The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-11
By His Stand on Tariff Cues
ton He Has Made His Posi-
ton in This State Almost
ImpregnabIe One.

legislature next time. Slack admits
that he was in conference with Shive-
ly and Shea in Washington, but he
says they happened to meet at the
office of Congressman Lincoln Dixon
and that they talked over the political
situation in Indiana but that they did
not discuss the senatorship.
Judge Shea and Fairbanks also have
returned and they say, too, that they
did not talk about the senatorship
with Slack. In fact, Fairbanks says
he did not go to Washington.
Wants senatorship.
Slack, however, announces that he
will 20 after the senatorship II the
democrats have a majority in the leg
islature so as to elect democrat TO
succeed Senator Beverage. He says
it has always been the highest ambl-
ton of his life to be United States SEN
ator and that he will not be satisfied
till he gets the place.
Shea was the manager of Shively's
campaign for the senatorship last win
ter, although he comes from Slacks
district-the fourth, represented In
congress by Congressman Dixon, who
managed Stacks campaign for sena-
tor. Slack made his fight on the
grounds that he was opposed to the
brewery interests and that he was
temperance man. The breweries fav-
ored Shively in the race. But after
the senatorship was settled and Shi-
vely was elected Slack appeared be-
fore the legislature and worked for
the repeal of the county option law
on the ground that the democratic
party was committed to its repeal and
the substitution of ward and township
option instead.
Washington Story.
The story sent out from Washington
recently was that Slack would be a
candidate for senator again, and that
the next time he would have the back
ing of the brewery interests in pay
ment for the work he did in trying to
have the local option law repealed.
This is the part of the story that
Slack denies. He says he has no
promise whatever from the breweries
that they will support him for sena-
tor.
| It is becoming more evident every
day, however, that the democrats are
going to have mighty hard time to
carry the legislature next year. Sen
ator Beveridge has endorsed them and
has made it more certain than ever
that he will have the united support
l0f ho ~
we'll as the support of many democrats
1 because of the great fight he made in
tie interest Of tariff revision down.
ward. When Beveridge and the rest
of the progressive republican sena.
tors were making their fight against
the provisions of the Aldrich bill
democrats were loud in their predic.
tons that when the time came to vote
on the passage of the bill Beverage
and the others would line up for it
and vote for its passage. They argu.
ed that because President Taft would
sign the bill, Beveridge and the rest
of the progressivee would line up for
it at the last minute, rather than Of
fend the president.
Would Have Been Fatal.
If Beveridge had done this he would
have been a dead one in Indiana
There can be no doubt of that. But
he did not, and in this he disappoint
ed the democrats, who had hoped that
he would act foolish at the last minute
and vote for the bill. He stood by his
gun to the end, and voted for the
principle which he fought for ali
through the long siege. This made
him more solid than ever in the esti
nation of the people of Indiana. be
cause he made it plain that he was
not playing politics. but that he was
doing what he believed to be right
And the democrats are not in a posi-
ton to point a finger at him, for the
reason that right alongside him dur
ing all of the fight and with him on
nearly every vote stood Senator Shive
ly, his democratic colleague from In
diana. They voted the same way
nearly every time. So the democrats
cannot attack Beveridge for his
course On the Aldrich bill.
Senator Beverage stands for wha,
the people OF Indiana stand for in the
matter of tariff reform This was
never better shown than in the multi
tude of letters and kilograms which
were poured in upon him during the
special session of congress They
came from all parts of the state and
from business and professional men
as well as farmers and laboring men
and In every instance the writer's con
rafyffNfnd I'm ~ r~f -
making and the stand he had taken.
All of this has developed since the
democrats made up their minds that
theysZad chance to win at the next