Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1920 — VOTERS WILL REBUKE GOODRICH COMBINE [ARTICLE]

VOTERS WILL REBUKE GOODRICH COMBINE

Democratic Nominee for Governor Declares State Government Perverted by the Big Three. Corydon, Oct. 9.—Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Democratic candidate for governor, denounced the perversion of the state government and its centralized power in a speech herS this afternoon before a big crowd of men and women. “I wonder what the forefathers of our state government who lie buried in the graveyard of this ancient capital of Indiana would say if they knew how the government which I they instituted has been perverted by the McCray-Goodrich-Watson combination?” said the Democratic candidate. “The founders believed that the three branches of the government ' — the judiciary, the legislative and the executive —should be of equal importance and authority. The combination believes otherwise. It believes that the executive department should be supreme and the other two branches subordinate; “It is on this theory that the state tax- board has seized the right to make levies, to control county and township affairs and to inhibit our traditional rights of self government. I wish these departed could vote this fall; in fact, I think they will, vicariously. I believe their spirits will inspire their descendants to rebuke the illegal way in which the power of the state has been circumvented and concentrated in the hands of the governor, the manner in whjch the courts have been- side-stepped and the legislature subordinated by the Goodrich-McCray-Watson political triangle.”