Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1920 — G. O. P. EDITORS DENY GOODRICH O. K. TO RECORD [ARTICLE]

G. O. P. EDITORS DENY GOODRICH O. K. TO RECORD

Indianapolis, Jan. 30.—Governor James P. Goodrich, speaking before the Indiana Republican aasociafion at its annual mid-winter banquet here tonight defended the new state tax law and challenged anyone to say it is a “liability to the republican party.” The governor declared opposition to the law had dwindled to control of bend issue arid tax levies by the state board and that he woul4 not object of the people desired these features removed. In his defense of the tew Governor Goodrich declared that there is not a state government in the United States that /»n compare, during the past three years, v with Indiana in economics realized. The governor’s speech followed refusal during .the' afternoon of the resolutions committe of the association to indorse the record of “Governor Goodrich and other members,” of the administration, although the republican state administration was indorsed for “efficiency and economy.” The committee had received favorably a resolution commending the services of Senators New and Watson and of the Indiana delegation in congress. When an effort was made to secure approval of, a similar clause in the resolution referring to the service of Governor Goodrich, a protest was made and the committee compromised by eliminating the names of the governor and the two United States ’ senators. Officers elected at the afternoon session o fthe association’s meeting Were Ed. J. Hancock, Greensburg, president: J. W. Pierce, Clinton, secretary; and S. D. Lindsay, Marion, treasurer. Short addresses were made during the day by state republican chairman E. M. Wasmuth, and George B. Lockwood, editor of the National Republican. . SpeakenTat tonight’s banquet, besides Goyernof Goodrich, included Senator Watson, Representative Simeon D. Fess, of Ohio, and MrsMargaret Hill McCarter, of Topeka, Kansas. , ■