Evening star., 1927-04-27
Heart Attack Fatal to Ga
Year-0Id Statesman, Once
Senate's "Boy Orator"
CONVERSED WITH WIFE
JUST BEFORE THE END
Leaves Work on "Life of Lincoln
Only Half Done-Coolidge
Sends Regrets.
Bv the ssociated Press.

| 6lO CLOCK mere TINS morning or
heart disease. The former United
States Senator was conscious to the
last and conversed with his wife, who
was with him alone at the end. He
had been i'll only about two weeks,
although his health had not been
rugged for several months. He was
| 64 years old.
On returning here from visit to
| Chicago on April IA Senator Beveridge
| called DIR. William Thayer of Johns
Hopkins University, who with DIR.
Charles p. Emerson of Indianapolis,
had been keeping close watch on the
condition of their distinguished pa
tient. The physicians had ordered
complete quiet and relaxation from
literary labors. Both physicians were
hopeful that Mr. Beveridge would re-
cover from the heart ailment.
Elected Senator i'm 1899.
Elected to the United States Senate
in 1899, when he was only 81 years
old, Beveridge was known in that
body as 'the boy orator. He was
reelected in 1905. Although pioneer
in the theory of direct election of
public officials, he was unsuccessful
as a candidate under that system and
was twice defeated as a candidate for
the Senate by popular referendum.
Since his retirement from public
office, however, Mr.. Beveridge won
equal fame in literary career. His
life of John Marshall is considered
one of the best and most complete
biographies of the great Chief Justice
of the United States.
In recent years Mr.. Beveridge had
been compiling a comprehensive story
of the life of Lincoln and at his death
this four-yolume work was only a
little more than half completed.
Mr.. Beveridge had been cheerful
last night and conversed in buoyant
manner with Mrs. Beveridge and
friends.
Word Sent to Children.
Word was Immediately sent to his
two children, Albert III Beveridge, Jfss
a, student at st. Marks Academy, at
South Borough, Mass, and Abagafl.
a student of Foxcrosst Academy, near
Washington.
Mr.. Beveridge will be buried in
Crown Hill Cemetery at Indianapolis.
The date of the funeral has not yet
been set, and no other arrangements
are completed.
Mrs, Beveridge is the only member
of the family in indianapolis. In addi-
ton to the son and daughter and the
widow, Mr.. Beveridge is survived by
sister, Mrs. f. B. Ebben, in Sullivan,
Ind. Mr. Beveridge's parents have
been dead several years.
Friends Of Mr.. Beveridge, his politi-
cal associates and persons who had
had contact with him in public life.
united today in expressing admiration
of the tireless labor, keen intellect and
scholarly attainments, which they said
were his chief attributes.
Praised by Nicholson.
Meredith Nicholson, author, and a
close friend of Mr.. Beyeridge for many
years, said:
HE was one of the great men of the
country, a man of extensive talents in
many directions, and it will be tre-
mendous loss that he had not com
pleted his book on Lincoln. His John
MARSHALL will stand forever as the
greatest biography Of one of the great
est Americans. He was a man who
stood stalwartly for any idea he
| thought was right. I do not think
| that any of us who differed with him
ever questioned his sincerity. We
have had no man in Indiana who
stood as high in the higher literary
| circles of the country among h1storl'
cal students and college folk as did
Mr.. Beveridge. He was a real con-
| tributor to the life of his time.
know of no one who can fill the place
| he has made for himself"
Schortemeyer Expresses Grief.
Frederick f. Schortemeyer, secre-
| tary of state, said: II am deeply
! grieved at the sudden passing of AL
| bert j. Beveridge. He will be known
| in history as one of the illustrious
| sons of Indiana. His fame as an
author will be even greater than that
as a student of government. Ills
| life of Marshall will live forever"
| 1t was on the political aspects OF
| Beveridge's life that Lew Shank, for
mer Mayor Of Indianapolis, made com
ment. Shank said:
| II have known Albert Beveridge for
| the past 25 years and always consid'
ered him not only an authority on in
| ternational law, but a great states
man. Could he have been more OF
politician, he would undoubtedly have
| been President of the United States.
! I believe he would have made one OF
the greatest Presidents"
BoIted With Roosevelt.
| One of the pioneer eXponents OF
/ the direct election of all public OH
| cials, Albert jeremiah Beveridge con
| sistently was unsuccessful as can
| didate under the system.
Twice he attained membership In
| the United States Senate from lndi'
ana through election by the State Leg
| islature.
When Theodore Roosevelt bolted
| the Republican party in, 1912, Bever.
| idgge went with him. At the Bull
| Moose convention in Chicago, the
Hoosier, as temporary chairman. ut
tered the principles upon which the
progressives relied for success.
/ Through the irony of circumstances
| the measures which the progressives
espoused and helped to enact were
| deterrents to the ambitions Of BeVer-
| idge.
Since his retirement from the Sem
ate, in 1911, Beveridge twice sought to
return. In 1914, he was defeated as
a progressive candidate and in 1922
| he won the Republican nomination
| over Harry A. New, but lost the elec'
ton to Samuel M Ralston, the Dem
ocratic standard bearer. In 1912 Bev.
| eridge was defeated as the progres
sive candidate for Governor of In,
1 diana.
Beveridge's prominence was as firm.
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