Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1926 — Page 9

MAY 1926

CINCINNATI BOSS DETHRONED; LOSES GRIP JUOUNTY Scripps-Howard Newspaper Robs Hynicka of Patronage. Bit Times Scerial CINCINNATI, May 28.—Another of the old school of city bosses is rehearsing his farewell bow to the public and, though he still lingers

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on the Btage, his exit is a foregone conclusion. , If Rud K. Hynicka, the successor of George B. Cox as boss of Cincinnati, doesn't walk oft he will be pushed off no later than August when his shattered organization will join battle in the primaries with, a new and powerful group of independent Republicans. The success of this group Is taken for granted. 'Hynicka has been out of politics for some six months; he has only just realized It. The voters who had kept him in power all these years turned from him last November when they established at the City Hall a nonpartisan govarnment under a city manager. Cincinnati was through with him. County Follows City There was left to him the county government, but on the day after the November election, The Post, a

Scripps-Howard newspaper, called upon the people to organize and do for the county government what they had just done for the city: To drive the politicians from the courthouse and establish there a govern, ment of competent men. This is coming to pass. One day last week a group of independent Republicans met to launch a movement to smash the Hynicka machine by contesting with it In the primaries ;and in the same hour Hynicka announced his resignation as chairman of the, regular. Republican committee. Some political observers see in his move merely political strategy, a gesture by which he may create the impressiofl of surrender and at the same time plan to stay on the throne as bossv If it be strategy, it is losing strategy, they say, for politically Hynicka io out. All that remains is to count

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"ten” over his prostrate form at the coming election. Business Rule But Hynicka goes out not of his own volition, but one the irresistible tide of public opinion that says: “Local government Is a business institution. It should be conducted as any other business, not by politicians, but by efficient men, trained for the Job of management. National political Issues have nothing to do with running a city or a county well." And so passes Hynicka, although he has not yet formally announced his retirement as boss. Though he was of the school of old-time bosses he had certain modem improvements. The late George B. Cox, whom he succeeded, was a saturnine figure, a silent, man who came up from a saloon. Hynicka was vocal; he had cer-

tain social graces. Cincinnati, long accustomed to a boss who was without words, beheld in Hynicka a boss who could make a fair speech. Once a year he met his followers at dinner and sounded the toc&ln of battle In well-chosen words. But Hynicka’s beginnings were different from Cox’s; Cox began in a saloon; Hynicka began in a newspaper office as a reporter. Under His Wing Cox took Hynicka under his wing In his youth and gave him various Jobs, promoting him, at length, to county treasurer. There was a matter of county Interest funds that was investigated by a legislative committee, but that is an old stor>*. • • • Out of public office, Hynicka became a figure In the burlesque theater business and his chain of burlesque houses dots the land. He

became a national magnate In this industry and he moved his office and his home to New York. He continued to manage the government of Cincinnati by wire. T&ere was a matter of a gas rate pending In the city council of Cincinnati. Being busy In New York, he could not come to Cincinnati to advise the councilmen In relation to this business and so thqpe was not that uniformity of opinion that was usually seen in council. Some councilmen were in favor of increasing the gas rat* and some weren't. In the midst of this confusion Hynicka sent a telegram of advice to council, and the next day many of the councilmen who didn't want to Increase the gas rate voted to increase it and It was Increased. Telegram Found But the telegram fell Into the hands of The Post and gave the people an insight Into the way a boss

works. This yro.u the beginning of the end of Hynicka. There set in a current Os public opinion that culminated in the launching of the city manager movement by The Post. Three years after the telegram was disclosed the city manager charter was enacted and In the fourth year Hynicka was driven from his stronghold, the city hall. The Scripps-Howard newspaper, conducting a campaign unassisted by other newspapers, had swung more than 98,000 votes, most of them Republican, to the cause of good government, and the Hynicka organization, assisted by other elements hostile to the city manager plan, could only muster 40,000. The total British national debt Is about 171 pounds per capita. There are 68,000 fewer horses in London this year than last.

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YOUNG FOLKS HAVE GIFT Sherwood Speaks at (iymnMtlc Union Commencement. Young, people going forth in the world have something to glv*— they a.-e not asking for something, declared Dr. Henry Noble Sherwood, State superintendent of publio Instruction, at graduation exerdwa Thursday night, at the Normal College of the American Oymnaadc Union. Diplomas were presented by Franklin Vonnegut, prealdent of trustees. Oarl A. Bpitzer of Fitchburg, Mass., was class valedictorian. Emil Rath, dean of the school, was In charge. The graduating ctass gave an athletic exhibition this afternoon at the Athenaeum.