Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 285, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1920 — Page 6

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luMaua Jlaitaj Slimes INDIANAPOLIS, IND. - Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. r Adrertisi tg Offices —Chicago, New York, Boston. Detroit, G. Logan Payne Cos. —“THIS IS THE YEAR”— IT ISN'T TOO LATE, Mr. Lemcke, to pay over that money to the public in accordance with your pre-election promise. HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER WRIGHT’S $5,000 “revolving fund" has been Increased to $20,000 in preparation for the May primaries. BUT THEN having ridden in the uppers, We can understand why the Wood boosters insisted on lower berths even if it did require six Pullmans to haul them. SUSPENSION of a newspaper that has been published continuously for sixty years raises a question as to how old a newspaper ought to be before it retires. IT’S ALL RIGHT, BOYS, Judge Collins instructed Prosecutor Adams to conduct the grand jury investigation in person and Adams could not recognize “criminal intent’’ if it slapped him in the face. To Investigate Themselves! The Marion county grand jury has been instructed by James A. Collins to investigate the intolerable conditions that obtained at the county jail. Prosecutor Claris Adams is to conduct this investigation and it 1b to be directed agafnst Sheriff Robert Miller and his deputies. Thus we have the interesting spectacle of a court investigating itself and no assurance whatever that the investigation will be conducted with any other purpose than to whitewash the participants in the corruption that the federal court has found to exist in the county jail. Sheriff Miller is an officer of the criminal court. James Collins is the judge of that court. Prosecutor Adams is an officer of the criminal court. Collins, Adams and Miller all had very personal knowledge of the conditions that existed at the county Jail all through the year 1919. None of them stirred a finger to stop the abuses until they were compelled to do so by the federal court Now the judge of the court and the prosecutor propose to conduct a probe of the jail conditions through a grand Jury of their own creation! Either one of them could tell sufficient from their own personal knowledge to send men to the penitentiary. Neither can conduct an honest investigation of the Jail conditions without revealing his own malfeasance in office. What, besides a whitewash, may be expected of such an investigation? Wood's Defeat In view of Harry Hogan's oft repeated statement that “Wood's popularity is not a manufactured sentiment, but an accumulation of faith,” the results of the Michigan primary are very interesting. The "accumulation of faith" does not appear to have been relatively great in the state where Newberry’s lavish expenditures were so recently exposed. , Either the “accumulation'’ was not accelerated as it was in Indiana by offers of $2.50 apiece for testimonials, or it fell down for some other good reason. As an expression of real sentiment for a presidential candidate, primary votes are rarely without their fallacies. For that reason It is perwise to declare that Michigan is for Johnson. But a comparison of the votes for Johnson with the votes for Wood shows all too plainly that Wood is not in the running as a candidate for the presidency. In spite of all that an excellent organization could do to “accumulate” sentiment, Wood failed to win He not only failed to win, but he lost to Hiram Johnson of California, the other candidate for the republican nomination whose path is strewn with large and vicious thorns. Perhaps the Michigan vote, not being a “manufactured sentiment,’’ is, in reality, a measure of the Wood popularity, “accumulated and unaccumulated.” However it may be explained, it is certain that the whipping Gen. Wood received in Michigan at the hands of Johnson is a forerunner of the whipping he will receive in the Chicago convention. Michigan has measured Wood in all his glory and Michigan has found that plain Hi Johnson, without any tinsel, is more acceptable.

In Marion County The temper of the voters of Marion county is such today that no party which does not use the greatest care in the selection of its candidates for office can hope to win the support of a majority. Not even the time-worn practice of nominating candidates on both leading tickets between whom there is little choice is going to avail the professional manipulators of political offices this year. The voters of the county will have candidates for whom they can vote with some assurances of receiving satisfaction from their votes or they will break up the party lines that have been drawn in the past and out of the wreckage there will eventually emerge anew political alignment Therefore, the future hope of both the republican and the democratic parties rests in a large measure on the results of the coming primary. Asa general proposition, no candidate should be selected who does not have a more definite motive in seeking an office than a desire to feather his own nest with feathers gathered at the public expense. And after that test has been applied to the candidate the further test of his particular motive should be carefully made. No candidate of any particular group or clique should be selected. Control of county offices in the Interest of a ring has brought this county into disgrace time and time again. Right now the county is suffering some uninvited notoriety because a sheriff undertook to operate the county jail in the interest of a ring. Today the criminal court is without favor among decent citizens because its judge has seen fit to conduct it with one kind of Justice for a certain faction and another for those who do not train with that faction. The May primaries should be an elimination contest. And those aspirants who do not stand for the general good of all should be among the first to fall. Let us nominate men who stand for something this spring. And let us hear from the aspirants as to what they stand for, immediately. Huesmann in Despair Citizens of the United States who have been more or less in the dark as to the outcome of the next presidential election may now stop their worry. For we have it on no less an authority than L. C. Huesmann. president of the Fesler-for-Governor club, that the whole election is going to depend upon the success in Indiana of James W. Fesler, candidate for the republican nomination for governor, and it doesn’t require a political seer to foretell how successful Mr. Fesler is going to be. In a letter which is going out to citizens of the state over Mr. Huesmann's rubber-stamped signature we are startled to learn the seriousness of the republican situation. Mr. Huesmann writes: “Indiana must go republican this fall to assure the success of the party in the nation. And J. W. Fesler is the man who can assure republican success.” And also, Mr. Huesmann says: "If there ever was a time w-hen the republican party needed to be united and led by a strong unassailable candidate of known integrity and ability that time is now.” Thanks, Mr. Huesmann, for your indorsement of the position we have maintained for a year. Almost alone of Indiana newspapers. The Times has insisted that Will Hays has not reunited the republican party. Almost alone it has insisted that the republican party had no chance of success this fall unless it succeeded in finding an "unassailable candidate of known integrity and ability,” who was willing to swallow the James P. Goodrich administration. But we hardly expected so staunch a republican as yourself, Mr. Hueemann, to admit that as Ihdiana goeajLhis fall, so will go the nation.

NEW YORK WORLD TELLS WHY WOOD’S CAMPAIGN COLLAPSES

The Wood-subsidized press of Indiana, headed by the Indianapolis News, has been going to some Irtigth recently in an effort to make it appear that “eastern dailies” were “apologizing” to Gen. Wood's managers for having doubted the propriety of their expenditures of approximately $2,000 a day in Indiana, in the “accumulation of faith” for Wood as a republican presidential candidate. The fol’owlng, from the New York World of last Sunday is an able presentation of the political situation among the republicans of the Vdate and as it was carried as a “special” from Indianapolis, it appears that it escaped the rigorous censorship of Dick Smith, who usually is cons*ulted by correspondents before writing such dispatches. “That Maj, Gen. Leonard Wood’s campaign for the indorsement of his presidential candidacy by the Indiana republicans has suffered a serious reverse in this state ou account of the expose of the plans of his managers to create sen- ■ -■■ft On the Spur Os The Moment SO HO WE ALE. I'm weary of the well-worn way Between my office and my home; I have tread it twice a day— At gleaming morn, at glimmering gloam. I'm resolutely fond of work, And of my home I'm even fonder: It's just these narrow tracks that Irk— I want to wander.v This morning I would step aside And follow footpaths faint and far That lead along a track untried To Nowhere In Particular. There's Somewhere Else, and Over There. And Down the Pike, and 'Way Out Yonder— All very pleasant places, where I want to wander. Perhaps it is the spring that calls. Perhaps it’s only laziness; Through all the land a chill rain falls And makes the roads an awfnl mess. I dare not leave the beaten track. Yet, though I'rn certain I ponder That If I went I'd hurry back, I want to wander! —Ted Robinson • • • It has been suggested that perhaps the big crowd that gathered at the • pier to meet Carpentler was composed of the Carpentlers Union of America. Bnt, as a friend of ours says, we need somebody in power who will knock the “L” out of the “H- C. L.” • • * We are looking for a house or an apartment to rent. (Chief of composing room : Tx*ave this line standing until one year from dnte.) • • • Nobody has to fight for the restaurant check any more. lie can get it without a struggle. • • • Up to the present lime M. Carpentler has not announced that American manners Jangle his harmonic soul strings. M. Carpentler will probably stick around for quite some time. • • • It is sometimes a question as to Just what some of those young nations are going to be when they grow up. 0 0 0 In one of our esteemed contemporaries we note the following: “The interstate commerce commission has granted the Pullman Company to file special tariffs Increasing the birth rate.” Well, these are strange times. Anything seems possible. • • • Dr. Wiley insists that the parsnip Is good to eat. It is a good thing it is, for it has nothing else to recommend it. • • • We have heard of many preeldentl.il possibilities, and It seems about time to begin picking out a probability. • • • There Is enough sadness and worry In the world without keeping a family ladger of household expenses So long as It all goes what difference does it make where it goes?

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1920.

timent in his behalf is the opinion expressed by many leading party workers who are saying (hat his chance of carrying Indiana has been diminished greatly. “Two weeks ago Gen. Wood seemed to have a stranglehold on Indiana. At least, his managers and active followers in every district were making loud claims to that effect. Papers that w’ere friendly to Gen. Wood and others that were trailing along with them were filled with testimonials to the greatness of Gen. Wood, and with the most fulsome Bort of publicity calculated to convince the unknowing political proletariat. Then caine the publication of a charge that the Wood publicity bureau here was paying Indianapolis newspaper men $2.50 apiece for testimonials In behalf of Gen. Wood and that a large amount of inoney was being expended daily in carrying on a pro-Wood propaganda under the guise of "straight news.”

“Harry Hogan, manager for Gen. Wood ■ln Indiana, denied that, any one was paid for his testimonial in behalf of Gen. Wood, but it was admitted by Robert Tyler, chief of the Wood publicity staff in this state, that reporters were hired to obtain some of the “testimonials" with which the papers have been fed iu Indiana. Hogan asserted that only $22.50 was spent iu this manner, but it is said that correspondents of papers friondly te Gen. Wood have been acting under instructions to send in all of the interviews they can get, tending to show that the people are Just clamoring for the nomination of the general, and that they resent the candidacy of men like Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio and Gov. Frank O. Bowden of Illinois. “The Wood managers maintain that their publicity schemes are legitimate and were inaugurated to boost their candidate so that he will distance the field at the primary. However, it is the understanding that the real purpose iu employing reporters to gather the "testimonials" was to make It appear that the movement in behalf of Gen. Wood In Indiana Is entirely spontaneous. The disclosures seem to have destroyed whatever spontaneity there was, and it also is evident that It is now more difficult than it was to obtain the Indorsements which were coming so easy a short time ago. “The Wood campaign in Indiana was organized fully nnd carefully at least a month ahead of the entrance of Gov. Bowden, Senator Harding anti Senator Hiram W. Johnson into this state. For at least a month a large staff was employed at the Wood headquarters, organizing to obtain publicity and to circulate petitions to have the general's name placed on the primary election ballot. The Wood headquarters staff In lndlunn until u few days ago was larger than generally employed in mid-campaign by the republican state organization. More people were employed in the attempt to give the appearance of spontaneity to the Wood movement than were engaged in behalf of nil other candidates. "While no charge is made that funds have been used illegitimately, the Wood campaign In this state seems to have been well financed. One of the schemes for getting publicity was the establishment of a dally telegraph service to about fifty papers which were Induct’d to take it. From three to five hundred words have been ‘wired’ dally to these Legislators Who Voted Against Tax Law Editor Dally Times -Please publish In your paper a list of the senators and representatives that opposed the Goodrich tsx bill. A TAXPAYER AND READER. The following voted against the Goodrich tax law : SENATORS. Democrats Arnold, Gravens, Decker, Dorrell, Douglass, Eisner, Ersklne, Hagerty, Kolsem, Lanejr, McCullough, Ketherford.. Republicans Brown. Furnas. Grant, James, McColnaha, McCray, Nejdl, Rntta, Seif, Smith. REPRESENTATIVES. Democrats Axby, Benz, Cooper, Craig. Curry, Deem, Frick. Griffiths, Lee, O'Leary, Thomas, Walker. Republican- Barker of Bonne.

An Open Offer If Mr. Hogan will get one of his reporters to get a “testimonial” from Hi Johnson and does not care to spend the usual $2.50 for it we will furnish the money.—Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette. I papers, the charges being prepaid in Indianapolis. “Traveling representatives of the Wood bureau have offered republican editors plate matter regarding the general. "Mats” have been furnished wherever they could be used. Editors have been offered free supplements for their papers. providing they would carry proWood matter. Some of the papers have accepted this proposal, the supplements being printed go they carry the name of the paper, thereby concealing the fact (hat. it was a gift. CHARGES OF GREAT SUM USED. “It has been charged here that the expenses of the Wood management in Indiana, including the publicity bureau, are not less than $2,000 a day. These charges, coupled with the reports that money is being expended lavishly for Gen. Wood In Illinois, Ohio and othei ► tates where primaries are to be held, have started speculation as to their truth and as to who is furnishing the funds. "Another feature of tlie Wood publicity which his managers are not charged with ts the attack that is being made by pro-Wood papers on other candidates. They are being “played up" as the foes of the people, ns the candidates of a crooked senatorial and congressional cabal at Wnehlngton which would take from the people all of their rights and nominate a candidate for the presidency who would misrepresent I hem. “This sort of publicity is believed to have done Gen. Wood more barm than goad, although It Is conceded that It has met with the hearty approval of the radicals, who are willing at all times to believe that someone Is trying to deprive them of their prerogative*. Many republicans are saying that these developments have combined to handicap Gen. Wood In spite of the good start he made. "The Indiana law provides that a presidential candidate mnst receive a majority of all the votes cast in order to tie the hands of the delegates. It 1s regarded ns doulstful whether Gen. Wood or any one will get a majority in Indiana May 4. “Hogan and other Wood managers now are talking about an agreement for a plurality rule, but it is not likely that it can be obtained. There arg turee candidates for governor and the law provides that a nomination for governor requires a majority of all of the votes. The gubernatorial entries with one exception do not favor a plurality agreement. "Anticipating failure to obtain a majority, the Wood managers not only are suggesting a plurality agreement hut are arranging to elect delegates to the stltte convention, at which the thirty Indiana delegates to the national eonnsition will be named, it is no secret that Senators lames E. Watson and Harry s New favor Senator Harding. Twelve of the thirteen Indiana congressmen favor Senator Harding or Gov. Lowden. They arc not mixing In the primary fight, but it Is being charged by the Wood people lhat they propose to elect delegates who will mot favor him. SENATOR* ARE NOT WOOD MEN. "The custom in Indiana Is for the two senators, the governor and the state chairman to be named as delegates at large. Gov. Goodrich and Chairman Edmund S. Wasmuth arc not Wood men. although they haie not taken part In any movement to defeat Gen. Wood nt the primary. “Orders have t>een given to the Wood county managers to attempt to name the delegates to the state convention, when efforts will be made to instruct district delegates and the delegates atlarge. Unless Senators New and Watson, Gov. Goodrich and Chairman Wasmuth will agree to line up for Gert. Wood an attempt will be made to elect pronounced Wood men as delegates at large. Threats to thl£ effect have been made aud the friends of the two senators now realize they have a fight on thgir hands. How-

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ever, It is not believed that Gen. Wood's friends will control tho state convention. Either he must win at the primary or the thirty Indiana delegates will go uuinstructed. He seems much further from victory In this state than ho was two weeks ago. “The denials of the Wood managers regarding the paid "testimonials" in Indiana ure not to the point In question.

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They are declaring that no one was paid to testify that he favors Gen. Wood and that reports and charges to that effect are absurd. In fact, no story was printed here that the Wood bureau was paying men to be interviewed. What was ••barged was that reporters were paid at the rate of $2.50 each lor interviews favorable to Gen. Wood, and that these interviews were given to the press as evidence

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of tbe general’s popularity. The latter plan was followed. “Tbe publicity program of the Wood people In Indiana is similar to the one employed by them in Ohio, where they are fighting Senator Harding, and In Illinois, where they hope to defeat Gov. Lowden, only it is reported that It la being operated in Illinois on even a move elaborate basis than here.’’