The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-04
|Beveridge Gets
A Fine Ovation

q mlHtdnL COuVlCtlOu tudI you are
fighting for truth. You have placed the
standard in my hands. I'll lead it with
hand, heart and soul. But l expect of
you, that you will go home from this
convention with the determination to
fight for me. Remember that we are
fighting for cause as great as the
one which took 250,000 Indiana boys
to the front between 81 and '65., If
these men were willing to drink dirty
water, eat poor food, suffer hardship,
endure wounds and Imprisonment and
offer themselves on the altar of patri-
otic duty, should not we consecrate
every minute to the great cause We
have espoused. They left home and all,
and we ought to let business rest for
time at least, and devote attention
to political reform.
What the patriots of the sixties
did then, we are trying to do now.
For the same issues that confronted
them, confront us in a different form
only.
Cry Is Misleading.
1--WE hear the cry, Save the party!'
Save for whom? To abolish party? No,
to aid special interests. To alleviate
human suffering and better mankind ?
No, to strengthen the power of the
confederation of boodlers. Save the
party? For whom? For your fathers,
mothers, sons and daughters, for
your firesides? No, for the bosses?
Save the party, 1 say. the bad laws
may be enacted for those who hire and
pay the bosses.
I've look back upon Lincoln and
Morton with admiration, but we sell
dom consider the courage of these
men. They fought power ruinous
fighting a power that is insidious. At
Chicago 1 called it the invisible gov
ernment'
Special interests want things at
the expense of the people. We can
not see the hidden power of this force.
Both old parties are in control IL the
invisible government of the special
interests. The boss system names the
candidate and you are compelled to
nominate and elect men controlled and
owned by the bosses, and at Washing
ton they represent not you but the spe-
cial interests who control them.
That's how certain provisions got in
to the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. That's
why the old meat bill killed thousands
of men, women and children.
The Lorimer Case.
That's why men like Lorimer get
into congress. l know the Lorimer
case. l filed the report of the minor
ity committee, not because of grudge
against Lorimer, but because my con-
science forced me. Who put him in
the senate? Not the people. Whether
it was the lumber trust or the beef
packets. or other great interests,
know not. At any rate, Wall street
wanted him. He was the man the spe-
cial interests named, and he got there.
The system put him there. If Lorimer
was put there, how many others did
the system put there?"
"Penrose," shouted one of the dele.
gates.
II am not mentioning Names" con.
tinued Mr.. Beveridge. II declared in
February that l was for Roosevelt
Since the exposures of the last ten
days, if l was then a 100 times for
Roosevelt, l am now that many times
more for him."
Beveridge's avowal of the colonel
brought forth tumultuous applause.
Interests Against Roosevelt.
Whatever you may think of Arch.
bold's testimony, who got on boat
and left the country after giving it,
we will all agree on this, that the spe.
cial interests and the Standard Oil
crowd want Roosevelt defeated"
Beveridge's reference to the equal
suffrage plank in the Progressive plat,
form, was greeted with acclaim by
the crowd. He then advanced the
proposition that the Progressive party
is the party of the fireside and the
home.
"You fathers and mothers, young
men and women" he continued, must
take your stand with confessed treas
on or with the party that is making
the last desperate stand for political
decency and honesty. You are con
fronted by crisis.
A Point Of Religion.
! "Tell your neighbor that if he votes
for the candidate of either of the
two old parties, he is voting for the
boss system, and throwing his ballo,
to perpetuate the confederacy of hood
lie. 1t almost rises to a point of re
| ligion, for the great and underlying
principle is involved.
Let me illustrate. The old parties
| say they are against child labor, and
yet when it comes to writing the Law
against this crying abuse, they sud
denly find constitutional difficulties
That obtains of other issues, also"
Beveridge then showed that the
Progressive party will not only prom
ise the law but also enact It. w,
propose to pass these laws by eradi
eating the system and power which
now prevents the passage of remedia
| laws. Neither of the old parties car
pass these laws, for both are owned
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