Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 257, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1920 — Page 6

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Jutiiana gailij alitnes 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* Kew York, Boston, Detroit, G. Logan Payne Cos. Entered as second-clas* matter at the postofflce at Indianapolis, Ind., under the act of March 3, 1579. Subscription Rates—By carrier, Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c. By mall, 50c a month, $1.25 for three months, $2.50 for six months, or $5.00 a year. MR. JEWETT MAY REGRET that Irvington speech in which he read everybody but the courthouse crowd out of the party. , ALIENS ARE FLOCKING back to central Europe because America has gone dr*. They will find that there are worse things than unsatisfied thirst. MR. BUSH’S CAMPAIGN is ended, but the principles for which he fought will find a welcome in other ranks than those of republican politicians. - ' * WE NEED a heavy rain in Indianapolis. In this Jewett administration we depend principally on the heavens to clean our streets, and heavens knows the streets need cleaning. ONCE AGAIN the “good government forces" have made a bluff with Rule Page. Is he still on the sheriff's pay roll and does Mayor Jewett still park that new city owned car in front of his place late at night? \ EDGAR D. BUSH and the Indianapolis News are still Quarreling as to whether Bush and Goodrich really did have a conference. Thus showing what the News really thinks of the governor it foisted on to the state. IT IS ENTIRELY TOO EARLY for the republican press to predict who is going to get the democratic nomination with any degree of reason, but that does not prevent the republicans from disclosing by predictions whom they would like to have the democrats nominate.

The Lawless Negro Once again the political manipulation of the negro vote in Marion county has brought about the shooting of a policeman by a lawless negro. This time the crime was a little more bold than the previous one. The lawless negro publicly announced his intention of going out and killing a few policemen, and then he attempted it. This affair ought to arouse the people of Indianapolis, both white and colored, to the inevitable results of trifling with the' law for the purpose of obtaining votes. There are nearly ten thousand colored votes in Indianapolis. The present republican administration seems to think that it is necessary, in order to obtain these votes for its candidates, that certain well-known negro politicians be allowed to violate the gambling laws at will. The result is that certain negroes of the Rufe Page type are permitted to run lawless places in the city and that other negroes with less iifijeve that because are negroes the penalties of the law will not fall upon them. Without the proper fear of punishment these negroes do not hesitate to violate the law. In the case of "Hellcat" Thomas, a negro of this type did not hesitate to attempt the life of a policeman. Further, he was bold enough to send notice of his intentions before he pat them into execution. The inevitable results of tolerance of these conditions in Indianapolis would be a race war. Nothing would be more unfortunate. Nothing would be more unjust to the negro population of the city. On the whole the negroes of Indianapolis are intelligent and law-abiding. There are among the whites men who have less intelligence and less respect for law and order than the average negro. But there are also certain negroes in this city whose viewpoints are warped by the favors that ajre shown negro gamblers by the city administration. The intelligence of these can not be improved,in a day. Their contempt for the law can, however, be ended in a few hours by the administration. Whenever the few gambling negro politicians of Indianapolis are advised that the law will be enforced against them as well as against others, the encouragement that is given other negroes by lax treatment of them will be ended. When it is ended there will be fewer policemen shot in the performance of their duty. In the case of Thomas even the police themselves appear to have lost faith in the ability of their own administration to punish a negro. Instead of bringing Thomas in to answer for the shooting of Sergt. Murphy, they shot and killed him. Thus did they prevent what might have been a repetition of the Upshaw Northington case of recent occurrence in which the police took the statements of negroes who positively swore that Northington shot Sergt. Wade Hull when the latter raided a craps game, and all Prosecutor Adams did iwas to get a jury disagreement at Shelbyvllle. Have we reached the point in Indianapolis where we must sacrifice the life of a policeman every few weeks in order that the republican control of the negro vote he maintained? Are the republican politicians of this city so desperate that they must rely on a few negro gamblers for the votes with which to elect their candidates? . I Are the law-abiding colored voters of Indianapolis not resentful of such tactics. -s. Isn't it about time that law and order in Indianapolis be deemed of more value than the political influence of v a half dozen negro gamblers?

Dirty Machine Tactics Whom the Lemcke-Jewett republican machine can not control It seeks to destroy In Marlon county, and It Is not particular by what means It accomplishes Its purpose. Cap! William E. Relley, anti-machine candidate for the nomination for prosecuting attorney, against W. P. Evans, machine tool and deputy of the immeasurably incompetent Claris Adams, is the latest person to feel the machine’s chastisement Relley went Into the race for the nomination for prosecutor without asking permission of Jewett and his friends. He is contesting for the place fcidependent of machine endorsement on the theory that a republican has a right to determine his strength In the republican primaries. The machine has decreed that since Claris Adams relieved It of the odium of having to defend his spineless record In office, Mr. Adams’ deputy should have the nomination. The bosses who seek to perpetuate their control of the party In Marion county soon realized that Relley was a formidable candidate. As his candidacy gathered strength they realized that he could not be beaten by fair means and they have resorted to foul. Frank Riley, a “perennial candidate,” who has no more chance of being nominated than W. J. Bryan, has been induce<Ho enter the race for prosecutor. His only purpose In the race is to take from William E. Relley what support Riley might personally gather and the considerably greater support of those who will confuse the two men because of the similarity In names. ' The scheme Is as crooked as It is old. It demonstrates the fear that the machine has of William E. Relley and It is not to the credit of Frank Riley that he lends his name to the deal. It i% such tactics as these that have brought the Lemeke-Jewett machine into disrepute in Marion county and made it certain that it will be overthrown, either In the primaries or In the election. Friends of William E. Relley, and they are thousands, will be fully Justified In showing their resentment of such a trick by voting agalnßt Mr. Lemcke for re-election. “Door Mat, ” Says Hays Will Hays, who gained most of his present reputation as an organizer from the fact that most of the progressives in Indiana went back into the republican fold in 1914, does not now think so much of them as he did when it was necessary to republican success to bring them back Into the party. He displayed this changed view-point when he mentioned Balnbrldge Colby, secretary of state and progressive. “Mr. Colby is not a diplomat,” Mr. Hays said. "Fresident Wilson did not want a diplomat for secretary of state. He wanted a door mat.” Mr. Hays would not have made this insulting remark in 1914 when he was making his seOutation as an “organizer.” Mm

RISK REPLIES TO CRITICISM OF HIS STAND FOR GOVERNOR \ Lebanon. JMoneer. *' * t

Hon. James K. Risk of Lafayette and Lebanon, whose candidacy for the democratic nomination for governor of Indiana has been announced, is receiving from all parts of the state letters proffering support, and, occasionally, criticism.- Mr. Risk, like all other men, enjoys expression of confidence and proffers of support, and he is not slow In showing his appreciation of such, Ha also courts criticism, provided It la honest and sincere. The Delphi Citizen-Times, under the management of Henry • B. Wilson, with Col. A. B. Crampton of the National Soldiers’ home at Marlon, as editor, and his daughter, Mrs. Mindwell C. Wilson, as acting editor, In Its Issue of last week, took a rap at Mr. Risk’s candidacy, under the caption, “Risk as Candidate.’’ The Citizen-Times editorial and Mr. Risk’s reply follow: CITIZEN-TIMES EDITORIAL. James K. Risk of Lafayette has declared his intention to become a candidate for the nomination for governor on the democratic tldket. He starts off his candidacy In true Risk style by lambasting so-called democratic machines that he has in the past thrown over on the junk heap. It would be quite an honor to Mr. Risk if the democratic party should nominate him, but the real business of the democrats this .year is to choose a man whom the people will elect as governor, and Risk as the leader of the party, would be a long way from occupying a seat In the governor’s chair. Mr. Risk is a man of strong convictions, as he states, but combined with strong convictions, mußt be enough diplomacy to command respect of men with opinions conflicting with his own. Mr. Risk has many warm friends who will support him, but to be elected governor will require every democratic vote and some from those who in the past havo voted the republican ticket. Mr. Risk does not measure up to tho task as we see it. In making the statement of our views of Mr. Risk as a vote getter, we do so with the best interests of the democratic party at heart In past years there has been .too much laxity in the primary elections and the people did not take the pains they should In learning the qualifications of candidates. The congressional candidate of two years ago was a lesson that should not he too quickly forgotten and we must remember that the man we nominate Is the man who is to be the candidate this fall. Every candidate should be considered as to his qualifications for filling the office to which he aspires and then ns to his ability to get the votes necessary to elect. Mr. Risk’s reply: Lebanon, Ind., March 1, 1920. Carroll County •Citlzens-Tlmes, Delphi, i Ind. Attention Mindwell C. Wilson, j Acting Editor. Gentlemen—l have Just had placed in j my bands an editorial appearing in tho ! Carroll County Citlzens-Tlmes, headed "Risk As Candidate. ’’ lam exceptionally well pleased to have tho Times express Us opinion as to my position. I admit with pleasure that I have 1 criticised what you refer to as the "so- I called democratic machine.” I have not j only criticised it, but I have tried, and j in fact was able, as a member of the j democratic state committee for four years, to Introduce and have adopted by | the state committee some reforms. In 1906, the democratic state com- j mlttee pledged Itself by reso!utl*.i that the democratic state committee would keep its hands off of nominations, j and would Insist on every democrat entering a primary or convention bav- j lng a square deal. Just prior to the reorganization of the state committee in 1908, Samuel M. Ralston, Stokes Jackson, Gilbert Hendren and a few otber men, met in a i room of the Grand hotel, and prepared a written agreement which provided that Mr. Jackson was to be made state ! chairman; Mr. Hecdren rice chairman, ! that the state of Indiana was to be divided Into two districts with Mr. ! Jackson as dlspensor of the political I patronage In one of thoso districts, and Mr. Hendren to be tho dispcrMor political patronage In the other district, and that Mr. Ralston was to be the democratic nominee for governor. This

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agreement was signed by Jackson and Hendren, and placed In the hands of Gov. Ralston. It Is this kind of machine methods that I have complained about, and I believe it was due to this kind of practice that Mr. Ralston proved to be 73,000 votes weaker In 1012 than Thomas Marshall was in 1908. I have only insisted on a square deal, and that the democratic state committee should not be used as a political organization to promote the candidacy of any man or set of men, but that it would insist that every democrat entering a political contest would have an equal chance with any other candidate, so far as the democratic state committee was concerned. Some four or five years ago I was on an lnterurban car, going from Lafayette to Logansport. A young man entered the car at Delphi and took a seat with another man Just In front of me. I learned from tho conversation, which I could not help but hear, that this young man’s name was Wilson, and that be had some appointive position In connection with the insane hospital near Logansport; ad he told his seat-mate that a man must have the backiug of Mr. Taggart in Indiana If he desired political preferment; and he explained that It was through Mr. Taggart that he held his position, and that his fath-er-in-law, Mr. Crampton, was indebted to Taggart for his position as commandant of the National Soldiers’ home, at Marion, Ind. 1 am certainly glad to know that A. B. Crampton was honored with appointment that he has *at Marlon, and I believe the Institution that he governs, and the state, was honored by the appointment; and I believe that if the democratic organization had always nupported men of the A B. Crampton type, we would not be a minority party jn Indiana. I do not know the Mr. Wilson who sat in front of me on tho car, but I Imagine that he is the H. B. Wilson, business manager of your paper. It mny be possible, on account of the large favors that the Carroll County CTfizenß-Tlines has received from the '‘so-called democratic machine," it feels disposed to offer even unfair criticism against men who dare to speak their convictions. % I have never disagreed with the democratic machine on real democratic prln-

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Lesson of Century Afforded to City What the Indianapolis centennial celebration In June will mean to Indianapolis. By AQUILLA Q. JONES, Vice Chairman of the Centennial Committee. A retrospect of one hundred years of the life of Indianapolis is the purpose of our centennial celebration. In our family reunions we delight to recall past events, and repeat thq tales of our Joys and sorrows, j our successes and failures that are past and gme. So in our civic life, as one great family, let us join in a reunion of thankful remembrance, and celebrate a jubilee full of enthusiasm and pride over the city’s greatness. dples. The democratic machine can not express greater admiration for Mr. Wilson’s administration than I do. I have criticised the action of members of the democratic machine in lending aid and comfort to the law violators of the Don Roberts type, the Bam Perrott type and the ex-Mayor Bunch type, and I expect to continue to offer criticism to democrats In high places who are not willing to condemn law violation and prostitution of oathe of office. You offered your criticism to the readers of your paper, which you hare a perfect right to do; and I ask that you do me the favor of running my statement in order that your readers may have my views on my side of the question. Yours truly, JAMES K. RISK. Official in London Has Motor Scooter LONDON, March <S.—E. S. Montagu, secretary of state for India, Is the only cabinet minister to ride a fiery, untamed motor scooter over the bumps of Whitehall. To see him keep his monocle in place as his puffing steed bucks at the ru-’s is an inspiring and thrilling sight to even blase Whltehallers.

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