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TJutora smlxi Slimes
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street.
Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351
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—“THIS IS THE YEAR”—
MR. WYCKOFF Is referred to In his favorite newspaper as a fine
“historian" of high prices. Sort of an “autobiographer,” we presume.
IT IS INTERESTING to note that Governor Goodrich has called for an
investigation, of the penal farm by the same board that so efficiently white
washed the complaints against the Marion county jail.
IT MAY BE TRUE, as Mr. Talkington says, that complaints about the
penal farm come from prisoners with “I. W. W. spirit,’’ but. If that i3 true,
will someone kindly_**plain why the pardon board and the governor re
leased McNulty? * i
THE REPUBLICAN SLATE
The republican organization in Marion county has selected its candi
dates for the coming primary and is exerting its every effort to nominate
them regardless of their record in office and regardless of the desire of
the majority of the voters of the county for a change in the generally in
efficient government of the county.
Interwoven with the organization are the officeholders of the city
and county who are seeking to perpetuate themselves in control of the
county government, either by re-election or the substitution of men who
will do their bidding. * _
Election of the organization candidates would be a complete indorse
ment of probably the rottenest and certainly the most inefficient adminis
tration this county has ever had.
Yet the republican organization is showing scant courtesy to those In
its own ranks who fnsist-that a change in the personnel of the county
government is essential to a change in the type of administration that
will follow the present thoroughly discredited regime.
In the four years that the republican party has had control of Marion
county the affairs of the county have been conducted in a manne: that no
voter who really has the welfare of the community at heart can tolerate.
The organization knows this. Yet the organization is Insisting on
the nomination of its own pets and proteges at the primary. In fact, with
unmitigated gall, it is calling on the party for an indorsement of its
practices and policies.
A vote for William P. Evans for prosecutor is a vote for a deputy of
Claris Adams, whose spineless administration of the prosecutor's office
has made a mockery of Justice in the community.
A vote for Ralph Lemeke is a vote to indorse a policy of illegal fee
grabbing, of four-flushing regarding Interest on public money and ex
emption from taxes for officeholders.
A vote for George Snider for sheriff is a vote for a man who started
a race in opposition to the things that Sheriff Miller tolerated and then for
got his opposition when a chance came to corral the support of Miller's
crowd.
A vote for Paul F. Robinson for coroner is a vote to place In an im
portant investigating arm of the government a tool of the crowd that does
not want anything that might touch on its conduct investigated.
A vote for John J. Griffith for county surveyor is a vote of approval
of the “granite surface" road scandal.
A vote for Albert Hoffman for county commissioner is a vote for a
man who takes his cue from Leo K. Fesler and opposes such badly needed
public improvements as *the Sunnyside tuberculosis sanitarium.
A vote for William E. English is a vote of approval for the Goodrich
controlled legislature. 1 -
A vote for any of the present members of the legislature who are
seeking renomlnatlon is a vote to indorse the Goodrich tax law, the Good
rich highway commission, the Goodrich method of remodeling the state
house, the Goodrich method of dealing with publie utilities in which ho
owns an interest, the Goodrich method of purchasing the state’s coal from
favorite relatives and friends and the dozens of other practices that have
so thoroughly disgusted Indiana with its government.
There are men In ffiF republican party who do not condone these
things.
There are republicans who do not approve of permitting lawyers to
enter the grand jury room with their clients, of taxing illegal fees in the
treasurer's office, of starving prisoners in the jail, of suppressing coroner’s
findings, of favoring road supply agents, of seeking to handicap health
institutions, of Goodrich, centralization and Goodrichism.
But these republicans do not constitute the republican organization.
They form the group of protestants who have been referred to as the
“sinister Influences” that opposed the “good government of George
Coffin, Ote Dodson and “Honest BoD" Miner.
According to the republican organization, they and their candidates
have no business in the republican party.
And In this, for once, the republican organization is right.
THE GRAND JURY REPORT
The most remarkable thing about the grand jury investigation of the
conditions at the Marion connty Jail, as conducted personally by Claris
Adams, prosecutor, is the report which was made to the criminal court
to supplement the Indictment of Miller and his deputies.
This report assumes the character of an apology and attempts, by
recotnmendatlon6, to shift at least a part of the responsibility for Jail
conditions to the laws of the state from the shoulders of the men who
conducted the Jail.
The report explains that no impeachment of Sheriff Miller was at
tempted because it could be delayed until Miller's term exphred and thns
fail in its purpose. . v-
Nothing is said of the probability of delaying the Judgment of Miller
on the indictment for years, but perhaps nothing is necessary to remind
the public that Marion county indictments do not necessarily result in
speedy administration of justice. There is, it will be remembered, a case
against one Dennis Bush still pending in the supreme court of Indiana
which was originated by a Marion county grand Jury In 1916.
We are advised by the grand jury report that it is not an offense to pay
jailers for “special privileges in the jail,” nor is it an offense to extort
unreasonable sums from prisoners in return for bringing things from the
outside for them. The report urges that laws be passed to make these
practices offenses against the state, hut it gives no assurance that such
special laws would be enforced if they were passed.
The report serves to call attention again to the lack of sanitary
arrangements In the jail, to the filth that there accumulates to menace
the health of those who are incarcerated and the failure to segregate
diseased prisoners from those who are well.
These things, it would appear, are rightful subjects of attention for
our boards of health which have recently called on the public to bring
to their attention instances of insanitary housing conditions. It is true
that the city health board did not disclose its purpose when it recently
requested such complaints, but it did give the impression that it L ad the
power and the inclination to right such conditions.
On the whole, the Marion county grand jury’s report on the jail can
not be regarded as anything else than disappointing to those citizens who
hored that the community’s disgust and disgrace would be wiped out by
vigorous prosecution of those who have, by their malfeasance, disgusted
and disgraced it. The report, prepared under the direction of Mr. Adams,
is disappointing in many ways:
1. It names Sheriff Miller in only one indictment, which Is based on
a statute that provides for a very light punishment.
1. It fails to point out any method by which the public can assure
itself of the impossibilities of a repetition of the horrors of the jail.
3. It takes no account of the more serious offenses committed in the
jail, such as the burning of the feet of a prisoner and the use of formalde
hyde as an agent of punishment.
4. It does not even touch on the negligence of the other county and
state officials whose neglect of proper inspections resulted in the tolerance
of such unspeakable conditions as are now knotvn to have existed for
months in the heart of this civilized community.
However, the report of the grand jury is a step in the right direction
and the grand jurors are rather to be congratulated than censured.
Considering the fact that thev were directed by a prosecutor whose
inability to,*‘see criminal intent” in things as culpable as the stuffing, of
the jury box is notorious they did remarkably well when they succeeded
a true bill against “Honest Bob’* Miller.
WHEN A GIRL MARRIES
A New Serial of Young Married Life
By ANN LISLE.
CHAPTER XIII.
"This is Shelly’s party—let’s go the
limit," cried Miss Mason, when -wo were
puzzling out the order. She looked like
an Adorable baby when she said It, and
every one laughed when she asked the
waiter whether Russian caviar or lobster
cocktails would do more to set the pro
prietor up to business. Jim looked un
easy. He frowned when he heard Miss
Mason call me Anne. I wondered why t
Sally Royce and Evelyn made a Hon
of Jim and rallied the other men on
their citizen’s clothes. I mlendered If
my husband had a magnetism that no
woman could resist—and if he enjoyed
his power. I felt uneasy, but Jim’s own
air of reserve and unrest reassured me
a bit. * *
Theme was dancing, but Jim was In
formed that heroes weren't required to
be dance partners. Evelyn Mason sat
out a great many dances with him and
Insisted that Sheldon Blake show me
all the new steps. Mr. Blake was very
tall, slim, perfectly groomed, and hls
skin, eyes and hair were In shades of
rich brown. He was handsome in a
vivid, compelling way. The Dicky
Royces were like a pair of little red
brown Pomeranians, snubnosed, pert, In
different —altogether sure otf themselves.
With the coffee, Mr. Royce had an In
spiration:
"Salllktns, I must get you one of those
rag monkey dolls they have here.”
He called the waiter and slipped a
ten-dollar bill conspicuously Into his
as he asked for the doll. Present
ly it was brought—an ugly Image of
a sadly ugly little monkey dressed In
green and capped In scarlet
Evelyn opened wide her wistful eyes
and eta red at the dolly and than at the
men.
“Want one, baby?” asked Mr. Blake.
”Oh —Ewy can't let Sally have a dolly
If she hasn't” lisped Miss Mason to a
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HARRY WATSON
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he firat Ja2z Playlet Literary Digest Saying*.
Capt. Gruber and Mile. Adelina
Assisted by an Elephant—Horse—Pony and Dog.
CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE == "
“ THE CORNER STORE”
fJ MLLE. ASO RIA TRIO I'NTI I.
Bentley & Walsh, Rover & Nelson, John F. Conroy & Sister, a a
Chamberlain & Earle, Hall A Beck, Lacey Semon in the I I
“Fly Cop.” * 1
Dancing in the Lyric Ballroom, afternoon and evening. _____
BRINGING UP FATHER.
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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1920.
fashion that would have been absurd if
another girl had tried It —but in her lit
tle husky voice It was adorable.
Tha waiter protested that there were
no more of the monkeys. But Mr.
Blake's twenty-dollar bill Joglged hls
memory, and he remembered one more.
“Oh, I couldn’t take It and have our
little bride go without a souvenir,” pro
tested Evelyn with sudden sweet woman
liness. “You give it to ber> Shelly, and
maybe Jim will get one for bl-s old, old
—chum.”
I saw Jim's face go scarlet—l knew
that he hadn’t so much as twenty dol
lars with him, for only that afternoon
lie had spoken of having a check cashed
the next morning. I shuddered away
from the proffered doll.
“I know I’m silly—-but I detest
monkeys! I’ll tell you what I want for
a souvenir of a wonderful evening—one
dance with my husband.”
I fairly whirled Jim out on the floor.
“You darling—you clever little dip
lomat,” breathed my husband.
He held me close—suffocatingly close.
The music of a wait* set us gliding out
Into mystery and romance together.
But as we passed the table I heard
Sally Royce laugh:-
“So she has Jim’s number already.”
And Evelyn’s throaty voice murmured:
“Poor kiddle!”
Then Sheldon Blake laughed:
“Glad you aren’t In her boots, Evvy?”
What did they mean? —Copyright, 1920.
(To be continued.)
MOTION PICTURES.
To The Thousands
Who Yesterday Saw
THE
MYSTERY of the
YELLOW ROOM”
We make the request that you
do not discuss the conclusion of
the picture with your friends,
as this naturally spoils their en
joyment of the film.
Special Attraction
Chief Red Feather and Princess
Nlo-na-ta-ah offer song and story
In full Indian costume.
Other features this week-
Al!-8tar Male Quartet.
Mutt and Jeff
Hall Room Boys
News Weekly.
Literary Digest Topics
Drop Forge Company
Planning Expansion
Plans to make the Imperial Drop
Forge Company one the largest of
Its kind In the United States are being
considered, according to company offi
cials.
R. I. Gale, Indianapolis, has witti
drawn hls Interests from the company,
it was announced today.
Hls holdings have been absorbed by
•thee stockholders.
AMUSEMENTS.
ENGLISH’S TONITE
Tues.-Wed. Nights. Wed. Mat.
4PAND HER GANG
n A Peach of* a Show” (
PRICES: Nights, 500 to $3.00.
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COMING ’
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WEEK OF APRIL 26.
Mats., Wed. and Sat.
The Chicago Company from tho
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Presenting J
BOOTH TARKINGTON
Sensational Comedy Success,
CLARENCE
with the exceptional cast,
including
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Direction George C. Tyler.
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Mat., 600 to *2.00.
Seats Thursday.
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WINTER GARDEN FOUR
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