Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-05
THE INDIANA PRIMARY
PRACTICALLY complete returns

DKACT1CALLY complete returns
from the Indiana republican
primary election show that Elk
Senator Albert Beverage has de-
feated Senator Harry New, the ad-
ministration candidate by nearly
10000 majority. The republican
congressional committee at WASH
ington which did all it could to
defeat Ex-senator Beveridge and
secure the denomination of Senator
New, throws up the sponge, and
making the best of a bad job, and
say 1t will do all it can to elect
the insurgent senator. It is a hor-
rible shock to the administration.
Cordell Hull, the democratic ma
tional chairman, halls the result as
confirmation of his often expressed
conviction that the Harding admin
istration has lost the confidence OF
the voters of the country and that
the republican party is in for a
heavy reverse next November.
Senator New was one of the chief
supporters of the administration,
and he was a prominent champion
of Senator Newberry, the Doodle
senator from Michigan, who was
seated at the demand Of President
Harding and the administration.
This fact was made one of the
issues in the campaign by Ex-Sen-
ator Beverage. That adds to the
anxiety of the republican senator's
at Washington who were respon-
sible for this miscarriage OF justice
Senator New is the first of the
Newberry senator's who went be-
fore his constituents for a vindica-
ton. But the same issue mas been
raised in quite a number Of states
against republican senators who
supported the Doodle senator and
are now seeking a denomination at
the hands of their constituents.
Naturally the fate Of Senator New
in Indiana gives them cold chills
down the spine. and they are o
derinC how many more may feel
the condemnation of their ~constitu,
ents in the primaries or at the cleo
ton next fall.
When he was in congress, Sen.
ator Beveridge was a leader of the
insurgent republicans. He was a
man of brilliant intellect and great
oratorical powers. He left the party
with many others and followed
Roosevelt in a bolt to the progress
sive party. He did not return to
the old camp when most of the pro-
gressives did, and during this cam
paign he posed as an independent
republican who was in many ways
not in sympathy with the record
made by the national republican ad-
ministration. Whether he will be
able to carry the old time conserva-
tive republican vote in Indiana next
fall or not, only election day will
disclose. He has the bitter enmity
of the republican machine in 1ndi-
ana. He is a bitter pill for them to
swallow. Many of them would
about as soon have a democrat in
the senate from Indiana as Senator
Beverage. They have done every
thing they could to keep him from
coming back and have little to hope
from him.
Senator Beveridge will be op-
posed at the election by Governor
Ralston who has been chosen as
the democratic nominee at the pri-
maries by an immense majority
about six to one. He is said to be
a popular man in Indiana, and that
he enjoys the confidence of the
democrats of that state is very evil
dent by the practical unanimity
with which he was selected in the
democratic primary. Next Novem-
Der will disclose the result in a
very interesting race between two
popular men in Indiana, each seek
ing to represent the state in the
United States senate. Indiana has
always been counted a doubtful
state in national elections, but it is
fair to state that mostly it has been
carried by the republicans. Two
years ago the republicans carried
it by a tremendous majority and at
the present time both senators from
that state are republicans, Senator
Watson elected two years ago be-
ing the colleague of Senator New,
Just defeated for the republican
nomination.
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