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M*NTH/rT is about to go to the penal farm and the governor is still
in Florida. Verily, the bootleggers are growing less powerful every day.
NEWSPAPERS that fear he will be nominated for the presidency are
still giving much attention to Mr. McAdoo’s assertions that he will not
seek the nomination.
A GOVERNOR of Indiana could easily find use for ability to prose
cute, but it is difficult to see wherein that ability would help make a
'senator.
HERE'S the mayor’s chance. The licensee of a poolroom was caught
making crooked dice. That is almost immoral enough to justify revocation
of license.
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An Opportunity Begging
Announcement is made that when five of the new street cars which
the local company is obtaining under so many difficulties have been re
ceived they will be run to the city hall for inspection by the members of
the board of works.
And announcement might just as well be added that when these cars
are brought to the city hail for inspection the "wise men" to whom the
city is paying salaries for looking after its interests will gaze thereon, re-’
mark that the cars are well-painted or something equally as asinine and
go about their private businesses much pleased with themselves and the
world.
For that is about as broad a conception of duty to the public as any
members of the Charles W. Jewett board of works appear to have.
The greatest opportunity to do something for Indianapolis that has
ever confronted any administration has been booted about the city
hall for more than a month, now, and the members of the administration
have not only refused to recognize it as an opportunity, but are actually
afraid they might possibly be forced into action on It. The opportunity
is simply this:
The local street car company is at the end of its string. It is unable
to furnish the service demanded by Indianapolis and necessary to Its own
financial success because it has no credit and can not obtain credit as long
as Its revenue is limited as it is.
Being well aware of its predicament, the street car campany is willing,
almost anxious, to surrender anything it, has for some assurances that it
will not be allowed to go bankrupt in the next .year.
Its representatives have appealed to the city administration to work
out a "service-at-cost” plan or any other plan that will stabilize the invest
ment of the street car stock and bondholders.
Instead of taking advantage of this situation to bring the street car
system under some sort of real control and Insure Its growth with the
city the members of the Jewett administration are contenting themselves
with issuing a lot of meaningless orders and “inspecting” a lot of cars
concerning which they know nothing and care to know nothing.
If we had a city administration with a single spark of constructive
ability in it we might evolve a Cleveland plan of operation of street cars
in Indianapolis. We might control. If not own, our own street car system
At any rate we could insure that the city will not longer be hampered by
an inadequate system and we could 'do all this without compelling the
street car patron to spend a single cent more for his rides.
But Mayor Jewett is raising hogs. Mark Miller Is practicing law, Trving
Lemaux is making brooms and Tommie Riley is trying to figure out
whether he can earn another job through political favors to the Indianap
olis News. They content themselves with "inspecting” new cars.
And in the meanwhile it doesn’t make a bit of difference whether the
company gets one new car or a hundred, It has not now and it can not
hire at the present wage scale enough men to run sufficient cars to earn
the revenue needed to keep Itself alive.
Mr. Dailey's Victory
Frank Dailey has much more occasion to rejoice over the successful
prosecution of Senator Newberry than the success of any prosecution he
has conducted up to date.
Newberry was the most prominent and probably the wealthiest of any
defendants Dailey has ever brought to trial. Further, he is not only the
most prominent republican, but perhaps the only republican of any note
that Mr. Dailey ever prosecuted.
The special prosecutor won fame by,reason of his election fraud pros
ecutions in Indiana, notably against the Terre Haute crowd of election
crooks. In these Indiana prosecutions he not only had the assistance of
paid representatives of the Indianapolis News, who were selected for their
skill in such work, but. he also had as an asset a sentiment that had been
carefully built up by that newspaper throughout a number of yearn. The
extent to which Mr. Dailey was directed in his cleanup In Indiana by these
influences has never been fully disclosed. However, these influences were
such as to make many who saw him function in Michigan, wonder whether
or not he could succeed without it.
In the conviction of Truman Newberry Mr. Dailey has proved that he
can successfully prosecute republicans as well as democrats. He has dem
onstrated that the Indianapolis News is not essential to his success as a
prosecutor, and that he has the ability to conduct government work with
out the close co-operation of the News satellites.
It is true, of course, that Denny Bush, the man to whose liberty the su
preme court of Indiana seems unable to give consideration, was taken to
Michigan to assist Dailey, and also that Dally had the very able assistance
of W. H. Eichhorn, a barrister of no mean ability. But to Dailey must go
the coedii. for a wonderfully well prosecuted victory, if for no other reason
than that he gathered to himself the necessary assistants and at their head
won a legal battle against a great many odds.
Whether this victory in the courtroom indicates that he is the man
who should represent Indiana in the senate is a question that will be set
tled next. The democratic state committee is to be asked to submit that
to the voters next fall. x
If it is so submitted these will be the old question to consider again.
Dailey, prosecuting Newberry in Michigan, was free of the influences of his
client, Delavan Smith. j
Would Dailey, running for senator in Indiana, or presenting Indiana in
ihe senate, he free of the Influences of the man who helped him achieve
his early fame, employed him for his defense in federal court and today
looks on him as “one of our men?”
And do the democrats of Indiana care for a senator who is any more,
or as much, under the influence of the News crowd as our present twin
misfits, Harry New and Jim Watson?
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Klauss Takes No Chances
The refusal of Otto Klauss, republican state auditor, to issue warrants
on the general funds of the state for the purpose of paying the deficits of
the state’s institutions ought not to be puzzling to any one.
The law forbids such a practice. Mr. Klauss took advantage of war
time emergencies to override this law and his action was promptly legalized
by the legislature, to which it was presented as a wartime necessity.
Now Mr. Klauss has been depended upon to override the law again,
not as a wartime measure, but as a political measure for the purpose of
saving the republican party the necessity of admitting its incompetency.
Mr. Klanss has refused.
The refusal is not due to a lack of desire to serve the republican party,
but to a well-grounded fear that what the legislature legalized as a war
time necessity it will not legalize as a political advantage.
Mr. Klauss knew, prior to the convening of the last legislature, that his
plea for legalization of his acts would be made before a general assembly
controlled by the leaders of his party in whose behalf he had acted.
He has no assurance that a repetition of his actiofl, :.n the interest
of the republican party, will be legalized by a
probabilities, be controlled by the o t tonents of Goodrich
IN REPUDIATION OF HOOVER
AS DEMOCRATIC POSSIBILITY
The folly of lending support to “fly-by- ■
night booms” for this man and that man
for public office without first measuring
the man by a scale commensurate with
the requirements of the office, has been
well illustrated by the South Bend News-
Times.
The News-Times was about the only
Indiana newspaper that “fell for” Her
bert Hoover as a presidential candidate
when an inflated boom for him on either
old-line ticket was 'sprung in the east
and wafted to the west.
The Nsjys-Times attempted to exploit
Hoover as a possibility in the democratic
party. Now It says:
“We have been practically the only,
even semi-democratlc newspaper—we say
‘semi-democratlc’ out of deference to
the local democratic machine—in Indiana,
to countenance Mr. Hoover as In any
sense deserving of democratic considera
tion, and we know of no republican
newspaper that has thought him worthy
of republican regard. We are beginning
to guess that we spoke too soon; that
the New York World, the Saturday Eve
ning Post, and a whole lot of papers,
who have thought of Mr. Hoover as above
political edge-wising, spoke too soon. If
he keeps on giving out interviews, he
will have himself down before many days,
proven the cheapest sort of ward-healing
side-stepper, who stands for nothing—or
rather for anything which the time-being
might develop to his personal advantage;
whose word of yesterday Is quite worth
less today or tomorrow.
•‘Particular reference Is made In this
connection to the, publicity being given
Mr. Hoover’s latest attitude toward the
league of nations, plaihly, it wouid
seem for political effect, and belying
pretty much everything that he has said
on the subject heretofore. That he
should burst out with this new line of
thought of his, so close on the heels of
Mr. Bryan's appearance in Washington,
to support the Lodge reservations, out-
Bryatdng Bryan, and In some respects
out-Lodging Lodge, even going over to
the almost Irreconcilability of Boise Pen
rose, might lead -one to suspect that he
has come to think better of both Bryan
and Penrose since his recent stab at them,
asserting that their opposition to him
was giving him so much pleasure.
‘‘lneed, this is so apparent, that one
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1920.
1 can quite understand now the recent ar
ticle of Mark depleting Mr. Hoo
ver as one of the cheapest kind of rene
gade politicians, he, or his backers, be
ing after the republican nomination for
him first, because the republican conven
tion comes first, then having a later eye
on the democratic nomination if the re
publicans refuse, hoping to snake his re
publican following over into the other
fold with him. The question is, can Mr.
Hoover make It? Very doubtful. He
was boosted by the press in the early
days of bis appearance on the presiden
tial horizon, ns a sort of non-political,
public service oracle, who would attend
to the public business in a businesslike
way, but these latest maneuvers are be
ginning to take the glamour off from his
non-polltlcallsm, and off of his oracle
ism, blossoming him forth as the cheap
est kind of a politician, and an oracle
with whom sophistry la his pr.zest vir
tue.
“Mr. Hoover is out-Hooverlng himself,
we fear. As frequently happens when a
man gets into politics It brings his real
self to the surface. We wouldn't be
surprised if it wV?re to transpire that
even Senator Reed, witli nil his Vopper
headism,' has been at least half right in
bis characterizations of the former food
adm>nlßtrator. Possibly he is just one
of those picturesque personalities whom
Richard Harding Davis denominated ‘sol
diers of fortune,’ and one who has been
fortunate enough to Come to the front
In the midst of a world war accumulating
a halo about his head In that connection,
more brilliant than could be possible If
It were only g South American revolu
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YEA, VERILY!
The Indiana Times In an editorial
headed ‘Tesler Totes Water Bucket,"
points out that the republican state com
mittee in Its campaign literature says
that “the new tax law Is the greatest
achievement of the repnbllcan party in
Indiana since the Civil war.” Mr. Feeler
now says he favors some slight changes
In tho law, adding that ”1 am seeking
the nomination from those who believe
the affnlrß of this state can be adminis
tered best by the republican party.”
While Fesler saya he Is In complete har
mony with the republican policy in In
diana, all he may say on the tax question
Is merely for vote-catching purposes. No
relief-from the iniquitous tax law can
he expected from him.-Huntington
Press.
A WOMAN'S VIEWS
Editor The Times—ln all this bicker
ing and back biting which has been
going on for some time and which la now
augmented by the campaign coming on,
I have read pro and con. Have had my
Irish stirred at times by the flings at
farmers, but never to the extent as when
I rend the ail In the last issue of the new
Hoosler Farmer of Fesler for governor.
Asa sop to the farmer vote he closes by
saying. The folks are fer Fesler." No
doubt that was considered a great stroke.
We would giggle and walk right off, won
to him on the Instant. I can no longer
refrain from voicing a protest nt such an
Insult to the intelligence of the farmer.
I am of neither of the old parties. I
represent the new element to be reckoetul
with, the woman vote. I have my ear to
the ground, us I know hundred! of other
women have. In nil this discord of dirty
politics I atn sea re hi ug for the truth, for
men of principle, and l am met with this
(ling in the face. It proves to me at once
that Mr. Fesler, whatever his other quail
ti ations, is by far too small a man to
aspire to the dignity of governor.
Why not throw out a sop like thst to
the city vote? One only needs to stand
on the streets or in the stores a few min
utes to ho convinced the illiteracy is as
great or greater than In rural districts.
If he should make a trip Into the country
no doubt he would be so busy shaking
hands and kissing babies be would go
home firmly believing that every one he
met had said "fer.” Yes, we are fer him,
good ami strong, fer his scalp I
We want men. God give us a man once
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more, fearless, powerful and one with
vision. I am interested in Dr. McCul
lough's candidacy for this reason. A man
who has lived through his experiences, a
man with a soul, must have been ahorn
of the artificial and superfluous things
and he able to sea life In something of its
real Intent, and the duty of man to his
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follow men. Our aoula hare been so re I Another thing. I hope the women of a campaign on platitudes, who few to
volted at the smallness of the greater . Indiana will convince Senator New that express an idea for reason of this or that
part of our present day statesmen (?) private life and a becoming degree or" or the other vote. We still have to see.
It seems Impossible at times to see how j modesty will <ii e thing for him, in but I hone there are enough women with
good can come of so much evil We want ; t jj g )tght of recent developments In Call- the love rf God in their hearts to stand
a man to state his principles and Ideas fornla. We have hoped to long that for right and righteousness and ‘‘having
of government instead of being addressed j when women got the vote they would done all, to stand.” MKS. L. E.
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