The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-03

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stand of the Progressives.
Taking these facts into considera-
ton, and also the fact that the latter
PARTY embodies in it's declaration of
political principles almost all of those
reforms for which women have been
fighting for years, the logical thing
would seem to be the support of the
Progressives.
AS pointed out here time or two
before, in some comment on this phase
of the situation in Indiana, certainly
women would show little acumen at
this stage of the game in not support
ing that medium through which the
end so long striven for might be at
tanned.
The thing to do just now in this
state is to take advantage of the best
means to the desired end.
Go after the big thing
Let the details go.
After the big thing is achieved, then
line up with whatever political aggre-
cation expresses best your ideals and
opinions.
But until the franchise is achieved
surely the sensible thing to do is to
lend your influence to that party
through which it can be secured
Common sense alone would dictate
this.
i And courtesy.
Gratitude, indeed, if you care to look
at it that way.
/ When it comes to candidates for the
governorship, however, there should
be no question.
! Who are Durbin and Ralston, the
nominees of the Republicans and Dem
ocrats!
Durbin, in instance, is one of the
most notorious machine politicians in
the state.
! A man of small calibre. Of the ward
mend him but a certain middle class
shrewdness.
! What, pray, has he ever done for
the state or the women of the country,
either in action or through expressed
desire?
! And everybody who reads the pa
pers remembers the nomination he
helped steal from John L. Grifiths
and through which he was railroaded
to the state-house.
Durbin, in short, is something of a
joke
What the thinking women of the
country want to see is genuineness
and distinction in the exalted Offices of
the land.
They want to see men elected.
Not puppets.
/ And that's all Ralston is or would
be.
the public prints knows that he is one
of what is called "Taggart's men"
While Tom Taggart is an extraordi-
nary individual and cannot be dis
counted from one or two interesting
standpoints, is a canny hotel-keeper
and an "artful dodger''-for which a
certain mede of admiration cannot be
withheld him-certainly he cannot be
said to be a very exalted type of pa
triot
Besides, the Democrats of Indiana
cold
Don forget tnat.
So that bars Ralston out so far as
honest women are concerned. That is
women with honest convictions on
this subject
Between Durbin. then, and Albert ].
Beverage, there is no question.
AS stated here the other day no mat
ter what you may or may not think
of Beveridge as a personality, he has
been on the side of all those reforms
for which women have been fighting
for years.
Federal regulation of child labor.
Minimum wage scale for women.
For two things. And many other in
dustrial and economic measures which
would be conducive to social equilib-
rum.
Beveridge. in addition. is man OF
international reputation both as pub
licist and a writer.
He is, in short. the type of man the
state wants in its public Offices.
I Who represents not only one, but all
classes.
From the farm to the United States
Senate through the force OF your own
ambition is typical American story.
But in the course of this procedure
to have acquired certain culture for
which a gentleman is applauded is an
other.
i Beverage is, indeed. one of the