Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 255, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1920 — Page 6
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Juiftawa JlniUj alimee INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising Offices—Chicago, New York, Boston, Detroit, G. Logan Payne Cos. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Ind., under the let of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates-f-By carrier, Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c. By mail, 50c a month, $1.25 for three months, $2.50 for six months, or $5.00 a year. THERE HAS BEEN a suspicion that Mr. Palmer was a candidate, dating clear back to the time he announced intentions of reducing the high cost of living. GERMANY wants to know what is the sentiment in America toward Germany. It takes some people a long time to have anything impressed on ’em. - SCIENTIST investigates women's flimsy blouses and decides they are conducive to health. Science requires only a flimsy basis for some discoveries. McAdoo Stands Alone Weeks ago, before the sentiment for William G. McAdoo for the presidency became as general as it is today friends of Mr. McAdoo discussed the possibility of support for him from the administration of President Wilson., It was, of course, considered that insomuch as he was the president’s son-in-law therl would be a natural inclination on the part of the country to regard him as the president’s choice, whether that was true or not. Undoubtedly efforts were made to feel out the sentiment at the whitehouse concerning McAdoo. But whatever resulted from these efforts, there was never a syllable that would indicate that McAdoo was the choice of Wilson for his successor. v Today there is nothing to indicate any such preference on the part of President Wilson. There Is nothing that indicates that the president has, or will, express a choice as to his successor. And the very absence of any such expression is causing tremendous concern among the politicians of the country. The republicans like to point to McAdoo as the president’s son-in-law and attempt to belittle him as a candidate for that reason. The stanch admirers of President Wilson regard McAdoo’s family affiliations as a great asset. But they must admit that McAdoo himself has never presumed on that relationship. William G. McAdoo was a big man long before he became the son-in-law of President Wilson. He had built the tunnels in New York In the face of opposition that stopped others. He had acquired a reputation on which to stand before he entered the cabinet. In that capacity he assumed a position second only to that of the president and not one step of his success in public life can be attributed to the influences of his relatives. When friends approached him with a view to finding out how well he stood with the administration Mr. McAdoo answered with a declaration simple, but all powerful: “I have never wished an honor to come to me on any other basis than an honor conferred on William McAdoo.”
It Takes Money The withdrawal of Edgar D. Bush from the republican race for governor Is an open confession that places on the republican ticket are to be obtained this fall only through purchase. Mr. Bush frankly confesses that he hasn’t the money to purchase a nomination and, as there is no other way to obtain it. he has retired, regardless of the desire of thousands of Indiana voters to support him. The withdrawal, for financial reasons only, serves to call attention to tire wonderful strength of the other three candidates in that particular qualification. Ed. C. Toner is a Wealthy publisher, who can afford to do nothing but run for office. James W. Fesler has the backing of very wealthy interests, including the Indianapolis News, whose Bavlng In taxes under the republican administration has been more than sufficient to finance his campaign. Warren T. McCray is the wealthiest of all the candidates, and it is an even toss-up as to whether he is worth more or less than James P. Goodrich, the present wealthy occupant of the governor’s office, whose tax return omitted any reference to cash on hand or automobiles Bush never had a chance to be nominated. He didn’t have the money to maintain expensive headquarters in a leading hotel. He didn't have the money to engage publicity expertg by the score. He could not send paid agents into every district to ‘line up the boys.” If he had been elected he would have been compelled to live on the salary of a governor and could not, by any stretch of imagination, afford to give $4 ,000 in bonds (coupons detached) for a letter of indorsement. In other words when he entered this race for the nomination for governor Bush was suffering the delusion that the republican voters would nominate a man because the man’s Ideas of government coincided with their views. After a few months or campaigning he learned that among the qualifications necessary to become a republican candidate was the possession of a barrel of money from which the candidate could dip to feed all hands. Mr. Bush did right in withdrawing his name from the race. He had demonstrated that the people of the state were with him in bis opposition to centralization, Goodrichism and graft. He had proved that they wanted the tax law revised and he had proved that a man who Stood four-square for these popular things thereby became the friend of the voters of each party. But Mr. Bush proved more. He proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the republican party is too thoroughly under the domination of a ring of politicians to allow a poor man to enter its primary contests, i The things Mr Bush advocated will continue to be advocated. They form the basis of the democratic campaign in Indiana. They will be incorporated into the democratic state platform. And in democratic party there will be no millionaires willing to spend their money to prevent the voters of the state from registering their sentiments in the election. Mr. Taggart For Senator Thomas Taggart will be the democratic nominee for United States senator. He does not enter the race as a suppliant, begging for the honor, but as the unanimous choice of his party, an honor that comes to few men and is only earned by a life-long adherence to party interests. Mr. Taggart is entitled to all the consideration that can be shown to a man in public life. Not always in the best of health, carrying a burden of solicitude for others in his family, desiring nothing so much as to be free of the cares of public office, he has been called upon by the democrats of Indiana to represent them in the campaign and eventually to sit In the councils at Washington, as the representative of the “folk back home.’’ Mr. Taggart is thorpughly qualified for the task which is sought to ba placed upon his shoulders. Throughout a career in w T hich he rose fjfom obscurity to the most prominent place in the role of Indiana democracy, he has been just Tom Taggart Big hearted, helpful, friendly, kindly and straightforward, he has added much to the lives of those who knew him. years gone by Mr. Taggart has not been without his opponents. In some treacherous quarters he has had implacable foes. They sought to malign him, to destroy his character, to blacken his name, and they failed. From out of that struggle Mr. Taggart emerged stronger than ever before. He arose to confound his enemies, to prove to the state that his traits had been misrepresented and his efforts misunderstood. He became Senator Taggart a ta time when the country had been told he was merely a political manipulator. He startled the country by devoting his fine energy to the things “worth while.” , William G. McAdoo said of him: "When Mr. Taggart came to Washington h© was preceded by ths word that he was the best seeker of patronage that ever came to the senate. A reputation for political effort and shrewdness had been sent ahead. Washington soon learned that Mr. Taggart stood for mo *e important things than patronage and pork. He became known as a senator who was interested only in the things worth while.” k That is why the state of Indiana should send Mr. Taggart to the ■enate. He is interested in the things "worth while.” Too long has this been represented by senators who have not known a “thing worth when it confronted them.
DOES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DESIRE A PANIC?
There is good ground for the suspicion that republican leaders have a poUtical purpose in their recent predictions of financial panics and Industrial depression. It appears to be more tbau a coincidence that they should simultaneously be filled with pessimistic forebodings of calamity to come, and especially that they should voice these doleful prophesies in the course of speeches tinctured with partisanship. If there were a sudden recession of the country’s prosperity—if there came a collapse of business, with widespread unemployment and distress —there might be some Improvement in republican c nances of success in the presidential election next autumn. The situation now affords very little hope for a change from democratic to republican control ill the executive branches of the government. Though prices are high, wages are more than keeping pace; there Is great activity in every line of commerce and Industry; the banks are teeemlng with the people's savings; the prospects are for a continuance of these prosperous conditions. Republican Jeremiads can hardly produce a psychology that will impair confidence and dislocate business. Republican statements of every description whether promises or predictions—are received only at a heavy discount. If. howerver, these forecasts of disaster are designed to check the country’s prosperity and enhance the republican opportunities at the expense of the nation, they represent a kind and degree of unscrupulousness almost without precedent even In th history of the republican party. Speaker Gillett of the house of representatives, Majority Leader Mondell and Representative Robert Luce of Massachusetts are among the republican prophets of panic. Representative Fess of Ohio, and of the republican congressional campaign, is an oracle In the same tenor, If not In the same words. The moral of all their dismal utterances is that ere the evil they foretell comes upon the land the republicans and not the democrats should be in (power to fend us from destruction. It so happens that the only untoward factor in the whole financial, commercial and Industrial situation today Is that contributed by the republican senate, which has steadfastly opposed and obstructed an expansion of American commerce and an increase of American CANNED GAB Phonograph Enables You to Have Real Political Battle in Your Home. 1 NEW YORK. March 3. It first ap peared that Senator Harding was scratched. Others who were listening thought perhaps he was dusty. And still others, who did not know the splendid quality of the senator's speaking apparatus thought the famous prator was lisping. But it was none of these. Senator Harding merely needed anew needle and there were serious charges that perhaps the chairman. Irwin Kurtz, knew that the senator needed anew needle and was doing it on purpose. That individual, however, being a devout republican, denied the charges. But, anyway, the senator was given n new ne><ile and matters progressed satisfactorily at the first hearing of phonographic reports of debates between William G. McAdoo and Senator Warren G. Harding, at the Central Republican club of the Nineteenth assembly district. It being a republican club, Mr. Harding was the winner, despite the handicap he was under as the result of a bad start McAdoo’s debate as produced by the phonograph was satisfactory in every way, and so was that of Senator Harding after he had anew needle. And so It Is that thousands of people this year will hear canned political debates without going out of their own parlors and the common question will be: “Have you tried Gen. Wood, or Herbert Hoover, or Gov. Lowden over on your Vlctrola? They’re wonderful!”
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prosperity. In the same breath it may be fairly asserted that the country is now enjoying a season of unexampled good times, not because, but almost in spite of what a republican congress has done and omitted.—Exchange. Man and Dog Somebody asks why a man likes dogs better than other animals. What others could he choose to chum with? One can not fly with birds, or swim with fishes, or graze and chew the cud wdth sheep and cattle. Nor can he root 'with pigs, or roost with fowl, or leap from bough to bough w r ith squirrels. The larger beasts of prey are dangerous. Mice and rats are too prolific and too destructive to be encouraged to live at large near human habitations, and their subterranean tnodo of life can not be shared by man. Polecats and porcupines are out of the question. Monkeys, with their tree-dwelling instincts, can not be taught cleanly habits. And so it goes. But the dog! He is of a size to share man's interests, and neither large enough to trample him down nor small enough to live in inaccessible nooks and crannies. Like the eat and cave-dwelling creatures, he is cleanly, as monkeys and grass-eating creatures are not. He can share man’s home and bed. He eats the same food. He goes about by day but is alert by night. Like man, be loves to play and roam and hunt, and he makes a brave and reliable fighter. Best of all, he i.s himself companionable, affectionate and devoted. No lamb ever loved Mary as a good dog loves a half-decent master. For, like his efiusin, the wolf, he comes of a social Rtock, though ages ngo, before the beginning of human history, man took him from the pack to make of him a friend and helper for himself. The common life of these two species Is a splendid example of what biologists call "symbiosis”; and the fact that it can lie found amongst.native tribes in every quarter of the gbihe Is one argument in favor of the theory that men lived together once and then became dispersed—taking their fb<gs with them, even to far-off Australia. Pardon Us, Gnvwwor Editor The Times—ln srpvwklng es Goodrich’s abuse of the pardoning power von might- hnve your representative investigate a ease that was tried here in 1918. Vito Sollmito. “King of Blind Tigers.” was convicted in the clr ui| court .ind appealed to the supremo court; The higher court affirmed the lower court the charge being “blind tiger." The higher court's ruling earno in March, 1910. Before he served a day es his sentence the governor paroled him. 1 happen to know of another rase that was tried at Bedford about tho mune time. Ray Jackson was convicted in circuit court and given a prison sentence for a crime against nn 18-ycr-old girl, which caused her death. He appealed to the supreme .-our* and about the iHtter part of 1918 the hlrber court affirmed the verdict of the Jury and the Judgment of the lower court. Before he served a day of I.ls time the governor pardoned him. AM the rep-;' :, -.n work ers were very busy In his behalf. The last republican plat form of Ken tncUv deplores the abuse es the pardoning power on the part of the outgoing governor. Will the republicans of Indiana incorporate such a plsnk ? Bloomington, Ind. A. READER. Vito Solimlto was convicted in Monroe county, Kept. 13. 1917, of operating a blind tiger, and sentenced to serve four months on the pon-il farm and fined SSO and co-ts. Ho appealed his case to the supreme court. Soon after the supreme court nfflrme ! the decision of the lower ■•■■ art S-dlmito w-s parole I by Gov Go Irl h without having served ,i -lay of ids sentetue. The p 1-ole is dut.-d Maw it. Ul - .1. llt provided that he should pay h!s fine at the rate of SSO a month. The governor g.ivo as
Sees Centennial Yearns Big Event What the Indianapolis centennial celebration in June will mean to Indianapolis: By JOHN H. HOLLIDAY, Chairman of the General Centennial Committee. The Indianapolis centennial celebration will easily be the biggest event of the year in Indianapolis. The entire city should be interested in this observance and the entire city will be benefited by the further spirit of civic pride it will arouse. Indianapolis has a right to be proud of its achievements during Its first 100 years and every organization in the city should co-operate to make the celebration a fitting one. his reason for the parole the fact that the trial Judge, the prosecuting attorney and many prominent citizens had asked for It. The list of prominent citizens reveals the fact that nearly all are republican politicians. Included in the list are Walter Bradfute. editor of the Bloomington Telephone; William A. Karsell, city councilman; James G. Browning. chief of police: Tl. 1,. Mopgnn. city attorney; W. W. Weam, mayor; William 11. Bartlett, sheriff: John I*. Fowler, county clerk; Itolin Walker, county treas urere, and D. A. Rothrock, city councilman. Ray Jackson was convicted in Lawrence county in December, 1917, of performing an illegal operation, and wits sentenced to sene three to fourteen years in the penitentiary. He was released on bond pending appeal, and while on bond enlisted in the army. He was paroled by Gov. Goodrich, Jan. 8, 1919. A Letter to Kinney Mr. Jerry Kinney, Chief of Police Having read in The Times of your resolution to "put crime down" I have a suggestion to make in regnrd to the I tlftli subject, which Is “running down ! speed law violator*," -which i hope at i least will help you. We realize today more than ever before that co-operation is the big factor when we set out to | accomplish something. Now I am not going to try to hand yon any of this “big town stuff," and tills plan i not my own. lint I have been in the cast for the last six years and have driven a enr enough to know the laws in one stnt*. in particular. This is the plan: Have n quantity of small cards printed in • form giving the date, time, n. m. or p. m., license plate number, make of car, on what street, and a ipaoe below for remarks, giving nature of law violation or traffic violation and dotted lino for signature of the writer. Distribute these cards among the patrolmen and citizens of this city .\ H, and if any one sees a “speed mai lac’* breaking the laws or <trtvtgpa*t i street ear unloading or loading past ng*-r* all they have to do is the 11-euse number of the auto ami fill out cm- of these car s, hand It to a patrolman or mall It direct to you, and it Is then filed away nt headquarters for future references. Now say a man named John Smith is aiated at headquarters for manslaughter, for speeding and killing someone, his license plate number is referred to In your flies containing these complaint cards, you find that on such and such a date he wns turned in for speeding Without this evidence he would have been a first offender, tint with it yon know you’ve landed a careless, reckie-* ''-fiver. If ho has no complaint on file against him you know tint h* '* fl fl t „j offender. And a clean record nt headquarters has helped many a first offender out of trouble, while the speeder is •aught “dead to rights" and his alibis are ail In vain.
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With this system In force n man knows that Just as soon as ho “steps on It" somebody has got the “Indian sign” on him. and he may be turned Sit. Another law I have foun I better than the north and south Haht >-f way Is that the man to the right f ton has the right of w.iv always. This loaves the driver/<w.T.i lilng for tr.ilfl in one direction and Is much [tetter than the north and south law*. All good, law-abbl'ng citizens will obey the laws, and I am sure that their oo-
operation In this would be of ranch help to you and our city at large. E. F. L. City. Slayer Becomes Sing; Sing Editor NEW YORK, March Charles K. Chapin, former city editor of the Evening World, who began a twenty-year sentence at Slag Sing a year ago for
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.the murder of his wife, has been moTed from the prison library to become editor of the prison monthly publication. Ee Is engaged on an article entitled “lly Vorty Years as a Newspaper Man," vhi:h will appear in the first issue under his management. The publication has been renamed the bulletin. It was founded twenty year* rgo as the Star of Hope, running under that name for seventeen years.