The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-17
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Des Moines Capital: Senator Albert
]. Beverage has the fight of his life
to secure a reelection to the United
States senate. John w. Kern is the
Democratic candidate and he is max
ing strong campaign.
The Republican pathway in Indiana
has not always been strewn with roses.
its victories. When Albert ]. Bever-
idge, honored with place in the
United States senate by virtue OF Re
publican votes, decided to cast his
lot with the Democratic party and OPP
pose the Taft administration in try
ing to carry out it's platform pledges
in the matter of tariff revision, 1t did
not set we'll with those Hoosier Re-
publicans who had fought the party
battles and won party victories. They
did not relish the spectacle of the
beardless Beveridge consorting with
Democrats and revamping the gauzy
platitudes which Indiana voters were
wont to hear in the days when Tom
Hendricks and Dan Voorhees, were on
earth.
And this is why Beverage now
finds himself confronted with the
fight OF his life. He is finding it ex-
tremely awkward to try to appeal for
support on his record as a Republi-
can legislator because he has been
voting with the Democrats. Beverage
bolted the Taft administration pro
gram. Why have not Indiana Republic
cans the same right to bolt Bever
idge? This is the argument which
the Beverage forces are hearing up
on every hand.
In the hopes of checking the Logical
trend of events Beveridge is taking q
new tack. He has adopted a new
scheme. In his automobile swing
from Pumpkin Gulch to Posey Corner
! he is shaking hands, kissing babies
/ and painting the glories of Mary il
/ the Vine-Ciad Cottage
Travelling with Beveridge is Free
K Lands, who acts as a sort of pre-
]! liminary gong-beater. Wherever twt
or three of the common people ar,
gathered together there the spellbind
ers are ready to do business. Landi
starts things going usually after tn
following fashion:
A Senator Beveridge stands TO
Mary of the Vine-Clad Cottage. Sena
tor Beveridge would rather have tn
Endorsement of those people of tn
common folks at home than all tn
money in the world. Senator Beve
ridge would rather hand down to hi
little boyle would rather have som
chance stranger say when his las
day came and the procession goe
: down the street.-the would rattle
have some men on the sidewalk say
There goes Beveridge. | knew hin
differed with him in politics. BIT
he was an honest man He woul
rather have that simple tribute tina
any money of men.
He stands for the firesides, stand
for the mother who sits knitting tn
stockings OF her children IN the e.
ening. He stands by the man at hi
fireside who, after day of homes
toll, is reading his paper. He stand
for the people that Abraham Lincol
5 loved and who loved Abraham Lii
coin. He stands by the men VIII
fought the war and saved the uniol
He believes in them and they believ
2 in him. He has no enemies but tn
: enemies of the common people"
Immediately following this raphso
ical outburst, the eloquent Beve
g idge, who finds the Republican part
: not good enough to vote with upo
+ national administration measure
r makes his appeal for Republica
votes in words from which the hone
fairly drips. Just listen to this nigh
r ingale of the Hoosier hastings:
t Mr. Lands has said that ne
t slogan has been coined for this car
r paign. 1t came from the pen of
t newspaper writer who perhaps d
not know what he was doing whe
he wrote it. But in those simple lint
g he has told the story of this campaig
r It is the home, the wife, the mothe
= against the bosses. When we die v
e cannot take the dollars with US. b
l. we can take the approval of Mary
the Vine-Clad Cottage as we enter Il
other world"
, And then when the speech-maki1
e is ended the auto rolls away amid
y cloud of dust while Mary returns
s her vine-clad cottage to ponder ov
j. the things which she has heard.
It Perhaps, however, there are maj