Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 291, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1920 — Page 4

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Jatara Jlaite limes INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Daily Except Sunday, 26-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising Offices—Chicago, New York, Boston, Detroit, O. Logan Payne Cos. —“THIS IS THE YEAR”— DO INDIANAPOLIS ATTORNEYS who advertise to “practice before all courts” include or Imply practice before the grand jury? — —— _ * IN DEFENSE of the county board of charities that failed to inspect the jail, it can at least be said no one expected them to do so. AS BETWEEN FESLER and the prospects of democratic success, the republicans of Marion county ought to make an easy choice. HOW ED BUSH OF SALEM must chuckle when he hears Fesler and McCray saying the things for the origination of which his republican brethren undertook to read him out of the party. WITH THE-ANNOUNCEMENT that the switchmen’s strike is broken in Chicago and spreading in the east, Gen. Leonard Wood hurries from Boston to Chicago and holds up his thumb like Little Jack Horner. . THE SAME REPRESENTATIVES of the city of Indianapolis who bo violently opposed an increase of street car fares from 4 to 5 cents are now "pointing out” a method of establishing a higher schedule. Why? HEAR YE! HEAR YE! HEAR YE! Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! Anew court has been established in the county of Marion, state of Indiana. It is known as the gfand jury division of the criminal court of Marlon county. It meets in secret and conducts its sessions under the direction of Claris Adams, prosecuting attorney, rendering its decisions on criminal causes alone, through the medium of the criminal court, over which Judge James A. Collins presides. There is no authority under the constitution or the statutes of Indiana for this court. It derives its jurisdiction from expediency and political pull and the cases assigned to it are only such as the political powers that be do not want tried 1b tne open in accordance with the statutes of the state. Charles W. Roltlnson, an attorney, says that he personally appeared before this court and “made a defense of two clients" with the full khowledge and permission of Prosecutor Adams. He further says that he succeeded in “clearing” one client and a faulty indictment was returned against the other. ' v , Rollinson is now confronting a criminal charge in which the question of the fee paid him for his appearance in this court is vital. How much may fin attorney receive for conducting a defense in this grand jury court,” without subjecting himself to a charge of extortion? ADAMS ADMITS IT! Claris Adams, prosecuting attorney of Marion county, is the county manager of the candidacy of James W. Fesler for the republican nomination for governor/’ ” ' - As prosecutor of Marion"county he is charged with the enforcement of the laws of the state of Indiana. As manager of J. W. Fesler he Is hoping to force the county to support his candidate. In his zeal, for Fesler he writes to. the taxpayers who placed him in office as follows: ’These are times when spineless enforcement of law is destructive to labor, to business, and to every force in the community." There isn’t much room for dispute over that statement. The of it as applied to Marion county has long been admitted by everyone' except J&t. who is entrusted with the enforcement of the law. r: i Now that the prosecutor himself has admitted the spinelessness of his own administration, the opinion is unanimous. Men are measured by the company they keep. Does Fesler approve of the “spineless enforcement of law” which his manager, Mr. Adams, admits ? • • t--, *> • ‘ _ POLITICAL CORRUPTION More than three months ago Gov. Cox of Ohio charged that the republican party was attempting to auction off the presidency of the United States to the highest bidder. He told how the money was to be raised and he told how it was to be spent. He told who was raising it and who was spending it To date there has been nothing develop that would indicate he was mistaken and there has been much dragged into the open that indicated he was correct in his predictions. No one will be foolish enough now to argue that the Truman Newberry campaign in Michigan was not a gigantic conspiracy to corrupt the electorate. The federal court has not only decided that it was, but has pointed out who did it and has fixed the penalty. What has been done in Michigan can be done elsewhere and the real question is whether or not it is being done. Perhaps the success that Frank C. Dailey has had in prosecuting the Newberry corruptionists could be duplicated were he turned loose by the department of justice to investigate the manner in which the republican party is conducting this compaign. Dailey conld be of greater value to hia country in this capacity. There are three things that stand out as in support of the charges that the republican party is endeavoring to corrupt the whole electorate of this country. They are: 1. The thousands of dollars that are being spent to create the Impression that the Wood-for-president boom "comes from the people.’’ 2. The thousands of dollars that are being spent by Will H. Hays under the guise of perfecting a republican national organization. 3. The thousands of dollars that are being spent by republicans In nearly every state of .the union in an ill-concealed effort to influence democratic organizations and workers. Os the three divisions of this corruption the last Is the most pernicious. No public protest is likely to follow the release of thousands of dollars by Will Hays In the perfection of the machine by which he hopes to control the republican convention. Only a regret that a political party has sunk so" low as to Sanction, such a course will be noticeable. But with the mferference and influence of republican dollars in democratic ranks there is considerable concern. With both parties corrupted the decent people of the>country can have no choice. And when rotten politics reaches a point in the United States where the number of dollars spent is the measure by which a president is selected it is well to hunt a storm cellar. INDIFFERENCE ‘ • The Ft. Wayne JoUrnal-Gazctte expresses our sentiments exactly when it says: , tions at the Marion county jail has been so long delayed by the republican county officials who are. thus trying to save something from the wreck of republican incompetency and worse. The longer the delay, the more the juggling, the worse "matters will appear in the eyes of the decent citizens of Marion county." - ; • - -■ •, *•- -. But we wish to carry this just a little bitfurther and say: Not a single candidate for governor on either the republican or democratic ticket has as yet -expressed any disposition to pledge himself to clean out the state board of charities and corrections that made this jail condition possible by its failure to investigate complaints. We hardly expected* the'republican-courthouse ring of Marion county to take action. It -is too deeply In the mire to be capable of cleaning up anything. ~. But we are considerably disappointed at a lack of interest in the failure of the-state to - do its. duty by the dnfortnnates who are incarcerated in penal institutions. .... And we sincerely bl!eve that no candidate who does not realize that here is an intolerable wrong that he can right is fit to of in-

Stage and Screen iPIPP J x / i Jr ELSIE JANIS. Fresh from her triumphs In)New Yor* and Chicago, Elsie Janis comes to Eug lish's next Monday night In’"A Peach of a Show.” She is surrounded by members of her gang, lads who saw service during the war. Prom all reports It Is a real show. -J- -!- -IKEAL COMEDIES. fcooth Tarklngton is able to write the very soul of a boy Into a story. Goldwyn Is now putting Tarklngton'a stories on the screen under the caption of “Edgar Comedies” and the first one of the series Is at the Circle this week. Edgar is a real boy, gets Into trouble and receives a spanking by his father. Real comedy and such pictures mark n new day In movie productions. -I- -I- -IBF.NOR FRISCOE. At Keith’s thla week is Senor Fr!s coe, a xylophone player, who Is famous on the stage and on Edison records. During his act an Edtson plays a selection, while Krlscoe Is pitying, and It is difficult to tell when Frisco* stops and the machine takes up the melody, so perfect are both. Splendid show at Keith’s this week. -!- -I- -IOld age finds a, place this week on the stage of the Lyric as Maurice Duwney In "An Irish Arden” has been on the stage thirty-seven years, and his wife. Charlotte Willard, has forty seven years to her credit on the stage, while John F. Conners, also In the same act, has been on the stage forty-six years. The big attraction at the Broadway this week Is the Soldier and Bailor Revue, In which the former fighters doll up like chorus girls. The features at the Rialto this week arc a girl act called "The Tag Day Girls" and a Gladys Brockwell movie. Harry Fields, known as "Hello Jake,”

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Is the chief t unmaker with “The French Frolics” at the Park this week. -I- -I- -ITHE MURAT. Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne will appear In person at the Murat Thursdny night for three days in "The Master Thief,” a melodrama. On Sunday night at the Murat will bo the Adolph Bolm ballet with Bolm and Miss Ruth Page of this city, and this attraitlon comes Indorsed us the highest class dance and musical offering on the stage today. Opening next Monday is a whale of a show. "The Shubert Gaieties” with Jack Norworth and Harry Watson In the lead. -I- -I- -IGNGLISU’S. Closing tonight at English’s Is the Fanehon & Marco Revue. Opening Thursday night will be the John Golden success, “Three Wise Fools,” and this department dees not hesitate In Indorsing this atraction, as (he reports from all of the cities stamp (his show with approval. -I- -I- -ITHE ALHAMBRA. Tom Mix escapes from a train, rides through a waterfall to elude bandits and rescues his sweetheart from a train going thirty miles an hour—all this happens in "The Daredevil,” to be at the Alhambra Thursday. Theda Bara closes at the Alhambra today in “Lure of Ambition' and moves Thursday to the Isis. -I- -t- -ITIIE MOVIES. Clara Kimball Y’oung In "The Forbidden Woman,” has a dramatic love making time at the Ohio this week. It's worth while. Olive Thomas Is acting In her own movie, "Youthful Folly," now at the Colonial and the fans think she is good as a writer and an actress. James Corbett is attracting fight fans at the Regent in “The I‘rlnce of Avenue A.” Mr. Smith's Is offering "The Sagebrusher,” adapted from the novel of the same name. “My Lady's Garter” closes tonight at the Isis. How Will Hays Lost a Woman’s Vote The New York World Is ungraciously rasting slurs on our own Will Hays, the man who "harmonized” the ropublieun party of Indiana and Is now "harmonizing" the national party. It says: "Chairman Will Hayes' ‘plncbback’ coat has lost him nf least one supporter. Mrs. Anna F. Murphy of Homestead, Pa., who Is known up the Monongahela valley as something of a republican politician and weekly newspaper publisher, is in Washington, and she has let It be known that after an Interview with Mr. Iluyes at the republican headquarters in New York her faith In his ability to pull the party out of the slough of despondency has been somewhat shuken. "Here's her story of her lmprs*lons: "‘I went to see Mr. Hays at hi* New York headquarters,' said Mrs. Murphy. 'They were some headquarters, too. Mr. Hays' secretary came out and said Mr. llays was busy or something, and I would have to wait. Well, 1 wultcd for a while and then I waited some more. I saw first one man and then auother go Into the private office, but I sat there. I was still waiting when a yoOng fellow with a olgaret hanging from his mouth and a plncbback suit and his hat on the

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The Young Lady Across the Way The young lady across the way says [ ih worst of the coal shortage seems to ; be over and she guesaes we'll hear less about the closed shop from now ou. j side of his head and sort of "skl .ny” : came In. I looked him over and said to I my Self, “My, Isn't It funny what kind of fellows they let come Into places like ! this. You’d think only men would get j in to see the national chairman of the i republican party. Old-timers like, not I boys.” I was Just sitting there with my head on the back of the chair thlnkin' about that, and wonderin’ about it, and a messenger came and said I could see ; Mr. Hays. I " ‘So I weut in, and blest if that pinchback fellow wasn't Chairman Hays himself. 1 was so dumfounded 1 didn’t know what to say. I Just stood there and | looked at him. They will have to send for Boles Penrose if they expect to win.' ” ! : Why McAdoo Quit His Cabinet Job William Gibbs McAdoo stayed on the j job in Washington until February, 191!*. I He then resigned, telling President Wtl- | son he wa* forced to take the step to guard his health and to retreneh his diminishing finance*. "I was not a rich man, as many p*o pie thought,” the former secretary ex plained later to his friends. "1 didn't make any money out of the tunnels and I had not saved a great deal while in Washington. Dr. Grayson used to tell | me If I didn't slow down I would not come out alive. I felt I owed It to my faintly to get back into my own bust ! nes* and make provisions for my wife ■ ml M

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NOTICE TO GAS CONSUMERS The send-out of gas on Monday was over 10,000,000 cubic feet. This heavy consumption was due to the use of gas for heating, and indicates that people are depending upon gas instead of coal. If this keeps up the whole community will soon be subjected to the greatest Buffering. By drawing on the present limited supply for heating there will soon be no gas for cooking and starvation or partial starvation will cause thousands of deaths. . The appeal which was made to the public Monday afternoon was too late to affect the gas consumption on Monday materially, but it was not too late for some response by Tuesday morning. Yet the send-out of gas Tuesday morning was at a greater rate than at any time last winter. This indicates that many selfish people are indifferent to the welfare of the community, and we are forced to take further steps to protect the community. We are asking all factories to discontinue the use of gas, and must insist that all consumers discontinue all use of gas for heating purposes. The immense consumption of Tuesday morning—at the rate of 15,000,000 cubic feet per day—forced us to reduce pressure to stop the drain. Without this step the city would have been wholly without gas by three o’clock yesterday afternoon. If the people of Indianapolis would supply themselves with coal or-coke we could give good gas service for essential uses, but we can not give good service and keep up the supply so long as they endeavor to heat their houses with gas. The railroads are able to deliver coke to most of the coal yards of the city and dealers are to fill orders for that fuel. CITIZENS GAS COMPANY

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