The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
GOVERNORS nook ON GRAFT.
Hanly OF Indiana to Publish the Story of
His Discoveries,

INDIANAPOLIS, March ~10.-IndianA poll
ticians are looking forward with q good
deal OF interest to the forthcoming book
by Gov. Hanly, In which he purposes to
treat the subject Of graft as he has found
1t to exist in public Office. 1t is understood
that he deals at great length with the cases
OF Secretary Of State Storms and Auditor
OF State Sherrick, both Of whom he forced
to resign, and one Of whom is now on trial
on a charge OF embezzling State funds.
A friend OF the Governor says that the
book will contain about $50 pages, will
go into the subject Of conditions at the State
House in detail, and will give his side Of the
fight to GUST Storms and Sherrick.
The Governor has never made any public
statement Of his Investigations, and his
book is to be issued in obedience to a de-
mand from friends that his side Of the con-
troversy be known. 1t has been charged
openly that the Governor was making a
~grandstand play, that he cared nothing
for the prevalence Of the evils which he has
exposed, and that his object has beer solely
to advertise himself at the expense Of
friends who helped him to the Governors
office,
There are two things which the Governor
lie said to be anxious to explain to the public.
and he wants his explanations to be in more
permanent form than they would be il given
out to newspapers. One Of these is as to
his relations with Storms. They both lived
at Lafayette, practised law in the same
courts >and were warm personal friends.
When Hanly was a candidate for Congress
Storms was one Of his warmest supporters,
going out Of his district to work for his
friend. The Governor knew in July that
Storms had not settled in full with the
State, but he did not press him. He knew
in September that Storms had been obliged
to put his property In the hands Of a trustee
to raise money to pay his obligations to
the State, but still he did not proceed
against him. The Democratic press and
the friends Of Sherrick, who had b cen
forced out Of Office, clamored for the re-
moval Of Storms, and pointed out that
Sherrick had been badly treated 1t was
not till this hue and cry was raised that
Storms was asked to resign and suit insti-
Governor wants to make it clear that Storms
was not favored and to explain fully why
action in his case was delayed.
Then there was the Sherrick indebted
ness, Sherrick said that he loaned the
Governor $500 on which to make his guber-
iittoi OIL ohA tIC v
ernor's check to show that the money had
been repaid. That money, he said, was
as much. the property Of the State as any
that he had invested, and that Hanly had
profted by it, but that when getting into
Office through such aid he had turned
against the man who had befriended him.
The Governor says that he sent Sherrick a
check for $500 and, rather than have any
discussion Of the matter between them,
he had written him a check fer the amount
he claimed to have spent. This explana-
ton was received with derision by Sher-
rick's friends, and has never been received
without many grains of allowance by the
public at large, while the Governors enc
mics have rejected it wholly and declared
that it was utterly improbable that the
Governor would part with 500 II he did not
know that the money had beer spent.
This IL a point that the Governor wants
thoroughly explained, and he proposes to
give his side Of it in full in his book.
The book will be brought out by a Marion
firm and will consist OF an issue OF 1900
copies. Two hundred will be bound in
cloth and 1000 in paper.