Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1914 — MO EFFORT MADE TO APPREHEND CULPRIT [ARTICLE]

MO EFFORT MADE TO APPREHEND CULPRIT

Why Don’t Governor Ralston Da mand Exposure of Ones Responsible For Laws Un passed. Indianapolis. Ind., Aug. IL—lt has now been almost a month since the scandal attending the conduct of the last democratic state legislature was uncovered but to date Governor Ralston has done nothing toward apprehending the criminals who were responsible for the writing into the Indiana statutes of laws that were never passed by the legislature. At the time the revelation of this, the state’s great est disgrace, was made. Governor Ralston was quoted as saying something about sending the responsible scoundrels to the penitentiary if he could locate them, but so far he has not located the "scoundrels" and as far as the public knows he has made ho genuine effort to locate them. One man who, according to public opinion, should know something about how these laws that were never passed by the legislature found their way to the statute books of Indiana is Homer L. Cook, who was speaker of the last Indiana house. Cook is now the democratic candidate for secretary of state, by grace of the activities of Tom Taggart. The storm of indignation rolling up from every section of Indiana regarding the work of the last legislature is breaking around Cook’s head. To date he has thrown no light on the subject During the past few days it has been discovered that there are glaring and serious mistakes in the official printed journal of the proceedings of the last house, but Cook remains solent. During the session it was the duty of Cook, the speaker, Sam Qulllan, chief clerk, and Paul C. Hill, the assistant clerk, to see that each day’s record was correctly made. The signatures of these men to the official record indicate their approval of the document. This fact, it would seem, would make it absolutely necessary that Cook, who is now asking for the votes of Indiana taxpayers, give some public explanation as to why public records of Indiana, compiled under his direction, show so many serious mistakes. The opinion prevails among the shrewd political observers of all faiths that Cook is in “a tight box." That he cannot get far with his candidacy for an elective office in the face of such a record as speaker of the last Indiana house seems to be the general opinion of political friends and foes. Francis Olds, of Lafayette, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Will Platt, a A car of that same excellent flour, White Star and (Monogram, just being unloaded. Phone 95 for a sack. ROWLES & PARKER. Jay W. Stockton and wife have theis week been entertaining W. W. Lowry and son Robert, of Indianapolis, and part of the time has been spent hunting squirrels and fishing at the Kankakee river.