Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1920 — Page 16

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SPAAN EXALTS ACHIEVEMENTS OF DEMOCRATS Great Record Means Victory in Fall, He Declares in Greenwood Speech. OTHERS ON PROGRAM By FELIX F. BRUNER, Times Staff Correspondent. GREENWOOD, Ind., March 19.—Democrats have nothing to apologize for and much to be prond of, Henry N. Spaan, candidate .for Lhe democratic nomination for congress in the Seventh district told an audience here last night. Other speakers on the program were L. Ert Slack, former United States district attorney; Dr. Car'.eton B. McCulloch and Mason J. N'lblack. candidates for the democratic nomination for governor, and Clarence j Custer, H. C. Canfield and Dr. James A. Craig, candidates for the democratic nomination for congress In the Fourth district. Mr. Spaan reviewed the shortcomings of the republican party from its organization to 1912, when It lost control of national affairs, and compared them with the achievements of the democratic party since 1912. The republican party soon after the civil war became the party of the strong and the rich, Mr. Spaan said. He said the candidates for office were picked and controlled by Wall street and that the senate .became a rich man’s club, and the bouse the tool of lobbyists and privilege seekers. He pointed oat that during the recent war the democratic administration sold bonds directly to the people at par, while under a republican administration bonds were sold to Wall street at its own price. lONIED INTERESTS ’ATTEX OX RICH. “The tariff legislation of the republican party created another class of privileged persons,’’ he continued, "by means of which the hard earned money of the laborers and the producers fell into the laps of the money power In one continuous stream. “Under the fostering care of the republican party trusts grew and grew until they menaced the very life of the nation. They dominated congress, state legislatures and our .courts, until the burdens Imposed upon them became too great to bear. “It remained for Woodrow Wilson to curb these giant manipulations of wealth and if Woodrow Wilson’s conceptions ere carried out, these trusts can be robbed of their power for harm and be made to subserve to a rational development of our resources.” Mr. continued with a description of the financial panics occurring during the control of the country by the republican party. He declared that under republican control the rich became richer and the poor became poorer. He declared that all of these things were commended and distorted by a subsidized press, the sole purpose of which was to prevent the mass of the people for knowing what was happening. “And today this same press, the handmaiden of the rich and the powerful, is shrieking bolshevism and socialism in order to stampede the people Into the belief that Woodrow Wilson is leading the country into the arms of anarchism and commercial ruin.” he continued, "and there are some democrats who are affected by this deliberate falsehood and are shaking their easily-turned heads in solemn protest against a danger which does not exist in reality. There Is no danger from bolshevism or the red flag in this country. The 4,000.000 splendid soldiers who answered their country's call are a complete answer to the fears of those timid ones led astray purposely by designing republican office seekers and a designing republican press, all interested in the flesh pots of Egypt.” Mr. Spaan pointed out that it remained for a democratic administration, after years of tinkering by republicans, to put the tariff where it belongs, in the hands of an expert commission. After continuing a review of the lack of achievement of the republican party Mr. Spaan turned to the achievements of the democratic party.

“When Woodrow W!i*on came to the presidency he knew what he had to face,” he Bald. “He knew that the great monied interests were againßt him. knew that a venal press was against him. He was well aware that he would have to fight a vast body of financial and political buccaneers. He knew that for forty years the republican party had existed only for the rich and powerful and that during all of this time the plain people who labor and produce had been exploited and had been compelled to bear the burdens of taxation. CLASS LEGISLATION FIRST WIPED OIT. “The first thing done was to wipe out class legislation and cease truckling to the privileged few. Rich and powerful combinations of capital were told that they could no longer dictate the laws of this country. They were driven out of the halls of congress by Woodrow Wilson as their predecossors had been driven out of the temple by the Great Master. From that moment Woodrow Wilson incurred the furious hate of all those republican leaders who had made political manipulation their life's trade. “By means of the federal banking law and the regional banking system the fear of panics was driven out of our commercial life, and it was made Impossible for a few men to control the destiny of our country from some dark, obscure office, hidden away from the sight of men. If Woodrow Wilson’s administration had done no other thing, than bring about this great financial reform It would be entitled to the everlasting gratitude of the nation. “It Is because of the great reforms MEN! YOUR SNAPPY EASTER SUIT IS REAUY AT MENTEit’S $35 to sso

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that Woodrow Wilson and his able assistants have brought about; It Is because o t his masterful way of beating the predatory interests, that they hate him with a personal hatred and are pursuing him with the malignity of devils both in congress and in the press. Never has a great leader been so lied about — so hated—and all because he dared maintain the rights of the common people.” Mr. Spaan continued with a description of the achievements of the democratic administration during the war. “Have we not reason as democrats to be proud of the men who 60 ably left America during this titanic struggle?” he asked. “Washington was the great leader of the levolutionary war. Lincoln was the great leader of the war of the rebellion, and so Woodrow Wilson was the leader in this great and last war for the preservation of civilization.” Mr. Spaan asked that the causes for which the war was fought be not lost sight of. He said that we fought to rid the world of militarism, to make it Impossible for a few men to disturb the peace of the world. He declared that without a league of nations to preserve the peace of the world the men who gave their lives In the war shall have died In vain. He told of the long struggle to bring about the ratification of the peace treaty and of the criticism heaped upon the president. “Never In its history has thb great republican party been so misled by designing men as at the present time,” he

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said. “The country has lost faith in the Lodges, the LaFollettes, the Borahs, the Johnsons and their associates, who claim to be national leaders, while the great state of Indiana Is repudiating the man who claimed to be the great war governor and halts today between two opinions of whether he shall call the legislature together to clear up his mistakes or whether he will brave it through, trusting to forgetfulness to hide his faults.” In a short talk Dr. McCulloch said that the republican candidates who have accepted democratic planks in regard to the tax law, centralization, and other measures have read themselves out of the republican party. He quoted figures to illustrate the upfair operation of the tax law in Johnson county. Mr. Slack said there is no question about the issue in the campaign. He said the stealing of democratic thunder will not save the republicans from the onslaught of the ballot box. ••We must not only elect a -governor, but we must repudiate a governor," he said. A Striking Story MILWAUKEE, March 19.—Herbert Struck, struck his wife, Anna Struck. Anna, not being struck with the way Herbert Struck struck her, struck the court for a divorce.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1920.

DEMAND CITY HOME ZONES Real Estate Board Directors Back Planning Commission. A cltv plannjng commission to estabi!7lTT elTy Zoning o commercial districts is the crying need of Indianapolis at the present tlme,t according to members of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. Officials of the board today started to lend their influence to gain legislation authorizing the appointment of such a board. They will join hands with the pgrk board, the mayor and other city officials in the movement now afoot to protect residential sections from the encroachments of factories and Industrial concerns. DIRECTORS GO UPON RECORD. The directors of the board met yesterday and 'Went on record as being decidedly opposed to the building of the Craig-Hunt Motors Company factory at Meridian street and Maple Road boulevard. A resolution was passed saying that the erection of such a building would destroy property values to the extent of many hundreds of thousand dollars and moreover It would establish a precedent that would do Immeasurable

harm to the city. The board also decided that immediate steps should be taken toward the formation of a city planning commission to establish zoning districts in the city. Members of the board of directors are Thomas F. Carsqn, president; W. A. Brennan, treasurer; Cornelius Holloway, secretary; Harry G. Templeton, executive secretary; William L. Bridges, James S. Cruse, Joseph J, Schmid, Walter T. While, C. Lawrence Price and J. F. Ct ntwell. James H. Lowry* superintendent of public parks, attended the meeting and explained the factory project. It was decided by members of the board to have Its committee on civic improvement co-operate with Mr. Lowry

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and ths proposed city planning committee la obtaining legislation establishing city zones. At a meeting of the park board yesterday many citizens living in the neighborhood of Meridian street and Maple road appeared to protest against the factory site. Among those who spoke against the project were Horace F. Woods, R. H. Day, C. N. Cannada.v, G. A. Schmill, E. W. Warner and Ed H. Lelb. Edward A. Stuckmeyer, president of the park board, said a permit for the building would not be issued unless the building inspector brought mandate proceedings to force It and that in such case injunction proceedings would be started to prevent the building of the factory.

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