Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 10 June 1926 — Page 2

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THE P03T-DEM0CRAT

THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1926.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 8th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.

, Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice ai Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

PRICE 5 CENTS—$2.00 A YEAR,

Office 306 East Jackson Street—Opposite Public Library. GEORGE R. DALE, Owner and Publisher.

Phone 2540

Muncie, Indiana, Thursday, June 10, 1926.

STAND BY THE JUDGE The Post-Democrat urges all good citizens of Delaware county to give Judge Dearth their earnest support and stand behind him as a solid unit in his << clean-up ,, campaign. The editor of this newspaper has less reason, probably, than any other individual in the county to be personally enthusiastic in behalf of Judge Dearth, but in matters of public welfare we are always ready to subordinate personal bias and prejudice and welcome recruits to the army of decency and good government. It took considerable courage for Judge Dearth to definitely break with the political machine to which he was obligated in a great measure for his election as judge and to place himself in a position which makes it /impossible for him to secure future political favors from that source. Last Saturday the judge, in open court, called before him the chief of police of Muncie and the sheriff of the county, and practically told them that they were protecting and fostering crime and immorality in Muncie and Delaware county and ordered them to do their duty or take the consequences of the action of a special grand jury. Judge Dearth knew exactly what he was talking about. He had employed private investigators at his own expense, who discovered nine gambling houses and eighteen houses of prostitution in active operation. in addition to summoning Chief Jones and Sheriff McAuley, represenatives of the Star and the Press were sent for to hear the explosion of the bomb which has wrecked the machine carefully constructed by crooked officials and denizens of the underworld. The Post-Democrat was not invited to the party in Judge Dearth’s court room, but we do nat feel slighted. The Post-Democrat knew all about the things Judge Dearth told the officals and the newspaper reporters. Judge Dearth, making a personal investigation of the reiterated charges of the Port-Democrat thai lawlessness was being protected here by public officials, found the charges to be true and that the chief of police appointed by Mayor Hampton, his former jury commissioner, had shut his eyes to the operations of depraved prostitutes, gamblers and bootleggers. The judge declared that the city was infested by lei wfox*0cik0i*s “I have had two special investigators at work the last week,” said the judge, “and the tales they bring me show that conditions in Muncie are deplorable. Ait Stout has a gambling room where one must pass through three doors to enter. Gambling houses flouiish, there is gambling in Muncie cigar stores, violations of the liquor law are common in the county and houses of prostitution are being operated wide open. Theie is gambling in cigar stores opposite the court house. These conditions must cease.” . It will be recalled than on numerous occasions the Post-Democrat has called attention to Art Stout s protected gambling house and that on one occasion recently we asserted that a stone cast from the window of Judge Dearth’s private office on the third floor of the south side of the court house, if thrown accurately, would smash through the window of the second story of a building directly opposite from the court house and come to ‘parade rest” on a crap table m active Judge Dearth investigated and found that the PostDemocrat had been telling the truth. He found that the Hampton administration is a ghastly fraud. The judge supported Hampton but now he is convinced that the Post-Democrat told the truth and nothing but the truth when it declared in advance of Hampton s election that his candidacy was being backed by gamblers, bootleggers and prostitutes and that they now own the chief executive and his police department, body and soul. WHAT DISPLEASED HAMPTON ? When Mayor Hampton heard what Judge Dearth did last Saturday he is reported as hollering “Hurrah. and W can only be applied the editor or the man with a tape Hampton said “advantage of my absence from official capacity during the past two weeks was taken and several things not very pleasing have occurred—-so we are going to clean up.” „ . . On Decoration Day a police officer gave official notice to three protected gambling houses to close up. Last Friday he personally ordered two others to quit business. One day last week another policeman told Reba Fenwick either to deport one of her girls or quit. This was done while Hampton was “absent from official capacity.” Were these among the things that were “not very pleasing” to Hampton? And by the way, if the police officers told these law breakers to quit breaking the law he knew they were breaking the law. , , ^ i* ^ If he had caught a robber holding up Cashier r red Reasoner at the Farmers State Bank, at the point of a gun, would the policeman have told the outlaw to quit or would he have placed him under arrest? About two months ago two deputy sheriffs, under orders from Sheriff McAuley, made the. rounds of all the gambling houses, when they were running full blast, and politely asked them to close up. They all closed up promptly and within a week all of them opened up simultaneously. . Hampton was not then “absent from his official capacity.” Somebody in authority must have sent the word to the gamblers to open up. Who was it ? CRAZY LIKE A FOX The republican machine can figure out only oneway. Judge Dearth has suddenly gone crazy. Mayor Hampr ton and the police department hold to the same opinion. When the judge soaked the editor of the Post-Democrat

for contempt they held him to be perfectly sane, clothed and in his right mind. How the wheel does turn. While he is in the business of deporting law breakers Judge Dearth might with perfect propriety run Mayor Hampton, Chief of Police Jones and Sheriff McAuley out of town for delivering Muncie and Delaware county over to the law breakers. Reba Fenwick and the other unfortunate women are angels of light compared with those who promised them protection, and made the promise good until Judge Dearth took command of the situation.

HERE’S ANOTHER, JUDGE. It is stated that Judge Dearth, in open court, one day this week declared that he would have Sheriff McAuley impeached. Does Judge Dearth know that a syndicate of gamblers financed Harry McAuley’s campaign to the tune of .$1,600? If he doesn’t it ..is time he is finding out, now that McAuley is a candidate for a second term.

IKE WALTON AGAIN Official announcement is made that the Ike Walton league is urging another bunch of farmers to follow the example of Tom Hiatt and bring suit against the city for thousands of dollars in damages, in order to emphasize the need of that river sewer, which is expected to enrich a bunch of the finest little grafters now out of jail. A fine bunch of civic boosters—these Ike Waltonites, who attempt to stir up litigation against their own city in behalf of a few cheap grafters. Possibly these thickheads have never heard of the c/ime of barratry, recognized by the courts as a felony, punishable by fines and imprisonment. Webster defines barratry as follows: “A practice of exciting and encouraging of maintaining lawsuits or quarrels; persistent incitement of litigation. The river may have a bad smell, but its odor is that of the new mown hay as compared with that of the skunks back of this scheme to split up a half million in graft money. One of these days the Ike Walton tools and others in this river sewer conspiracy, fostered by the Hampton administration, will be looking the grand jury in the eye. Please remember this and don’t forget that the Post-Democrat has thus far scored one hundred percent as a true prophet. Efficient Economy. The recent Watson convention, frequently miscalled the republication convention, aid much bragging about the efficient economy of the present state government, in particular about the state roads. The cost of the annual up-keep of the road from Portland to Winchester is $3,200 per mile, or about $48,000 per year, $130 per day, probably $1 per car passing over the road! Does that look like either efficiency or economy, even like common honesty? If the fifteen miles of state owned road between Portland and Winchester was a corporation owned road with a toll gate at which each car must pay $1 f-»r using the road, what a howl would go up from the public, yet the Watson party in convention assembled pat themselves on the back and brag about charging the same toll. Where does this money go ? Y ou don’t imagine that it actually cost sixty-five cents per lineal foot to keep this road up? What do you taxpay ers who never use the road think of your state government spending $130 per day on that road for its up-keep after you have paid-for building it? Who is responsible for this extravagance? Ask Lawrence Cartwright, the Watson Eighth district chairman and the officials of the crushed stone corporation.

Am I Right Or Am I, Huh? The following two quotations are from the keynote speech of Artie Robinson before the Watson convention, compare them:

Speaking of the death of Harding, “For he was immediately succeeded hy one practiced in the science of government, schooled in republican principles and policies, honest, courageous, faithful and with an overabundance of common sense, and Calvin Coolidge became the chief executive of the nation. Under his able leadership we have reached the height and of course his excellent administration commends itself to all."

“Following the precept of the immortal Washington we seek friendly relations with all nations but entangling alliances with none. » * * * * * But we refuse to be drawn into their fueds, jealousies, prejudices and wars, and shall never consent to place our sovereignty and independence in control of the league of nations or any foreign tribunal. In line with this sentiment, my esteemed colleague and myself voted against our adherence to the so-called world court.”

Now what is a Republican? If Coolidge.is all Artie claims him to be in the first column and yet is not fit to be followed by such men as our Indiana senators what kind of leadership do they need? Is it possible that Coolidge can say, as did one great American statesman, “I’d rather be right than president.” If so, he will rise yet higher in the esteem of the people. On the other hand are Watson and Robinson only able to say “I want that $10,000 a year job and d consequences to posterity.” Normalcy, normalcy! Wasn’t that word in frequent use a few years^ago? And didn’t we get it, the factories are all busy turning out highly protected goods while labor is all busy at high wages. Of course labor is forced to spend all its wages in the purchase of these highly protected goods which it needs to sustain life and has nothing left for the rainy day. The surest sign that the country has reached the position of normalcy is the rapid return of the farmer to the old condition of “hayseed” which he held under former republican administrations since such administrations existed. Yes, we got normalcy, a bellyful of it, but the end is not yet. If James Eli Watson really wants to do something for the farmer which will at the same time, benefit the highly protected industries of which he is so proud he might establish a scale of wages which the farmer could affor dto pay for help in working his land. His protective tariff refuses to bring the farmer any more money so the only remaining recourse is to reduce his expenses and labor has always stood that reduction under republican rule.

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of the people all of the time, but you can’t f°ol all th e people all the time” even with an indirect tax which produces a fictitious prosperity. That Gasoline TaxIt has become common, when certain extravagances of the state government are mentioned, to hear it said that those monies are not taken from the general toes but from the gasoline tax. Why is the gasoline and automobile tax any different from any other tax? Only the owner of land pays land tax, only the owner of live stock pays the live stock tax, yet both these taxes are considered general taxes and their expenditure carefully watched. Then why is not the gasoline to a general tax? One out of every five of our population own and use an automobile. Is the per cent of live stock or lard owners any higher than this? Are not the owners and users of the auto citizens, just as are the owners of land or live stock? Should not their tax be just as carefully watched and economically spent as any. other . it the tax from autos and gasoline was economically spen would that not reduce other taxes? The ^ ut 1 om ^ bll ^ 1 ^ d p-asoline tax are probably as equitably levied and collectefas any tax we have, yet the careless extravagance with which it is handled fails to get the proper re toi rn for the money. The only tax which all pay, regardless of whether they own anything or not, is the tariff tax and that you know, the republican party has always assured us the foreigner pays. It does seem real amusing to think that while the foreigners are so hard up that they can’t even pay the interest on the money they have borrowed from this country, they are still able to dig down into their pockets for the millions paid into the coffers of our tariff protected factories^ i fitted a rubber hose over the exWilliam Barnes, 38, of Youngs- haust p . pe and ran the tube into the t T\°, h !, 0 ’ de , 8p H 0 “ dent coupe in order to end Kto life and wife had deserted him and his three ^ children, took two of his children in that of his two children. The corhis coupe and drove into the school oner’s verdict was that of a double yard at Ellsworth, Ohio, where he k homicide and a suicide.

Aroused by reports that British interests have obtained concessions on vast tracts of public lands in Panama on both sides of the canal zone. Senator Borah, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, Introduced a resolution Friday calling on the Department of State and the War Department for all available information on the subject. Immedidiate consideration of the resolution was requested by Senator Borah, but. on objection by the Republican leaders, Senator Curtis, Kansafe, the measure goes over until today when action will again be sought.

An omnibus rivers and harbors bill, brought before the House last week as a $36,000,000 proposal, was passed by the House Friday with a score of additional projects greatly increasing the total of its possible authorization after surviving one of the bitterest filbusters in recent years. Estimates of the total ranged all the way up to $90,000,000. By a vote of 210 to 127 the measure was sent to the Senate retaining all of its original 150 projects, including those for the Illinois river development, resurvey of the All-American canal route across New York, and government purchase of the Cape Cod canal for $11,500,000.

Fearing diplomatic entanglements and American public sentiment, the second Pan-American Red Cress conferen.ce in session at Washington, D. C., refused to vote an outright indorsement of the International Relief Union, backed by the league cf nations.

w Bennett Doty, an American, otherwise known as Gilbert Clare, will not be executed for alleged desertion from the foreign legion in Syria until a full investigation of his case is made. Minister of War Painleve made that certain Tuesday when he cabled to the French commanding of!5 cer kt Beirut giving instructions that if Doty has been sentenced to death the sentence be suspended, temporarily at least.