Beveridge

In 1899 a man who had been for two weeks a U. S. Senator said to a newspaper friend: "Seven men are running the Senate and I am one of them." That man was Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, who last week died of heart disease in his Indianapolis home. He was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, near the grave of James Whitcomb Riley. Onetime Senator Beveridge was famed as orator, author, statesman. While at De Pauw University he won an intercollegiate oratorical medal, awarded in another year to the late Senator Robert Marion LaFollette. Entering the Senate in 1899 he was an ardent Imperialist, supporting McKinley's "manifest doctrine" policy, advocating permanent retention of the Philippine Islands. He joined the Progressive Party in 1912, was chairman of the Roosevelt convention. In 1922 he was defeated for the Senate by the late Samuel M. Ralston. A war correspondent in 1914-15, he interviewed Kaiser Wilhelm II, published a volume, What Is Back of the War. Flayed as pro-German, this book was later barred from many a library, from training camps. In 1907 Senator Beveridge married his second wife, Miss Catherine Eddy of Chicago (niece of Mrs. Marshall Field), in Berlin where her brother was in the U. S. Embassy.

Senator Beveridge's most representative work was his Life of John Marshall, a valuable historical contribution. At his death he was working on a half-finished life of Abraham Lincoln.