The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-13
STUMPS INDIANA.
Col. Roosevelt Puts i'm the Day
for Beveridge.
End Orses the Senator's Position
on the Tariff.
GREETED BY CROWDS.
Tells the HOOsiers There Il
Victory in the Air.
Fight Is Against Crooked Poll
tics and Crooked Business.

Veedersburg, Ind. Oct. 13.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt opened his one-day
campaign in Indiana for Senator Bev-
eridge today with an emphatic en-
dorsement of him as man who
stands for what is good in American
public life. He spoke at Covington
and made his second address in In
diana at Veedersburg.
IF you defeat Senator BeVeridge
you defeat man who stands for what
is decent in our government" said
Colonel Roosevelt, pointing to the SEN
ator, who stood beside him on the
platform. Former Vice President
Fairbanks also was on the car.
You people of Indiana sent your
share of men to the Civil war to help
preserve the Union," Colonel Roose-
velt went. Indiana is now engaged
in a struggle that emphatically is
moral struggle. 1t is a struggle for
the immutable principles of righteous
ness
Senator Beveridge's stand in favor of
a tariff commission.
81 like game fighter for the right"
said Colonel Roosevelt. '"Fhat is why
am here to speak for Senator Bev-
eridge. If you really believe a public
man ought to fight for the right you
will send Beveridge back to the
United States senate. If Indiana votes
against him it will be understood as
furnishing man who sought to bring
his party abreast of the progressive
sentiment of his state
In reference to the tariff, Colonel
Roosevelt said:
It am convinced that the American
people are for protective tariff,
which shall equalize the cost of pro-
duction here and abroad"
The colonel spoke in favor of the tar
iff commission scheme which Senator
Beveridge has advocated.
In regard to his own state he said:
I'm New York, we have just won
victory inside our own party on the
issue straight and clear of public purity
against bossism, the negation of de-
mocraey.'
Big Crowd at CrawfordsvilIe.
Charlottesville. md, Oct. IA great
crowd was out at Charlottesville to hear
Col. Roosevelt speak. The train was
lege and Col. Roosevelt made his ad-
dress on the football field.
ct have not been very long in In
diana today" he said, "but 1 have
| been here long enough to catch some
| of your spirit and I feel as if L were
| taking part in a Republican campaign
| half a century ago-then the Republic
can party won because it appealed to
the people on straight clean-cut prin-
| ciples.
|
| today in behalf of Senator BeveridSe.
a progressive Republican and those on
! the ticket with him. I feel that you
will win because it is for the honor of
| the state. We are making a fight for
| honesty and genuine popular rule.
| when 1 speak for a progressive Re-
| publican 1 speak for the entire Repub-
| lican party. The party was founded as
| a progressive party and always has been
| a progressive party.
| Sees Victory in the Air.
Lafayette, Ind. Oct. 13.-Another
| large crowd greeted Col Roosevelt when
| he arrived here.
The students of Purdue university
started a yell for him as he appeared.
The colonel, standing on the stone rail-
| ing of the Lincoln club, tried his best
to talk so that he could be heard.
There is victory in the air here in
| Indiana said the colonel, this is a
contest against crooked politics and
| crooked business. One thing I want to
| make clear to you is that the only way
| to support Senator Beveridge is to sup
| port the men on the legislative ticket
with him.
Referring to Senator Beveridge's at
titude in regard to the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill. which the senator voted
| against Col Roosevelt said:
1.-THE senator did not split off from his
party he merely stood by the bulk of
the party"