Evening star., 1922-05-21

DEFEATED SENATOR NEW
ION TO THE SENATE IN INDIANA.
| blocs, or whatever you wish to term
them. Ours is an agricultural state
and have told the farmers l am op-
posed to blocs, etc"
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| A T this juncture interpolated =
question about how Mr. Beveridge
in the event Of his election, would line
up at Washington. as 1t had been
limited that the moment he got back
into the Senate he would line up with
'frresoncilables." radicals" etc. and
lend spectacular aid to another insur-
gency movement within the G. o. p.
Get this, and get 1t right" he shot
back. III go to Washington / shall
not take orders from any class or
group. All along l have made It plain
| tration. What l have just said and
what l now reiterate Is that just a.
L stood with William Mckinley, Theo-
dore Roosevelt and William H. Taft in
all measures except the Payne-Al-
drich tariff bill. so will | stand and
fight with Warren G. Harding al long
| as he is President, which l hope shall
be for the next seven years.
| IF l am elected there will be no
rocking of the boat in so far as am
concerned, IL it continue TO move. If
it shows tendency to stand still or
go on the wrong current. may push
| 1t a little. But as for rocking the
boat-not me. Is that plain enough o.
| 1t was. Nor Is it revealing ary
secrets in turn to say that Mr.. Bev-
eridge is expecting in return the
whole support of the Harding
administration in his November night.
He holds that feuds and factions are
unknown in Indiana, the party being
more firmly cemented than At any
time since 1912. United We stand
and divided we fall-but We will not
fall" was the invitation with which
he assisted all hands aboard the band
wagon after the primary election.
GETTING back to the economic ar
| ~ gument. with which he il diseased
and with which he figures the people
are more vitality concerned than for
| eign relations or other matters. Mr..
Beveridge pointed out that next to
class legislation the three other fac
tors in his economic creed are OK
pense OF government. taxation and
| transportation. Any ono who conceives
Of Albert J. Beveridge AZ being i'm
| bued with any wild-eyed radical
schemes Is likely soon to be disillu-
stoned listening to his enunciation of
a conservative. common sense code OF
principles.
| Everybody seems to have liqui-
dated or Debated his business except
Uncle Sam himself" he says. "Busi-
ness men everywhere have Mquidated.
All labor. except certain sections of
railway labor, has liauidated 20 per
cent; tho farmers have Mquidated so
per cent. Tho government must pare
to the bone-that's all there is to It.
In order to curtail high taxes. the ex-
penses of government must be de-
| creased. When the government takes
out of the pockets of the people hum
dreds Of millions Of the peoples in
come 1t pays q large proportion of
this capital for the upkeep of costly
governmental departments, riddled
with bureaus and red tape and honey
combed with extrsvagance. Our
American bureaucracy today is more
expensive and almost as autocratic as
Russian bureaucracy under the czar."
That, argues Mr.. Beveridge. is why
| the present tax laws are barriers
against the return of prosperity. II
those barriers were removed tomor-
row, the land automatically would be
flooded, in his judgment, with such
golden prosperity as the nation never
experienced.
I'm place Of the intricate, involved
and destructive war expedients which
| weaken and destroy business" he
pleads, give us plain. simply. easily
understood revenue system. based on
business principles which will at once
work less hardship on all the people
and permit business to get into lac-
tion. with millions unemployed. the
country cannot longer stand the pres
ent policy Of taxation"
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IF any one is seeking the psychology
ical reason for tho Sensational
come back Of the former progressive
champion, 1t Is likely to be found in
the line Of talk that he addressed to
the people of his native state. In
every county OF Hocsierland, In every
| hamlet and farm village. he preached
economic, reforms. He still likes to
make . speech, and he can still spill
i the hery eloquence for which he long
ago became noted.
! In the smoker OF q Pullman car
bound into indianapolis the writer
polied jury Of four Hoosiers on their
guess AZ to the return from Elba" Of
Albert ]. sBsvsridge. In every case
the verdict was that he had stirred
not the Aeaets bot the minds Of hii