South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-28

up to the South Bend republicans.
Like some editors from whom ex-Sen.
Beverage quoted in his speech Mon
day night. the attempted republican
belittlement of the Beverage meeting
brands the participants in such at
tempted belittlement as one Of two
things:
They are either ignoramuses or
rogues-ignoramuses through lack Of
knowledge or sense of public intelh-
gence, or rogues incident to a DELHI
crate determination to prevaricate
and mislead
The ex-senator, regardless of how
YOU may disagree with him, or dislike
him personally, had one of the largest
crowds. if not the largest, that ever
packet the high school auditorium.
And it was one of the most enthusi-
astic audiences. To say otherwise is
10 discount the intelligei D~of 1900
people who were in the room. He
wasn't cheered at every period. He
wasn't applauded every time lie
paused for breath. Unlike the Borah
meeting there was no committee of
hand-clap leaders designedly stationed
in the audience. The people. appar-
emily went TO hear Beveridge and they
hung on his words, not he upon their
applause. Ii would seem that it
ought TO grow possible some day TO be
fair and reasonable even in matters of
politics.
OF course, one can readily under
stand the republican effort at belittle-
ment They brought Sen. Borah here
TO discount Beveridge and they got the
worst of the bargain. That at least is
our judgment, and we believe we are
speaking without Partially, since.
should one of the ex-senator's
prophecies come true. we will feel
about as mortified as anyone the next
morning after the election. We don't
believe Mr.. Beveridge will be elected
We even doubt if he believes it. but,
in the discussion of the principles for
which the progressive party stands,
similar in many respects TO the tenets
of democracy, he was fair and reason
able as the necessities of partisan de-
bate calls for.
He was equally fair and convincing
in his denunciation of the old school
Tepublicanism and of the same cid
machine gang that still dominates it
Which brings us back again to those
editors referred TO at the outset. Mr.
Beveridge quoted from some of them
One in particular at Evansville and
another at Lebanon,-tO the effect
that care should be chosen in the
election of members Of the legislature
since that body is 10 elect a United
States senator this winter. The papers
are of recent date and the editors
either must be woefully ignorant or
else cOnsummate rascals this notwith-
standing that one of the five referred
TO happened not 10 be a republican,
but democrat
Very naturally a newspaper that
has not discovered as yet that United
states senators are elected direct by
the people this year is too antequated
To be taken seriously on much of any
thing-and Yet these same republican
papers carried long spiels about the
bull moose party having disbanded
and the republican party being re-
united force Ne are glad to credit
local republicans. and their organ,
with having escaped the former pit
tan, but as TO the latter they appear
from the Beveridge' turnout. and
previous and subsequent utterance. TO
be just about as unrelia bic as though
they had a plea of ignorance TO fall
backs upon
Intelligent people are above being
fooled by any such a program.