Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1913 — SHANE RESIGNS AS INDIANAPOLIS MAYOR [ARTICLE]

SHANE RESIGNS AS INDIANAPOLIS MAYOR

Unable to Cope With Strike Situa- . tion and Opposed by Businessmen He Gets Out. Samuel Lewis Shank has resigned as mayor of Indianapolis. He was threatened with impeachment proceedings in case other strike troubles ensued and rather than face the charges he got outfof office, the reigns he surrendered being automatically turned over to Harry R. Wallice, city > controller. The mayor made a statement to the effect that he did everything on his part to be fair during the recent strike trouble and that he did not think he could cope with the threatened strike of the teamsters and chauffeurs. Mayor Shank proved one of the most spectacular mayors Indianapolis ever had. He fought the retail market men and shipped in potatoes and sold them at 70 cents a bushel when the merchants had been retailing them for $1.40. He also fought the insurance companies and forced a reduction in rates which is estimated to have saved $200,000 for those who had , the premiums to pay. He tried to force saloons to close on Sundays and gave some peculiar sentences to saloonkeepers and bartenders.