The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-06
Says it Is Not Surprising that the
League Endorses Hoffman and
Attacks Mayor BookwaIteI.
ABUSE ITS ONLY ARGUMENT
LEAGUE MADE NO REAL INvESTIGA-
CATION OF HOLTZMAN'S RECORD.
Mr.. LOgsdOn Considers the Report a
Travesty on NOnpartisanship-
Will Fail of Effect.

Edwin d. Logsdon. chairman of the Re-
publican city committee, last night made
the following comments on the report of
the Citizens League:
Every Republican and citizen of Indian
apolis should resent with indignation the
lbels upon our party and upon our city
embodied in the address issued to the voters
by the executive committee of the Citi-
zens' League. That this small body of
professed 'reformers' had allied itself
months ago with the campaign of Wifi
cation and Islander which has been waged
against the city administration was already
understood. There is no occasion for sur
prise in finding it at last openly acknowl-
edging its partisanship
Defeated in its efforts to obtain evidence
to bolster up exaggerated and preposterous
charges, which were born of malice and
fostered by conspiracy, the league has fall
en- back upon its sole resource, which en-
bodies the whole spirit of the campaign
against the city OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
THE league report contains the state
ment that the administration of Mayor
Bookwalter has been throughout one of
the most dlscredtable in the history of
the city This is untrue and libelous, and
unsupported by creditable evidence. All
citizens know, or may know. that the pres
ent administration has been, as Senator
Beveridge said in his speech at Tomlinson
Hall Saturday night, a great Improvement
over the previous regime in its relation TO
moral as well as financial questions.
BIASED and ill-tempered in every line,
the report of the league offendS all who
believe in fair play Its language is ut
terly out of proportion to the nature and
evidence of the unsupported and improved
/ charges against the administration.
NO ATTEMPT MADE.
Attention has already been called to
the fact that the league was making no
attempt to pursue bona fide investigation
of the record of the opposing candidate
for mayor. No representative of the league
has investigated or attempted to investi-
gate the dockets of the Criminal Court of
this county during the period John w.
Holtzman was it's prosecuting attorney.
That Mr.. Holtzman, during this time. was
derelict in his public duty; that he failed
| 10 prosecute, in overwhelming number
| of cases, the indictments against gamblers
| and saloon keepers was clearly shown by
| an investigation made behalf of the
| Republican city central committee. y cat
alogue of all such cases was made, and
| the announcement published, that this cat
alogue was available at Republican head
quarters. No one has disputed the general
| findings of this committee, nor has any one
on behalf of the Citizens League applied
| for this record of Mr.. Holtzmans official
! career
This ill-natured and Slanderous attack
| of the league, so entirely at variance with
| its professed character of nonpartisanship,
| not only exaggerates rumor and unfounded
accusation, but misrepresents obvious facts.
| Ii Is little short of astounding to find seven
presumably well-informed citizens signing
| their names to a statement accusing the
present administration of increasing the
citys debt $500, 900. This has been a debt
| paying, not a debt-making administratio ton,
as every one knows, or may know, by the
simplest inquiry.
Every rumor. however wild; every al
| legation, however unfounded-by whomso-
| ever formulated, or by whatever inspired,
| If only it was against the Republican ad-
| instantaneous to have been accepted
| by these gentlemen as gospel truth, with
| out the slightest attempt at verificaton
This travesty upon nonpartisanship, this
| reprehensibe assault upon the good name
! of our city, is fortunately couched in such
| Incorporate language that il will defeat
| its own purpose. Yet we are satisfied to
| appeal, on behalf of Mr. Bookwalter and
the Republican ticket, to the sense of fair
play and sober judgment of the voters OF
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