Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1921 — Page 3

PROF. HOWE NOT SO SURE ABOUT ROBISON'S DOOM Candidates Forces Cling on Defensive With *the Usual Line.’ MAYOR DEFENDS REGIME Driven to the wall by the onslaughts of Samuel Lewis Shank and the big gains of Edward J. Robison within the last few days, Mr. Thomas C. Howe, former president of Butler college and News-Jew-ett candidate for the Republican nomination for mayor, and his co-speakers last night continued on the defensive. They ridiculed Shank and criticised Robison, but It was remarkably noticeable that they were not quite so positive In their propaganda to the effect that Robison Is going to run a poor third. The big ovations given Robison all this week and the results of straw balloting In downtown office buildings showing Robison to be leading both Howe and Shank among the business people, and the fact that Robison supporters have been betting that their candidate will get more votes than Howe apparently have had their effect upon the News-Jewett campaign. The speakers spent more time in disagreeing with Robison’s platform pledges than In relegating him to third place. “MAKING VP A GOOD TEAM.” Both Howe and Mayor Jewett said the same things they have been saying throughout the campaign, only in slightly different language fit a meeting at Thirteenth and Missouri streets. One statement of Howe's apparently was made by way of paving the way for an administration slate of candidates. This statement was: ••I want you folks to look up the records of all the candidates, not only of the candidates for mayor, but also of those who want to be city clerk, city Judge and city councllmen. All of these candidates are going to make up a team and we want a good team.” “We are going to have to settle next Tuesday whom we are going to have for mayor for the next four years," said Mr. HoweHe repeated his frequent assertion that he is not so much interested in this election as a candidate as he is as a citizen. “There are lots of business men who have been waking up pretty rapidly in the last few days as they realize what is In danger of happening to this town in the next four years,” continued the candidate. CHALLENGES HONESTY OF SHANK STATEMENTS. He said that the issues raised by the other candidates are simply means of deceiving the people as to the real truth i and that the figures upon the cost of . the present city government given out by Lew Shank are not honest. While dwelling upon the fact that Uie finances of the school city are disbursed separately from those of the municipal government, Mr. Howe declared: “I want you people to wake up to the fact that you’ve got to elect a school board next fall; but that’s another piece of business. “You've got a few streets that need repairing down here. In fact, there Is a whole lot of work that must be done on the streets. The only reason that j we've gotten through some of the chuck j holes In the last few days is that I’ve j got a couple of tires on the car we’ve been riding in that were made In the factory which I run and I know the quality of the goods is right.” HOWE AGAIN MENTIONS UTILITIES. Denouncing promises of his opponents to keep the public utilities from mulcting the people, Mr. Ilowe said: “The mayor can make a lot of fuss about rates but he can't settle this matter.” i Mr. Howe apparently forgot that the Jewett administration has sung Its own praises to the skies while claiming that it was solely responsible for keeping the street railway fare down to 5 cents j through the war period until the recent increase to 6 cents. “There isn’t as much fooling anywhere in the world as In American politics,” j admitted Mayor Jewett at the Thirteenth | and Missouri streets meeting. He In- j sisted, however, that ail the fooling In this campaign is being done by Mr. | Howe’s opponents. The mayor was In a witty mood and although he denounced Mr. Shank for being a “jokester,” he had his little Joke j himself when he said: JEWETT HAS HIS LIT. JOKE. “Lew Shank set a world's record for j speed. He was mayor of Indianapolis j and finished the Job in three years and i eight months. He not only got out of j the job but he got clear out of the city ; In that time.” He ridiculed Mr. Shank's campaign to j bring down the cost of living while he ' was mayor and said: “There are two' good reasons why Lew Shank won’t do what he says he will: he wouldn't if he could, and he won’t get the chance.” He attempted to tie Mr. Shank up with the Bell administration and arouse bis negro audience against the candidate by telling of alleged clubbing of negroes at the polls. JEWETT DEFENDS HIS ADMINISTRATION. Whover is the Republican nominee for mayor has got to run upon the record of the Jewett city administration, the mayor declared, and he is out defending his regime, because if he does not the Democrats may attack it with success in November. “When they attack me, they do not attack me personally,” he said. “They attack my board of public works, they attack the board of public safety, they attack the park board; they attack Mr. Jarvis, the director of recreation, who has been putting playgrounds all over the city and giving those fine community pageants and dances and entertainments; they attack the health board and the legal department, which has fought every raise in rates asked for by public utilities. They're attacking these good Republicans, who have done a good job, and I'm not going to stand by and have Robison and Shank bemean these men and then when the Democrats attack us in the fall have no answer for them.” RAPS PROPOSED PRIVATE CONTRACTS. Robison’s proposals to scrap the asphalt plant and have public service* rendered by private contractors came in for criticism. Jewett repeated his charge that Robison was one of the men interested in the ash hauling contract which expired early in the Jewett administration. ’’They ought to call him ‘Old Edward Ash Robison,’ ” he said. Stating that Mr. Howe is offering himself to render a public service and not asking anything for himself, the mayor said: “Politicians don’t usually do that way, do they? They usually come around and say, ‘l've never had anything in my life. This is the time when you can do something for me.’ ” MAYOR APPEALS TO RACE CONSCIOUSNESS. The mayor did not refrain from the appeal to race consciousness which he generally makes in negro meetings, telling how he spent the night at police headquarters to prevent a mob from taking the life of George Ray, depraved negro murderer who died later in the electric chair and laying the blame for the mob to “statements In some of the papers.* “There was too much publicity

about it, altogether too much publicity,’’ he said. “Keep your honest election methods. Keep clean and work seven times harder than you're ever worked before and then you won’t have to do anything dishonest,” he exhorted. That's the way I always have done.” Mr. Howe’s strenuous efforts to rid himself of the halo of “professorship” and to have himself called “Just plain Tom Howe.” apparently have been lost on Pirtle Herod, who, speaking before the candidate arrived, said (that the fact that Mr. Shank Is called “Lew” Shank by everybody disqualifies him for election as mayor in his sight. PLANS MADE TO RECEIVE SUNDAY Governor and Wife Head Committee to Greet ‘ Evangelist. A committee headed by Governor and Mrs. Warren T. McCray will receive Billy Sunday, evangelist, when he arrives in Indianapolis Monday for two talks at the Gipsy Smith tabernacle, E. Howard Cadle, who has charge of the arrangements for the meeting, announced today. The evangelist will arrive from Cincinnati at 11:50 a. m. Monday. He will speak at 2:30 and 7:30 p. m. Other members of the reception committee are Mayor and Mrs. Charles Jewett, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. CofHn, I)r. and Mrs. C. H. Winders, Bishop and Mrs. H. H. Fout, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Turner, Major and Mrs. Earl F. Hites, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Glossbrenner, Bishop and Mrs. F. D. Leete, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Wolcott, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eitel, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hanger, Mr. and Mrs. James P. Goodrich, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Goddard, Mr. George Bitler, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Cadle, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Home, Rev. and Mrs. Eakin, Hon. and Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McK. Landon, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cornelius. The talks will be the first ever made by Sunday In Indianapolis.

MEMBER OF OLD FAMILY EXPIRES Funeral of L. C. Burnside at Liberty Sunday. Thamas C. Burnside, 75, prominent In Masr nic and club circles 'n Indianapolis, and one of the foremost Republican workers In the county, died Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock at his home, 545 East ThirtySecond street. While he never a public offlep himself, he was actively Identified with many political campaigns, and for a number of years was a member of the Republican central committee. He also had held a similar position at Liberty, from where he moved to Indiauapolia. Surviving Mr. Burnside are three daughters, Miss Clara K. Burnside, supervisor of women police In Indianapolis; Miss Margaret Burnside, teacher of English In Technical High School, and Miss Elizabeth Burnside, all of whom resided with their father. The body will be taken to IJberty Sun day morning at 0 :45 o'clock, where the funeral will be held tomorrow, with the Liberty Blue lodge in charge. Mr. Bumside formerly was past master of the Liberty lodge. Mr. Bi rnside was born at Liberty Nov. 24, 1544, and received his early education. and spent his boyhood and early manhood there. He moved to Indianapolis when a young man Rnd entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railway Company and after ten years in the service of that company removed again to Liberty, where he engaged in farming. His wife, who was Miss Jane Oliver Kelley of Liberty, died thirteen years ago. He returned to Indianapolis in 101 L Mr. Burnside was one of the oldest members of the Scottish Rite bodies of Indianapolis, both in years and memtiership. He was made a thirty-second degree Mason March 27, 1579. He was a member of Raper Cotnmandery. Mr. Burnside was a member of one of Indiana's oldest families, and was n brother of Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, of Civil War fame. He was also a brother of Benjamin and Middleton Burnside, their families being prominent in Indianapolis and Shelbyville.

The Young' Business IV ten of Indianapolis WFTO as f orwar d-looking citizens, seeking only to intelligently assist in the ’' ilvJj selection of the Republican nominee for Mayor of Indianapolis, and —WHO, as such citizens, believe that the responsibility for an economical, clean, straight-forward administration, with the best interests and welfare of the community at heart always, rests primarily with the Mayor of this city, and —WHO, as voters, have the right to expect and demand that the nominee be NOT dominated by or obligated to any man, group of men, public service corporation or newspaper, ENDORSE and RECOMMEND MR. EDWARD J. ROBISON FOR MAYOR

The following poll, or “straw vote,” was taken by a committee from the undersigned young business men and Is here published in the interests of fair play. Affidavits as to its exactness can be made by those who took the poll:

Hume-Mansur Bldg. ROBISON 47 Howe 34 Shank 16

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ROBISON RAPS JEWETT USE OF PUBLIC OFFICE Says City Owned Autos Buzzing to Name Machine Successor. MANY HEAR CANDIDATE Five meetings held by E. J. Robison in widely separated parts of Indianapolis last night indicated that this candidate for the Republican mayorlty nomination has a large following. Owing to the illness of Charles A. Bookw'alter and Caleb S. Denny, former mayors, the brunt of the speechmaking fell on the shoulders of Mr. Robison. In all of his speeches ho Insisted that the mayoralty is an office of public trust and should be administered, not for the advantage of any certain body of persons or group of individuals, but for the benefit of the people of Indianapolis as a whole. He premised his audiences that If he is elected mayor he will Institute a policy of economical administration of city affairs far different from the haphazard, wasteful manner In which, he charged, they have been conducted under Mayor Jewett. He also promised to do everything In his pbwer to compel the Citizens Gas Company to live up to its contract with file city and said he would use the city legal department to oppose a raise of gas rates and not leave that effort to some patriotic individual. OPPOSES POLITICAL USE OF OFFICE. The building up of a political machine through the uae of the mayor's power for the purpose of dictating a successor j in office was bitterly condemned. “If 1 am elected you will never find me muklng use of the mayor's office to build a political machine to coerce the voters of Indianapolis into action against their will,” Mr. Robison said. All meetings were well attended, even the last one at Riverside Fire Station No. 24. L>exter and Nineteenth streets, ; which was not reached by Mr. Robison until almost 10:30 o'clock. The first meeting of the evening was i held at Carson and Troy avenue, in the extreme south end of the Tenth ward, and at the very edge of the city. The old schoolhouse in which the meeting was held was crowded to capacity with an audience that was loath to let the speaker go when it came time for him to leave for the Second ward meeting at Central avenue and Twenty-Fifth street. HAS GIVEN DUTIES OF OFFICE STUDY. “It has been my ambition to be mayor for a good many years,” Mr. Robison said at this meeting. “And I have given the office and its duties a great deal of study. The more I study It the more Important the position seems to be, and I want to tell you right here, that if I am elected mayor I will continue to study It and will give the office the very best that Is In me.” j Turning hts attention to the contract (between the city and the Citizens Gas j Company, Mr. Robison said: “Every time you pay a gas bill you are paving about 10 per cent 1 more than you would have to pay If the company were compelled to live up to its contract with the city and supply the number of heat units in the gas that is specified in the contract. If I am mayor I will not leave It to some individual citizen to bring suit and hire lawyers, but I will use the full power of the legal department of the city, a department that is . pnid for by the city, to defend the rights of the city. It is Just as bad for the gas company to skiui off the heat untts from its gas as it Is for your milkman to skim the cream off the milk you buy from him. ASSAILS METHOD OK HANDLING BY-PRODUCT. “Another thing that needs attention Is this matter of the gas company disposing of its coke at a 5 per cent commission to a Cincinnati concern nnd then users of that product have to pay the long price |to make up for It, although in many instances the coke may never see Cincinnati or go outside of this city. “One thing 1 wish to impress upon you and this is the fact that if I arn beaten at the primary next Tuesday one of the first statements the gas company will make to the public service cornmis-

Fletcher Trust Bldg. ROBISON 74 Howe ...., 63 Shank 10

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sion in its attempt to obtain a raise In rates will be that the people of Indianapolis did not stand back of me in this fight and as a result six weeks after the primary yon will be paying more for your gas.” Mr. Robison next turned attention to what he termed the extravagance of the Jewett administration in the handling of the ash and garbage problems. He said that since the plan was installed it has cost the city on an average $91,800 a year for operations, and on top of this, he said, should be added taxes lost to the city on equipment and vehicles used in the work, as the city is relieved from the taxes a private contractor would have to pay; depreciation of about 20 per cent a year, and interest on the investment. These added items he said would bring the total annual cost to the city to about $122,000 as against $59,500 for which a private concern offered to do the same work. This, he said, meant a net loss of about $33,000 annually to the city. REFERS TO POOR CONDITIONS OF STREETS. The notoriously poor condition of the city streets under the Jewett administration came in for a grilling. “In the last four years you have paid more for your streets than ever before, and yet those streets have more holes, more ruts, more humps and there are more of them Impassable than ever before in your memory,” he said. He read the results of polls that have been taken in four of the downtown buildings and which showed the following results: Robison 213; Howe, 164; Shank, 66. “And yet the Indianapolis News tells you I am running a poor third and two weeks ago published a poll said to hnve been taken In some of these same buildings to prove It. Now I do not question their poll or question its truth. But It does, make it appear that If I kept on gaining in the next few days at this same rate my nomination will bo practically unanimous." Improvement of sanitary conditions at the city market and a complete renovation of the building was advocated in radical changes at the city hospital to bring the place to a standard where the city may have adequate hospital facilities was proposed. * The desperate efforts that are being made by the Jewett organization to save Professor Howe did not escape comment. “Tonight automobiles owned by the city, their tanks filled with gasoline and oil paid for by the city, are running all over Indianapolis and all for one purpose; <o secure the nomination for one candidate, a candidate picked by four or five men taking upon themselves to speak for all the people of Indianapolis.” “It is time for the people of this city to wake up and do a little business for themselves and the place to do It Is at the primary next Tuesday. There Is a big element In this city that It not talking, it Is the silent vote, and it is this silent vote that has In It the power to name the successful candidates at the primary election. It Is to this quiet, thinking element that I want my friends to appeal and to get It to come out and vote next Tuesday." Mr. Robison also addressed meetings at Fourteenth and Illinois streets, Engine House No. 9 and Udell and Rader street*. Other speakers were, .lames Bingham, Edwin B. Pugh, Mrs. R. Harry Miller and William 11. Jackson.

Terre Haute Man Shot by 15-Year-Old Son Special to The Times. TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. April 30.—Gesne Gellberto, 50, of Whitcomb Heights, a suburb of this city. Is In a hospital here os a result of being shot twice by his son Paul, 15. Gellberto declares that his wife held him and gave orders to the boy to shoot him. One bullet took effect In the band and the other in the leg. The mother and son were placed under arrest The boys avers that ho shot to defend hts mother. VETERAN RANKS SHRINK. COLUMBUS. Ind., April 30. Columbus Township has lost thirty-nine veterans of the civil war during the last year, according to the enumeration of war veterans and school children recently finished by Trustee C. N. Brtioe. Lest year there wore 175 old soldiers in the township and this year the enumeration showed only 136. Most of the veterans lost died, few having moved from tho township. A gnln of one school child during the year was shown by the enumexatlon.

Lemcke Annex. ROBISON 40 Howe 38 Shank 9

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People's Bank Bldg. ROBISON 91 Howe 33 Shank 32

3 DEMOCRATS MAKE BID FOR MAYOR’S CHAIR Economy, Tax Reduction and Salary Cutting Promised by Others. Three candidates for the Democratic nomination for mayor and numerous other candidates for minor offices declared for programs of economy and tax reduction at a meeting at Morris and Division Btreets last night. The candidates for mayor who addressed the meeting were Edgar A. Perkins, Boyd M. Ralston and John W. Losh. Mr. Perkins urged the voters to go to the polls next Tuesday and express their choice. He declared there is a good prospect for Democratic success next fall, and that the party rnugt bear Ibis in mind and (select a strong candidate. He declared that the Republican candidates are promising tax reductions, but are not telling how they are to be accomplished. He said the Democratic party will reduce taxes first by the elimination of excess employes and through the reduction of salaries which hnve been Increased by the Jewett administration. ms VIEWS ON PUBLIC UTILITIES. "Some of the Republican candidates are saying that they wll! regulate the public utilities and see that rates are kept down,” he said. “The city can regulate rates in a way. It can see to it that men are appointed to tho legal department who can present the city's case. Any further promises are made for the purpose of fooling the voters.” Mr. Perkins quoted Mr. Ralston as saying he would call to his assistance various civic organizations to help him solve the problems of the city. He declared this would not be done if he is elected, because he believes there are men in the Democratic party who can solve these problms. “No party is entitled to respect that shirks responsibility,” he said. RALSTON GIVES TIME TO TAXES. Mr. Ralston opened his speech by saying he had no word of censure for his opponents, lie said there is no reason to say anything about the Republican candidates, us they themselves are busily engaged in doing that. "We believe they are telling the truth about one another,” he said. In discussing taxation he pointed out that tax Increases affect every one whether or not he Is a property owner He pointed out that the mayor does not fix the tax rate bnt he does have control of expenditures which determine the rate. He gave a number of specific instances of persons selling property for prices far below assessed valuations. URGES WOMEN TO TAKE INTEREST. Mr. Ralston urged the women to take more Interest In politics and to vote at the primary. He declared their assistance is needed in order to purify the elections. Mr. I-osh declared that If he Is elected mayor he will bring the office back to the place whore it can truthfully be called a position of honor. He declared that he would not be available for social functions and that he would be availaide a maximum of an hour a day for visitors. Ho called attention to the undignified endeavor of the Republican candidates to obtain votes and expressed the opinion that there are more white Democrats In Indianapolis than white Republicans. Ho pointed out the folly of making promises, declaring that problems must bo met when they are faced ami cannot be solved tn advance. I.OSH’S SPECIAL PLEA TO 14TJI. Mr. Losh made a special plea to the voters of the Fourteenth ward la which the meeting was held, calling attention to the fact that lie Is a resident of the ward and to the fact that West Indian apoils has never had a man in the mayor’s office. lie promis'd that If elected ho would have no negroes in tho employ of the city. Frank P. Baker In addressing tho meeting reviewed the garbage plant deal, told of tax Increases, of the attempt of the

K. of P. Bldg. ROBISON 52 Howe 29 Shank 31

-Sumner Clancy Will H. Diddel H. P. Retseck William R. Higgins Russell A. Potts Claude M. Wilson Daniel Harvey Maurice M. Hayes Oscar Me. Sheets C. C. Grove Dr. G. W. Scherer

Republican candidates to obtain the votes of the negroes and of the accomplishments of Democratic mayors In making permanent improvements in the city of Indianapolis. STORES LOOTED BYBURGLARS Northwestern Avenue Concerns Lose in Raids—Many Thefts Reported. Burglars robbed two stores on Northwestern avenue today. The William Miller Dry Goods Store, 2626 Northwestern avenue, was visited by burglars, who broke open a strong box in an unlocked safe. The box was empty. However, the thieves carried away underwear, stockings, shirts and other wearing apparel valued at about SIOO. The burglars overlooked SIOO in change hidden in the store. / While visiting the neighborhood the burglars also broke Into Frank Horuffs shoe store in Northwestern avenue and took thirty pairs of shoes valued at SIOO. Mrs. Rose Wade, 326 North Illinois street, suprised a burglar who was hiding in her room yesterday afternoon. As she entered the room the man struck her a stunning blow in the face and then Jumped out of a window. The police were unable to find the woman's assailant. Uharles Conner’s grocery, 221 Richland avenue, was entered by a bnrglat who carried away a supply of cigarettes and chewing gum. A thief hurled a brick through the plate glass window of A. F. MeLay's drug store, St. Clair setreet and Senate avenue, but was frightened away before stealing anything. The glass was valued at SSO. Mrs. Albert D. Bowen. 2242 Broadway, reported to the police that she lost a diamond bar pin valued at S3OO. Car! Hess, working at a gasoline station, 528 North Meridian street, told the policq that ho was robbed of $2 by a woman who said she was going to tell his fortune. Clothing and Jewelry valued at $275 whs stolen from the home of M. H. OTlnir, 2063 North Meridian street. The residence was entered while the family was away from home. F. W. Meyers' grocery, Michigan road and Forty-Ninth street, was broken into by burglars during the night and mervalued at $35 was taken. CHURCH MEETING AT MARION. MARION, Ind., April 50.—The Indiana Conference of Congregational Churches will hold the annual meeting in Marion May 19-22 nt the Temple Congregational Church here.

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NEW INTEREST TAKEN IN WILD LIFE OF STATE Recently Enacted Laws Serve / to Protect Fish and Game. With the enactment by the 1921 Legislature of better laws protecting the State's wild and aquatic Hfe, renewed interest is strongly manifest all over Indiana to have water well stocked with fish and small game in the fields and forests. According to officials of the State department of conservation, calls have been received from a dozen counties asking that A. E. Bodine, organizer for the department, be sent to these localities to assist organizing fish and game clubs. BODINE ORGANIZES PROTECTIVE CLUBS. Since the close of the last Legislature new clubs have been formed at Peru, La Porte and Wabash, and Bodine will in a few days go into Shelby, Bartholomew and Boone Counties, where the residents wish to form protective organizations. Davies County also is asking for

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assistance In forming s club. These associations in Indiana now number 118 and comprise an approximate membership of 46,000 people who are associated together for the purpose of protecting the remnant of wild life and at the same time propagate it. They assist the State department in enforcing laws against fish pirates and game hogs, watch for the out-of-season hunter and fisherman, and help to create a friendly spirit between landowner and sportsman. In fact, a large percentage of the membership in a majority of the clubs are farmers, for they have come to see that In an organization which fights the unlawful element seeking fish and game, their lands are better protected from invasion by this class. ASSISTANCE TO LAND OWNER. One of the principal features of fit* work of these associations aside from helping to restock streams and enforce hunting laws in order that wild life may reproduce in a natural way, Is to drive out that element which fallft to respect the rights of the land owner. “Farmers as a class above all other citizens need the cooperation of the State conservation department and t?io organized clubs of the State to_keep the illegal game pirates off their premises,* says George N. Mannfeld, head of the fish and game division. By associating themselves together, farmers and city men who wish to see field and stream sports perpetuated, can solve this very complex problem, Mr. Mannfeld believes.

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