Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1920 — McCRAY IS SILENT ON THE TAX LAW [ARTICLE]

McCRAY IS SILENT ON THE TAX LAW

McCulloch Declares G. O. P. Candidate’s Silence Gives Consent to Goodrich Law. Rockport, Ind., Oct. 6. —Dr. Carleton B. McCullough, Democratic candidate for governor, who has been speaking in the flrat district, was heartily received here this afternoon in Ms discussion of the state tax law, when he declared that Warren T. McCray had not yet publicly said what he would do with the law should he be elected governor. “Silence gives consent,” said Dr. McCulloch. “I call on Mr. McCray to tell what he means to do in regard to the Indiana tax law. What relief is there in sight for our overburdened taxpayers in case’ of Republican success? “The campaign has been opened and going ahead under full head of i steam for a month or more, yet the Republican candidate for governor is strangely silent on the subject of state issues. The people are of the opinion that there will be no relief ‘with a Republican administration next term. At least they want to know Mr. v McCray’s position. They want to know why a man who is a candidate for governor of Indiana spends four-fifths of his time discussing. national, affairs to the exclusion of subjects that effect the pocketbook of every citizen of this state. “If he does not rebuke the iniquities of the tax law —the cramping of dur charitable institutions and the extravagance of our various, commissions, including the state highway commission, it can only mean that he approves all that has been done. We want good roads, for example, but we want them economically constructed. Every automobile owner and every farmer ought to vote for Thomas Taggart. He has done more than any other one man to popularize and give impetus to the good roads movement, not only while he was in the United States senate, but before and after. He was instruntental in getting federal allotments to the state for this purpose."