Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1920 — WHY HE WANTS TO BE GOVERNOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHY HE WANTS TO BE GOVERNOR

This is Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, successful business man, physician, soldier and inexperienced politician. In medicine he has reached the top of his profession. Since entering the practice in 1895 he has achieved national For fifteen years he has been medical director of the State Life Insurance Company. In business Dr. McCulloch showed his keen foresight and ability when he undertook the development of the North Meridian street business district, commonly known as “auto row.” Dr. McCulloch’s enterprise made this project highly successful. His business integrity and ability are recognized by Indianapolis financial interests. His Military Record. Six weeks after war was declared he abandoned his practice to enlist.

He held successively the ranks of lieutenant, captain, major and lieu-tenant-colonel. Eighteen months of his service was spent in France with the American and French hospital and ambulance units. Dr. McCulloch was decorated by the French government with the Croix de Guerre for evacuating a hospital under Are. Dr. McCulloch has achieved more than the average allotment of success and distinction. His business enterprise assures him an Income; his medical practice would keep him busy; his military honors would be sufficient for most men. And yet he wants to be governor. He admits he wants to be governor and is working day and night to obtain the nomination. Here’s the Explanation. Why does he seek the governorship? If you were to ask Dr. McCulloch, he would give you several reasons. Chief among them, however, would be his well-known interest In the state’s educational and benevolent Institutions and his desire to put them on a proper business basis; his

impatience with the hap-hazard and costly manner the state’s business generally is conducted; and his desire to restore to the people the power which has been centralized at the State House, especially under the operation of the present tax and road laws. Dr. McCulloch is a bit old-fishioned in his ideas. He wants the governorship because he values the honor most highly, and because he craves the opportunity to put the state government on a sound business basis. It would be a genuine satisfaction to him to do sO. Those who know him best are willing to vpuch both for Dr. McCulloch’s sound judgment and his ability and determination to put into effect the principles for which he stands. His Platform. Dr. McCulloch is not a faddist Throughout his campaign he has studiously avoided promises of reform which he might not be able to fulfill because of their impracticability. These planks are prominent in his platform: Repeal of the present tax law and substitution of a system, fair and just to every citizen. Road legislation which will provide the best highways at the least cost. Restoration of our educational, benevolent and penal institutions to their old time efficiency. Adequate salaries for teachers and other educational workers. Restoration to townships, towns and counties of the right to govern their own financial affairs. Exact justice to worker, farmer and business man. Not a Politician. At the politicargame Dr. McCulloch is a novice. Although he has always been a staunch and active Democrat, it has been a matter of principle and not a selfish interest with him. Shrewd observers of the public mind are Inclined to believe however, that Dr. McCulloch’s political inexperience may be a great asset to him. They opine that the public is a bit weary of politics, and would welcome an opportunity to put a successful business man at the head of the state government. Dr. McCulloch is in th > prime of life —more active by tar than many men twenty years his junior. He was born in 1871, in Wisconsin, and came to Indiana with his parents in 1878. His father, Oscar C. McCulloch, was one of Indiana’s most eminept ministers and charity workers. After his graduation from high school, Dr. McCulloch continued his education at Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, and later studied medicine in Chicago. He was graduated in 1895. Dr. McCulloch and work have always been on intimate terms. Even as a young man he worked in a furniture factory and later as a machinist in the Atlas Engine works. Although not a politician, Dr. McCulloch has always been an earnest and active Democrat. The doctrines of Thomas Jefferson are quite good enough for him.

CARLETON B. M’CULLOCH.