Evening star., 1927-04-27
ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE DIES
SUDDENLY AT INDIANA HOME

entrance, a volume-"What Is Back
| of the War''-Which brought pitiless
castigation from those who saw in it
a justification of the German action.
| 1t was barred from many libraries and
training camps.
That he should have attained prof.
cheney in many endeavors is more sig
nificant in the light of Beveridge's
humble beginning. He was born Oc-
tober 6, 1862, on an Ohio farm which
gave back little more than a scant
existence. After the Civil War the
family moved to Illinois.
Before he had quit his teens Bev-
eridge had worked as a farm chore
| boy, q section hand on a railroad, a
teamster and logger. He found time,
however, to complete grade school and
enter De Pauw University, Green
castle, Ind. Working Summer vaea-
tions as book agent, Beveridge COM
peter the college work in 1885 and en-
tered the legal. profession.
| Katherine Langsdale, his first wife,
died in 1900, and in 1907 he married
Catherine Eddy of Chicago. The
| former Senator had two children, AL
bert, jr, and Abagail.
Winning an interstate oratorical con-
test determined his future in law.
scholastic rivalry which developed
between Beveridge and James Z. Wat
| son, Senator from Indiana, during
their days at De Pauw afterwards
became a political rivalry. Both were
aspirants for college oratorical honors
Republicans Get Him.
IT was Beveridge's deClamatory
powers that first officially aligned him
with the Republican party. The year
he won the interstate oratorical medal
coveted honor among the fresh
water" colleges of the Central States,
both Democratic and Republican State
organizations We're searching for spell
binders. Both sought the services OF
the young Hoosier Demosthenes, and
I Republicans were successful.
In 1887, two years after receiving
his academic degree, Beveridge passed
the bar examination and became
junior member Of an Indianapolis
firm. That same year he married Miss
LangSdale.
The young lawyer became an en-
thusiastic Republican party worker,
winning a position in the organization
councils as he attained local eminence
as a constitutional lawyer. In 1893,
he was injected as dark horse In
the race for the United States Senate
and, to the surprise of the State, Won
He was elected again in 1905.
Beveridge took with him to Wash
ington a reputation as an orator. and
he soon justified that renoWn before
his colleagues in the Senate. Although
81 years old, he became the hoy
orator" in that assembly of venerable
solons.
The Hoosier's first notable speech
was on the Porto Rican tariff BILL
He advocated unrestricted freedom of
trade to the island. His child labor
bill, introduced in 1907, was the first
Of unsuccessful measures designed to
relieve that condition. 1t died in COM
mittee.
Although Beveridge in many of his
speeches attacked the invisible en-
pire" control in national affairs, and
repeatedly denounced big business"
his political opponents charged he
neglected to vote against legislation
favored by the invisible empire" and
did occasionally vote with the "big
business" group. He traced his break
with the regulars to the Payne
Aldrich tariff measure of 1909.
Gave Progressive Greed.
Enunciating the progressive creed
at the Chicago trump" convention in
1912, Beveridge said:
1--WE mean not only to make pros
perity steady, but TO give to the many
who earn it first share in that
prosperity, instead of helping the few
who do not earn it to take an un-
just share.
1.-THE tariff must be taken out of
politics and treated as a business
problem The tariff in politics is one
Of the invisible governments meth
ods of wringing tribute from the
people"
He remained with the progressive
cause until 1914, when he was de-
feated as a progressive candidate for
the Senate. That year he went to
Europe as a war correspondent and
obtained an interview with the Kaiser.
For his defense of the Kaiser's
spirituality and morality he incurred
the enmity of the Germophobiacs be-
fore the United States entered the
conflict and the condemnation of many
Americans after this country declared
war.
An incident resulting in much criti-
cism by Indiana editors became known
in Hoosier politics as the Dear
George" episode. In 1912, when Bev-
eridge was a progressive candidate
for Governor of Indiana, letter pur-
ported to have been written by him
to George W. Perkins, an official of
J. p. Morgan & Co., in which Bev-
eridge refused $25 600 campaign con-
tribution by Perkins, was made public.
Spoke of Many Favors.
Perkins was called "Oear George"
try1sifn
many favors he had received from the
financier regarded as one of TIE "Wall
street" group and close to the IN
visible empire" of regular Repub
licans in the Senate.
BeVeridge returned to the Repub-
lican fold in time to avoW the Hughes
candidacy in 1916. He made many
speeches against the League of Ma
tions and "stumped" the country for
Harding in the 1920 campaign. His
name was prominently mentioned as
vice presidential candidate with Hard.
ing.
A typical Beveridge campaign of
oratory swept him ahead of Harry A.
New in the 1922 race for the Repub-
lican nomination for the Senate. He
was regarded as the odds-on favorite
in the election until the Ku KluX klan
turned it's support to Samuel M. Raj
StOn.
President Harding offered Beveridge
the ambassadorship to Japan in 1921,
and he was said to have been men
toned by the President for the Berlin
diplomatic post.
Beveridge always was a persistent
student of American history, particu-
larly the social and legislative phases,
In 1926 he was awarded a Roosevelt
medal for valuable contribution to
history Life c. Marshall"
Honored by Colleges.
In 1926 Beveridge had been at work