The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-20
Open LETTER TO
MR.. BEvERIDGE
Asked to Explain How the Inter.
estS Are Against Him With the
Harvester Trust For Him.


Bull Moose for Governor Of Indiana.
and with your usual fine eloQuence you
are now engaged IN advocating the
policies proclaimed In your party plat
form. You have departed radically
from the position you occupied for 4
quarter Of a century in taking up
many new isms that you would have
denounced in 1896, as you denounced
the reforms proposed by the demo
Gratis that year, as "anarchistic." You
contend in your keynote that you
have long stood for woman's suffrage.
for the initiative, referendum and re-
call and for public utility commits
sion, and insist that the bosses
made 1t impossible 60 incorporate
planks along these lines into the old
party platforms.
AS a matter OF fact Mr.. Beveridge.
wern't you an undisputed control Of the
Republican state convention Of 1910?
Didn't you appear in person before
! the resolutions committee with
platform of your own which you liz.
orally forced down the throats Of the
committee?
Were you not responsible for leav-
ing out of your platform that year all
reference to the county option you
now hold dearf
And isn't II true that you made ne
attempt 10 write a single one OF the
so-called humanitarian measures you
now advocate into your platforms
And did you have yourself In mind
when you said IN your Keynote that
the bosses" prevented the adoption
of such planks?
In all your speeches this year you
are saying that the Interests are
against you
Isn't 1t true, Mr.. Beveridee. that
your chief sponsor now is George w.
Perkins, your longtime friend and
companion and that Mr.. Perkins Is
the financial prop Of your movement?
Isn't your friend and supporter
Perkins. the financial chairman now,
as he was the organizer Of the
Harvester trust that robs the farmers
Whenever they buy twine or tools2
Isn't Perkins one OF the heavy men
in the United States Steel tlust2
Wasn't he long the first lieutenant
OF ]. Pierpont Morgan?
Didn't he play an important part
In the stealing OF the money OF the
policy holders Of insurance companies
TO finance the Roosevelt fight in 1904
and didn't he narrowly escape the
penitenti2ry as a result?
And this being true, and the world
knows IL is true isn't the Harvester
trust the Steel trust, and portion OF
Wall street with you and behind you,
More than that. Mr.. Beveridge.
haven't you at different times received
large campaign contributions from
Sfr. Perkins and don't you have rea-
sons 10 know that you will get more
contributions. from the same tainted
ecurce this year?
Then why say the Interests ars
against you while large portion OF
the big men Of Crooked Business are
for you?
In this campaign you are appealing
20 Democrats for votes on the ground
that the Bull Moose m6vement Is not
q Republican by-product but q sure
enough new party.
Do you still believe as you did in
1886 that the followers OF Mr.. Bryan
were a crew OF "repudiators" bent on
dishonoring the flag?
Do you still believe as you did IN
1900 that the followers OF Mr.. Bryan
are traitors TO the fag"7
Do you still BELIEVES q you have
insisted for a quarter OF century that
Democrats are incompetents - worse
and that their leaders. Including Jes-
ferson, Jackson, Tilden, Hendricks
Cleveland and Bryan are fncapablest
And IL Sou are ready 70 swallow
your words along these lines and still
insist ths: the Bull Moose Is not a by
product Of sAe Republican party Why
20 yoa not insist on . county ticket in
every couatys
And in counties where you DO not
pus 9p . county ticket vhy DO you
announce thar the .BuIl Moose must
support the Republican county ticket
In every instance and not the Demo
cratic ticket In any instancef
Isn't 10 due 10 the fact that you are
now as you have-always been q mar
row partisan. oigossd In your parts
anship--hosestiy %, perhaps7
Honor erght, isn't IL true that you
ere merely q Republican out Of jobi
XoVrs Tor TRUTH
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