The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-11-03
ISSUE THAT
IS ABOVE .
PART|sANsHIP
THE PEOPLE OF INDIANA ON
TRIAL, MACHINE RULE THE
ISSUE NEXT
TUESDAY
Shall The Politics of The United
States Be Controlled By Big
Business and Trading
Bosses?

Never before has there been an
election in this state of so vital inn
portanees as the election next Tuesday
Albert J.. Beveridge is the paramount
issue, and on his election depends
in a great measure corporation and
gang rule or government by the
people, not only in Indiana, but In
the nation. For if the peoples great
leader is stricken down in his own
state and a corporation lawyer elect
ed to take his place in The United
States senate, government by the
people will receive a blow from
which it will take years to recover
Therefore every friend of the people
in Marshall county should go to the
polls next Tuesday and vote to send
Ed. M. Wright to the legislature to
help elect Albert j. Beverage, Unit.
ed States senator.
At every election public men are
on trial and parties are on trial; but
in next weeks election the supreme
trial is going to be a test of the peo-
pie of Indiana. A nation will be
looking to see whether they stand for
deliverance from the old order of
special privilege, combined with ma
chine politics, or whether they stand
for Reinforcement of gang rule in
our public life.
Politics in the United States has
long consisted of an alliance between
Big Business and trafficing bosses.
Great corporations have ruled and
plundered the people through cum
ING politicians who took their money
and delivered them laws in return.
The Democrats won the election OF
1892 on an appeal for Jeffersonian
principles, and in the Wilson law
they sold out to the trusts. Similar
~. machine Republicans have helped
themselves TO power and pillage by
trading in honest money and tie war
for the Union.
At length a group of men arose in
the Republican party who resolved
that laws should hereafter be made
for the people and honestly framed
after conscientious study. In this
enterprise they were laughed to scorn
as they still r by the machine poll
%ticians of both parties. This great
movement for the people in indiana
the wrath of the Democratic
machine here as much as the hostility
of organized pilliage on Wall street.
insurgency is the peoples cause and
the peoples hope.
Beveridge is fighting with a courag.
us magnificent and a zeal as ardent
as the bravest soldier ever displayed.
To defeat him is the greatest desire
of the enimies of reform. His skill
in debate his acquaintance with senat
orial methods and men born os
twelve years experience and watch
fulness show what a tower of
strength he will be to the movement
Re supports. No new man could
WELD ? hundredth part rs much in.
ndcnce no matter what his talents
The supreme issue in this election is
his Endorsement by the people of In.
diana and his return to the Senate.
History will record his success OF
defeat as one Of the great turning
points in a mighty conflict. 1t is no
time to bubble over trivialities or to
shut our eyes to escape seeing the
light. The day will come when men
will count it an honor to have sup
ported him and especially is this true
Of the young men to whom the word
patriotism is going to mean more
than it did to the men Of the last
thirty years. He is a leader they can
follow with confidence and pride. He
deserves the support of every mar
who wants a better America.
There is one sense in which the fate
of Albert Beveridge is of compara-
lively little moment. One soldier
more or less on the firing line does
not greatly matter. But it is of the
very highest Importance that the
aus of better politics and honest
government should not find the peo-
pie Indifferent to the outcome of the
battle in which the powers of pillage
are seeking to destroy those who
have dared to oppose them for the
peoples sake. There are a few public
men in the United States and Albert
Beveridge happens to be one of them
whom the combination between spec
ial privilege and machine politics is
seeking to destroy. 1t is their hope
that independence of his sort may be
crushed to earth; and if they succeed
then the meaning of the Indiana
election will be that hereafter nobody
must dare raise his head against rule
by the gang.