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1 THE WEATHER
Unsettled with showers and colder to
'■ night. Clearing and colder Sunday.
vol. xxxm.
SUIT CHARGES REGISTRA TION FRA UD
OPERATORS TOLD
TO PRODUCE COAL
FOR STATE NEEDS
Prices Heretofore Fixed Stand in New Order
Issued by Special Fuel and
Food Board,
RULING AFFECTS 225 COMPANIES
Coal operators today were ordered by the Indiana special coal and food
commission to produce 1,600,000 tons of coal a month for Indiana con
sumption at the prices heretofore ordered by the commission.
The commission in their order specifies the companies, the amount
of tonnage they shall produce each week and orders them to make a ton
nage and sales report to the commission on Saturday of each week. Coal
so ordered is for domestic use.
The order is designed to prevent the shipment outside of Indiana of
coal needed in this state.
Approximately 225 coal operating companies are affected bj* the order.
In a statement accompanying the or
der Jesse E/ Eschbach, chairman of the
commission, points out his authority In
the coal control law for issuing this
drastic order.
Mr. Eschbach says:
The commission fixed the prices for coal
Rt all the mines in Indiana and not one
operator has appealed to the courts.
Since the order fixing the price of coal
at the mines was made the operators
generally throughout the State of Indi
ana have had better running time than
for many months preceding, and the
prices will yield every one of them at
lenßt a fair profit.
Wa had hope<. that all of the operators
would make their own distributions and
would be entirely fair with the Indiana
public and give to Indiana the share of
their coal which Indiana normally takes
and to which It Is fairly entitled.
Some operators have done this and
have cooperated with the commission, but
it has developed that many of the oper
ators have seen fit to withhold their coal
from the Indiana market, and it became
necessary for the commission to take
cognizance of this fact and act as best
l* can to remedy the situation
Under the Special Coal and Food Com
mission act, there are two provisions
which we have considered in this con
nection.
Section 9 of the act gives the commis
sion the power to make it its duty to
require all operators in Indiana to pro
duce and sell, or offer for sale. In In
diana, a sufficient quantity of coal to
•upply domestic demands, and permits
the commission to order each operator
to offer for sale In Indiana a fair propor
or t? 1 * 1 amount necessary to
•upply domestic demands.
ot ttle act Provides that in
.>, em !;T£ ency ' the commission may
oirr/i th r. dl * r .^ ent operators to deliver
“ Quantities of coal to certain
named users of coal In the State.
r f n'r u Pon ail operators to offer
f®** ! " Indiana a certain tonnage
thf se€lDe, l more fair to the commission
tnan an order upon certain operators to
•uppiy certain named consumers and the
new order just issued by the commlggion
u bated upon section 0.
Under order No. 8, just issned, every
operator in the State is required to mine
enough roal over and above his Inter
state and railroad requirements to per
mit him to sell, or offer for sale in this
State, a certain specified number of ton*
which we have endeavored to fix upon a
fair basis as between the different oper
ators.
It is now up to the retailers and other
consumers of coal to get their orders into
the operators' hands so that when the
operators offer for sale in this State the
coal specified there will be buyers for it.
In order to avoid confusion and the
placing of too many orders with some
operators and too few with others, the
commission has suggested to the different
retailers the operators with whom they
should at once place orders for coal, and
we have endeavored to arrange these sug
§ cations in such manner as to send or
ers to all mines In proportion to the
amounts which we have required they
offer for sale in Indiana.
We have taken Into consideration the
distances all coal must be shipped and
have tried to place the orders from the
most distant consumers snd retailers with
the group on mines which carry the low
est cost at the mines, thus the higher
freight rates will be attached to the
cheaper coal and make all coal bear an
average cost at Its point of deeltnation.
We believe the increased freight rates
will result in a very marked increase in
the consumption of Indiana coal within
the State of Indiana, so we have sug
gested to each retailer who has had
business connections and purchased coal
of Indiana operators in the past that he
at once renew those relations, and we
believe many new business connections
between retailers and operators will be
established which will continue perma
nently Into the future and give our op
erators increased business within our own
State.
We are urging retailers everywhere to
increase the market for Indiana coal in
their communities and in this movement
we hope to aid in every way possible.
Under the law, operators refusing to
offer for sale in Indiana coal required,
will have their licenses revoked unless,
after notice and hearing, they can show
adequate grounds for their failure.
If we find It necessary to revoke the
license of any operator, in Justice to In
diana consumers we will be obliged to
• take every step necessary and exhaust
the powers of the State to see tnst such
operator discontinues business, but at
the same time will attempt to see that
such mine continues operation under re
ceivership or otherwise and the coal from
such mine made available to the people
of Indiana.
We still hope that no emergency will
arise which will make it necessary for
the commission to issue orders under
section 20 of the act for any operator
to supply any named consumer of coal.
The commission and consumers have
been patient, we have pleaded for friend
ly cooperation and we still plead for such,
but tbeJSpecial Coal and Food Commis
sion act is the law of the State of In
diana and a great State must and will
see that Its laws are obeyed.
There is no reason why a large part
of one class of our citizens may wilfully
disobey the taw of the land, while all
others must yield strict obedience
theerto.
I.E NOIR MINE
NAMED IN ORDER.
The ve Notr Coal Compnny, in which
Governor Goodrich's son is interested,
was ordered by the commission, of
wMcb he is a member, to produce and
offer for sale not less than 820 tons per
week.
The amounts of coal ordered to be pro
duced by the commission range from
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WEATHER
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. tn..
Sunday, Oct. 24: Unsettled, with show
ers and colder tonight, followed by clear
ing and colder Sunday.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE.
(la. m 62
7 a. m 62
8 a. tn 65
9 a. m ....." 70
10 a. 74
11 a. m 79
12 (noon) 80
1 p. m 81
2 p. m SI
Published at Indianapolis,
Ind., Dally Except Sunday.
THOUSANDS SEE
CENTRE ELEVEN
MEET HARVARD
Kentucky College Football
Team Leads Crimson
Early in Game.
BULLETIN.
Score First Half—Centre, 14; Har
vard, 14.
. CAMBRIDGE. Mass., Oct. 23—Centre
College, the wonder football team from
Danville, Ky., clashed with Harvard on
the gridiron here this afternoon.
Forty thousand rooters looked on.
The Kentuckians, who had the chance of
a life time to crown their long series of
victories, went through their practice lu
snappy style. Almost perfect football
weather prevailed.
The starting line-up follows:
Centre—Chinn, left end ; Montgomery,
left tackle; Ford, left guard; Weaver,
center; Rubb, right guard; James, right
tackle; Snoddy. right end; Captain Me-
Mlliin, quarter back; Armstrong, left half
back; Whitnell, right half back, and
Roberts, full back.
Harvard —Kane, left end; Faxon, left
tackle; Woods, left guard; Havemeyer,
eenter: Tolbert, right guard; Hubbard,
right tackle; Gaston, right end; Fitzger
ald, quarter back; Owens, left-half back;
Churchill, right half back, ayul Captain
Horween, full back.
Referee, Robert Maxwell, Swathmore;
umpire, T. J. Thorp. Columbia.
* First Quarter— Captain McMillan won
the toss and chose to defend the north
goal and receive the kick. Faxon kicked
off to Roberts on the ten-yard line. Rob
erts returned fifteen yards. Roberts
and McMillin made six yards through
the line and Whitnell punted to Owen
on Harvard's twenty-five-yard line. Owen
made five yards around left end.
Horween crashed through Centre for
fourteen yards. Owen made ten around
left end. Churchill promptly made
eighteen more around the same way.
Horween made two yard*, putting the
bail on Centre's seven-yard line. Church
ill carried the ball around Centre’s right
wing to her fiTe-yard line. Owen crashed
through the center for a touchdown
under the goal post. Faxon kicked the
goal. Score. Harvard, 7; Centre, 0.
Centre kicked off to Harvard’s forty
flve-yard line and Harvard promptly
punted to Centre's twenty-two-yard line.
McMillin made eighteen yards around
his own left end In two more plays
McMillin made only four yeards.
McMillin dropped back for a fake kick
and made a beautiful forward pass to
i Chinn netting Centre twenty-twp yards
and putting the ball on Harvard's
twentv-five-vard line. From this point
McMillin and Whitnell made twenty
yards, carrying the ball to Harvard's
five-yard line.
With but five yards to go. Roberts
smushed through the Harvard line for
touobtown. Weaver kicked the goal.
Score: Harvard, 7; Centre, 7.
Harvard kicked off. Faxon to Arm
strong. Centre made two plays and had
a yard to go for ttoa first touchdown when
time was ceiled with the ball on their
own 30-yard line. Score end first period:
Harvard. 7; Ccntrp. 7.
SECOND PERIOD-Centre pnt the ball
In play on her own 37-yard line. Mc-
Millin made seven yards, but was still
far from first down. Once more the
crafty little center quarter back dropped
back ns though to kick and the most
wonderful forward pass ever seen on
Harvard’s gridiron was beautifully exe
cuted. The pass was made by McMillin
from his 32-yard line to Whitnell. It
traveled fully forty yards and Whitnell.
running like a deer with two Harvard
tacklers behind him. was tackled and
thrown and rolled across the goal Hne.
Weaver kicked the goal. Score—Centre,
14; Harvard, 7.
JEW MASSACRE REPORTED.
LONDON, Oct. 23.—The Riga corre
spondent of the Post reported today that
several hundred Jews had been masnereed
by Polish troops since General Zellgowskl
occupied Vilnn. It was said also that
trainloads of Lithuanians were being de
ported.
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Entered as (Second Class Matter, July 25, 1914, at
Postoffice. Indianapolis. Ind.. under act March a, 187?.
Mrs. Edgar M. Roberts and Daughter,
Den ice.
Indiana's first woman voter Is Mrs. Ed
gar M. Roberts, of the Broad Ripple
apartments, who cast her vote today in
the clerk's office at the courthouse.
“Now, do I put the cross here?” asked
Mrs. Roberts, pointing to a party em
blem, as Richard Slpe spread the bal
lots before her.
“Well," replied Mr. Slpe. “Not neces
sarily In that particular circle, but In the
center of one of the circles, ’ and as she
reached for the bike pencil, “But no*
here.
"You must stejf into one of the booths.
Secret ballot, you know."
Mrs. Roberts disappeared Into tbs
booth, and In two minutes came out,
bearing her ballots, carefully concealed
from prying eyes. In a sealed envelope.
Sirs. Roberts Is the mother of two chil
dren. one of whim (Miss Detttce) is
shown In the picture.
Virginia Ann Is her other daughter.
Mr. Roberts Is a civil engineer with
the Big Four Railway Company.
TEACHERSPLAN
FOR CHANGE IN
ORGANIZATION
Will Provide for District Meet*
ings and State Delegate
Session.
The sixty-seventh annual convention of
the Indiana State Teachers' Association
came to a close today with a business
session at Tomllnaon Hall this morning.
The convention probably will be the
last of Its kind to be held in Indiana.
The teachers have deeldeti to rhangs
their constitution and they pfan to held
i district conventions and to make the
State convention a meeting of
I delegates.
A convention of delegates will convene
In Indianapolis within the next three
months for the purpose of changing the
| constitution to make this and other pro
visions. „
The teachers will meet In their coun
ties for the purpose of choosing dele
gates to the constitutional convention.
“America cannot live unto herself, for
there is no such thing as isolated exist
ence for any self-respecting nation," de
! claTed Marlon L. Burton, president of the
University of Michigan, In an address
before the closing session.
Mr. Burton said the American people
sooner or later will fulfill their moral
obligation to the rest of the world, add
ing that he did not refer to the League
of Nations.
Mr. Burton said the man who sits
down, saying “I have done if la a
candidate for a funeral.
He eaid It must be realized capital and
labor coinprlso the paramount Issue of
domestic life today, the future demand
ing that the confidence of working people
be held by the schools If the world will
not be lost.
He classified “being alive" as having
the power of conviction, having enthusi
asm, sympathy, idealism, courage,
boldness, tenacity, receptive tenden
cies and power for action.
“The trouble with America is her lack
of knowledge and her lack of unity," he
asserted.
“We are not alive unless we are open
(Continued on Page Two.)
Cables Hinge on Yap
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—The United
States in the international communica
tions conference will seek to internatton
alize the Island of Yap in the Pacific
Ocean as a cable landing station.
This end is being sought, it was
learned, to prevent an exclusive control
by Japan ovpr cables entering and
branching from Yap.
SOME RECENT NEWS EVENTS AS VIEWED BY CARTOONIST RUSHNELL
3f niiiaua dHaily <umfs
First Woman Voter
in Indiana Casts
Ballot Here Today
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1920.
League World Document ,
Not Written by One Man
or One Nation , Cox Shows
Special Dispatch to The Times.
NEW YORK* Oct. 23.—Tbat at least
150 earnest minds made their impression
upon the covenant of the League of Na
tions was the point emphasized by Gov
ernor Cox today in scotching falsehoods
started by Republican leaders that the
league Is a "British league,” or that it
Is a “Wilson League.”
The Cox statement was made In com
pliance with a request from the St. Louis
Post Dispatch for a reply to criticisms
in other papers and was sent en route
from Bridgeport, Conn.
The Post-Dispatch gave permission for
its simultaneous publication here.
Governor Cox makes clear that the
covenant of the League of Nations is, in
part, the (product of committees appoint
ed by the French, Italian and British
governments, of proposals by General
Hmut and William Howard Taft, A.
Lawrence Lowell, Oscar Strauss, Theo
dore Mauberg, Klihu Root and other
Americans in public life.
His message to the Post-Dispatch
follows:
For any person or newspaper to-dis
cover that contradiction between Presi
dent Wilson's explanation of the origin
of the league covenant, as given to the
President to Issue
Next Statement on
League Wednesday
Will Meet Delegation of Re
publicans and Independents
at White House.
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 -President
Wilaon’s next campaign statement on
the League of Nations is to be deliv
ered Wednesday to a delegation of pro
ieague Republicans and Independent*,
headed by Hamilton Holt, the White
House announced today.
Tbo President will receive the dele
gation at the White House at 10 a. tn.
In Ms remarks to the delegates the
President Is expected to sum up all the
k*gutn*ts for the league; to answer
Republican attacks on It, particularly
those made by EUhu Root, former Presi
dent T*ft and A. Laurence Lowell, and
to appeal to Republican* who favor a
league to vote for Governor Cox and
Democratic senatorial candidate*.
It was indicated that th's probably
will be the President’s final statement,
j It will be the first time since hi* Ill
ness that be has delivered anything ap
proaching a speech on political quea
-1 tlon*.
|* It wa* *l*o announced at the Whit*
House that John W. Pavla, American
ambassador to Great Britain, will speak
j on the league In New York on Wedues-
I day.
PRISON YAWNS
FOR HIGHER-UPS’
Federal Sift Begins in Reputed
Chicago Whisky Deals.
CHICAGO, Oct. 23.—Federal author
iit lea today began an Investigation of
I reputed Illicit whisky deals said to ceu
| ter in Chicago.
i Chief of Police Garrity was ordered tin
i der threat of a Federal warrant, to
! surrender documents anti other data se
i cured In the police Investigation of al
leged activities of the whisky ring.
('barging police graft has been found
in every booze scandal. Assistant United
States Attorney Kelly declared, “there 1*
a place known as Leavenworth, which
i yawns for the higher-ups as well as the
| little fellows."
Indianapolis Man
Shot at Newcastle
NEWCASTLE, Ind,, Oct. 23—George
I Ryn, whe named Indianapolis ns his
home, was shot and seriously injured
last midnight while attempting, it is
alleged, to rob the Laweli & Goldsberry
grocery.
An attest pt to rob the t> -c was made
earlier in he night, but the burglar es
caped before the arrival of the police.
Otto Laivell, one of the proprietors,
stood guard and Ryan approached the
store two hours later.
; Ryan was shot In the back while run-
I nlng.
Wife, 15, Sues to Have
Marriage Annulled
Charging she was only 15 years
old nt the time of her marriage to Vin
cent F. Busse and was legally incapable
of entering into a marriage agreement ou
Aug. 16. last, Pauline Bus.se, 5923 Ilewty
street, today filed suit In (lie circuit court
asking that her marriage be annulled.
She asks for the restoration of liee
maiden name, Pauline Franklin.
Senators at the White House in August,
1919, and the explanation I give in all
my addresses, is to discover what doesn’t
exist.\ There js no contradiction what
ever.
A great French scientist once warned
his students to be on their guard or
they might find what they were looking
for.
The same admonishment is even more
pertinent in political controversy.
FALSEHOODS SCATTERED
LIKE AUTUMN LEAVES.
During this campaign, in fact, ever
since the conspiracy to defeat tbo treaty
wag beguu in the United States Senate,
falsehoods have been scattered like au
tumn leavea.
Perhaps never has there been a more
brazen or persistent falsehood than the
statement that the league is first, "a
British league," and Mien, in the same
breath, the contradictory statement that
it is n "Wilson league.”
These tiro assertions are contradictory.
Both can not be true. I have solved
the riddle by clearly stating that the
league is a world league, and that the
main idea, as well as the final form and
phrasing, is the work of many mind*.
I have said over and over again that
during the years of the war, while we
were serving other countries by fighting
(Continued on rage Four.)
GOV. COX PUTS
IN BUSY DAY IN
NEW YORK CITY
Six Speeches, Numerous Con
ferences and Receptions
on Program.
NEW YORK. Oct. 23.-With six
speeches on his program, Interspersed
with receptions and conferences with
Democratic leaders. Governor James M.
Cox here today faced one of th# busiest
days of his entire campaign.
The culminating feature of this second
and ta*t visit of the Democratic candi
date to New York City before the elec
tion wilt be a mass meeting at Madison
Square Garden tonight.
The candidate's first engagement was
with a large delegation of college men
and women at the Waldorf, followed by a
brief speech.
Next he waa to go into conference with
various officials of the national commit
tee and leaders from a number of East
cm fctate*. loiter he was to bo the guest
>f honor *t a luncheon at the Hotel Aster
given by the women * burtsu of the na
tional committee.
lie wn then to return to the Waldorf
for an address to the Marquette Club,
then proceed ti the Washington Irving
High School where he was scheduled for
a speech before a body bf public school
teachers.
The Governor also was to visit the
22nd Regiment Armory to wltnea* the
Sunday World elementary school cham
pionship games and make his fifth speech
of the day.
Further conferences with leader* were
on the program following Cox's return
to the Waldorf.
Immediately after dinner the Governor
and party will head for the Hippodrome,
after which they will proceed to Madison
Square Garden.
Among the other speakers at the Gar
den mass meeting will be Miss Harriet
May Mills, Democratic candidate for sec
retary of State of New York; Rabbi
Stephen Wise and Nathan Strauss, who
will preside.
Governor Cox 1* determined to keep
alive his dispute with Klihu Root over
the Governor's attitude on the league.
He was awaiting Root’s reply to his
latest communication, a telegram tn
which th candidate again demanded that
Root retract his "untrue statement" to
the effe<-t Cox and President Wilson held
Identical views on ratification of the
treaty without qualification.
Snow Storm in West
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.. Oct. 23.
Western Colorado was swept by a severe
blizzard and snow storm early today and
train service was demoralized.
The snow Is from two inches to four
feet deep.
Won Prize for G. O, P,
Platform , Now Out
for Governor Cox
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Carl
bmlth Joiilyn, Harvard nnder-
Kradunte. who won the prise of
fered lot spring by the Repub
lican national committee for the
beat enggeated Republican na
tional platform, came out for Gov
ernor fox for I’resldent today,
according to a statement given
out by the Democratic national
committee.
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COUNTY GRAFT
IS EXPOSED IN
PARTY BOOKLET
Voters Are Told Why They
Pay Out Big Sums for
Taxes.
FACTS TERSELY TOLD
Under the caption, “Marion County
Graft." the Democratic County committee
and the Democratic candidates of Marlon
County • have Issued a booklet telling
Marlon County voters "why your taxes
are too high and growing higher.”
The booklet is a parttal, but terrific,
indictment of the graft and malfeasance
in office of the Republican administra
tion.
Its introduction says:
In presenting for your consideration
this compilation of facts concerning
the graft, malfeasance and ineffi
ciency that has existed during the
present Republican administration, a
sincere effort has been made to pre
sent nothing tbat is not a part of
the records of Marion County, tbo.
United State# District Court or the
records of the State of Indiana.
As the records of each of these in
stitutions are in the custody of Re
publicans and none other thaif Re
publlcanc are quoted in the booklet.
It might well be termed a compile- \
tlon of the opinions of Republicans
concerning a Republican administra
tion.
GOODRICH TAX
M k.NEUVERS,
The first chapter of the booklet Is de
] r ®ted to taxes and reads as follows:
The Republican Legislature passed
what is now known as the Goodrich
tax law.
Under this law the board of taa
commissioners was created and was
appointed by Governor Goodrich.
In 1919 the township assessors as
sessed all property under oath at Its
true easy value and reported these
valuations to the tax board,
i The Htste tax board arbitrarily, by
horizontal increase raised the assess
ment in most of the townships in the
State all the way from 15 to 60 per
j cent.
Suit wfts brought in Marlon County
by an organization of Marlon County
farmers to set aside the horizontal
Increase in this county, and It was,
held Invalid.
The case was appealed to the Su
preme Court by the State tax board
| and the Supreme Court also held the
I horiiontal Increase Illegal.
This threw the tax law on the scrap
heap.
There was no money to run the
public institutions and it beentns
necessary to call a special session of
the Legislature remedy the slt
! nation.
Governor Goodrich In his message
j to his "rubber stamp" Legislature,
j advised them to legalize the action of
the State board of tax commissionern,
which the Supreme Court had de
clared illegal.
This was done, and the Republican
candidates now stand for repudiation
of our Supreme Court decision.
FARMERS WIN
IN COURTS.
The farmers of Marion County won
a victory over the State board of
tax commissioners and had their
horizontal increase declared illegal,
but the new tax law puts tbo State
tax board back In the saddle and It
has restored the horizontal increases
In Marion County, In spite of the fact
tbat property In the townships af
fected Is assessed for more than if
will sell for.
When you paid your first half of
the 1919 taxes this aprtng the treas
urer stamped upon your receipt that
if the horizontal Increase was de
(Continued on Page Four.)
$699,071 SPENT
BY DEMOCRATS
Statement Puts Receipts at
$677,934.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—The Demo
cratic national committee today filed a
statement with the clerk of the House
of Representatives, showing that 1t has
expended $699,071 In the presidential cam
paign up to Oct. 24.
Receipts were reported as $677,934.
The Democratic statement showed that
Governor Cox has contributed $5,000 to
the cnmpalgn and Franklin D. Roosevelt
$3,000.
Tha Socialist party rendered a report,
showing that It has expended $49,479 in
| the present campaign and that its re
ceipts were $51,028.
The "Pro-League Independents of New
York," through Ernest E. Wheeler, treas
urer. reported expenditures of $14,706 and
j receipts of $16,735.
j Treasurer Upham, tn filing for the Re
j publican national committee, showed to
i tal receipts of $2,466,019.54 and dlsburse
j menta of $2,741,503.34 for the national
campaign.
Separate contributions to the Repub
' llcan campaign totaled 84.845, of which
j Just sixteen were amounts of more than
j SI,OOO each, according to the statement.
LAST HOME EDITION
TWO CENTS PER COPY
COURT ASKED FOR
MANDATE TO PURGE
RECORDS
Democratic County Chairman Says 600
Names Illegally Entered in
One Precinct,
CORA WARWICK NAMED AS TOOL
A suit to purge the registration records of many reputed irregular, un
lawful and forged registration applications in fifteen voting precincts of the
-City of Indianapolis, today was filed before Judge W. W. Thornton of Su
perior Court, Room 1, by the State of Indiana on relation of Reginald M.
Sullivan, chairman of the Marion County Democratic committee.
To assure a legal and straight election in this county as far as regis
trations are concerned. Chairman Sullivan asks Judge Thornton to issue
a mandate requiring the registration boards of the fifteen precincts in
volved and County Auditor Leo K. Fesler to “purge said books and lists
of said irregular, false, forged, fraudulent and unlawful registration of
voters.”
INDIANA G.O.P.
LOSES OUT AS
VOTING NEARS
League, IVFCray and County
Graft Turn Tide to
Democrats.
The Democrats of Indiana will enter
the last week of this campaign with bet
ter prospects of carrying the State than
they hare had at this period before an
election In the last twelve years.
Their chances of success depend on two
things:
1. Ability to maintain the undoubt
ed trend toward their national and
State ticket throughout the State.
2. Ability to retain the lead which
they have now gained in Marlon
County.
The Republicans are secretly and sadly
admitting that instead of the boasted 20,-
000 plurality which they expected to get
tn Marlon County they are more than
likely to meet defeat throughout \he city
of Indianapolis.
From over the State com reports that
the Republican ticket will not gather to
itself sufficient of a Jead to carry the
State without a substantial majority In
Marlon County.
Three things have contributed to the
change of sentiment in the campaign:
1. Tire collapse of the Republican
assault on the League of Nations.
2. The expose of Warren T. Mc-
Cray in which he is shown to be a
“board of trade" rather than a farm
candidate.
8. The wave of revulsion to the pol
icies of lax law enforcement, extrav
agance and incompetency in the af
fairs of Marion County.
Throughout Indiana the Republican
speakers are now trying hard to dodge
the League of Nations issue, which they
insisted on making the paramount ques
tion of the campaign.
They have turned back to abuse of
President Woodrow Wilson in spite of
the fact that there never was any senti
(Continued on Fsge Four.)
COFFIN ASKED
TO OFFICIATE
‘Grove of Remembrance’ Exer
cises to Be Held Oct. 31.
Charles E. Coffin, president of the
board of park commissioners, has been
Invited by the Hamtlton-Bf rry chapter
of the Service Star Legion to present
formally to the relatives of Marlon
County service men who perished in
the late war the "Grove of Remembrance’
at Garfield Park at 3 o’clock Oct. 31.
Formal dedicatory exercises are
planned, Including a parade of churches,
schools, patriotic organizations and In
dividuals having gold stars on their serv
ice flags.
Each of 295 dead heroes will be hon
ored with a tree planted in the grove.
All of the trees except one will be
planted 'lo time for the dedication,\ the
exception being reserved for a part of
the ceremony.
Each tree will be tagged with the
name of a service man.
Persous and organizations eligible to
take part are requested to be at the
Shelby street side of the park at 2:30
o'clock, grouped In bodies, carying an
American flag and dressed in distinctive
uniforms, if possible.
Needs Oculist—
Not Divorce Court
CLEVELAND. Oct. 23.—The Com
mon Plea.* Conrt is to decide whether
a woman has a right to fib about her
age.
Harry Levin brought suit for di
vorce on the ground tbat she misrep
resented her age to him when they
were married in 1915. \
Levin's dree*m of love was shat
tered recently when he found his wife
was 44.
Levin is 26.
Citizenship Test
Given More Than 50
More than fifly of the sixty-five ap
plicants for naturalization had been ex
amined for eligibility to secure second
papers by A. C. Gcngler, of the Chicago
naturalization office at noon today.
Tenant Asks Court
to Forestall Action
Application for a restraining order to
prevent the disconnecting of the ben*
service on the third floor of the Ratti
building, at 233 KoutJj Meridian streei,
and also far Judgment of $2,500. today
kbs filed before Superior Judge Linn
Hay by Fglward R. Campbell, doing busi
ness under the firm name of the Camp
bell Circular Advertising Company,
against Francis M. Fox, George H. Fox
aud Albert J. Fox, with whom the plain
tiff claims he has a five-year lease for
the third floor of the Ratti building.
The plaintiff says the defendants will
shut off the heat service unless restrained.
NO. 142.
The complaint states more than 000
Rlleged “Irregular, unlawful, false,
forged or fraudulent registrations" were
placed on the registration books of the
First precinct of the Fifth ward.
The registration boards in the follow
ing precincts were made party, defend
ants, not because of any personal actions,
but the statutes require the boards to
be party defendants when suits of this
nature are instituted: First precinct of
the Fifth ward. Second of the Fifth,
Third of the Fifth, Fourth of the Fifth,
Fifth of the Fifth, Eighth of the Sixth,
Sixth of the First, Seventh of the First,
Thirteenth of. the First, Third of the
Third, Seventh of the Third, Eighth of
the Third, Ninth of the Thrt-d, Fourteenth
of the Fourth, Fifteenth of the Fourth
and County Auditor Leo K. Fesler.
The Important charges of the suit af
fecting the First precinct of the Fifth
ward, Is as follows:
IMPORTANT CHARGES
SET FORTH.
Relator further avers that of said de
fendants. J. H. Lott was Inspector, and
Martha Cook, Daniel IV. Donnell, Ed
ward Brown. Louis M. Hubbard and
William G. Stehlln were clerks, and con
stituted the registration board for the
First precinct of the Fifth ward of the
City or Indianapolis, in said county, and
w-ere charged with the duty of register
ing voters in said precinct upon applica
tions as aforesaid and making the afore
said registration books or lists of voters
for said precinct only as required and
provided by law and not otherwise. *
That said board did accept a larse
number of applications, purporting to be
applications of voters for registration,
to qualify said applicants for voting at
said forthcoming election, which twere
not made in accordance with the law,
but which were either irregular, unlaw
ful. false, forged or fraudulent, and lu
direct violation of the law, and did enter
them In the registration books and list*
of voters for said precinct In said elec
tion, to-wit: more than 600; that said
applications were. In many instances,
too numerous herein to set out, not
signed by the persons purporting to be
the applicants when such purported ap
plicants were able to aud could write
their names; that the same were signed
by another party writing the name of
said purported applicant: that In many
Instance* said applications were undated,
and blanks for necessary information re
quired by law were unfilled; that in
many other instances other and fatal
defects appeared In said application and
there are numerous duplicate registra
tions, all of which relator offer* to sub
htautiate by proof.
• That on the first registration day for
said forthcoming election lu 1920, held
on Sept. 4, 1920, said board received and
entered upon the registration books and
lists of registered voters the names of
about five hundred persons whose appli
cations were, as relator is Informed and
believes, and on which information and
belief he charges the fact to be. irregu
lar, unlawful, false and forged In this, to
wit: That said applications were filled
out and signed by one Cora Warwick tu
violation of law in this, that said person
in whose name said applications were
made then and there could write their
own names; that said Cora Warwick was
employed by the Republican county com
mlttee to procure said registrations, and
the chairman of said committee an
nounced publicly In conrt and In the
newspapers that said applications were
unlawful, aud that said voters would bf
re-registered at the forthcoming second
.registration day to be, and which was.
held Oct. 4, 1920; that relator is informed
and believes, and on such information
charges the fact to be, that such voter*
in many cases were not lawfully re-reg
istered, but that tbeir names are still on
said registration books and lists sup
ported by said irregular, unlawful, false
and forged applications, and not other
wise.
And said relator further avers, against
the remaining said registration boards
named in the title of ssld cause and the
members thereof, that said boards were
charged with the duty of registering
voters tn their respective precincts upon
applications in the manner hereinbefore
averred: that said boards did in each of
their respective preclnts accept a large
number of applications of voters for
registration to qualify said applicants
for voting at said forthcoming election
which were not made in accordance with
the law, but which were either irregular,
unlawful, false, forged or frandulent. and
in direct violation of the law. and did
enter them in the registration books and
lists of voters for said precinct In said
election, to-wlt: more than six hundred;
that said applications were, in many
instances too numerous herein to set out,
(Continued on Page Two.)
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