The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-07

the stuff of which senators are made
who enlist state pride.
In his previous senate experience
he was always one of that body's
most forceful and trenchant figures.
He strobe that green carpet with the
unforgetting consciousness that he
was a senator of the United States,
with all that it implies of power and
dignity. His imagination always Wis
ualized himself as having a respon-
sible part in great events, and he had
the intellectual strength to live up to
his own exalted conception of the part
he was called on to play.
Beverage, when he was in the sen
ate, was an outstanding figure. In a
new senatorship he would, without
any doubt, be far more so. In his
early senatorship he had to stand com
parison with such men as Dolliver
Hoar, Aldrich, Hale, Frye, Daniels and
a score of others.
Would Stand Out.
The senate today contains no such
aggregation of leadership. Beveridge
at the age of 60, in a new senatorship
would stand out incontestably in q
way to appeal to the pride of state
like Indiana. That Beveridge would
restore to the senate some of the com.
polling interest it had in the public
mind ten or fifteen years ago, goes
without saying. The senate would
become vital body by much more
than the addition of single person
atty. Beveridge in action would re
charge the most droning elder states
man with some of the surplus of his
own dynamic abundance.
Since his retirement he probably has
made the most fruitful use of his time
that any American statesman in re
tirement ever made. His life of John
Marshall, even if he had no other
public service to his credit, is a work
of such outstanding quality in the
world of literature and constitutional
history as will undoubtedly commend
him to a state that pays rather un
usual Difference to that kind oil
achievement.
News Good Qualities.
At the time, no portrayal of this In
diana situation can be complete OF
fair that fails to do justice to Sena
tor News less striking, but no less
valuable and dependable qualities.
The men are so different, it is diff
cult to compare them justly. 1t is al
ways battling to try to compare a mar
whose especial and greatly useful vir
tue is keeping the ship afloat anC
pointed in the right direction, with one
whose qualities are more striking and
picturesque.
New is a Republican party man, and
the Republican party's policies are his
policies If the country is to be man
aged by the Republican party along
lines laid down by the party leader
ship in the White House or elsewhere
New in the senate will give 100 pei
cent of team work, and of strength in
a multitude of ways. He does not de
pend on great initiative, or on strik
ing qualities of leadership, to com
mend him; but rather on sure-footet
common sense, loyalty, and the quail
ties that other men come to recognize
as dependable wisdom.
New has qualities, which in his per
sonal contacts, inspire deep affection
and loyalty. There is not a senator o.
either party, and hardly a man il
Washington, who would not feel poig
nant regret at seeing New retired
from the senate, however they nigh
feel about the issues involved.
Stand-Pat Republican
New, of course, belongs to the old
stand-pat element in Indiana politics
and in that state the element that is
described by contrast as progressive
is very strong. When, in the presi
dental primary of two years ago
President Harding and Hiram John
son contended, among others, for the
Indiana delegates, Johnson beat Hard
ing conspicuously.
If the coming senatorial primaries
were to divide along lines comparable
to those between Harding and John
son, it would be extremely promising
for Beveridge. But I am told that
the coming cleavage, if there should
be one, will not by any means dupli
cate that of Harding and Hiram John
son. A good deal of Johnson's
strength was wholly norcopoI aud