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Show POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATORS. A strong argument in favor of the popular election of United States senators has been furnished in Indiana. There is little doubt that the people of the state would have liked to send Senator Beveridge back to congress. . They are proud of him, and he has taken a position that seems to have commended him to the mass of his constituents; but for other reasons they did not want a Republican Repub-lican legislature. The result is that Beveridge is sacrificed. If the people could have sent Beveridge to the senate and elected a Democratic Demo-cratic legislature, there is little doubt that they would have done so, They could have done so had the federal constitution permitted. If we had popular election of senators now, we wonder whether George Sutherland could carry his own precinct in Salt Lake City? |