely an
defantIy ignorant not only of tn
principles of American politics. bu
of its history. Politics is made u
Of a score of things, mostly lies, an
IT takes a wise man, even when pas
thirty, to separate the mountain Q
lies from the hillOck of truths.
would give a deal to have heard on
IF Beverages bloody shirt speeche
in the campaign of 1880. l would Civ
a great deal more to hear f. w. Car
mack answer Beveridge on that chill
labor bill.
After Morton was gathered to hi
fathers, Ben Harrison and JudS
Gresham were left in contest for tn
rrlmacy OF the Republican party Q
Indiana, now become Democratic an
-"mInated by Hendricks, Voorhee!
Mcdonald, and Turpie. Gresham
moved over to Illinois and Harriso
2"t to be President. which latter fac
Drove Gresham into the Democrat
party. Intellectually. Harrison wa
greatest man Indiana ever pro
E1c7&, but his defeat by Cleveland. i
1 1892. sen him into retirement. TIL
i .-.Hre Of the South to stand by Cleve
l--H dur nc his second form and TIL