The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-01-30
BEvERIDCE SOUNDS
6. 0.P. KEYNOTE AT
DETROIT MEETING

DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 30.-The 1920
Republican campaign was opened here
Thursday night by former Senator AL
bert J. Beverage, of Indiana, before
a brilliant audience, representative of
all groups, which crowded Arcaria
hall, the largest auditorium in the
city.
That this Is to be a history-making
campaign is evidenced by the fact
that never before has such interest
been shown in a purely political meet
ing preceding election by more than
nine months. Hundreds of women
present experienced the thrill of their
first political meeting
Hundreds more of recently natural
lied Americans learned that free
speech is not all inclusive license,
but sacred privilege not to be abus-
ed. They Joined in applause when
Senator Beveridge declared: "No man
may advocate resistance to the laws
or the violent overthrow Of the gov.
eminent"
Industrial Problems.
Members of labor unions present
We're warned against the uncertain
end they are approaching If they per.
nit themselves and their organiZa-
tons to be denominated by the des-
potism of ruthless labor dictators who
advocate violence or who attempt to
remedy real or supposed grievances
by intimidating and prostituting the
government.
They, too, expressed their approval
when the senator declared that the
majesty of the law must be upheld
for there can be no compromise with
lawlessness.
Business men were warned that the
corrupt methods Of venal wealth re.
presenting only a small part of the
nations business are no more to be
countenanced than are the equally
wicked methods of some organized
law-defying labor groups representing
only small part of the nations in
dustry. Shifty policies and profes
sional office holders who are tools OF
either group must and will be re
pudiated at the polls, he declared
Mr.. Beveridge denounced the class
movement fifth the challenge:
1--WE Republicans are for representa-
tive government by all the people and
against autocracy by particular
groups"
Michigan Republicans have needed
National Chairman Hays admonition
What we need in this country is
not less politics, but more attention
to politics"
The audience frequently voiced its
approval with prolonged applause as
he fearlessly drove home one poin
after another. scoring the Democratic
administration for it's failure to pre-
pare for a conflict which was recog
nized as unavoidable long before the
United States declared war; for. the
criminal extravaganza in the conduc
of the war directly traceable to the
utter lack of preparedness; for its hid
eous debacle in Russia and Siberia
for its advocacy of intenationalism as
a substitute for fervent and intense
American nationalism, and for lite ut
ter neglect of pressing domestic prob
lens to delay the solution of which Is
to court national disaster.
The League of Nations, he declared
should be made a campaign issue II
order that the people may vote on it
The magnitude of the question, he
pointed out, is all the more reason
why it should be voted on, and as ht
asserted that political parties are
mere parlor organizations if not made
the vehicles for an expression by thu
people on great questions.