Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 77, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1924 — Page 3
THURSDAY, AUG. 7,
AMBITIOUS LOBBYIST FAILS TO GET IN M’KINLEY’S CABINET
"MT OWN STORY” is an exclusive newspaper version of one of the xreat autobiographies of modern times: La Follette e own story of adventures m politlos as written by himself in 191... together with an authorized narrative of his experiences in the years since then. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOrS INSTALLMENTS La Follette enters political life, immediately comes into conflict with Wisconsin political bossism: nevertheless is elected to Congress, and from the beginning: opposes the onslaught of privite interests in Government affairs. In those rears Congress begins ”to consider seriously the condition of the common man." Constructive statesmen see the necessity for Government action to control or prevent monopolies. Tom Reed defends the existing system. McKinley represents *•, newer view, and is generally on the side of the public against private interests. La Follette and the rest of the Wisconsin delegation is instructed for McKinley. I am saying this notwithstanding McKinley's relationships with Mark Hanna. The chief incentive behind Hanna’s support of McKinley, I am convinced, was the honest love he felt for his friend. McKinley inspired affection of that sort. And Hanna, having come largely into control of the Republican organization through his genius as a leader and through the enormous expenditure of money, tried to bring all the elements together in harmony. The first and only time I ever met Hanna was at the St. Louis convention. He requested me to come and see him. He was extremely cordial, almost affectionate. He put his arm around me and told me of his relations with McKinley. He told me—and this was the object of the meeting—that he felt sure that McKinley would like to see Bayne on the National committee from Wisconsin. He understood, he said, that I was making a fight on Payne, but hoped that in the interest of harmony I would stand for Payne's selection. I told him about our struggle in Wisconsin, that . great movement had started there whiqh could not be arrested or diverted, that Payne and his associates stood for destruction of representative government, and that we could make no truce with them. Mr. Hanna's manner changed abruptly, and the interview terminated. McKinley Objected I know of my own knowledge that McKinley stood against many of the corrupt influences within his own party—that he even stood firmly against the demands of his best friend, Hanna. McKinley had no sooner been elected than the Wisconsin machine, backed strongly by Hanna, demanded appointment of Henry C. Payne as Postmaster General. And I, with others, brought forward the name of Governor Hoard as candidate for Secretary of Agriculture. A few weeks before McKinley's Inauguration, upon his invitation, I went to Canton to see him. We drove about town and visited his mother, a beautiful old lady. We had luncheon at his house. We discussed at length the appointment of Payne and Hoard to the Cabinet. I explained to him what forces Payne represented in Wisconsin, and Indeed he had already known Payne's work as a lobbyist in Washington in connection especially with beef trust matters, and ~l knew he abominated that sort of thing. But he told me that he bJieved no other man had ever been so strongly indorsed by prominent influential politicians in every part of the country as was Payne for that appointment. When It was nearly time for me to go. McKinley said: ■'Bob, I may not be able to appoint Hoard, but I will say to you that Henry Payne shall not be a member of my Cabinet.” TV hen I saw McKinley at the White House in the following winter, he told me how the effor' to secure Payne's appointment had culminated. He said that Hanna had come to him Just before his final decision was made and said: "You may wipe out every obligation that you feel toward me, and I'll ask no further favors of you. If you'll only put Henry Payne in the Cabinet.” McKinley's answer was: “Mark, I would do anything in the world I could for you, but I cannot put a man in my Cabinet who is known as a lobbyist.” And he kept his word. McKinley did not fully appreciate the new currents then entering our public life. He was a leader in the old business school of politics which regarded material prosperity as the chief end of all government. But he was a consistently honest man throughout. To illustrate: It was during his administration that extensive frauds were discovered in the Postoffice Department and in the Departments of Posts of
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MY OWN STORY
By ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE’
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SENATOR LA FOLLETTE STARTS OUT ON A SPEAKING TOUR.
Cuba. Senator Bristow of Kansas was then the fourth assistant postmaster general. He is a born investigator, able, original, fearless.
Scandal Inearthed
McKinley, when he realized the gravity of the frauds, sent for Bristow and told him he had selected him to go to Cuba and make a thorough investigatTon and clean out any corruption that might be found there. "I am willing to go, Mr. President,” said Bristow, “but before going I want to call your attention to the fact that every appointee in Cuba who has been accused of wrongdoing has been sent there upon the recommendation of members of Congress, Senators, or men influential in the Republican pa*jy. “When it becomes necessary for me to arrest or remove from office any of these men, they will at once complain to their friends in tls States and you will be bombarded with complaints as to my conduct. All I ask is that you withhold judgment until you hear my side of the case.” McKinley said: “Mr. Bristow, I understand just how difficult a task I have assigned to you. But go ahead, do what is right, be cautious, but flrjn, and shield no man who has been guilty of wrongdoing. As to the complaints, leave them to me; I will take care of them.” Bristow did go ahead and ran his game to cover, and when Hanna and other Senators and Congressmen protested he told them the Cuban postal service was infested with a gang of thieves and that he was simply doing his duty and proposed to keep it up. Then they went to the White House and McKinley told them that Bristow was acting on his orders. He stood unwavering by Bristow against the persistent importunity of many of his most intimate political advisers. I never felt that McKinley had a fair chance. His first term was broken into by the Spanish War. His second was cut off at the very beginning by assassination. He had no oportunity to develop his carefully wrought-out plans for large trade extension. He had rare tact as a manager of men. Back of his courteous and affable manner was a firmness that never yielded conviction, and while scarcely seeming to force Issues he usually achieved exactly what he sought. , In the fall of 1890 I was a candidate for a fourth term in Congress. I was so confident of reelection that I spent much time in campaigning in other pa&ts of Wisconsin and in speaking in lowa and elsewhere. But serious complications had arisen in Wisconsin politics; an act known as the Bennett law had been passed by the preceding Legislature which the very large Lutheran and Roman Catholic element in the State believed to be a blow at their parochial school systems, and there was a wholesale cutting of the Republican ticket. Combined with this the machine leaders in Wisconsin came into my district while I was absent speaking for candidates in other parts of the State, and secretly used all their power in favor of the Democratic candidate. The result was that although I ran 700 votes ahead of my ticket, I was defeated. The State went heavily Democratic. Every Republican Congressman save one lost his seat. Defeated Thus I was returned to private life and to my law practice; but it was not long before the fifteen years’ struggle with the machine in Wisconsin began. It would be idle to say that the
termination of my career as a Congressman in March, 1891, was ncjt a bitter disappointment to me. But I was only 35 years of age, and went back with firm resolutions and good cheer to the law practice at Madison, Wis. I was poor, and the expenses attendant upon readjustment to the*new life were matters of consequence. These matters were discussed from time to time by Mrs. La Follette and myself. I found that public service, while it had been a serious interruption to professional work, had extended my reputation materially and tended to draw to me a very sulSstantial clientage. Any thought I had of returning to the public service was vague and remote. That I should continue to be interested in public questions and in matters political was inevitable. I knew that issues of great importance affecting the lives and homes of all the people of the country were coming rapidly forward. I had followed the great debate in the Senate and House on the Sherman anti-trust law, had taken part in the debate in the House dn the interstate commerce law, had seen the manifestations of corporate power in the halls of Congress. I recognized, in a way, the evidences of the oncoming struggle. I had come to understand the power of Sawyer, Payne r.r.d a few other prominent Republican politicians, closely associated with railroads and other corporate interests in national and State legislation. I was convinced that Payne had not been seriously disappointed with my defeat; that, in fact, wherever he could exert any in-T fluence against my political success, without leaving a trail as broad as a highway, he had for some time lost no opportunity of doing so. Not so with Sawyer. I had disappointed him again and again in my course upon legislation. But he was a loyal party man and believed in supporting party candidates regardless of personal feeling. I might, therefore, have gone forward with my law practice quite contentedly had it not been for an event which soon took place and changed my whole life. I shall deal with this event at length because it was not only all powerful in its effect upon me personally, but it will reveal to what lengths corrupt politicians are prepared to go. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service. Inc.) Continued In Our Next Issue EX-SERVICE MEN FROLIC Members of Hayward-Barrus Post Picnic at Hrookside Pftrk. Members of the Hayward-Barcus Post, American Legion, with the auxiliary, participated in a picnic at Brookside Park Wednesday night. Nearly 150 members attended. Marion F. Hinkle, ex-commander of the poet, was presented a past commander's badge following the basket dinner. The auxiliary accepted the resignation of Mrs. Floyd W. Hoover, secretary. Twenty exservice men who attended as special guests were given aid in filling out bonus application blanks. G. O. P. Voters Organize By United Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., Aug. 7. Preparations were being made here today for the organization of the young Republican voters in Vanderburgh County for work in the fall campaign. Traction and Auto Smash By United Press JEFFERSON. Ind.. Aug. 7.—Edward Phipps, 37, of Sellersburg, and Silvia Stoner ,24, of Henryville, are today suffering from injuries they received when an interurban struck an automobile in which they were riding near Sellersburg. Shooting Is Fatal By Times Special MARION, Ind., Aug. 7. —Melvin Smethley was held today, pending a coroner’s investigation into the death of Ira Arthurhultz, 29. Smethley, it is said, shot Arthurhultz thinking he was a prowler. Former Dies From Hurts By Timm Special DECATUR, Ind., Aug. 7. —lnjuries received when he was crushed between a thrashing engine and a separator, proved fatal today to Ira Lybarger, 57, farmer, and father of eleven children. S I V Mulberry Doctor Dies imm Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 7.—The body of Dr. A. M. Yundt, prominent physician at Mulberry, was brought back home today, following his death at Rochester, Mina.
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G 0. P. ORGANIZES COLOREDBUREAU Ernest Tidrington to Begin Wo f rk Monday, Work of lining up the colored vote in Indiana for the G. O. P. will begin in earnest next Monday when Ernest Tidrington, colored attorney of Evansville, Ind., takes charge of the colored bureau of the State committee. Secretary Dailey E. Mcoy announced his appointment Wednesday. Tidrington has been head of the colored Knights of Pythias in Indiana for nineteen years. During the Goodrich administration he was assistant superintendent of State buildings and grounds. Clyde A. Walb, State chairman, will be at headquarters in the Severin after today. State headquarters is busy at present preparing th Republican handbook containing the names of the entire State organiza-
While Satan Smiled
TOURING her entire eighteen years, Helen Grant had known only the conventional, routine existence of the average girl in the average small town. So when chance made possible a visit to New York, she took with her, besides her youth and beauty, a passionate desire to "see something of life.” The glittering lights, the intoxicating music, the joyous dancing, the whirl of gaiety and pleasure would, she felt, be like wine to her thirsty soul. Had she known, when she sought -her first glimpse into that fascinating whirlpool of Broadway’s night life, where the broad, white, dazzling trail was to lead! But in her fevarish search for excitement—in her lighthearted, carefree pursuit of a "good time”—she
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tion down to precinct committeeme, the State platform and other material. JUDGE SETS NEW DATE Hopes Affairs of Dollings Subsidiary Will Be Settled Then. By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 7.—Hope was expressed here today that tho affairs of the Anderson Foundry and Machine Company, an R. L. Dollings Company subsidiary, would be settled Aug. 29. This was the date set Wednesday by Judge Kittinger In Circuit Court here aftqr an agreement on settling the affairs failed. Unions Will Meet By Times Special SOUTH BEND. Aug. 7.—One thousand delegates are expected to attend the convention of the Indiana Federation of Labor here the week of Aug. 24. Speeders Are Warned By Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., Aug. 7. Speeders here have been warned that a SSO fine will be levied in all arrests next week. Judge Du Comb is fining motorists $45 this week. Dr. Frederick Davis was one victim.
failed to foresee the heartache, the sorrow, the humiliation and bitter tears that were to attend her final awakening to the Truth about life. Every year, from the "Main Streets” of America, come thousands of these pretty, innocent moths to be utterly consumed in the dazzling, lure of the big city. The gutters, the hospitals, the insane asylums, the morgues, are full of them. In her own story, entitled "Haste Doesn’t Pay,” which appears in True Story Magazine for September, Helen Grant (of course this is not her real name) bravely bares her innermost soul, and reveals there the ugly scars of her bitter experience. It is a story packed with swiftly-moving, intensely dramatic episodes. It will leave you thoughtful, instructed and inspired.
soon as the novelty had worn off, a longing for the gay times she had known in faraway France grjpped her like a fever. In thfe story, Marie frankly tells of the terrible mistake she made in a moment of recklessness, and of the terrible price in tears and suffering she had to pay for it.
"Final Payment”— Merton Coyle had struggled hard for the wealth that, as he thought, was going to buy him happiness. He had yet to learn that a dear conscience and direst poverty are to be preferred to a life of luxury with a heartless woman. In this amazing true story, Merton Coyle bares the black tragedy that hung over his life, and covered him with dishonor, degradation and shame —and how finally he found happiness. “His Famous Wife”— Gordon Michie had pretty definite ideas about a wife’s place in the home—before he married. He refused
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LUTHERANS END NATIONAL MEET Tour of Local Charities Completes Program, Convention of Lutheran Associated Charities, which has been in session at Trinity Hall, Arsenal Ave. and E. Market St., closes today with a tour of Indianapolis welfare institutions. Sixty-three delegates from all sections of the United States, representing chartiy societies and hospitals, attended. Mission training of Lutheran deaconesses will be emphasized in the future. A full time city mission may be employed here in the near future, as a result of the growing need. Tribute was paid the Rev. F. W. Herzberger of ,St. Louis. Mo., founder, by the Rev. Philip Wambsgnass of Ft. Wayne, president. New York State leads all the others in the amount of water-power development.
to admit that a woman can be a successful wife and still pursue a career. Both he and his wife —and some others learned some lessons about marriage they are not apt to forget. Fate plays queer tricks sometimes in order to teach human beings right from wrong, and in this case you will agree that Michie and his wife were lucky to escape as easily as they did.
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TOWN MARSHAL SLAIN Two Held in Jail at Monticello Following Shooting. By United Press MONTICELLO. Ind., Aug. 7.—Edward Johnson and Jim Rader are in jail he’ e today as a result of the shooting and killing of Arnett B. I
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