The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-30
OHIO ENTHUSIASTS
GREET BEVER|OGE
Cheered for Ten Minutes
Last Night by Audience
at Columbus, 0.

COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 30.-An audi
ence of 5000 persons, gathered in Ne
mortal Hall here. gave Albert ]. Bev-
eridge. Progressive candidate for Gov
ernor of Indiana, tremendous greet
ing last night. Mr.. Beveridge's fame
had preceded him and, besides the
people of Columbus wanted to look at
the man who gave back $57,500 of
campaign contributions.
Columbus papers have been filed
with the STORY" and even the Ohio
State Journal, standpat organ, was
moved to say in a recent editorial that
altogether the return of the $57,500
constituted a strange story in Ameri-
can political life, and that if Indiana
didn't see fit to elect such man as
Beverage Governor, that the rest of
the country would certainly undergo
some long ponderings over the quality
of Hoosier intelligence.
In truth, Mr. Beverage needed no
introduction to the Ohio people when
he stepped upon the stage and con-
fronted the vast sea of faces. He was
half an hour late in reaching the hall,
and Dr. Washington GLADDEN., who in
vented the phrase tainted money"
when he refused to accept a Rockefel-
Ter contribution and who is consider
ed by many to be Ohio's foremost citi-
zen, was holding the crowd.
Greeted With Roar.
A buzz of excitement swept over the
audience when Mr.. Beverage was ush-
f0 NV oil
state Progressive chairman, and II. w.
Backus, county chairman of Franklin
County, in which Columbus is located
Then suddenly the big audience broke
into an uproar of noise.
DR.. GLADDEN. Immediately ceased
talking and motioned Mr.. Beverage to
stand by his side. But the audience
would not be quiet. The applause
would die down and then start again.
DR.. GLADDEN. motioned him to a seat.
Finally after ten minutes uproar, the
noise subsidized and Mr.. GLADDEN. said:
THE speaker of the evening is now
with us-Albert J. Beverage, Pro-
gressive candidate for governor of In
diana And 1 may say Nlat Mr.. Bev-
eridge is no stranger within our
gates. For it was in 1885 that Albert
j. Beveridge, at that time student
in DePauw University of Indiana,
came to this city to engage in an
interstate oratorical contest, which
was held at Comstock's theater. l
remember the occasion we'll And
what do you think was the subject of
Mr.. Beveridge's Grafton on that night ?
1t was Capital and Labor and, my
friends, he won that contest And
just as he won that contest twenty
seven years ago, so l am assured he is
to win his great campaign for gov
ernor of Indiana. Ladies and gentle
men-Mr. Beveridge of Indiana!"
Applause is Renewed.
Again the applause broke out. 1t
was genuine, honest applause, not ap-
plause in spots, but big, generous ap-
plause that came from the whole of
the immense audience. When one
looked at the tremendous gathering
of people, larger than any political as
semblage that Mr.. Beveridge has ad-
dressed in Indiana during his present
campaign, it seemed as if the Pro-
gressive movem, must have made
an immense impression in Mr.. Taft S
home state.
The Cincinnati Enquirer polls make
it appear as if Mr.. Wilson will carry
Ohio by colossal figure, but for a
passing observer who knows practi-
cally nothing about the Ohio political
situation, the least that can be said
Is, if such Progressive meetings are
common in Ohio, ut looks mighty Pc
culiar."
1t was said here by the Columbus
people that Mr.. Beverage delivered