The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-03
INDEPENDENTS
ALL WANT
bEvER|DGE
JOHN H. HOLIDAY GIVES REA-
SONS WHY HE SHOULD
BE REELECTED.
His Views Are Almost Identical
With Those of Senator Cummins
Here.

Here.
The Indianapolis News of Satur-
day last contained an article by Mr..
John IL. Holiday, formerly editor Of
that paper and one of Indiana's fore
most citizens and clearest thinkers.
in which he advocates the reelection
of Senator Beveridge as an important
step in the revolution for a better
America. Nothing finer and truer
has been said in this campaign than
Mr.. Holidays trenchant letter, which
is here reproduced in part.
"It does not require very acute
observation Or very profound ac-
quaintance with history to realize
that we have come upon a time of re-
volution in the ideas and desires of
men in reference to their systems of
government. The whole world IS in
a political ferment. Often single ma
tons have passed through such cris-
es. In a few instances several have
been effected at the same time as il.
1913, and to a lesser degree during
the period of the French revolution,
but there never was anything like
the widespread agitation for greater
liberty and the curtaiiment of pri-
villeges than exists now in all coun
tries. Whatever the causes the fact
remains that the common people are
rising to overthrow established
forms and institutions with the IN
tent TO rule themselves and imprc.e
their condition.
In this upturning the United
States is not escaping. In spite oil
our boosted freedom there is the
same deep dissatisfaction and unrest,
Ii is not against our forms and in
stitutions so much as against the
manner in which they have been twist
ed ard thwarted for the benefit OF
favored sections and classes 1t Is
against the departure from the prin-
ciple on which the government was
founded the equality of all citizens
before the law and in the possession
of political rights. The situation is
epochal. The nation is in travail
and a new era will be born. Thre.
such have proceed it in the history
of the country. The first period
marked the rise and success of the
revolution that created the govern
ment. The second period marked
the rise of Democracy with the elec.
ton of Jefferson and the downfall of
the ~aristocratic Federal party that
held the traditions of Europe and ex-
allied the few above the many. The
third period marked the rise of the
Republican party with its blue ban
ner proclaming to the world the
doctrine of the Declaration of In,
dependence, liberty and equality be-
fore the law to all men.
@How gloriously these movements
were wrought out In labor and tears
and fire and blood are of common
report. 1t is not understood so well
that they all met with extreme and
violent enmity. Rights that now are
deemed commonplace were contested
for ard won with the bitterness OF
death. There were "standpatters'
then who would concede nothing and
who resisted the agitators with TIC
~iercest opposition hat i~ntrenched
privilege could devise. The leaders
then as now were vilifed aiId sland-
cred; obloquy vas heaped upon
those who are now almost deifed
Many of the men who today exali
Abraham Lincoln would have oppos
ed him tooth and nail had they beer
of his time.
History repeats itself, not in the
similarity of Incidents, but in the ex
preston of the strivings and grasp
ings of great passions and principles
Man is ever moving upward, thanh
lGod, slowly but steadily, and the
passing years covering milestones oil
progress plainly show the n eterna
purpose of uplifting mankind. The
movement for long may be like thai
of a glacier, imperceptible almost
bnt it gathers force until it become.
a cataclysm and sweeps all barriers
down in destruction. The American
people are moving again and the,
will o to a purpose. They are jea
Gus of their liberties; they want TIN
equality Of a fair field and no favors
they want to make this truly the LAM
of the free where man shall cal
another master. and where no MAJ
shall deprive another Of the oppor
tunity of making the most of himsel
and winning the happiest state at
tainable. This is their God-giveI
! right, though cynicism may sneer a
! the Declaration of independence a
an iridescent dream and the beneici
| aries of feudal practices many gnasl
, their teeth in rage at the assumption
, The people may not realize their RICH
i'm its completeness, but their heart
| hold the inexpressible longing, an,
though dumb and inarticulate fol
a time the voice is now breaking GU
in tones that are TO fill the earth.
1.-The people are rising. The ole
order must change, perhaps not thi
year, nor next, but soon. If thi