South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-08
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bit OF Indiana political history:
Leading republicans from all over
the CITY met at the criminal court
room last night and organized. The
meeting was a spontaneous affair
which had not been advertised"
a most appropriate meeting place
for specially invited reformers. So
home like for most of the patriots
participating. and the things said
about these organizers" were plen-
". when their political methods
and doings were later most graph
cally pictured by Col. Roosevelt and
our own Albert jeremiah Beveridge.
Albert Jeremiah was still hope
ful of the party two weeks after
that meeting for il was March IL
1912. that he made a speech in
Tomlinson hall repeating things said
by Healing and Hemenway and New
and Goodrich and Fairbanks after
this fashion:
Your democratic years will be
hard enough on the hundreds Of
thousands OF honest business men
i'm the country, but il will be harder
on the millions of men who earn
their bread by the sweat of their
faces. To these latter il will mean
the pinch of hunger. All Of thes four
lean years and two more years to
recover from them. Take these six
years out Of the life Of a business
man 80 years old and you have tax
en- from him much. but take six
years out of the life OF a working
man so years old and you have TAX
en- from him we'll nigh all"
People of Indiana are growing
| impatient 10 hear Albert jeremiah
explain about the -four lean years
and the awful poverty that is grip
ping the people at the end of -four
democratic years" In that same
speech in 1912, he told us. speaking
Of the last republican administra-
ton: For three years we have seen
business growing worse. 1t is time
we should begin TO make business
grow better" The people did as he
advised and made business grow
better" That was by electing Wood
row Wilson and having -four demo-
cratic years"
In 1914. Albert Jeremiah made
another speech and told US: here
in Indiana the republican managers
are men who we're lieutenants in the
old machine, whose orders the re-
publican organization is carrying out
this very moment. Promises 10 re-
form from a party so controlled
insult the intelligence Of the people,
for breaking Of promises is their
speciality"
He was describing the boys" who
met in the criminal court room"
in 1912 and organized. They met
again i'm 1914 and again in 1916
and organized" and they still own
the organization as they did in 1912.
The same thing can still be said Of
themselves in 1914, breaking prom
Uses is their specially" The same
yesterday. today and forever.
They did not like what Beverdige
said in 1914 and Joe Healing was
then as now, the big boss and
authorized spokesman. The news
papers of March IA, 1914. tell US
a great deal of indignation is be-
ing expressed by members Of the
republican organization over the
speech of Albert J. Beveridge.
Speaking in behalf Of that organ
ization Joseph b. Healing said. I do
not propose to remain silent and see
the representatives of the organiza-
tion assailed. We are decent, reput-
bile citizens and in more ways than
one our regulations are superior 10
those who attack us. l am not
surprised at the position OF Bever-
idge. Everyone knows that for
years he has tried TO build up a
machine in this state, and has fail
ed"
To which a little later Col. Roose-
welt responded by saying it was bad
enough TO have a party controlled
| by living bosses, but "intolerable TO
be ordered about by the unburied
dead"
In 1916, the newspapers tell us
Albert J. Beveridge is again with
the boys should be voted for as
public officials and party bosses.
They are all on the ticket, and even
Albert Jeremiah is booked by Can
didate Hughes for Berlin.