The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-04
BEVER|DCE
is OPPOSED
TO "BLOCS''
Has Said Repeatedly That He
Will Support Harding Has
Hard Fight Ahead to Defeat
Ralston.
REGRET new DEFEATED
BY MARK SULLIVAN

WASHINGTON, May 4.-Let no one
assume that Beveridges' nomination
in Indiana was any phenomenon of
alteration, or that it was an "Insur-
gent" or Progressive" victory in the
sense in which those words were used
10 or dozen years ago to denote rad
ical innovations.
If there were in the United States a
party that believed in sound conserva-
tism, the speeches In which Beveridge
made his appeal to the voters of Indi-
ana would make worthy platform for
such party.
One of the most effective of his
pleas condemned the army of govern
ment agents, and government spies,
who go up and down the country,
harassing business" Another object
of his attack was the huge burea-
cracies of federal employees that have
been built up through the combined ac-
tions Of radicals and cowardly poll
ticians"
Beveridge's speech were more con-
servative than the present practices
of the Republican party are. His
analysis of the present system of taxa
tion and of it's deleterious effects on
national prosperity was one of the
soundest and most thorough argu-
ments that have been made on any
public question in or out of congress
during the present year
Opposed BIocs.
At a time when a farm bloc" holds
the balance of power in Republican
senate and contributes about the only
compact leadership the senate has
Beveridge had the courage to say he
opposes all "blocs" and believed in old
fashioned constitutional government.
Beveridge, since he terminated his
previous service in the senate, has
had 10 years in which to study con.
stitutional government The expert
ence of writing his four-volume his
tory of Chief Justice Marshall, and
his times, is alone such an education
in American constitutional govern
ment as few other men in public life
have had. Beveridge in the senate.
if he wins in the November election
will be closer to Harding's ideas than
the bulk of the present senate is.
Would Support Harding
Harding was fond of New, and on 2
personal basis undoubtedly regrets his
ing will get better support from Bev.
eridge than he gets from the present
Republican senators as a group.
\ On taxation and most domestic sub
iects Harding's thought and Bever
idge's are close together. 1t is true
that in the field of foreign relations
Reveridge may prove cautious in {
period when Harding's policy is like
Iy to lie in the direction of closer con
tact with European affairs. Bever
idge, although he was out of office a
the time, was more nearly the pioneel
in the fight against the league of ma
tions than some of those who got tn,
credit for official leadership.
This step of Beveridge's towards re
turn to public life is distinctly new:
and good news. He has disciplined
mind and the will to work. When ht
was in the senate before he was al
outstanding figure In the coming sen
ate he would be even more SO, for the
competition is less than when he haC
to stand comparison with men like
Frye, Hanna, Aldrich, Dolliver, tht
elder Hale, Morgan, Daniels and th'
like.
Still Has Hurdle
OF course, Beveridge has a hurdle
to take before he sits in the senate
The contest between him and th'
Democrat, Ralston, in November. will
be real fight. In that fight Bevtridg'
undoubtedly can get more Democratic
votes, more independent votes ant
more votes that would otherwise &,
Democratic, than New possibly coul'
have obtained Beveridge, in fact, i
by far the strongest man the Indian;
Republicans could have put up. Their
will be mutterings that some of th
old guard Republicans, in their disaI
pointment about News defeat, vii
knife Beveridge. But when the tim
y comes, they won't.
AS to Senator New, it is not onl
Harding who, for personal reasonf
will regret his defeat. Everybody els
in Washington, Republican or Demz
crat, will have the same keen feeiin
of regret for one who was general
liked for his loyalty, his modesty an
other qualities he had in his perSonf
relations and admired for his 80un
common sense and teamwork In pN|
lie affairs. =