The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-07-09
BEVERIDGE AND ROOSEVELT.

It is remarkable how a few weeks
will often change the aspect OF
things. A few weeks ago, when the
republican state convention of In
diana met and endorsed Senator
Beveridge for reelection and repudi-
ated the Aldrich-Payne tariff bill,
curses were hurled at him. The
standpat organs referred to him as
a political renegade, called him a
shallow dreamer, and attempted to
ostracise him politically. The presi-
dent of the United States cancelled
an engagement to speak in the SEN
ator's state. Attorney General
Wickersham gratuitously read him
out of the republican party. That
pharasaical group of republicans
who assumed that they were the
whole show gathering their robes of
righteousness about them and held
their noses when Beveridge passed
by, in total ignorance of the fact
that they were the ones who stunk.
On Thursday, Senator Beveridge
had conference with Colonel Roose-
welt. The colonel, by cOnsenting to
make a political speech in Indiana
in behalf of Beveridge's candidacy,
tacitly Endorsed the insurgency of
the senator. Now these inconsistent
pharisees, in view of Mr.. Rooseve1t's
attitude, are just discovering that
Senator Beveridge was not much OF
an insurgent at all. They are con-
soling themselves with the thought
that he was just a little "bughouse'
on the tariff, when the facts are that
he was one of the most radical OF
the radicals. He worked hand in
hand with LaFollette, Dolliver and
Bristow to secure provisions in every
one of the administration bills which
was designed to protect the public in
terest against special interests. And
the best of all is, his help succeeded
in accomplishing the desired end in
a large measure.
It is now evident that the attempt
to run the steam roller over pro-
gressive republicanism has failed,
and failed miserably. The steam
roller business is as old as history.
The tyrannical Stuarts in the 18th
century attempted to run the steam
roller over Pym, and Hampton and
Eliot when the constitutional liber-
ties of England hung in the balance
because they insisted on protecting
the constitutional rights of English
men. In the following century Eng
lishmen attempted to run the steam
roller over John Hancock and Sam
Adams because, forsooth, they re-
fused to submit to the dictation of
the English parliamentary majority.
The steam roller is all right for tim
id spirits, but it gets clogged when
an attempt is made to run it over
fearless and brainy men of the Dol
liver, Beveridge and Bristow type.
Roosevelt is not going to widen
the breach in the republican party,
but he is going to heal it. But he IS
going to stamp out effectually that
narrow bigotry which has always at
tempted to crush brainy and fear
less men whether it be in politics,
religion, or the accepted conventions
of society. The herd instinct in the
republican party has been worked to
the limit and now it is time to call
a halt. The republican party needs
= few men in the United States sem
ate who have brains as we'll as con-
yictiOns even if they cannot qualify
in the millionaire class. Roosevelt
is going to give his moral support to
the candidacy of this group of men,
and he doesn't propose to let anyone
stand on the side lines and make
faces at them