Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-02-07
bEVER|DGE DOOMED
TO RETIRE FROM
THE SENATE
INDIANAN SAYS DEMOCRAT
WILL SUCCEED TO T0GA
MiShlkwaka Attorney Declares
Lack Of Harmony in Repub-
Iican Circles Means Victory
for Opposition in Legislature,

That a democrat viii be elected by
the next Indiana Legislature to sue
cccd United States senator Albert j.
Beveridge and that the legislature will
be democratic by long odds was the
somewhat Interesting statement made
10 a journal representative last night
by William f.. O'Neill, Of the law
firm Of O'Niell 4 Schwab, of Misha-
waka, Ind, who was in the city yes
terday the guest of his cousin, Louis
w. Black, en- route to the Pacific
coast.
Mr.. O'Neill was in Albuquerque last
october at which time he predicted
the election Of Sliycly, a democrat to
the United States senate, which fore
cast proved a good one. Shively being
victorious over Hcmenway by q safe
majority in the legislature.
Mindful of the fact that he who
enters the domain of political proph-
ecy usually takes counsel of his hopes
rather than of his knowledge said
Mr.. o'Ncill, II ann somewhat chary.
as q rule, about making ante-election
predictions. But the political signs Of
the times are SO unmistakablc in In
diana this year that ! feel no h~csitancy
IN saying that a democrat win be
elected by the next legislature to sue
eed Beveridge. The democrats. as
YOU know. controlled the last legisla-
ture on joint ballot, having a major
fty OF nine in the house ana lacking
three Of q majority insthe senate. In
the next legislature they viii have "A
still larger majority in the house and
VIII hold all their present senatorships
with W possible exceptions. while
they are almost certain to gain six
senatorial districts.
1T has often been said by our OPP
ponents during the past decade that
th4 India nd 1aat4a4as4lsH llglE.1 Ill1.tr.
ship and that as "a result Of successive
defeats aud discourugements we were
halt beaten before the campaign real-
" begun. Whatever may have been
the truth of this observation. ii will
not be heard in the approaching am
paign. The election OF Benjamin +.
shively to the United States senate
and the quick recognition Of his abii-
lily by his colleagues who have made
him vice chairman of the caucu and
virtually floor lcader, seems To have
aroused the old spirit that animated
the Hoosler Democracy when the SUI
perb Hendricks led il 10 its long line
Of successive Victories. In every one
of the thirteen districts the party has
a united, militant organization. Dur
ing The past month the republicans
have been holding widely advertised, |
love ftasts. IN connection with the
of district chairmen. These
gatherings have boon notably for the
harmony that has prevailed at them.
But ii has been the same kind OF har-
mony that prevailed at the democratic
national convention IN 1883. 1t will
recalled that none but simon-pure
name Observation-Disclosures Cleveland
men had a voice Ia that convention.
The harmony WAS 50 intense that You
could feel 1t. You now what the
result at the polls was. Well, as these |
meetings In Indiana this year.
1t is all Beveridge. o. could not find
Il member of the old Fairbanks-Hem-
enway crowd with Il search warrant.
What this sort OF harmony means in
Indiana politics will be read in the re-
turns that tell the story of the politi-
cal status of the next legislature.
"Beveridge Is as surely beaten as
was Hemenway last October. | only
hope that Beveridge's successor, who
he may be. will be as staunch a
friend TO New Mexico as is Senator
5hively, And speaking of Shively. |
keep your eye on him. He halls from
a state TO which the eyes of the a
lion have frequently turned when
search was being made for president
timber and I will not be at all sur
prisod if he becomes a big factor in
he fight for the nomination in 1912"