Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 85, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1924 — Page 7

SATURDAY, AUG. 16, 1924

FOUR NEW SHOWS GET REM TO BOW IN ONBRGADWAY Hope Hampton Will Bea Dillingham Star Next Season. By the NEA PLAY JURY NEW YORK. Aug. 16. —Pour new productions are scheduled to open on Broadway. Thus the hopeful producers may announce the openins' of the grand fall season —bigger and better than ever. And if Broadway ever needed the transfusion of a little new blood into Its emaciated body, this is the time. For a fortnight, business has hit rock bottom. The thermometer so lost control of its activities that no other shows could compete with it. With the exception of the “Scandals,” "Follies” and “Kid Boots.” and “Abie’s Irish Rose.” the box office bookkeeping has all been done on the debit side. “Dancing Mothers” steps in with Man' Young. Helen Hayes. John Tlalliday and Henry Stephenson in large type. The following night "Marjorie” brings back Elizabeth Hines, the youthful musical comedy star, to the accompaniment of a Sigmund Romberg score. “No Other Girl” does her stuff the night after "Marjorie” opens, and has Eddie Russell and Helen Ford as the featured players. “Easy Street” follows, featuring Mary Newcomb. While there are no staggering names there, and the first offerings of the season sometimes linger no longer than a week or so on the Gay White Way, still this is the most excitement we have had theatrically ir several weeks and the first nighters have something to look forward to. Hope Engaged Hope Hampton has been selected by Charles Dillingham to star in his opera, “Madame Pompadour.” which will open soon. Hope has continued her musical education during the years she was in the silent drama, as it is called. The Greenwich Village Theater announces it will begin the season with a drama by Stark Young. “The Saint,” followed by Eugene O’Neill’s "Desire Under the Elms,” Rostand's “The Last Night of Don Juan” and Copeau’s version of “The Brothers Karamazoff.” "Much Ado About and a Gilbert and Sullivan revival. The Provincetown Playhouse will open with a drama by Edmund Wilson, “The Crime in the Whistler Room,” and follow with O’Neill’s “The Great God Brown” and “The Colonnade” by Star Young, and a revival of “Love for Love,” by Congreve.

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Congressman John M. Nelson, late a Congressman. The bosses were alarmed. Here was a publication carrying the truth week by week into every community. Its policy could not bo affected in anyway. Something must be done. So they sought to have the Postoffice Department at Washington deny the paper the second-class mail privilege. I knew the affair had been instigated by Postmaster Keyes and the bosses, and I wrote the department. inviting the most searching inspection, but stating what I knew to be the purpose back of the attack. Inspectors from Washington took possession of our books, and made a thorough investigation. No order came from the Postoffice Department denying us the second-class privilege. In the meantime we were not only actively at work with our political propaganda and our efforts to overturn the machine, but we were also advancing constructive measures of various sorts as rapidly as we could get them to the attention of the people. Free Passes One effort was to secure a law preventing railroad companies from giving free passes to political leaders and public officials. The pass abuse had grown to extraordinary proportions in Wisconsin, and the r>ower to give passes, franks on telegraph and telephone lines, free passage on Pullman cars, and free transportation by express companies had become a great asset of the machine politicians. These insidious privi-

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leges went far toward corrupting the politics of the State. I had early to meet the problem of passes in my own case. In 1884, as soon as I was elected to Congress several railroads sent me passes. Although there was then no agitation of the subject, I talked the matter over with Sam Harper and Judge Siebecker, my law partners, and we agreed I must keep myself free from obligations: I never used railroad passes while I was a member of Congress, nor at any other time while I held a public office. In 1890 I first met A. R. Hall, to whom, more than any other man, belongs the credit for the enactment of the strong statute finally passed, after nine years’ struggle, prohibiting State officials from accepting, using, or procuring passes or franks. His bill for the abolition of passes and fr&nks was beaten in the session of 1891, and again in 1893. At the Haugen convention, Hall offered a x’esolution to commit the party against the pass evil, but the machine has a system which takes care of all “crank” resolutions. As soon as a convention is organized, a motion is adopted providing that all resolutions shall he referred, without being read or debated, to the committee on resolutions, thereafter to be appointed. Hall’s resolution went to the committee, but was never heard from after. But this did not stop Representative Hall. He was ready with his anti-pass bill when the Legislature of 1895 convened. To aid in creating public sentiment against the use of railway passes by members of the Legislature and other officials, he and I prepared resolutions which were printed and placed in the hands of reliable men in practically every township of the State. During the legislative session of 1895 Hall made a speech for his bill with the usual result. And public opinion soon began to respond. Members of the Legisla-

ture found themselves confronted with criticism of their positions on this legislation. But the free pass and the telegraph and telephone frank were valuable assets for the machine, and it was a hard fight. Bill Chloroformed In the convention of 1896 Hall was again ready with his anti-pass resolution. It was chloroformed as usual by the committee on resolutions, hut afterward on the floor of the convention, when vigilance was relaxed somewhat, Hall seized the opportunity, again offered his anti-pass resolution, and promptly moved its adoption. It was a dangerous situation for the machine. It is one thing to smother a resolution in committee; it is quite another thing to vote it down in open convention. The vote was taken, and to the consternation of the bosses, it was passed with cheers. But it was a barren victory so far as actual results were concerned. The Legislature of 1897 ignored the action of the convention and again defeated Hall’s anti-pass bill. More than this, the bosses and their henchmen denounced it. They said that it had been sprung on the convention; that it had not been considered by the platform committee; that the convention that passed it was nothing more than a mob; that it was not a part of the platform and binding on nobody. This all helped. It provoked discussion and controversy everywhere, and that is all that is required to advance any proposition that is sound and right. The public was now thoroughly aroused, and the defeat of the anti pass bill in the Legislature of 1897 called down upon those responsible for it the sharpest criticism. Then a discovery was made which enabled us to destroy the pass bribery' system. H. M. Tusler, the Madison agent of the United States Express Company, who was a strong sympathizer with our reform movement.

as are so many employes of corporations, let it be known that Governor Scofield had shipped from his home in Oconto, in the northern part of the State, to Madison, the capital, in the southern part of the State, free on, express frank No. 2169, the following: Jan. 7, 1897, two boxes, two barrels; Jan. 8, 1897, three barrels, one box; Jan. 9, 1897, two boxes, 200 pounds; Jan. 11, 1897, two barrels, two boxes, 1,000 pounds; Jan. 13, 1897, one cow (crated); Jan. 14, 1897. one box, fifty pounds, one box. twenty-six pounds; Feb. 2, 1897, one package Feb. 26, 1897, one package; March 26, 1897, one sewing machine, one buggy pole. Finally, in the session of 1899, Hall’s bill was forced through the Legislature, and it at once cut off one of the strong props of the boss system in Wisconsin. I come now to the campaign of 1898. We had been beaten twice al ready—in 1894 and 1896 —and there were those who thought it unwise to fight the renomination of Schofieid in 1898. Many friends were apprehensive that if defeated again it would destroy all possibility of my leadership thereafter, and they urged that a negative campaign be made in the form of a protest against Scofield's renomination, but that we put forward a candidate of our own. I contended defeat could not destroy any man whose candidacy was based upon important principles; that vital issues were never destroyed by defeat; and that any failure upon our part to oppose the machine would disintegrate our forces, and greatly delay the overthrow of the bosses. I offered my support to any recognized Progressive who would lead the fight as a candidate for Governor, but insisted that the fight must be continued unceasingly. There being no other willing to undertake the campaign. I announced my candidacy. During this campaign of 1898 I

felt deeply the loss of my oldest and best friend and supporter. March 12, 1898, I delivered an address on the direct primary at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Upon my return, I was shocked to find my law partner, Samuel A. Harper, desperately ill with pneumonia. I never left him, day or night, till the end came. No man has ever been so completely a part of my life. The three weeks’ campaign for the choice of candidates in 1898 was one of the fiercest ever conducted. Gilbert E. Roe, my former law partner, now a member of the New York bar, was a member of the committee ,on resolutions in the convention and led the fight in committee, securing the adoption of many progressive planks. When the convention met I should have been nominated on the first ballot. except for the use of money with delegates exactly as in the convention of 1896. Senator Stephenson, then a Scofield supporter and a power in the old organization, stated many times to my friends that the total amount of money required to handle delegates the night before the balloting began was $8,300. I was again defeated. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) (Continued in Our Next Issue) TODAY IS IRISH DAY Thirty-Second Annual Celebration Held at Columbia Park. This is Irish day. Hundreds of persons attended the thirty-second ! annual celebration by Ancient Order ; of Hibernians and Ladies’ Auxiliary I of Marion County at Columbia Park, i “Annually on or about Aug. 15, the I great Feast of the Assumption of the | Blessed Virgin, societies of men and women of the Irish )-ace, hold their festive gatherings, which in this country is sometimes called “Lady day” celebration. “This is a very ancient custom of the Irish,” said J. P. O’Mahony, editor the Indiana Catholic.

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