Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 274, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1920 — Page 6
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Jn&iaua Wimtz 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 tLe act of March 3, 1679. Subscription carrier, Indianapolis, 10c per wl^ek; elsewhere, 12e. By mall, sde a month, $1.25 for three months, $2.50 for six months, or $5.00 a year. NO ONE will find fault with Dr. McCulloch’s assertion that he prefers to fight republicans. . - -. • r IT LOOKS like Marion county would have a chance at those republicans who passed the. tax law. Most of them want to be returned to the legislature. " .•- •• * ■ , Where Bryan Misfired William Jennings Bryan stopped in Indiana en route to the June convention in San Francisco long enough to make his attitude apparent on several issues that are before the democratic party. Nationally, he found fault with the members of his party who stood with President Wilson for the league of natiors and he declared that they “committed a crime agaifist my country and tfie world” when they refused to concur In reservations that were proposed by the republican leaders in the senate. Locally, he found fault with those democratic candidates for governor who have not issued detailed statements of their positions on public questions such as was issued by James K. Risk. By inference, he declared that Mr. Risk was the only candidate to date who was entitled to the support of tiie democrats of Indiana. Naturally, Mr. Bryan laid considerable stress on prohibition and declared that aril candidates ought to speak out on this subject Unfortunately, he took occasion to refer to some things that happened in the old days in democratic ranks when the line of demarcation between wets and drys was very well defined and the nation had not agreed on V-ie elimination of rum. Mr. Bryan was preceded in hib talk by Mr. Risk, who had and took the opportunity to give voice to his obsession about machine control ofthe democrats in Indiana. ESven the very best friends Mr. Bryan has in Indiana will find it difficult to subscribe to his denunciation of those senators who stood with President Wilson ip the fight for the ratification of the treaty. Whether that struggle was advisable or not, it is hard to feel that men who went to an extreme in their *efforts to preserve such a noble instrument as the covenant committed a crime against either t“he country or the world. * More sympathy will be expressed with Mr. Bryan’s statements relative to candidates for office in Indiana. The public generally will agree that candidates should make their views clear before the voters and there never has been much douht in this state that the democratic candidates for the govemship would make their positions clear before the primary.. The manner of so doing, and the time therefor, it seems to us. could better be left to the candidates themselves than arbitrarily fixed by a man who will not cast a vote for either of them. In this connection it might be well to say that when Mr. Risk set forth his platform he became entitled to the vote of every democrat who agreed i with that platform. No one demanded that he make it public when he did. j No one found fault with his action in offering the platform. His opponents are entitled to the same consideration In the management of their campaigns and it is wholly out of reason to assume that because they have chosen not to be guided by Mr. Risk s example they aro endeavoring to make their primary races without disclosing to the voters their views j on the state issues. We say “naturally,” Mr. Bryan talked of prohibition, because he has always done so and we honor him for It. The subject is one that can not be disassociated from Mr. Bryan any more than slavery can be disassociated from Abraham Lincoln. But, as we have said before, prohibition is just as much a part of our organic law as the inhibition against slavery and we do not see that either is an issue on which the candidate for governor in this state need to be measured. With Mr. Bryan’s reference to the history of certain democrats in Indiana we have no patience. We are not concerned with what happened four years ago, or eight years ago. We are concerned with what is happening today and what will happen next November. The democratic party will never achieve success through the efforts of those who insist on measuring a man's present sincerity by the success or failure of those things for which he waged a sincere fight in the past. It is time the democrats forgot some of the unpleasant happenings of the years gone by and attempted to transform their enthusiasm for denunciation into a little enthusiasm for organization. Neither Mr. Bryan nor Mr. Risk has any license to condemn a machine in the democratic ranks today. There is no machine to condemn. Whatever machine tljere may have been has perished through mal-nutritlon. The best evidence of this fact lies in the present candidacy of Mr. Risk and the lack of resentment that follows his charges concerning a “machine control” bugbear.
An Enlightened Policy In these days of soft words and meanless phrases, when politicians find it's mnch more safe to talk of “Jefferson principles*’ and "getting back to democracy" than to express their views on the real problems whichconfront the nation, It is refreshing to hear a man of presidential caliber discuss, frankly and candidly, the Issnes of the moment. William G. McAdoe. the outstanding possibility of all the suggested leaders of the democratic party, speaks from the shoulder on subject* that do not hark back to the days before electricity, when he talks of national affairs. For example, take this recent comment on industrial conditions which appears In a copyrighted story by Bruce Bllven in the New York Globe. Mr. McAdoo says some things there that will not be spread broadcast by the republican press together with comment on the author's “availability” for nomination by the opposite party. But they will be read and indorsed by the citizens of today who long ago realized that the solution of present-day problems does not lie in eliminating the problems, but In finding the answer. Mr. McAdoo says: “When the founders of our government evolved political democracy they thought thsy had found the solution of most of our difficulties. They did not think of Industrial democracy as the solvent of our economic problems because these, questions were of minor Importance at that time. Now our economic problems overshadow our political ones. By giving labor a real voice in determining wages and working conditions and assuring to It a just share of th profits arising from faithful and efficient service, industrial democracy can be realized —and with it will come that understanding and co-operation between labor and capital which is the best guarantee of Industrial peace. Capital -will find its greatest security and profit in such an enlightened policy.” “They Built Sunnyside” In Just as vigorous and as sincere a manner as we have heretofore condemned the members of the county council for their delay in starting the enlargement of the Sunnyside tubercular sanitarium, we wish to commend them for their assurances of immediate support of this project. There never has been a time when it was not evident that deep in their hearts the councilmen were all sympathy for the unfortunate people or this county who were suffering from tuberculosis. There never was a time when their conscience would have permitted them to refuse assistance to this Institution. But there have been times when political expediency, or even more selfishly presented propaganda,-has been allowed to Influence the officials into procrastination. Tuberculosis does not procrastinate. Only the most vigorous efforts, undertaken at the earliest possible minute will serve to check its ravages. ■ Therefore, there should be no delay tolerated in preparation for' the fight to eliminate the plague from Marion county. ' In the years to come, when Marion county has a tubercular hospital adequate to Its needs the men who had the courage to develop it may look upon the results of their efforts and see there a monument not only to their humanity but to their good judgment. y “They built Sunnyside and saved lives,” will b> a bit of praise they never will regret having earned.
RAILROADS ARE FA VORED AGAIN
It Is said the railroad property in the United States is valued at two billion dollars ($2,000,000,000). Nobody believe that one-half that amount has been Invested In them. They have received Immense land grants, bonuses and subsidies. One county in Missouri voted a bond Issue and gave a railroad company the bonds to build a road through the county. They never built the road, but the holders of the bonds sued the county and got judgment. For years—over since the United States government started to Invoice, or value, the railroad property In the United States—the Blade has ‘been calling attention to one very big asset claimed by the roads that should be put in at first cost and not present values, that Is, the rights of way, or land on which the rails are laid and on both sides of the track owned by the roads. In many cases the land was given to them, but In most cases it was condemned. It was taken awßy from the owners through the courts, an arbitrary price was fixed and the owners had to toko it. I have always Claimed and believed that the railroads, steam or electric, that have the right to condemn—“for the public good,” which really means for the good of the corporation—should not be permitted to profit through the legal right they had to make you part with your private property. It Is mighty highj banded business when a transportation corporation, organized to mak emoney for | Its stockholders, comes along and says: j “We will give you so much for cutting i your farm in two or destroying your lot j and If you don’t take it we will go into Progressives Can Not Rally to General Wood As the desperate fight to “put over* Gen. Leonard Wood In the Indiana republican primaries continues it becomes more an,d more apparent that the Indiana delegation to the Chicago convention will go unlnstrueted. Wood's boom In spite of the greatest publicity that nas been given a candl. dato since Roosevelt was defeated in the state, has not reached a point where ltq managers can see victory, and there Is a growing conviction among them that the cause Is lost. Wood’s managers - did not expect to go up against anywhere near the opposition they have encountered when thry entered this state. They came In response to a call for a candidate who could force Gov. Goodrich to forget his presidential aspirations. They were invited by thp action of a few members of the Senator Watson faction in Indiana who had to havo a vehicle on which ■ to load tbolr opposition to Goodrich : and who took up Wood without mnet. | consideration, believing him to be the j least likely to tie up the delegates. Anti-Watson leaders, who are not enamored of the old progressive doctrines any more than they aro of the stand-pat teachings of the Watson crowd saw an opportunity to belabor the Watson crowd with a soft club in the shape of a Wood boom, which would worry the standpat crowd, give some pretense of -being progressive and at the same t|me not commit them to real progre-islvlsm. They went to It, captured control of Wood’s Indiana campaign stiff hare been managing it ever since, out of the office of the Indianapolis News. The Wood campaign tn Indiana has not. however, fooled the real progressives in the republican ranks. They reaMze that i Senator Hiram Johnson i the real progressive candidate for the republican nomination and they see in the frantic activity of old line republicans for Wood a method ot avoiding a leaning toward progressive possibilities and also a method of keeping clear of the stand-pat crowd. They are not going to Join in the Wood movement because they se* that It is not a progressive movement. They are not happy abont It because it Interferes with the Johnson boom,_ which they naturally would like to see boosted. And without this element of the republican party Wood hadn’t a chance to win j In the Indiana primaries.—Indiana pub- j llclty burean.
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court and force you -o take a price fixed by a law suit.” Os course, you know that by the time you pay lawyers and drag all your neighbors into court and lose your own time, it will cost too much to go to law about It, as the railroads can take It anyhow. So you accept their price. If a burglar came Into your house and took your pocketbook and watch and Jewelry and then, at the point of a gun, said: “Now, I buy them all from you for $6. Give me a receipt for $5 paid you for what I am taking,” you would not feel very good aboufit if when you went to law the court held that you lost and you had been paid for your valuables just because the burglar showed the receipt he held for payment. That Is just what has happened In this great and glorious country where we spent billions of dollars for the liberty of the world. Our supreme court has decided that the Increase In value of the rights of way of the railroads belong to the railroads and not the public from which they were taken at the point of a gun, so to speak. That doubles the value of the railroad property and makes them worth the two billion dollars ($2,000,000,000) that Is claimed for them. On top of this present of one billion dollars ($1,000,000,<>00) they want 30 per cent to 50 per cent increase in freight rates — and they will get It. The railroad corporations want to sell their roads to thp government, but they were not ready to sell until they could sell the increase in value of their rights of way which either were given them or they took by condemnation from the people. Again the “railroads are favored.”—W. D. Boyce In the Haturday Blade, Chicago. Whither Goes! Thou? The Indiana democratic state committee has Us work cut out for It when It meets here next Saturday to consider the senatorial situation and certain problems of organization that have sprang up In the last few weeks. The selection of a candidate for senator by the committee is not only unusual, but It is full of difficulties, amsng which appears to have been some unThe Youny Lady Across the Way
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authorized talk on the part of Edward G, Hoffman, national committeeman. Hoffman gave out an Interview under a Washington date line in which he de dared that the committee would select Frank Dailey to fill the vacancy created by the withdrawal of Thomas Taggart if Dailey would agree to make the race. Member* of the committee were not consulted before the interview and when i the interview reached Indiana it aroused [ the ire of a number of men who are not reticent about their desires to be the nominee. Hoffman has been roundly criticised for hfs assertion, and It may be said without fear of contradiction that be did not speak the sentiments of .T majority of the committee when h* expressed his willingness to deliver tin committee vote to Dailey. Members of the committee are not opposing Dailey, but they are not holding a senatorial nomination on a silver platter for him, and they certainly will not seek to induce him to take It. Sir. Hoffman also “stirred things” when he added to his Dailey interview the assertion that Carleton E. McCulloch was running ahead of the other candidates for the governorship nomination and would nndoubtedly be nominated. Mr. McCulloch’* friends resented the statement as unfriendly in so much as it made it appear that his candidacy was a machine frameup, and Mr. McCulloch’s opponents were quick to take it up as an example of pernicious machine Interference in tlje race. One of the greatest difficulties Mr. McCulloch is encountering is explaining why he is a candidate for governor. He has , never before been personally Interested I in political affairs and there are many ; who can not understand why he entered ! this fight. A ready answer from his opponents is that he was brought out by “the machine.” About the only thing ; that has happened in the campaign to date which might be regarded as indlca- , live of Justification for this assertion is the statement of Hoffman and the way it “riled” McCulloch men, as well as Mason Niblack's followers, makes it more than interesting. Mr. McCulloch is not seeking nomination as n “machine” candidate and objects to be branded as one. Mason Nlblack has been repeatedly Ignored by some of the “hlgherups” In democraticranks. and it Is not difficult to see where he will profit In the race by such assurances as Hoffman Injudiciously spilled in Washington. J. K. Risk hae repeatedly asserted that the machine must be “broken” before the party can present a solid front, and the Hoffman Interview will now give him another talking point. John Isenbarger appears to be the only candidate whom it does not disturb, but John is a member'of the state committee and he is not in the habit of letting any one talk for him. Considerable talk to the effect that the democrats of Indiana will not return Hoffman to the national committee has sprung up in the last few days and It is certain that If he has not already wrecked himself with the party in In diana a few more attempts to talk for it will do so. The rumored resignation of A. C. Sallee as a state chairman may come before the committee next Saturday. Mr. Sallee Is not anxious to carry on this campaign. He de.-lnre* he wants nothing a chan-e to return to his private business and be active In the ranks. He is, however, too good a democrat to quit a task when quitting would hurt the party, and it is certain that he will not resign until It Is agreeable to the com initt.ee. A movement for Ben Bosse of Evansville a* state chairman Is gaining considerable headway and Rosse may be selected to lead the party In the campaign. Indiana Publicity Bureau. World Barter Plan to Save Dutch Gold TUB H AGUE. March 25. According to tho Nlewe Courant the Netherlands bank and other great Dutch financial interests are planning an international exchange of g . ,j- In Amsterdam, with the object of r< : <-. ;ng the necessity for the use of gold ’>i: t exchange of goods will be made, I it Is hoped In this way to aid in the resuscitation of Europe's financial and commercial ability.
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