Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1920 — DAVIES HOLDS FAST [ARTICLE]

DAVIES HOLDS FAST

It now appears that there was no foundation for the rumor that Ora J. Davies might resign as the Republican candidate for treasurer of state. Mr. Davies has settled a shortage reported to the state board of accounts, and the past to him.-is a closed book. Having been found short and having settled, he declares that nothing in the settlement reflects upon his integrity, so he means to stick a? a candidate. Says Mr. Davies: Should I resign, would not that very act be construed by many an admission that there was something wrong in my record as a public official? The general public was under the impression that ’ something was wrong with his record as a public official. The examiners from the state board discovered something wrong when they went through his official records. They reported their findings to their chief. Before the matter became public it was known to numerous delegates who attended the Republican state convention. The word was passed around that it would be poor politics to nominate Davies because he was short in his accounts and the Democrats would

use it as a club to defeat him and batter down th® rest of the ticket. - Nevertheless, Senator Watson’S manager and some other close friends had a deal on and it included the nomination of Davies for treasurer of state. The deal went through. Davies was nominated in spite of his shortage and regardless of objections from party leaders who realized this was no time to burden the ticket. Davies now takes the position that the Republican party should assist in his “vindication.” The Republican party is not responsible for the shortage in his accounts, neither is it responsible for his political future. It has enough houses to clean without going out of its way to find additional trouble. That is the reason there is a strong demand for Davies to get off th*, ticket. —Indianapolis News.

There have been but 13 special sessions of the Indiana legislature in the history of the state, and two of these 13 special sessions have been called within the last six months by Governor Goodrich. The last previous special session was in September, 1908, called by Governor Hanly, also Republican, and the special session before it was in 1885, and was merely a continuation of the regular session. The Democrats have not made such a mess of legislation as to make special sessions necessary with all the attendant expense to the taxpayers.

Representative W. L. Wood made the statement while in The Democrat office Friday afternoon, in discussing the unprecedented muddle the recent supreme court decision has put the state in, in unanimously declaring illegal the horizontal increases made in assessments by the state tax board, that it would cost his party 50,000 Indiana votes this fall. And he was right, except that he under-estimated the cost to the Republicans, as it is a Republican tax law that the board assumed to be working under and the tax board is Republican.

Of course ,it is difficult to estimate anyway near the coming yield of oats in this vicinity, but it is the general opinion that oats never looked better here and the weather has been very good indeed for their fillbeen very good, inded for their filling well. They are beginning to “turn” in some , fields and it is probable that a few will be cut the last of the week. The Louisiana legislature adjourned sine die without passing the woman’s suffrage bill, therefore the so badly needed one other state must be found elsewhere; perhaps Tennessee will respond. The governor of Vermont has refused to call a special session in his state to ratify ths amendment. And “the committee of 48” is against the league of nations! Sure, Mike! Every anarchist, every Radical and every malcontent in the country is against the league. The fishhook cactus is the compass of the desert, for it always points to the south.