Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1916 — The Untried Man In Demand. [ARTICLE]

The Untried Man In Demand.

In his latest published statement the organization candidate for the republican nomination for governor says “It is significant that 75 per cent of the editors of republican papers in Indiana have indorsed Mr. Goodrich” and that “these men were in close touch with Mr. Goodrich during the ten years he was state chairman.” They were. But this is a day when old things and “rings” have passed away and the people are calling for a new deal in politics. 1 And they are going to have it this year. Past service for the party (service, by the way, that was paid for generously) is nowadays no valid plea for present service from the party. In all the parties in all the states the desire today is for the untried man, and that wish is fathered by the thought, the hope and the belief that better public service will thereby come to the state. Attorney Goodrich certainly has ds much right as any other citizen, and no more, to seek high office in Indiana, but the brief he is presenting for his case before the people cannot, we submit in rebuttal, in jutsice be considered by the court as conclusive. True, he has worked for the party for ten years or more. He sought that job. It gave him a prominence in the public eye that as a country town lawyer he could not have acquired. Both directly and indirectly it was the means of letting him “in” oh “good things” with much monetary recompense annexed. It is a fair presumption of those of his friends who know that his official connection with the practical politics of the state brought him the receivership of ,a small bankrupt railroad, wherein during the short time it lasted, not quite two years, he was paid more than a governor of Indiana gets in his whole term, and he has come now to be ranked in the business world apart from his connection with public utilities enterprises, as a professional receiver of bankrupt corporations. He is wealthy, and the foundation of his greater financial success was his chairmanship of the republican state committee. And those who know him fear that if he became governor he would use his office, or might use it, as far as he could to build up for himself a personal political machine and with it pecuniary benefits for himself and his colleagues in the various corporations he is connected with. Attorney James Goodrich, of Winchester, has made more money since he caught his state office in politics than any other political worker or public servant in the state. As to service for the party, we hold that the man who has voted the party tickets for ten years has done as much for the party, and that wthout pay, as any office holder in the organization.