The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-14

Beveridge's nomination by 10000
over Senator Harry $. New OF In
diana again brings on to the stage
OF national affairs man who
always has had strong hold upon
public Imagination. The political
wise men say that his selection for
the toga by Indiana republicans is "A
party rebuke to Harding. and there
can be no doubt that New spoke for
the old guard Just as surely as Bev-
eridge represented the new. But the
big factor in the Beveridge campaign
was his personal strength. For two
years he had been systematically
laying the foundation for that 20,-
900 majority by lectures in Indiana
on the Bible and the life Of John
Marshall, on which he is an au-
thority.
IL Beveridge returns to the senate
that body will be made just 80 much
the richer by u personality which
Washington missed after his defeat
in 1911. The capital has not for
gotten how he arrived ana started
out to make his mark with an as
surance which prompted older MEM
bers OF the senate to shake their
heads and remark how young he
really was. Beveridge came to
Washington In 1899 at the age OF 81.
81. The senate then was even grayer
and more conservative than now.
Beveridge was heralded as the boy
orator, and II there was anything in
the world which the senate disliked
ii was boy orators So BeVeTldge
had n hard row ahead OF him from
the start lie took his seat quietly
enough ana held his peace for a
while. but once he had got the hang
OF things he felt called upon to
make an address. The senate had
been fearing that event and yawncd
audibly, but Beveridge told his coll
leagues things about the Philippines
for an hour. Mr.. Dooley. then in the
fun prime OF his newspaper popu-
larity. remarked that it was "a
speech you could waltz to-" The
idea stuck, and Beyeridge's addresses
soon came to be known as waltz
| tunes.
Although the senate may not have
cared much for BeYeridgc's tunes,
they were extremely popular with
the galleries. particularly the fcmi-
nine portion. and on the days Bey-
eridge was to speak the house be-
| came so crowded with his fair ad %
mirers that IL often was a case OF
standing room only Matters went
on in this way until Old Senator
Pettus from Alabama arose one day
| and gave an imitation OF BoYeridRe
which almost broke the orators
| heart. The senator stuck a hand In
| his coat lapel in the best Bevcr.dgc
manner. ruf0cd his hair "A bit and
walked up and down with a gait
/ that nobody could mistake, declar-
| ing he was sorry that his republican
| colleagues could not do something
/ about that young orator OF theirs
| who would give nobody rest. II
/ was too much for Beverldge and he
! kept stlll--at least a month. But
| his sophomore days soon passed and
his substantial ability was more and
| more recognized.
The Indiana nominee has had n
! career which began early and has
| been crowded full. He was born an
| Highland county Ohio, on oct. 6
| 1862, when his father and brothers
were. off TO the war. His mother
| was at a loss for a name, but looked
around and decided THAT she woulC
call him Albert Jeremiah, the namel
OF two hired men and old family
retainers who had been left behinC
TO look after things.
Family In Distress.
When the war ended, the eide
Bevcridge came home in bad II
nancial way. and the family moveC
TO Indiana. Matters did not i'm
prove and Beveridge was a plowbo!
at ~. Two years later he was work
ing with a railroad construction
gang, and the next year as a logger
This work seemed to have been jus