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THE POST DEMOCRAT

4 Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muneie, Delaware County and the 8th Congressional District, The

only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.

Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the poetoffl.ee

at Muneie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879,

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Muneie, Indiana, Friday, December 30, 1927.

Washing the Baby’s Faee (Indianapolis Times) If it were not for that troublesome primary law, which is very troublesome of the politicians, the job of Senator Eli Watson during the holidays might be simplified. He might be persuaded that all that is needed is to make a few concessions to one James Goodrich, who lias a yen this year for a few national delegates and the job, for himself, of national Republican committeeman, secure eilpugh funds to rescue a few of the boys who are perishing, pick out some very respectable nonentity with a bank roll for the governorship and then take a chance on keeping his colleague, Senator Arthur Robinson, sufficiently far in the background. - But the Senator knows that the" problem is not so simple, for after all the people of Indiana are at last alert and awake to what has happaned to them in the past few years and the voters in the Republican party are quite as incensed as are the independents and the democrats. i The Senator will discover, if he does come back at Christmas time to undertake that task of saving the Republican party from disaster by cleaning up, that tins is not the year for half-hearted measures. He will soon discover that merely washing the baby’s face will not suffice. The voters will surely look behind the ears when they go to the primary. And when the voters do look behind the elephant’s ears, will they be satisfied if they find Senator Arthur Robinson going back to. office at a time when the party is pretending to get rid of all the forces that have discredited it? Will the people forget the fact that Robinson’s political career has synchronized rather impressively \vith the, rise to power of the forces which the senior Senator is now asked to lash from the party temple? Will the people forget that his appointment had in it a great deal of mystery and that it came after the man who is; now being suggested as the proper front for the -‘new d^al”, had ridden over to accept the offer of the place? Will they forget, or will the Senator believe they can be made to forget that if the downfall of the party and its present low estate >vas due to yielding to the Anti-Saloon League and Ku-Klux Klan domination, Robinson came into office with at least no protesting voice against intolerance and big-ot^y’. ‘ •' How kittle can Senator Watson give to the voters of his party in the way of reformation and hope to get away with it? ; What can he do to impress men and women who hope that the party of Lincoln and Roosevelt will again reflect something of this spirit that there is any sincere effort to make it otherwise than what it has been for the past few years if he indicates that all that he hopes to do is to get some one for Governor who will make the people forget that Robinson is also running? ' Can there be any sincerity in any movement for a new deal that includes Robinson ? The worst of it is, from the Senator’s view, is that he knows that unless he or some one else does a fairly complete job of cleaning, the people will. ^—i ■

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-laveiLvjpvfiiufir: csufdidaie in 'the State. The other now faces the crisis in less Than a year after his inauguration. In both instances the measured tread of armed forces has resounded through the.capitol halls and the flourish of bayonets has been the law demonstration. < ‘ / \ Without regard to the merits of either Jack Walton br Henry Johnston, jt has been the Ku-Klux Klan that is primarily responsible for this havoc in Oklahoma, a State settled by reasonably intelligent arid peaceful citizens. The origin of Walton’s impeachment was that lie was not a klansman. The foundation of the present predicament is that Johnston is. The organization of the fiery cross was strong enough to oust Walton, but by its gradual loss of caste is not now powerful enough to save Johnston. The fact remains that the Ku-Klux Klan and its pet doctrine of strong arm methods are responsible for these

Governmental miseries.

The determining factor that “got” Walton and that will eventually “get” Johnston was the declaration of martial law. The people will not endure the insult of having their communities overrun with bayonets. To the Kluckers, again, we must charge the responsibility of such methods. For the klansmen first practiced the system of intimidation by force. This organization brought again into being in America the idea of Government ‘by might and reform by physical punishment. And the klan psychology still reigns in Oklahoma where an anti-klan and a klan Governor have resorted to guns to uphold their positions. Well would it be for Oklahoma if she could impeach the Ku-Klux Klan forever from influence in her affairs.—

Indianapolis Times.

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Mrs. Grayson’s Flight

Flying in an amphibian plane, Mrs. Frances W. Grayson, formerly of Muneie, left Roosevelt field, near New York, Friday, bound for Croydon, England, with a stop at Newfoundland, and apparently was forced down at sea. The object of the flight was to win for Mrs. Grayson the distinction of being the first woman to make a non-stop flight across the Atlantic. The exploit had some purpose useful to the advancement of aviation by reason of the fact that the plane was the first one to attempt the Atlantic crossing from this side with equipment designed to enable it to alight on and take off from the water. It was equipped with pontoons and the latest developments in airplane design. As far as her plane and crew are concerned, the Grayson expedition is above criticism. The statement, of a representative of the weather bu> reau that Mrs. Grayson was warned that conditions were unfavorable for the flight and that she could hope to break through the cold mists east of Newfoundland only by trusting to good fortune, has raised again the question of what, if anything should he done to discourage ill-advised transoceanic flights. The weather bureau expert said soon after the plane left New York that it could not make the distance, that he had done all he could to stop the flight and that it was undertaken with complete disregard for common prudence. It may be admitted that Mia. Grayson has a right to risk her life and that the three men—a pilot, a navigator and an engine expert—who were willing to share the hazard with her, have the right to trust their lives to their skill. In view of the superior equipment carried by the plane and the competence of her crew, it is probably unjust to call the flight foolhardly. The government’s interest is, however, aroused when the flight' is seen as another possible strain upon the navy. AH the resources of the Boston naval district have for more than a week been concentrated on an effort to bring up the 'submarine 15-4, sunk December 17 in 100 feet of water at Provincetown, with her crew of forty men. The expense of sea searchers for lost flyers is always great, not only in time and fuel, but in delayed and disarranged naval training schedules. Mrs. Grayson set out in the knowledge that in case of disaster she could be helped by the navy only at the expense of effort to rescue men trapped in the submarine. She imposed upon the navy the possibility of having to make a decision which, in any case, would be criticised. This is unfair to the navy and, to a less degree, to the gen--erkl cause of aviation advancement. The flight should arouse the government to some action looking to the conservation of federal resources in such emergencies. The navy department should adopt a policy of refusing to aid transoceanic flyers unless they agree to be guided by official weather reports and to respect the navy’s high standard of service and duty.—Indianapolis News.

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The Klan in Oklahoma.

Twice in less than four years a Governor of Oklahoma Las been grilled by senatorial investigation. One was impeached £iia hurled out of the high office which the people had awarded him but one year before,by. one of .the greatest

The Loud Speaker Seemingly Colonel Lockwood has devoted himself to the serious task of saving his country. The good colonel lives in Washington and his daily sermonettes, under the heading, “Home Made Opinions,'’ appear daily in his Muneie newspaper, The Press, an otherwise perfectly good newspaper, ably edited by Wilbur Sut-

ton, a regular feller.

Since Lockwood owns the Press, there is nobody in the office, we assume, possessed of sufficient authority to issue a restainmg order against the colonel’s urge to write a column or so of piffle and have it printed each day on the editorial page of his own newspaper. Mr. Lockwood seems to be quite sure that serious dangers threaten, from land, sea and air. He views with alarm the growing tendency or ordinary peaple to disregard ^ the danger signals. There may be a doubt in his mind that ev,en the daily dissemination of his home brewed opinions will ste mthe onrushing tide of bolshevism which threatens to engulf the Land of Nod. ! v The dear colonel is the solitary sleepless one who sits up in the night and sees things while the teeming millii/ps burrow in the hay and pound their ear.. ^ The discouraging part of ft is that the Ijoekwff^d trumpet blasts of warning and alarm fall upon fleaf ,ea;*s.. If the people he is trying to save knew what he was talking about it might be different. The people who wade through George’s sermons, if any such there be, simply wonder what all the shootin’s about. A Who knows? Maybe the colonel doesn’t himself. ,

The Year’s Great Man With the year dying, it is the time and custom to look back and see the way we have come. In our national lifet what have been the great outstanding events of the year that'has gone? s • ~- - There are many to choose from; the world has been busy. Henry Ford has given to the world a new automobile that soon will be seen on every highway in America and Timbuctoo. Two women have been found guilty of slaying their husbands and one condemned to die. One man has been found not guilty of slaying his wife, and in that there is mpre news than in all the men convicted of the same of-

fense.

Women have learned tofly and have flung their challenge to oceans. One woman gave her life in an attempt to defeat the Pacific. Another challenged the Atlantic and won a notable victory, but not quite complete. Who has been the greatest figure in our news year ? Was it Calles, under whose direction a revolution was put down and a score of generals and others placed against the! wall and shot? Was it Mustapha Kemal, under whom Turkey is finding her way to progress? Was it the iron-jawed Mussolini, who has placed Italy under a discipline that is almost medieval in severity, but that the Italians seem to like and prosper on? Was it Coolidge, who mystified America, and then showed how simple it all had been by repeating his original words, after the country had argued, talked, wondered ? Was it some great author, some great statesman, or some poet whose honeyed words have made the world feel better all the way through ? We think not. We think the greatest man in the world during the year that has passed, was a boy, frail of figure and tender of years, but iron of heart and clean of mind. We think the greatest man of them all w ? as Lindbergh.

Why?

He is the spirit of our own youth, our dreaming youth when we saw in our mind’s eye mighty castles waiting for the conquering. He has gone out and conquered these castles with a smile, without ’bravado, with never a boast, but quietly and perseveringly. He inspired us. When he left New York we wondered and doubted. Those of us w-ho know the Atlantic and its cruel ways might have thought that we had seen the last of a fine young man. Then came the signals from the towns along his coastal route.and the ships out in the foggy, stormswept sea. Then hours of darkness and silence when we waited, without word? and hoped with all our hearts that

this boy might win.

Then, coming over us like a great tide, was the ne\y$ that Lindbergh w T as passing over Ireland. Other eagles of the air came out to meet him, and lie landed at Le

Bourget, smiling, triumphant, but honest and plain.

He has given us a model to plan by. Determination,

singleness of purpose, frankness, sincerity,

and he is an

worlds that so many of

ed have been brought to his feet. The year has given us a wonderfql boy. If we were all a little more like him how much better the world would b.e!

—Indianapolis Times.

Smith To Appear On January 7 th

gpringfield, 111., Dec. 30.—Coloael Frank L. Smith will appear before the Reed senate investigation committee in Washington. January 7. C. J. Doyle, Smith’s attorney, said here Thursday. Doyle declared Smith acknowledged the committee’s telegram asking when he rould appear by suggesting a date after the holi-

days.

The committee fixed the date as January 7, and that action required no acknowledgement, Doyle said. o

by the report of alienists who had sat with him in Remus’ hearings Wednesday, when parts of evidence in the murder trial- were reconsidered. They held him to me insane.

JOHN MCREERV (Continued from Page On©)

any public official to enter into any sort of a contract, for a financial consideration, with the territorial division in which he holds office. It goes farther and says that it is a crime for a public official to do

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Creery agreed to pay off his mortgage by the money derived from the sale of gravel from five" acres that he had deeded to his son, the [situation is one of more than usual

Remus Sent To

Insane HospitaIj 6r T^itu S iion 13 bem E studka. it iis said, by the prosecutor’s office, an attache of the office declaring Cincinnati n Dec 30 (TIPI that theie may be piosecutions Cincinnati, U., Dec. tiU - tarted involving several persons George Remus, former bootleg rmi3 oiraev king, recently freed by a jury in 101 conspiiaey. ^ the murder of his wife on the sole grounds of insanity, was held In- A group of Rid deford (Me.) barsane today and committed to the bers, when they learned that a 10 Lima Ohio, hospital for the crim-|»er cent wage cut would be made inally insane by William N. Leu- in the Biddeford cotton mills, reder, probate judge. duced haircuts tiom 50 to 3a cents Louder was guided in his fludingand shaves from 25 to 15 cents.

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T he Dignity of the Court The fericious attack of a deputy sheriff on a newspaper man for the assigned reason that the newspaper had mentioned his name in a manner not to his liking in an editorial discussing a complaint filed in the circuit court, should be food for thought for the people of Muneie. .j A deputy sheriff, is, in a sense, a part of the court. He, nor no other person connected with the judicial staff should conduct himself in a manner to lower the dignity of the court he serves. ,• The court’s officers should be jealous of the honor of the court and the occupant of the bench should compel the court subordinates to restrain their impulses to assault citizens who have aroused their ire. - ■ As yet there has been no word from Judge Dearth that the act of a deputy sheriff in beating up a reporter in the office of the county auditor has disturbed his serenity or affected his judicial poise. Are we to assume that the Dearth decree that courts have inherent power to punish summarily for contempt is to be carried Jo Jhe length that the discussion of the acts oD deputy sheriffs is to be regarded as contempt, to be punished instantly by violence? If this kind of tiling goes on much further, the court house janitor might hold some taxpayer in contempt for complaining of a dirty floor by walloping his accuser over the head‘with a mop.

Garries Its Own Moral Here is a short story that cerries with it its own moral From January 1, 1927 up to December 27, 1927, there were 178 criminal cases disposed of in the circuit court, through convictions and pleas of guilty. In twenty-one of these cases the defendants served sentences. In 157 of the cases the "defendant^ received suspended sentences. ( Of the toj^al of 157 cases where suspensions were granted, Clarence E. Benadum represented 102 of the defendants, Wilbur Ryman 8, Van Ogle 10, Tom Miller 2, O’Neill & Bales 3. Thirty-two were without counsel.

Beware of Square Pegs. Monday the democrats will be in power in Delaware county when Bob Aker replaces John Truitt, on the board of county commissioners. The people of Delaware county know Mann and Acker, the two democrats who will constitute the majority and they have confidence that they will make good. In making their appointments Commissioners Manp and Acker should affect individuals for appointive positions who are fitted for the positions. It has been the rule of the republican machine to try to fit square pegs in round holes and make the people like it. The democrats will be closely watched and will be appraised in a great measure by the personnel of their appointments. ; The commissioners are both farmers. They would hardly employ a soda clerk for a farm hand and expect to escape the derision of their Neighbors/ - - The roads have been a touchy point in Delaware county. Mismanagement and graft in the road department, exposed by the Post-Democrat, elected two democratic commissioners. If the commissioners name some man who knows nothing about road work, and the problems that are to be solved that will eliminate waste and graft, we will have gained but little, by. the./diarge.

Get Out of Sight

By Thomas H. Adams Political rumors of the cheap and tawdry kind scattered about all kinds and manners of men are mentioned. The big issue before the people is not mentioned at all by the Indianapolis press. The capital correspondents, lead along by gossip and rumor, intimate something about Senator Watson’s ambitions, etc., but that’s all. The question is what is Indiana to do to clean up her government and her dirty politics? The political machines will not clean it for they are

the dirt of it.

Then what is there to do ? Does Indiana intend to try to clean up ? Is the ambition of any man half as important as the great principle for clean government the Probe investigators labored for? No man dare be a candidate of his party unless he is untainted and not involved by this thing. The crooks are bold and brazen. They say the state is not infected. But it is. Its doom is apparent unless the people act

and act now.

The governor is indicted and must stand trial. The chief governing forces of Senator Watson’s Repub-

lican committee are badly involved.

Chairman Walb is under serious fire for the LaGr§iige

bank failure.

Boss Coffin, the ruler of Indianapolis, is indicted. Exstate Treasurer Ora Davies, another big boss, is indicted. A score of political parasites have been punished. The internal revenue collector, Bert Thurman and Secretary of State Schortemeier are under fire and close inspection by the grand jury. The Republican state committee owe a duty to the people—that is, the unsmirched members do—to meet and elect a new chairman and then resign! There are plenty of big Republicans in Indiana who should act at once to help save the party from further dis-

grace and ignominy.

Must the probe go further than to warn the political bushwhackers to get out of sight and out of the way ? Bear in mind, Republicans, the probe investigators have won their fight in all these sordid, horrid exposures. They

are hurtful. So is any crime hurtful.

Now we, as Indiana citizens, must take on a new pro-

gram and a new reckoning.

The present political machine of our party is rotten

to the core.

If Republicans do not clean it up the opposition will. The probe investigators all are anxious for a clean, thorough and complete change all through for the benefit of Indiana, for the benefit of the Republican party and for the benefit of all. 0 ~

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