Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1920 — “YOU’RE ANOTHER” -GOODRICH [ARTICLE]

“YOU’RE ANOTHER” -GOODRICH

Governor Replies to Criticisms of 1 Federal Judge A. B. Anderson. Judge A. B. Anderson of the federal court in Indianapolis and Governor Goodrich have been indulging in a few pleasantries during the poet few days in which the latter calls Judge Anderson a liar. The difficulty arises over the following re, mark of Judge Anderson Tuesday forenoon fdllowing the sentencing of defendants who had entered pleas of guilty to stealing automobiles and transporting them in Interstate traffic. He was prompted to give expression to the opinion when, after sentencing Elwood Uncapher, age 17, 348 South Randolph street, to 18 months in the federal prison at Atlanta. Mrs. Uncapher became hysterical and it was necessary to carry her from the courtroom. Judge Anderson said: “I have to do this because the state courts won’t do their duty. For years and years cars have been stolen all over the city and state. When the courts do do their duty and sentence the criminals the governor lets them out. I have to have the petty criminal business because the governor or the parole board or some one lets them out ae soon as they are sentenced. That ,is the

plain truth and it is about time the people of Indiana knew about it.” Governor Goodrich came back and said, according to an interview in the Indianapolis News of Wednesday: “If Judge Andreson is correctly quoted in the News, he is, asusual, ‘playing to the grand stands’ and indulging in a lot of loose talk. To say that he grossly misrepresents the facts is putting it mildly. “He states that ‘when the courts do their duty the governor lets them out.’ The truth is the governor does not let them out except upon the recommendation of the trial courts. “The judge is further reported as saying, ‘I have to have the petty criminal business because the governor, or the parole board, or some one turns them out as soon as they are sentenced.’ This statement so far as the governor is concerned is a plain, unvarnished lie, and not ‘the plain truth’ or even an approach to the truth. “The tendency of Judge Anderson to use his position on the bench to get in the ‘spotlight’ and play to the galleries was never better illustrated than in this instance. / “He knows nothing about the actual fact® or he wouldn’t have made the foolish statement attributed to him, and as usual went off ‘halfcocked.’ “The district court of the United States has a certain well-defined jurisdiction and within the limits of that jurisdiction it has as much authority as any inferior court should seek to exercise. “When the judge of the district court assumes to exercise supervision over the officers of the state of Indiana he temporarily forgets what he is.

“The mere holding of a federal position does not give Mr. Anderson power to trit In judgment upon the action of the state courts or the governor of this commonwealth.”