Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1940 — Page 5

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23, 1940 Another O'Daniel:

6.0. P, CHARGES POLICE PLAYED POLITICS IN '36

Councilmen Mention It Just To ‘Avoid a Repetition’ Next Month.

By RICHARD LEWIS

The three Republican members of the City Council—Harmon O. Camp-

_ bell, Walter E. Hemphill and Ralph

Moore—paid a formal call upon the Safety Board yesterday. They charged that the Police Department had taken part -in election “irregularities” in 1936. The charges were that Republican literature had been “hi-jacked,” that

" Republican precinct workers were

beaten, and that the police. radio had been used for election purposes. The Councilmen said they only wanted assurances that no such tactics will be employed in the election next month. Mr. Campbell charged specifically that on primary election day, the police radio issued “more than 100 calls” for County Commissioner William Brown. “I was bewildered,” he said, the amount of calls.” The Safety Board and Chief Morrissey denied all the charges. They produced the police radio records, kept in- comformity with Federal regulations, which showed that on primary election day, Commissioner Brown received two calls. The Chief said that Mr. Brown has charge of maintenance of County buildings and improvements and that his services are often needed by County officials. Donald Morris, Republican Safety Board member, sided with Chief Morrissey. Safety Board President Leroy J.

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! Keach had only one comment to

make. “Good, clean fun,” he said.

LIKENS WILLKIE TO ‘BABBLING BROOK’

FT. DODGE, Iowa, Oct. 23 (U. P.). —Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. last night compared Wendell L. Willkie, his father’s opponent in the Presidential election, to “the babbling brook which never will rise higher than its source.” He said it would be impossible for Mr. Willkie, the Republican candidate, to make good his claims that he could carry out better the reforms which the New Deal had

“Terrible Terry” Carpenter .. . mixes business with ‘politics.

Nebraskan Employs Pappy’s Tactics in Campaign For Governorship.

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. Oct. 23 (NEA).—Out of the middle west, which gave the nation biscuit passing Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel of Texas, comes -another young man who is mixing business with politics in his campaign, He is “Terrible Terry” Carpenter, chain store magnate who is running for the governorship of Nebraska on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Carpenter’s strategy has been to popularize his name so it will prove magnetic on a store front or on a ballot. At 30, he opened his first filling station here, a one-pump place. Terry plunged in with price-cut-ting tactics and in a decade has built far-flung operations reaching into three states and grossing two million dollars annually. To keep his name before the public, Mr. Carpenter ran for mayor of Scottsbluff in 1931 and surprised the town by almost getting the job. Next year, according to the story, Terry started to run for legislature but somebody said why not try for Congress. It wasn’t a bad idea, but he knew the Republican incumbent had the seat cinched. So he changed his registration and won the Democratic nomination and election. °

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In 1536 he won the nomination for U. S. Senate but lost. .

“velt was the source of those reforms.

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HOOSIER VOTERS GET 4 BALLOTS

Machines to Be Used Here; Nationa), State, County Tickets Separate.

Indiana voters will have four ballots to mark Nov. 5, but Marion County voters, with the exception of two precincts will use machines. One of the ballots will carry three constitutional. amendments. One would halve the double liability on bank shareholders, a second calls for the Legislature to fix the liability an shareholders in corpora-

tions, and a third provides for elim-

ination of the.constitutional requirement that banks renew their charters every 20 years. The other ballots will be separate, with one each for National, State and County tickets. The Marion County precincts not using machines are the Third in Center Township (outside), with about 25 voters and the Third in Franklin Township, with about 50 voters. The election office at the Court House has issued 300 absentee ballots by mail, several hundred more in person and expects to issue more that 1000 before the deadline midnight of Nov. 2. ; Absentee voters, who must be out of town on business election day, vote in the presence of a county clerk or a notary. The ballots are shown unvoted and then marked in the presence of the Clerk or notary, but without his seeing the marking. They are then mailed to the Clerk here, who later turns them over to the voting inspector at the precinct where the absentee voter lives. Sometime during election day, the inspector casts the ballots after announcing his intention to those present at the polling place. The ballots are not transferred to the machine until the end of the day, when this is done in the presence of all the elerks.

FLYNN SAYS RIVALS VIOLATE U. S. LAWS

NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (U. P.).— Edward J. Flynn, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said today that the National Committee of Democrais-for-Willkie had violated Federal laws by soliciting funds from Federal employees in Government offices in Washington. The appeal was contained in a

letter sent out over the signatures of Lewis W. Douglas, former budget director, and John W. Hanes, formg undersecretary of treasury, he said. Mr. Hanes, now an executive member of the National Committee of Democrats-for-Willkie, answered the charge by asserting the letter said, “No contributions will be accepted from officers or employees of, or persons receiving or entitled to receive compensation for services, or salary from the U. S. Government.” “The absurdity of mailing a fund soliciting letter to a Government employee accompanied by a statement that we will not accept his money must be evident to everybody but Boss Flynn,” Mr. Hanes said in a formal statement.

AL SEES ‘FUNERAL’ OF PARTY ‘1 KNEW’

BOSTON, Oct. 23 (U.P.).—Alfred E. Smith, 1928 Democratic Presidential candidate, terms the 1940 national convention at Chicago “the funeral services of the Democratic Party as I have known it.” In a letter read at a rally of Willkie Democrats at the Women’s Republican Club of Massachusetts last night, Mr. Smith predicted that millions of Democrats would vote for the Republican Presidential nominee without believing they have left their party. “Wendell Willkie’s nomination at Philadelphia,” he said, “was brought about in a democratic and American way in contrast to the subservient and boss-controlled New Deal bloc that had the nerve to style themselves a democratic convention.”

NO BIDS FOR MINE LAYERS WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (VJ. P.).— The Navy failed today to get any bids for the construction of two new mine layers which it intended to

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Kelly-Nash Machine Faces Fight of Life fo Carry lllinois As Willkie Drumfire Makes it Symbol of Corrupt Politics

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

CHICAGO, Oct. 23.—The KellyNash machine, which played such a disreputable part in the renomination of President Roosevelt that Democrats have been apologizing

‘ever since, is in the fight of its life

to carry Illinois for Mr. Roosevelt and thus preserve its power and its cash political position. Political analysts here say that Wendell L. Willkie is in the lead today and will win the state's 29 electoral votes on Nov. 5 unless the swing is checked. Democratic leaders admit they are in danger, but express confidence they can pull the President through. The Kelly-Nash machine, under joint management of Mayor Ed Kelly of this city and Democratic National Committeeman Patrick A. Nash, is the Administration’s biggest single asset in Illinois, controlling as it has in recent years the majority vote in this city. (Chicago casts a

slightly: larger vote than the revs of Illinois.) But of late the machine has developed certain liabilities. The day-in-and-day-out drumfire of Mr. Willkie, deploring its abuses, its spoils and its part in Mr. Roosevelt’s renomination, finally has made “Kelly-Nash” a term of opprobrium that has supplanted “Tammany” far and wide as the symbol of big-city corrupt politics. This has even shaken somewhat the complacency of a city that showed its thick skin by enduring Al Capone for so long, and Republicans are capitalizing the awakened civic consciousness. This ‘reform wave may Rave an effect on election day. The sensitivity of the Washington Administration to Mr. ‘ Willkie’s persistent Kelly-Nash attack is indicated by the appointment of the hard-hitting Maurice Milligan— who cleaned up the Pendergast

machine in Kansas City—as a spe-

cial Justice Department lieutenant to loek ‘into such things elsewhere. Until a few days ago Dermoursts had taken for granted their continued control in this state, but they

woke up to discover that Mr. Willkie was into high gear. Frantic calls were dispatched to President Roosevelt by Senator Scott Lucas, chairman of the Western division of the Democratic National Committee, to come to the state and speak, but Mr. Roosevelt declined. Senator Lucas is worried not only about Illinois but about the farm territory to the west which Henry A. Wallace, Vice Presidential candidate, apparently is ‘unable to hold in line. Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas seem certain tor Mr. Willkie. Democrats think lowa still might be saved. Republicans profess high hopes in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and Democrats are anxious about these two states.

In Illinois, as in other Midwestern states, Republicans are hammering away at the charge that the Presi-

dent is leading the country into war, and apparently -are making votes. - There is a large German population in the state. Italians, also numerous .in Chicago, are resentful of the President’s “dagger in the back” crack at Charlottesville, and Mayor La Guardia of New York has been sent here to bring them back into line. With many Illinois voters reported still undecided, there are several uncertain factors aside from the German and Italian votes. Will Mr. Willkie make substantial inroads into the large Negro vote centered in this city? That is one. Republicans are trying to lure Negroes from the New Deal—by the argument that the third term means a dictatorship and that a dictatorship means they will be on relief forever, while Mr. Willkie will give them real jobs.

HOLMES MEMORIAL . BILL SIGNED BY FDR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt today paid tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as a great liberal and a great patriot.

He signed = Congressional resolution authorizing the use of Mr. Justice Holmes’ estate for publica= tion of a memorial volume of the liberal Justice’s selected writings and the establishment of an Oliver Wendell Holmes Garden near the Supreme Court. “March 8, 1941, will be the 100th anniversary of Mr. Justice Holmes’ birth,” Mr. Roosevelt said in a statement. “I hope it may be possible to effectuate this program of Congress as part of the celebration of that centenary.” Mr. Holmes, Mr. Roosevelt said.in recalling his own acquaintanceship with the Justice, was “a man of superlative gifts and achievements in law and literature that form an enduring part in the spiritual treas= ury of our country.”

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