El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-28
BEVER|DGE MAKES
APPEAL To THE
PEOPLE
Sounds Keynote of Indiana
Campaign in a Speech
. at Indianapolis.

Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 2s.-In an
address opening the Republican cam
paign in Indiana, delivered in Tomlin-
1 son hall, Tuesday night, senator Al
| bert ]. Beveridge said:
II appeal to the people. This
| is your fight. This is the war
| of the citizens. Intelligent Demo-
! Gratis and Republicans alike re-
! fuse longer to be buroen bearers Of
| partisan slave drivers. Democrat and
Republican citizens alike are asking
| what is best for their firesides and
/ their country. The period Of unthink-
ing partisanship has passed-the pc
Rod of thinking citizenship has ar
rived.
Hospitality to righteous ideas is the
life of political parties; intolerance
their death. A party can live only by
growing; and it can only grow by
citizenship is stronger than partisan
ship.
Spirit That Founded the Party.
1T was thus that the Republican
party was founded-thus that it first
won the support of the masses. Hun
dreds of thousands of men who had
been Democrats became it's earliest
members-Grant and Morton were
Democrats by. birth and custom; hun
dreds of thousands of men who had
been Wings became its earliest MEM
bers-Lincoln and Seward were Wings
by birth and custom. But all became
Republicans by thought and convic
tion.
Moved by mind and conscience, citi-
Zens of all parties condemned the I'M
righteous attitude of the partisan poll
ticians of that day; and these citizens
combined to make up that great new
party which saved the republic and
wrought miracles for humanity. That
was the Republican Darty's spirit then;
that shall be Its spirit now.
Abraham Lincoln when planting the
living seeds of Republicanism said:
The party lash and the fear Of ridi-
cule will overawe justice and liberty;
men will do things under the terror of
the party lash that they would not on
any account or for any consideration
do otherwise And so Lincoln, as thes
spokesman and prophet of reason and
justice, defying the partisanship of
his day, asked citizens to be patriots;
and thus the Republican party began
its life and thus 1t must and shall en-
dure.
Democrats Reactionary.
1.-The whole present day tendency
among Democratic politicians is re-
actionary-and these reactionary poll
ticians, calling themselves Democrats,
are in the saddle commanding the
Democratic party today. VIII Demo-
cratic voters sustain them? Ask your
self if the only hopeful movement in
American public life Is not progressive
Republicanism. Ask yourselves If the
spirit of Andrew Jackson, patriotic
Democrat and Abraham Lincoln. pa
triotic Republican. manifests itself
anywhere today except in and through
that cleansing building element within
the Republican party which has over
thrown its mistakes and self appoint
ed leadership and, in the spirit OF Lin
coin and Jackson, appealed to the peo-
pie.
After all. most men and women of
all parties want equally to do right;
most OF US have the same needs and de-
sires. So let US consider what is best
for our homes and our country, not as
partisans but as citizens, not as aliens
but as kinsmen. not as foes wishing to
fight one another. but as friends wish
ing TO help one another.
The Principle of Protection.
81 am a protectionist but not an ex-
tortionist. I am an Abraham Lincoln
protectionist. Abraham Lincoln said:
IF we could have a moderate, carefully
adjusted protective tariff, so far ac-
quiesced in as not to be a subject of
perpetual strife, squabbles. changes
and uncertainties, it would be better
for u.s. That is the Abraham Lincoln
doctrine of protection; and I follow
where Lincoln led. So 1 am a pro-
tectionist-not a free trader on the
one hand nor an extortionist on the
other. but protectionist Of the Abra-
ham Lincoln school. am for tariff
builded on facts for the honest pro-
lection of all American industry: not
for tariff builded on bargains for the
unjust profit of mighty interests.
II believe with Blaine that 'reciproc-
ity is the handmaiden Of protection
with Garfield, that moderate duties are
the salvation Of protection with Nc
Kinley, that the period of exclusive
ness is past with Roosevelt that the
general good is the purpose of pro-
lection
Iniquities of Tariff Law
You should have had the wool
schedule changed and lowered. Charles
Sumner fought this schedule as imnor-
al. All men know today that it is un-
just. President Taft now declares Ii is
indefensible and says that IL was not
altered because a combination OF SEN
ators would have defeated the whole
bill if it had been altered I decline to
surrender to such a combination
What did we Republican senators
who fought the Increase in the cotton
schedule contend for? For the Dingley