The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-29
MAKING EXPLANATIONS
 OF INCONSISTENCIES
Senator Beveridge Is Only One of the Reconverted Republi-
 cans Now on the Stump.

It's hard sledding that many of the boys are having in this campaign, making explanation of their utter ances for Progressism back in 1912 and 1914, and their 1916 apostacy to the party which today has the same old leaders, the same old principles methods.
 these days. They are not ignorant peons and peasants to overlook in- constituencies and the shiftings of po- lisfcal leaders, to be made the victims of deception by office-seeking politi- clans.
 Telephones, cheap newspapers, cir culating libraries, good roads, rapid transit, school houses on 10000 hills and in 10000 wales. have done a world for general education, and the average auditor at political gather ing is every bit as well informed as the average public speaker and in most instances more sincere.
 Now. for example. take the case of Hon. Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, of Indiana. On March IA, 1912, as a Progressive, in speech delivered in Indianapolis. in Tomlinson hall, he declared:
 -Four Democratic years will be hard enough on the hundreds of thousands of honest business men in the coun- try. but it will be harder on the mill Hons of men who earn their bread by the sweat of their faces. To these latter it will mean the pinch of hun ger. All of these four lean years take two more years to recover from them. Take these six years out of the life of business man 50 years old and you have aken from him much, but take six years out of the life of a working man 50 years old and you have taken from him well nigh all"
 Where Is That Pinch of Hunger?
 Now just see what the distinguished gentleman has to confront.
 Where is that pinch of hunger"?
 Where those four Democratic years that were to be so hard on so many business men and so much harder on the millions who earn their bread by the sweat of their faces"? 1.
 Never in the country's history was there so much money as there is to- day; never so many laborers employed at such wages; never such prices for produce; never so many full dinner pails; never so many school houses and good roads; never was money panic so impossible; never was money so easy to secure by farmers and all other classes; never did the staute books hold so many good laws look ing to business advancement and steady prosperity.
 In the same speech, throwing a jevelin full at the Republican party from which he had then divorced himself, he declared: For three years (the Taft administration we have seen business growing worse. It is time that we should begin to make business grow better"
 Ee had turned then from the very political leaders whom he has now turned towards. They are the ones who were making business worse, that he, is now advising Progressives to vote for to set aside the makers of the past four fat years.
 Even as late as April IS, 1914, in the same Tornlinson Hall. in the same city. he again delivered himself of speech. In it he paid his respects to the Republican leaders of his state. these who were leaG,rs in 1912 and az e leaders in 1916. He said:
 Here in Indiana the Republican ants in the old machine. whose or-