Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 125, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1920 — Page 6
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Jto&tmta Ilailg STitnes ■J \ INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA. 1 Dally Except Sunday, 26-29 South Meridian Street Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising Offices I S hl, ' , D ? > tro . U> st - Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. aavernsiug vinos i fy ew York. Boston, Payne, Burns A Smith, Inc. HAS ANY ONE heard from Ed Toner since the last primary? SPEED UP that coundlmanic investigation. If there is a nigger in the coke pile let’s dig him out WHEN will Governor Goodrich take the stump to defend the “best tax law possible under our constitution?” DOUBTLESS Mr. New came to Indianapolis to find out whether the Republicans wanted pro-league or anti-league speakers! MR. TAGGART says he Is spending only his own money in this campaign. Jim Watson was never so explicit about his affairs. JESSE ESCHBACH has issued a few columns of statements and grown very wrothy, but has any one noticed any more coal to be had at any price? THE STATEMENT of ownership, management and circulation of the Indianapolis News, as published Oct. 1, was again sworn to before a notary public. I \ " ✓ WARREN T. McCRAY may be in absolute accord now with Senator Harding, but he never agreed with the senator that $1 a bushel was a proper price for wheat. Mr. Fester's Duty A most significant feature of this campaign is the continued silence of James W. Fesler, the defeated opponent of Warren T. McCray for the Republican nomination for Governor. Months have passed since Mr. McCray amassed a tremendous majority over Mr. Fesler, yet the defeated candidate has not openly indorsed the candidacy of his successful opponent and Is not today taking an active part in this campaign. In this connection it cannot be forgotten that a last-minute appeal was made to the Republicans of Indiana to nominate Fesler "to save Marion County.”^The appeal was not heeded and the natural conclusion Is that Marion County is lost to the Republican candidate for Governor, who obtained a heavy vote the primary through what is very evidently the manipulation of primary returns in what have long been known as the crooked precincts of Indianapolis. Mr. Feeler douDtless has his own reasons for failing to get behind McCray. Part of these reasons are the result of a careful investigation of the personal and public life of Mr. McCray, which was made prior to the primaries and which revealed things which Mr. Fesler finally refused to use in the campaign, although his refusal probably cost him the nomination. # The results of this investigation have been kept carefully covered for this part of the campaign. That they are inimicable to the candidacy of Mr. McCray cannot be denied, for in the last minutes of the primary fight the McCray managers saw fit to publish statements denying charges that were never made and arousing considerable public curiosity as to their contexts Mr. Fesler has this his care. Persons who have been privileged to discuss it with him declare that there Is therein disclosed reasons why Mr. McCray should be forever barred from holding public office. The impression prevails that If Mr. Fesler would make public the results of the investigation he permitted or caused prior to the primaries, the people/Of Indiana would never again consider McCray as a candidate for public office. There is here a fine question of propriety for Mr. Fesler. Either he must be governed by loyalty to a political party or loyalty to the people of Indiana, whose Governor he aspired to be. If it is true, as is generally believed, that Mr. Fesler Is In possession of information which,-would prevent an unfit man from becoming Governor of Indiana, then it is his duty to the people of the State to give them that information. If the matter in his knowledge is not such as would prejudice the voters of Indiana against McCray, then Mr. Fesler owe3 it to his party and his recent opponent to make it public to the end that the public suspicion of McCray may he removed. v Mr. Fesler has said nothing concerning the fitness of Mr. McCray to govern Indiana. Mr. McCray is entirely t<Jb well satisfied with Mr. Fesler’s silence.
Rambling - E. I. Levis of the public service commission has issued a statement designed to show that the public service commission did not suggest a •higher rate for gas in Indianapolis than is fixed by statute. Mr, Lewis's effort is futile. The public very well know*? that on its own initiative the commission invited the gas company to come before it and make public its needs and desires. Whether higher rates were suggested in response to this invitation or the desire of the gas company for higher rates prompted the invitation is wholly immaterial. The commission opened the way for the company to ask higher gas rates and the responsibility for higher rates cannot be escaped by the commission when they are established. Mr. Lewis might, if he desires to asslßt the public in the impending struggle with the gas company, examine into the order of the commission Issued April 26, 1918, and attempt to reconcile the findings of the body of which he is still chairman with the conditions that exist today. If he' desired he would read that gas rates were on that date raised from 55 cents to 60 cents in order that the company might finance betterments which (in the words of the order) would result in "doubling its coal gas production capacity and raising the total maximum capacity of petitioner's generating facilities, including its water gas plants, to more than 15,000,000 cubic feet of gas per day." Then, if he care to follow the information lodged with the board of works recently by the battery of experts from the gas company, he would learn that the forty coke ovens which the company proposed to build in 1918 were built and still the capacity of the gas plant is given as less than 12,000,000 cubic feet a day ( What the people of Indianapolis wish to know is not who started this gas rate raising campaign, but what has become of the abiiity to supply a sufficient amount of gas which the company declared it would have if rates were increased from 55 cents to 60 cents. Gas consumers would The to know whether the present shortage of approximately 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas a day is due to failure to live up to the terms of the commission’s order of April 26, 1918, or to willful disuse of facilities thereafter installed. Wavering! SometTnfbs when an election is all over but the shouting it means that the wrong crowd will do the shouting. This is a “hunch" to over-confident Republicans.—Muncie Press. Coming from a newspaper edited by George B. Lockwood, the errand boy of the senatorial cabal which is running the Harding campaign, there is food for thought in the above observation. It might mean that Governor Cox has put a crimp in the raising of the $15,000,000 slush fund by hi3 expose of the quotas and the boys are finding it increasingly difficult to “get the money.’’ It might mean that the desperate effort of the pro-league end of the Harding dual role is not meeting with much success in trying to convince the public that Johnson and Borah are right in believing that Harding has “scrapped’’ the league and Taft and Wickersham are right in believing that the league is the dearest possession of the front porch candidate. Mr. Lockwood is close to the real campaign headouurters of the Republican party. He moved to Washington to be in touch with Boies Penrose and other Senators and when his s begin to tremble there V every indication that others are quaking, also. Anyhow, a doubt that this campaign is all over, coming from such a political seer as the man who fought Roosevelt in season and out, is prima facie evidence tliat down in his heart Will Hays is not nearly as confident of success as he was when he concluded a treaty with the pro-German Septiles In the United States.
APPLY THE LAW In a public statement of Sept. 24, 1920. the Republican candidate for prosecuting attorney said, in answer to my charge that the Republican prosecutor has enriched his office at the expense of the public by collecting.fees In many unwarranted prosecutions in remote Justice of the peace courts. “Mr. Davis knows that the matter of the prose cuting attorney Is fixed by law and beyond his control. He should be careful In giving the impression that he will be satisfied with’less than provides. There are cases holdipg that a candidate for public office who agrees In advance to accept a place for less remuneration than the law provides, thereby disqualifies himself from accepting the place should he be elected.” I again call his attention to the public statement of Ralgh Lemcke, Republican county treasurer and candidate for reflection, of April 28, 1919, in which he said: t “If I am nominated and elected treasurer of this county, 1 declare it to be my firm intention to see evi; corrected and that all Interest that aecrues.on pre-
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DAVIS TALKS / / oh DECENCY Democratic candidate for Prosecuting Attorney tells why and under what conditions he seeks the support of Marion County voters. ,
payment money on Barrett law assessments shall be credited to the Barrett law fund, thus saving the city of Indianapolis between $5,000 and $6,000 a year. x “I consider and shall consider all public money coming into my possession from the above fund as a public truss and will in no wise use this fqnd for my private gain.” The records show that when Mr. Lemcke became treasurer on Jan. 1, 1920, there was turned over to him Barrett law funds amounting to $587,904.07. The records in the office of the city con troller and in the treasurer's office do not show that he has ever credited'these funds with a single dollar of Interest. I suggest that the Republican candidate for prosecuting attorney uncover the law which he has upon this subject ana compel his political associates to comply with his pre-election promise to the people. I regard the promises which I am making as both morally and legally binding j upon mo an* I will scrupulously keep 1 them it I am elected. I • e PAUL G. DAVIS.
apple; 6 p. m. cereal, milk, toast or bread; 10 p. m. milk (may be omitted). At this time the baby shodld be taking about one quart of milk In twenty-four hours; part of this may be poured oVer cereal. This should be served without sugar, or with a very little only. Bread should be at least two days old. The child should have about a tablespoonful of scraped meat, or beef, broiled, boiled, or roasted or the tender part of a lamb chop, or delicate meat of chicken or flsh. The vegetable should be a green one, like spinach or tender string beans, which should be well cooked, drained and mashed or strained through a colander. THE WAT TO RKKLME. Q. Who said ’’the way to resume is to resume?" I. M. F. A. The expression was used by Salmon P, Chase In a letter to Horace Greeley In 1566, bnt the correct quotation is “The way to resumption Sa to resume.” The subject under discussion was the resumption of specie payments by the Federal Government. PYRAMID A SEPULCHRE. Q. Whose sepulchre was the Great Pyramid of Egypt? A. K. A. J'hW pyramid is the tomb of Cheops, second king of the fourth dynasty. Its origins) height was 482 feet and It covers thirteen acres of ground. * v CREW OF THE TUSCAN lA. Q. Was the Tuscania manned by an American crew at the time it was sunk? E. M. M* A The Navy Department saya that H. M. 8. Tuscania was mauned by a British crew at all time*, including the time the wae sunk. These British transports simply took American soldiers as past sengers, but were manned by their own crew in every way.
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PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS 12. The Grant-Greeley Race of 1872. ' By FREDERIC J. HASKIN
WASHINGTON, I). C.—The presidential campaign of 1872 resulted in a tragedy—the insanity 'and death of Horace Greeley. It took the organization of the Republican party out of the hands of the men who had founded if and turned it over to another group of Republicans, in whose control* it remained until after the rise of Roosevelt. It added to the lexicon of Democratic party historians' the phrase, “the Greeley fiasco." And, more Important than .all, it marked the beginning of the end'"'of the political party organ newspaper, and was responsible for an Independent Ptees. The Liberal Republican movement of 1871-72 ‘was the most considerable defection the Republican party had suffered since its organisation. Its affect on the party was not disastrous, but it carried into the Democratic party many of the men who were most prominent in the early days of Republicanism. It is a remarkable fact that more than two-thirds of the men prominent in the Republican conventions of 1850 and 1860 died Democrats, or Independents. Even more remarkable is the fact that this great defection from Republican ranks was the result of a movement headed by Clement Vallandlgham of Ohio. Vallandlgham was the arch-Copperheßd of the whole North, was arrested* by General Burnside and banikhed to the Confederate States of America, and was execrated by every loyalist north of the Mason and Dixon’s line. Yet it was this same Vallandlgham who, in 1871, in the famous Dayton platform, declared for the unification of all elements opposed to Grant on the basis of complete acceptance of the results of the war, the reconstruction policy, the amendment to the Constitution, and so on. So radically did this policy differ from that formerly held by Northern Democrats that the Vall&ndtgbam movement was called “The New Departure.” FOUR GREAT EDITORS TAKE A HAND. The Democratic press, headed by the Missouri Republican, afterward tho St. Louie Republic and the Louisville Courier-Journal, broke away from conventional moorings and hailed the “New Departure’’ as the political solvation of the land. The Vallandlgham origin of the movement was lost sight of and Edlfir Grosvenog of St. Louis and Editor Wat ter son of Louisville became the leaders in the Democratic ranks. Meanwhile General Grant's administration was alienating old-time Republican leaders by the score. General Grant was a great soldier, bnt his most ardent admirers can not commend bis Judgment in selecting men to assist him in civil administration. Scandals without number were continually arising. The Secretary of War, William W. Belknap and the Secretary of the Navy, George M. Robeson, were accused of ail kinds of graft. The New York Sun, then edited by Charles A. Dana, every day thundered against the “Robbers at Washington.” Meantime General Grant was blind to many things; was too trustful of tome of bis advisers and was attempting to run the whole administration on a military plau. Horace Greeley raised the flag of revolt in the Tribune. Charles Bninner, another chieftain of the anti-slavery agitators Joined in. Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky and Hinton It- Helper of North Carolina, the premier southern abolitionists and Republicans, followed the “new departure.” The movement was crystallized by the merging of party lines in Missouri In an effort to gala complete amnesty for Confederate soldiers In that State. The Missouri leaders issued a call for a national convention to meet at Cincinnati. NATION’S MOST FAMOUS MEN GATHER IN CONVENTION. When the “Liberal Republican” national convention met at Cincinnati on
May 1, the country believed it faced a political crisis. The personnel of the convention—Was extrem-jly able. Few political gatherings in the history of the country showed so many famous names on the roster. Carl Schurz was permanent chairman, and he made the speech of party revolution. The leading candidate at first was Charles Francis Adams of Massachusetts. Next to him was Mr. Greeley, and then Lyman Trumbull of ITfinois, B. Grata Brown of Missouri, David Davis of Illinois, Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania, and the perennial Salmon I*. Chase. Greeley was nominated on the, sixth ballot and B. Grata Brown of Missouri was chosen for second place on the ticket. Greeley was the founder and editor of the Tribune and'the most eminent newspaper man in the country. Brown had risen to prominence as the editor of the St. Louis Democrat, since consolidation with the Olobe'to form the Globe-Democrat. It is the only instance that a national ticket was made exclusively by Journalists. Newspapers of great influence rallied to Greeley’s support. Dana of the Sun and Bennett of the Herald battled for him in New York. Henry Wattergon, today the only survivor of that era of Journalistic giants, was In the very thick of the battle for Greeley and reform. Alexander K. McClure, Murat Halstead, Samuel Bowles of the Springfield Republican, Horace White of the Chicago Tribune, Frank Leslie and scores of others were declaring the elect.on of Greeley and the defeat of Grant necessary to save the Republic. 8o bitter was the denounciation of Grant’s administration that the press did not hesitate to take np Jere Black's statement that no tyranny was so bail as that of a “republic thoroughly rotten.” GREELEY’S CAREER ENDS IN TRAGEDY. The Democrats met in Baltimore on July 9. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, grandson of the founder of the party, wag chairman. The Cincinnati Liberal Republican platform was adopted without the Change of a word, and Greeley and Brown were indorsed and nominated as the regular Democratic candidates. 1 homas F. Bayard of Delaware and Daniel W. Vorhees of Indiana voiced a feeble protest, but in vain. The politicians believed that It was the golden opportunity to kill tb* Republican organization and thely seized it. Horace Greeley formally accepted the
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Democratic nomination. Greeley, who had hated Jackson, despised Van Buren, scorned Polk, damned Pierce and Buchanan and Douglas; Greeley, the abolitionist; Greeley, the protectionist; Greeley, the prohibitionist; Greeley, the woman’s suffragist; Horace Greeley was the candidate of the Democratic party for President But Democrats all over the Union remembered the bitter things that Greeley had said about them. The Republican orators helped them to meciber. They did not remember* to vote. In July, or perhaps as late aa August, It seemed certain that the DemocsatlcLiberal coalition would sweep the country. Many men believe the wave would not have recided if Adams or Davis had been at the head of the ticket. But Greeley was simple as a child in practical politics, however able and profound he was in theory. No greater cam paign speeches have ever been delivered than those made by Greeley on the stump in 1872. As he had denounced slavery In the South in the nam# of humanity, he now denounced carpet-bag government for the* same reason. As he had denounced the political corruption of the slave oligarchy before the war. he now denounced the money corruption tHat was beginning Us long reign. Suddenly, a shiver of fear aud dls trust swept over the country. Would Greeley, who had been unable to keep his own newspaper, be able to conduct a business administration? Would Greeley, who was the dupe of every sharper, be any better than Grant in selecting advisers? What was his financial policy? The business interests of the country, partly affected by the fear of a Greeley administration, tmd partly an-
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gry because Greeley was attacking Wall street financial methods, rose np for Grant. Money went Into the campaign as it had never gone before. The October elections correctly forecasted the result. A few days before the election Horace Greeley’s wife died. He had been at her bedside day and night for weeks, and he was exhausted from loss of sleep, and broken-hearted over her denth. Then the election came. The Greeley ticket carried but seven States and was ingiofiously defeated. Three days after the election the strain became greater than the old man could bear, and the great Horage Greeley was taken to a private asylum In Westchester County—an Insane man. Fortunately the endi came soon, and on Nov. 29 Greeley diedj Within a month after the election the* magnanimous Grant, President of {ho United States, stood beside the bier of the great Greeley whom ho had the Greeley whose fiasco had become a tragedy. PRIZE FIGHTING. Q. Is prize fighting allowed in the United States? S. H. A. A prize fight la a fight with bare fists for a purse. This is not allowed. Some States allow boxing matches. These are fought with six to eight-ounce gloves, for a guaranteed sum to each fighter. CASTOR OIL AS LUBRICANT. Q. Was castor oil used la aeroplane motors during the war? A. F. B. A. The Air Service says that ctstor oil was used as a lubricant In aeroplam motors during the World War.
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