Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-28
INDIANA REPUBLICAN SPLIT
 MAY DEFEAT SEN. BEvERlOCE

Beveridge made an issue in his home county. Marion Heating de feated him, nd the Heating slate went through. In most of the proph esies that Beveridge will be re-elect- ed to the senate the assumption has been that the senator will sweep Marion county. But, even if the re publican nominees are elcted, he can not sweep Marion county. Its legisla- tors will be independent For whom they will vote for senator is not es- tablished. The republican standpat- ters' dark horse is still muffled in
 the stall None have seen him who will confess it. Former vice-presi- dent Fairbanks. say some, while close friends of Fairbanks riducule
 the idea. James E. Watson. whose
 defeat for governor is here and there icharged to Beyeridge, is not the dark horse, it is said.
 Those close to Beveridge name four counties in which they charge money is being used to elect anti-
 Beveridge republicans or democrats. These counties, they say. are Van
 derburg (Evansvilfe). Marion Undian- lapolis). vigo (Terre Haute) and Lake [ (Gary). It is certain that if Bever-
 idge loses these counties, either 10 Ithe democrats or to the opposition
 faction in his party, he cannot re turn to the senate.
 Marion county is likely to return democratic legislators, nine of them. land two holdover senators are demo lcrats. Even though republicans
 should be elected, all nine are lnde- ipendents. vigo county has five can ldidates and the democratic platform promises to repeal the county option
 bill of the republicans Is expected
 to win that county. Its republicans lare said to be anti-Beveridge also. flake county must elect three. Here
 the Steel Trust" is king. and the I''Steel Trust loves Beveridge no
 more than it does a democrat. Re publican legislators would probably
 be anti-Beveridge. In vanderburg
 county Beveridge has more hope oi 1.-the five. Evansville is considered standpat, but recently the Evansville
 Press, democratic newspaper. came out for Beveridge and the democratic
 nominee for congress. former Mayor Boehne. The standpatters think this smells of a bipartisan deal, com
 ing on the heels of Beyeridge's . speech to the Indiana bankers in Ev.
 ansville recently. They are inclined to give him a better chance for Bey eridge legislators in vanderburg.
 These four counties will decide the
 day. If they elect democrats, i . three of them elect democrats, the , legislature will not be republican. Il they elect republicans, it would seen
 that Beveridge still is long wa, from reelection.
 : The senator and his friends pooh
 
 i pooh the talk of anti-Beveridge lesis f lators. They point to the state plat form and it's solemn promise" They , contend that the regulars in Indiana
 are the progressive republicans. Blu f a walk down any street in Indian; . and desultory conversations with ev g lery third man dispels this view l. lThere are many thousand standpat \ ters, and they are grievously op ? posed to the senator. Whether thel i. will vote the democratic ticket de g pends on Roosevelt If he confuse' e them, they are likely to stay at home In addition, they are indignan l. about Roosevelt They say that h' >. forced Taft on the 1908 convention F. and tha. now he is embarrassing th' n administration in every way. ! l. Roosevelt comes out fatly for Bey + eridges' tariff stand and for hi: s speech at Indianapolis, It will de l. eide many of these standpatters t'
 vote the democratic ticket. The! l. want revenge Should Roosevelt s make such 6 speech. all the prosres l. sives will support Beveridge. Shoul' e Roosevelt dump many new, little is e sues into the state, the party vii t split fin every direction and the Ia r. diana elephant will go up into the sk. d ike the famous other elephant, l.' Is Q come down until the sth of Nc q rember.
 nI Apart from the doubt whether IT majority of republican legislative e ' e didates are for or against Beyeridg g and whether a republican legisiatur al would re-elect him, it may be state .e as certain that thousands of repubt g cans win not vote at all. Their resi Ig ons are that Beveridge has d:zr=ptc a. the party in the state and that h c. personality is disagreeable, that r O. devoted only one week in 1908 {: e. helping Watson, during which tin, Id he hardly mentioned the name of th le candidate. They charge that tsi
 week. in which Beveridge, Georg ly Aide, John T. McCutcheon and Boot of Harrington made a spectacular tri