Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1942 — Page 11

Booth Tarkington's Tribute

to General Robert H. Tyndall

TARKINGTON

I DO not know who is opposing General Tyndall for the Mayoralty of Indianapolis; but the Democrats would need a superman to offer a better choice to the city than this grand and good old soldier. I speak of him as “old” though, compared to myself, he is a young man, strong in spirit and body. His oldness is in his long experience and the wisdom derived from it. In military service to his country, he is both old and honored enough to have a statue; yet he was too active and capable an officer to be retired for age. That loss to the Army, however, is our city’s gain.

Lx on As a citizen and devotee of Indianapolis, I hope that nothing will prevent his Excerpts from a | election. . Besides, this is a man to whom we all owe something.

letter received erer rece In 1917 I saw him go out from our quiet Hoosier ways and into the Great War to

by face wounds and death with the men he had trained. I saw him come back as I had Donald Jameson ‘seen him come back from the “little” Spanish War, years earlier, and I saw our city from take off its hat to him. He walked through lines of shouting Hoosiers who cheered Booth Tarkington and wept in pride of him and the men he led.

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x What of the magnificent job he’s done with his organization of the Marion Coun- | ty Civilian Defense in Indianapolis? That alone should bring him our enthusiastic suffrages. And where is a man anybody would more safely trust—trust to keep his word, to serve his community with all his strength, trust to keep Indianapolis clean, decent, and what it ought to be?

I’ve known General Robert Tyndall forty years and he’s fooled me all that time if he isn’t a straight-shooter first, last and forever. If he becomes our Mayor, as he should, we’ll find him as brave in politics as he was in war.

Our men are fighting for your right to vote!