The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-18

mer Senator Beveridge has stated that
he will decline the nomination, and
! the fight for the place will be waged
by w. c. Bobbs:. the publisher, Of In
dianapolis; Otis E. Culley, Danville;
Frederick Lands, former congress-
| man, Logansport; w. d. Headrick, an
attorney. Indianapolis; John N. Dyer,
Vincennes, and Clifford F. Jackson,
Huntington.
There are from two to six candi-
dates for nominations for each Of the
following offices, who will be voted on
in the following order: Secretary Of
state, auditor of state, attorney gener-
al, treasurer of state, clerk of supreme
court, state biologists. state superin-
tendent of public instruction, judge
of the state supreme court. two judges
OF the appellate court from the First
and second districts.
Beverid9e's Speech.
Mr.. Beverage, in his address to the
convention, said in part:
"Of breaking promises the Demo
Gratis in Washington are running the
reactionary Republican in Washington
good race. The Democrats de-
nounced Republican extravaganza and
promised economy. Yet SO wasteful
has the Democratic congress been that
the Democratic chairman of the ap-
preparations committee in open debate
on the floor of the house declared the
other day. Whenever l think Of the
horrible mess that l shall be called
upon to present to the country on be-
half of the Democratic party, l am
tempted to quit my place
The Democrats denounced the Sc
cret caucus and promised to end it,
yet never has caucus control been so
secret or boss-ruled as the Democratic
caucuses during the last year. The
Democratic national platform pledged
the American people that American
ships shall pass through the Panama
canal as freely as along any other
portion of our coast. If to do this is
dishonorable now. it was dishonorable
then. If it is subsidy now, it was
subsidy then. If it is a subsidy today,
it was a subsidy when seeking the
peoples votes, Mr.. Wilson endorsed
this very plank of the partys platform
and approved the very law he now at
tacks.
If the railroads need help let them
be helped honestly, openly and above
board. But let us not help them raise
their freights on every ton of the peo-
pies freight by any such miserable
subterfuge as that national honor re-
QulreS us to do So Let no voter for
get that the repeal of the free tolls
law means higher railroad rates.
This Mexican trouble ought never
have been allowed to grow. 1t need
lessly has deluged that stricken land
with blood, needlessly destroyed hun
dreds of millions of property, need |
lessly sacrificed thousands of human |
lives. Scores of American citizens |
have been willed without cause. their !
business sacrificed, their property lost |
Firm, prompt, wise action would have |
prevented it all. There would have |
been no brutal war in Mexico, no
slaughter of American citizens, no |
forcing of Intervention, if the president |
of the United States were Theodore !
Roosevelt"
Birds Address.
Charles Sumner Bird, Progressive |
candidate for governor of Massachu-
sets in the last state election. said:
Business today is bad, worse than
it has been for many years, as evil
denced by the large number of empty |
freight cars, the long list of unem-
ployed, and the crowded soup kitch-
ems. Failures are worse than they
have been for twenty years. We are
approaching a dangerous crossing. and
it is time to stop and listen. The rud-
der of the states has been unshipped.
who is responsible? The Republic
can leaders who control the policy
and organization of the Republican
party. If they had not broken their
solemn prediction pledges, Demo-
cratic administration would not have
been elected and the business of the
whole country would not today be in
such a demoralized and desperate con-
1ition. The Democratic party cannot
escape responsibility for this deplor-
able business situation which has
steadily grown worse since the cleo
ion of Mr.. Wilson"