Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1906 — Is The Governor Playing To The Grand Stand [ARTICLE]

Is The Governor Playing To The Grand Stand

Gov. Hanly, who has been dropping men ont of office at the crack of the whip, has struck a snag in getting Dan Storms out. The people put Storms into office, and it isi quite probable he will stay in until tne people ask him to go out. stand play” for IJ. 8. Senator at the cost of some others.—Grown Point Star. This is a sample of the digs a few papers are giving Gov. Hanly these days, but it is what would be much sooner expected to emenate from the hitherto wide open, saloon and gambler ridden town of Hammond, for instance, than from the secluded and outwardly respectable town of Grown Point. And it is from the pen of the editorial sage Wheeler, too! Who coaid have look for an ex pression so evidently absurd and unjust from snch a source? If Hanly is removing these different men from office merely as a grandstand play, to help him on his way to the U. 8. Senate, what a lot of sell-sacrifising fellow conspirators he must have! Thus several state officers most have grossly and persistently have misconducted their offices, and mis-nsed, the public fan'ds, just to give the Governor a chance for a grand-stand play by removing them. And the great “Tom Tag,” the Democratic national chairman, must have been one of the self sacrifising victims, also, and started his big gambling houses at French Lick and West Baden, just to give Hanly a chance to “grand-stand,” etc., as per Bro. Wheeler and the rest, when he compelled Tom to close them up. And the police boards of such towns as Mancie, Kokomo, Michi gan City, Hammond, and we will not try to say how many other former wide open towns, have all deliberately refused to enforce the laws, they were bound by law and their oaths of office to enforce, jost to give the Governor another chance to give himself another boost towards the Senate by another of Sage Wheeler’s “grandstand plays.” All of which, absurd as it is, is only a logical deduction from the position of these critics of Gov. Hanly. For our part, it seems a much more reasonable view, in connection with these circumstances, as well as much more consistent with the Governor’s former high reputation, to believe that in making these removals, he is only acting from a high sense of duty, in pursuance of which he is obliged to sternly enforce the law against some of his strongest frienda And in so doing, he should have the support of men of snch high personal standing as Editor Wheeler, and not their sweeping and flippant condemnation.