The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-30
Metropolitan Police Measure
Against Idea of Home
Rule.
CONN OUT FOR THE SENATE
CANDIDACY ANNOUNCED AND
SLAck'S FRIENDS BELIEVE THE
ELkHART MAN WILL HELP IN
STRUGGLE AGAINST TAGGART.
BY Ellis SearIes.

indianapolis, Nov. 30-Governor-
elect Thomas r. Marshall has come
out with positive statement that he
will endeavor to have the legislature
repeal the Metropolitan police law,
and that if he fails to succeed in this
effort he will make appointments of
members of the Metropolitan police
board in each city solely on the re-
commentator of the mayor and COM
mon counciLof that city. He says
this is home rule and that he believes
in home rule.
Marshall made the same promise
during his campaign, when in his
speeches he said that this would be
his policy, but there were not many
of his party friends who believed that
he would do it. To do so, they said
he would have to throw away the
best chance he will have to build up a
political machine for himself, and
they did not think he was averse to
having machine Of his own. They
said there was little likelihood that
any governor, no matter of what par
ty, would deliberately cast aside such
an opportunity to intrcnch himself in
power, but Marshall has already up
set few traditions Of the governors 8
office and there is no telling what else
he may do before his term ends.
His statement was contained in a
letter that he wrote to political
friend at Muncie. There are fourteen
cities in Indiana that are under the
provisions of the Metropolitan police
law and Muncie is one of them. The
Muncie man wrote Marshall with ref
erence to an appointment on the police
board of that city. Here is what Mar
shall told him in his answer:
In accordance with my prediction
promises | propose to request the leg
islature to repeal the Metropolitan DO
lice law, and, failing therein, l pro-
pose to keep my pledge to appoint and
| remove exclusively upon the recon-
mendation of the mayors and COM
mon councils of the several cities gov
erned by the act"
The majority of the cities governed
by the Metronolitan police law have
republican city administrations, and
Marshall's policy means that these
cities will be permitted to remain re.
publican as far as the police depart.
| ment is concerned, if the legislature
refuses to. repeal the law. Marshall
could, of course, appoint democratic
| police boards in these republican cit
| les, thus taking the police department
out of the hands of the republicans
| but he says he believes in home rule
There Is every reason to believe
however, that the legislature will not
be long in repeating the Metropolitan
police faw. Already several members
of the coming session are preparing
repeal bills that will be introduced
early in the session. 1t will be re
me bered that the last legislature
passed a bill repeating the law but
Governor Hanly vetoed it and Speak
| er Branch forced an adjournment OF
Of the house before the bill could be
passed over the veto. This year +the
democrats will have control of the
house and will have a democratic
speaker. This will make easy sailing
! for the repeal bill.
Conn Out for Senator.
| There are indications that c. G.
| Conn. of Elkhart. is about to break
Unto the race for United States sena
tor. 1t is known that on Saturday af
ternoon an Elkhart man. who is close
to Conn in political way, called a
we'll known Indianapolis politician by
long distance telephone and asked him
all about the senatorial situation
The Elkhart man said several Elk
hart democrats left town Saturday
morning on a secret mission of some
kind and he believed they came to In
| dianapolis to do little roofing for B
F. Shively. He wanted to know
whether they had been seen here. But
as far as is known they did not come
to Indianapolis. The man said some
| thing about Mr.. Conn wishing to know
| about the matter and this has given
rise to the belief that he is about te
get into the running.
Conn was a candidate for the demo
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