South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-27

urday - between Sen shiveIy and
myself. The standpat ring is laid up
boa the political hospital and 70 viii
take more nursing tlan IS being mus
tered this fan 90 effect O cure
'Ihcy claim that they have cleaned
up. but they are ass dirty rs they were
l.ur years ago. and as long a. The
same bosses rule they viii continue
,o be.
- know as well as anyone how
dirty tncF were then The speaker
had q heap of fun here with some
republican campaign letters being
lt out from indianapolis. and some
editorials from republican news
papers. two of which, in their ignor-
uHce of public affairs, were shown not
lo have discovered as vet that this
year United states sena 0rs are beins
elected hy direct vote. one OF the
papers blossoms in Evansville and the
other iu Lebanon. For time me
speaker was real serious.
says lie Expects 10 Win.
Nfr. Beveridge said in part: Thee
great reason why we are going to WIN
is because we are right on every
question Of the day and because we
have appealed TO the common sense
and conscience of the people.
we stand FOR national law to
end child labor slavery. murder and
raIn i'm mines. mills factories ana
sWedtsnOEs wherever floats the
American flag. only national law
can prevent this evil.
we stand for a constitutional con-
VeutiOu go make new constitution
for Indiana and we are the only
party that does stand for this great
basic law. While the standpat rms
copied our plank in their platform,
get the aDlcst member of their plat
form committee and their ablest
editor I'm Indiana at once denounced
that plank, saying it was not bind
nag ON any republican and IS scatter
ing hundreds of thousands of circu-
lars against it.
I'VE stand for a workmen's COM
pensauon act and for all those meas
ures of social and industrial Justice
set forth i'm our STATE and national
platforms.
I'VE stand for the overthrow of the
whole boss and machine system; and
we propose to make bosses and
machines impossible in all political
parties from ocean TO ocean. And We
viii do this by a method which has
done that very thins wherever il has
been tried-the initiative, referen-
DUN and recall.
the great business question SO that
the country can have steady business
and settled business conditions never
again to be interrupted by law.
NO other civilized country per-
mits politicians or political parties
To make their tariffs the footballA of
partisan politics. We say that is not
right and we propose that our tariff
shall be made as the tariffs OF Ger
many France and every other pro-
tcCtive tariff countries are MADE
upon the work of a great commission
OF men, whose life study has been
the tariff.
Puts IL Up to Lawyers.
Almost exactly the same is true of
the trusts. Business men know in
what a fog they are trying 10 make
their way. No business man i'm
South Bend can get any reputable
lawyer To give him written opinion
as to what he can and can not do with
safety in many of the most honorable
and legitimate steps necessary to be
taken i'm his business.
Yet the two old parties propose
no plan 10 clear up this business fog.
ON the contrary the republicans stand
on the sherman law, which has failed
So badly, which has stopped not one
trust. which actually has shielded
evil combinations like the Standard
Oil and Tobacco Trust and which has
made business confusion so great
that honest business men have half
their efficiency taken from them by
fear and doubt
The progressive party alone, pro-
poses a method which will stop the
evils of the trusts and give the people
"a relief: take the shackles from the
hands OF the honest business men
0ndd give 10 the trade and commerce
of America that certainty which it SO
sadly needs.
"lf the international railway COM
mission is a sOod thing TO control and
regulate the railroads for the peoples
welfare why is not an international
trust commission with equal or
sreater power. a better thing To re
gulate and control the trusts in the
interests OF the people,
And that is what we stand for on
the trust question. The two old par
ties are against it, Again the issue
Us as clear ass 1T is ON the child labor
question on the tariff question and
ON the great group of questions known
as social and industrial justice