New-York tribune., 1912-03-14
BEVER|DCE HEARD FROM
Saws "PoWerS of PiIIage" Are
Fighting Roosevelt.
BUT HE'S NOT SCARED
"supreme Court of Public Opin'
ion" Has Already Elected the
EX-President.

Indianapolis. March l3-"The powers OF
pillage do not intend TO let Republcan
voters nominate Theodore Roosevelt These
forces are not partisan. They are for any
man Of any party as against Roosevelt
With this declaration, ex-senator Albert
J. Beveridge denounced opponents of the
candidacy Of Colonel Roosevelt and praised
his public policies
The instructive judgment Of the masses
is never wrong" said Mr.. Beveridge, and
the decree OF the supreme court of Ameri-
can public opinion is that the man who to-
day best represents that welloeing ana
uplift which the American people want is
he who has so braveIy worked their will
and achieved their purpose in the past,
Theodore Roosevelt"
Mr.. Beveridge said, in part:
We hear much about honest elections;
but what about honest nominations? No
candidate is too good FOR the people 10 Sdy
whether they want him or not, none Is too
bad for some power beyond the people to
save the people the trouble OF rejecting
him. Choosing party candidate is the
sole ana sacred right OF the party 5 voters.
And when any man, machine, newspaper or
other power tries 10 take thdt right away
they Try 10 take away citizenship itSell.
Yet Just this is being done TO keep the Re
publican voters of the country from nOm-
mating Theodore Roosevelt as our candI-
date for President
Who brought suit against the Beef Trust?
Theodore Roosevelt. Who brought suit
against the Standar' Oil Company" Thoo-
dore Roosevelt Who brought suit against
the Tobacco Trust? Theodore Roosevelt,
Who brought suit against Morgan and
HIS Railroad Trust? Theodore Roose-
welt Who brought suit against Morgan
New England railroad combine? Theodore
Roosevelt. And who dismissed it? Wick
ArEba01 Nhg agreed The IspvogD1Z4flOD
q the OIL Trust and the Tobacco Trust
Wickersham.
We hear that the OIL and Tobacco Trusts
are dissolved. Yet they 20 on raising the
prices Of Oh and tobacco. We hear that tIe
oil monopoly s no more. Yeti the Indiana
Standard oil Company, which is part OF
cared dividend Of S29.0o00oo This is the
same company that was fined S29,o0mI by
Judge lands 1t has paid this dividend. Il
tid not pay that fine.
Ridioules Third Term Superstition"
But it is said that We owe the nOmina,
ton 70 MIR; Taft as a mater OF party
gratitude. Yet he has held office every
Of the Republican party. and all hut one
OF these Offices came TO him by appoint
msrt / am Elad he held these Offices and
make no complaint Of IL. ] mention II only
because II Is said that our party owes the
nomination 10 Mr.. Taft, whereas Mr.. TAFT
owes everything 10 the parry. And durinS
re5rIN al lneSS lllltN wears NbdI I'd J'lF
did he ever fight for our party until four
wears ago? Yet he read lifelong RepubIi-
cans like Jonathan DolliveT, out Of on"
party. sim, We are told that we must
support him. win or lose. because We owe
him our support solely as a party mattar.
But We are told that We must not he for
Roosevelt because he has been unGTateful
10 Mr. Taft. ] thought il was Just the
othsr way around Roosevelt has done
everything for Taft What has Taft done
for Roosevelt? Roosevelt continued AMI
supported him in the Philippines. Roosc-
veit appointed him Secretary Of War
Roosevelt supported him 70. the nomina
ton and election President. and only
Poosevelt's vast influence with the people
placed Mr. Taft i'm The Presidential chair.
y return Colonel Roosevelt asked nothing
Of Mr.. Taft except that he carry ont those
great policies for the peoples vell-heing
velt policies Stlll We are told that Colo
re' Roosevelt is unerateful 10 Mr.. Taft.
But II ls said that third term means
ne downfall Of the republic. Colonel
ing else than 70 end this silly superstition.
The third-term idea came into being 120
years ago when the world was afraid Of
kings To-day kings merely amuse, ~
With China and Persia and Turkey over
throwing their ancient dynaStieS before
our ewes. with Russia putting the bride
IN the teeth Of the car. with Portugal
throwing its kinglet over the cliffs. with
Mexico kicking DiaZ out Of the country
10 more comic idea ever was suggested
than u We elect the hest man, 10 do our
work for eleven years instead Of seven
years We are going to have a king
Roosevelt did our work 50 well that
we want him 10 do II now. lie Is Wiling
Z do II only because We ask him 70 DC II.
70 choose Roosevelt will not give him
ANYTHING he has not had already. hut II
will give US what We want and what we
need