The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-02
NATION LOOKING
TO INDIANA
BEVERIDGE'S FIGHT WILL
BE DESPERATE BAT
TIE IN STATE.
Kansas Editor Says Opponents
of Senator Will Make Every
Effort to Defeat

Washington, May 21.-Wm.
Allen White, the distinguished
Kansas author, editor and pub
licist and close friend OF Theodore
Roosevelt, says that the issue as
to whether the United States
shall be governed for the bene-
fit of the special interests or for
the whole people is about to be
put to the test in Indiana.
Mr.. White is one of the most
vigorous champions of progress
>ive government in the country
and he would regard the defeat
of Senator Beveridge as a ma
tional calamity. He believes the
contest in Indiana. Judged in all
its bearings, is the most impor-
tant in its bearings on the future
OF progressive policies OF all the
political battles to be waged this
year.
The progressive movement, Mr.
White said Is not confined TO the
United States, but is in progress
all over the world; that as people
become informed they are de-
handing more and more justice
from the men that rule over
them.
Knows Beverages Record.
Speaking OF the fight Senator
Beveridge has waged in the face
OF tremendous obstacles and OF
what his reelection means to the
common. ordinary citizen Mr..
lIWhite said today:
The atmosphere OF Washing
ton is so different from the at
mosphere of the country at large
that the people do not realize the
forces that are arrayed and the
tremendous pressure that is
brought to bear on men in con-
gress to induce them to vote for
the special interests, rather than
for the public interests.
''The man who stands up for
public interests as against pri-
waite aggression in Washington
is a marked man. Through enor-
nous campaign contributions
lereat corporate interests have cap
tured the party organizations and
smothered the party conscience,
and those organizations have
their home and their greatest
power in Washington.
Read Men from Party.
Here they can bring pressure
that is unimagined by the av-
erage citizen at home. This pres
sure is social and political. They
ostracize the independent con-
gresham or senator and they
read him out of the party.
1T will be a great test OF SELF
government in America this year
when the people at home are
brought face to face with the pro-
position of standing by the men,
who stood by them, and the
| greatest test OF honest govern
ment in America will be in lndi-
ana for if there is one man in the
United States whom the powers
that prey through public plumber
desire to amihilate politically
that man is Senator Beveridge.
HE has withstood every kind
of temptation that ever has been
offered TO men to induce him to
betray his people. Every insid-
ious art of the politician, the f.
nancicr and the social artihcer
has been tried upon Beveridge
and he has stood like a rock.
THE fact that Beverage has
stood unafraid and mistaken has
meant most to- the insurgents in
both houses. Naturally the inter
ests that he has rebuffed and
has helped to keep within decent
bounds are after him.
Will Resort to Trickery.
They will use money in In
diana. They will use politica'
trickery in Indiana. They viii
use every scheme and dodge that
the willy politician knows in the
high degree of that craft.
1.-The people OF Indiana have
TO vote through legislature If
order to return Senator Beve-
ridge, so it NAV be expected thai
every Republican. who is z
candidate for the legislature viii
be assailed. not because he i;
for Beveridge-ndt at all. The
candidates will be attacked or
personal grounds; local issue:
will be manufactured, stories viii
be spread. every inducement viii
be held out for the average voter
to vote for the democratic legis
lative candidates.
I'm county conventions where
this diabolical influence can con
troll, county Offices will be swap
ped in order to get week legis
lative nominations.
Plan to Trade Voters.
Wherever the interests ar
do so, in any local community
where they can control, where
they can buy or trade for the
party machinery, they will put
up men they think can be defeat
ed and then go to the polls ant
try to trade these men out o.
their birth-right.
| Although Mr.. White is one o
the most gifted writer's in Amer
lea he is not speech-rnaker. /
he were. it would afford him
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