he lost his senate seat to john worth kern when the democrats took indiana in the 1910 elections. in 1912, when roosevelt left the republican party to found the short-lived progressive party, beveridge left with him and ran campaigns as that party's indiana nominee in the 1912 race for governor and the 1914 race for senator, losing both. when the progressive party disintegrated, he returned to the republicans with his political future in tatters; he eventually ran one more race for senate in 1922, winning the primary against incumbent harry s. new but losing the general to samuel m. ralston and would never again hold office. another contribution towards his political downfall was the fact he was a great critic of woodrow wilson. he encouraged wilson to take a more interventionist policy with the mexican revolution but disliked wilson's league of nations, which beveridge felt would undermine american independence.