The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-04
JONES AND BURKETT SUED.
earn Asks for Mandate, But Swears
that Hendricks Was Never
Ousted

DNdtNh a. WY PCiiAe III thN ~Oo' -
and all their trickery exposed, Jim
Goodrich, assisted by Parks and
Moores, has induced Francis Edward
earn to bring a suit against the cleo
ton commissioners to compel them
to Immediately place the boilers
ticket on the election ballots under
the eagle, when the law says post
lively the arrangement of the ballots
shall not be made until fifteen days
before the election.
Elsewhere in this paper will be
found few of the false statements
to which they have induced earn to
make oath; but earn has sworn to
one thing which is true and which
proves beyond all possibility of doubt
that w. c. Hendricks has been the
chairman of the Republican commit
tee of Marshall county ever since he
was elected on January IS, 1906.
Francis Edward earn swears that
precinct committeeman must be cleo
ted by the Republican voters of their
respective precincts at the time des-
| ignated in January for such elections.
This is Just what the committee on
credentials decided at the regular
meeting for the organization of the
county committee January 13.
In Union township the precincts
had been denied this privilege. In
two of the precincts the men elected
under the precinct rule appeared and
presented their claims. The COM
mittee on credentials reported that
these men, J. F. earn and Samuel
IMedbourn, were the regularly elected
precinct committeeman.
]. F. Behmer and w. S. yesterday
who had been chosen by vote OF
the entire township instead of vote
of their respective precincts, were
present but did not claim to have
been elected under the rules of the
committee, in facs made no claims
whatever to the position of commit
teemen. When Chairman McCrory
called for remarks on the report OF
the committee neither Behmer, Eas-
terday nor anybody else offered any
objection to the election of earn and
Medbourn and when the vote declar-
ing them committeeman for Union
township was taken there was but
one negative vote; consequently no
two men in Marshall county have a
better claim to the positions of town
ship committeeman than ]. +. earn
and Samuel Medbourn. Francis Ed
ward earn now swears this is true.
When the pretended meeting to re-
move w. G. Hendricks was held in
February, ]. F. Behmer and Mr.. Eas-
lterday were recognized as members
of the committee, and Behmer made
| tie motion to remove Hendricks
Now earns affidavit proves that Beh-
mer was not and is not a member OF
1.-THE committee, consequently there
can be no reason for claiming that
Mr.. Hendricks was removed at that
meeting and there has been no at
tempt to remove him at any meeting
since that time.
But Mr.. earn makes another start
ling statement. He swears that
Republican candidates for township
Offices have to be chosen at prim-
airy election or a delegate convention
If this is true Republicans have no
township tickets nominated in Mar
shall county or in nine-tenths OF the
counties of Indiana ,ano the state
central committee of the Republican
party of Indiana has given the Dem
ocrats of Indiana all the township of
Ifices.
This is just what we would expect
of men who have no more political
sense than Jim Goodrich, Carl Rid
dick and John L. Norman, but we
will not believe that thirteen mem
bers of the committee have made
such q blunder until we have better
authority than Senator Parks, Mer-
lril Moores. and Ed. earn.
The complaint against Francis
Marion Burkett and John r. Jones
is fearfully and wonderfully drawn;
and indicates that more than one
half the voters of Indiana know
more about election laws than Parks
and Moores.
This suit shows everybody that
there is not so much as the shadow
of a doubt that VIM. G. Hendricks
is the chairman of the Republican
party of Marshall county.