Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1917 — Governor Goodrich To Announce Lee’s Fate Next Monday. [ARTICLE]

Governor Goodrich To Announce Lee’s Fate Next Monday.

Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 19.—Governor Goodrich said today that he hoped to be able to decide Monday what disposition to make of the charges against Edwin M. Lee, a member of the state public service commission, whose removal was asked by Bernard E. O’Connor, a democrat. OGonnor’s charges were that Lee is a democrat, and as three, democrats were members of the board before his appointment, he was not eligible. He also alleged that Lee was incompetent. e Governor Goodrich heard arguments in the case this afternoon. O’Connor’s attorneys in their arguments declared'that Lee was not a progressive, but a democrat, and had worked for the success of that party. Attorneys for Lee argued that no evidence had been introduced to show that he was incompetent and that there had been no showing he was a democrat and not a progressive. Lee was the progressive state chairman during the last campaign.