The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-25
BEVER|DGE SOUNDS THE CALL To ARMS

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The following is the address, in part,
delivered by Albert ]. Beveridge last
evening:
Because the two old parties will
not meet the questions of the day;
because they refuse to serve human
ity and obey the commands of God !;
because both of them have come to be
owned by mighty, secret and a
reasonable power; because of these
things. out of the heart and consci-
ence of the people has sprung a great
new party that will serve humanity;
that will obey Gods voice, and that
will further the ungoing of the Ameri-
can Republic. 1t Is an old story to
these gray haired veterans who honor
me, or rather honor the cause, by their
presence, for these old men will tell
you younger ones that when they
were young men the country then fac
ed another crisis exactly like the pres
ent, and these old men, the comrades
of my father and my brothers then,
belonged to two old parties. You be-
longed to the Whig Party or the DEM
ocratic Party, but because both of
those parties then were owned as the
two old parties now are owned by q
great and reasonable power; be-
cause they no longer would serve hui
mainly, these old veterans were pa
triots enough to throw aside an empty
outworn party name and help to found
great new party, which sprang then
as this one does now, clean and fresh
and strong from the hearts and con-
science and hte hopes of the Ameri-
can people.
Sixty years ago in this very city,
or in the county at least, there was a
young Democrat lawyer. He had held
Office as Democrat and he loved the
Democratic Party. 1t had done great
things for the Republic. 1t had carried
the flag even to the gates of sunset,
and he did not want to leave it, but
when the time came that the young
Democratic lawyer found that the
Democratic Party was hopelessly own
ed by this reasonable power, he was
patriot enough to quit it and help to
freedom, and the name of that young
Indiana, Wayne County Democrat
lawyer was Oliver P. Morton.
And so we are doing no new thing.
We are only following in immortal
footsteps. Young Indiana Democrats;
young Indiana Republicans here, these
old men will tell you that just as to-
Inv ~,
parties, getting their orders from In
dianapolis, who get their orders in
turn from New York themselves, they
come to you and beg you to be regu-
lar; beg you to stand by the old party
now; just SO the same kind of men
came to these old men when they
were young and begged them to do
the same thing. And just as a press
that was subservient to that great
power then Haunted and derided the
new Republican Party because 1t had
broken away from the trammels of
the parties, SO the same thing is hap
pening today. For, my friends, the
cause for which these men who bear
cause for which these men who wear
in their button holes the old brown
badge of glory were with my father
and my brothers, leaving as they did,
my mother alone on the Ohio farm,
and went at that time to fight on bat
tlefields to destroy this malign power,
which is the same power, only much
greater, much more subtle, much
more dangerous, we are fighting now,
and you who come with us are going
forth in the same holy cause that
those men went forth when they ans
wered Abraham Lincoln's call. I'VE
are coming, Father Abraham, three
hundred thousand strong" CAP
plause.)
Now. what is this power? At Chi
cago / called it the invisible govern
ment. And what Is this invisible gov
eminent? 1t is partnership, con-
spiracy of wicked special interests
that want and get unrighteous gain,
not only at the expense of the peoples
pockes, as | shall show you. at the
expense of peoples lives themselves.
And how do they work? They work
through a system of political bosses
that today own and manage both old
parties. The boss system in American
politics is bipartisan system. These
politicians who come to you, Demo
cratic voters, and say. Fight your
Republican friends and neighbors;
fight them at the polls" and those Re-
publicans who come to you, politicians
who come to you Republican voters
and say Now fight your Democratic
friends and neighbors,' what do they
get up this battle for? Why do they
ask you? They say to you Democrats,
You have got chance to win" Win,
who for? Themselves. Your wives or
children? No. What for? Good laws?