The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-02-24
YOU
HAD OFFER
/ OF $40 YET?
Roosevelt Headquarters In
viting Prominent Repub-
licans to Come to Indiana
polls and Talk It Over
With Teddyboosters.
TIMES BUREAU
AT STATE CAPITAL.

Indianapolis, Ind. Feb. 24.-Some of
the letters that have been sent out from
the Roosevelt headquarters in this city
to prominent Republicans over the state
have been sent by the recipients to tn
Republican state headquarters and to
other Republican leaders. and some of
the letters are interesting. Some of
them invite the recipient to call at the
headquarters and get acquainted. They
advise the man that it is necessary for
the Republicans to nominate Roosevelt
to save the party. and urge him to
join in the movement.
Another kind of letter invites the
man receiving 1t to come to Indianap-
oils and visit the Roosevelt headquar-
ters and talk over the situation. and
offers to pay his expenses on the trip up
to s25. Whether the s25 proposition
has attracted anybody to the headquar-
ters is not known. but 1t is a fact that
a good many Republicans are cvalling
there daily.
| e. NJ Lee, who is In charge of the
Roosevelt movement in this state. says
| that he opened the state headquarters
and has maintained II thus far at his
own expense, but that he expects later
to call on the Roosevelt followers in
the state for help to carry on the
ork. He now has two rooms at the
Hotel English and has added to his
staff until ne has a secretary. one clerk
and six stenographers at work
/ State Chairman Sims. of the Republi-
can state committee. is sending out a
large number of copies of the exhaus-
tive opinion recently given by Attorney
General Honan to Governor Marshall
constituting the new corrupt practices
law and the new voters registration
la. There were many questions ask
ed of the state officials in regard to the
new laws and their operation that the
attorney general was asked to prepare
a thorough and exhaustive treatise On
the laws and how they work Under
the Indiana law the opinion OF the at
| torney general stands as the authori-
j tative Interpretation of new law until
1T has been passed on by the courts
Therefore, the opinion just now given
by the attorney general will be bind
ing in the coming campaign. This
makes the opinion of official value, and
it is being studied carefully by those
in charge of the campaign.
Several thousand copies of the opin-
ion have been printed, and they are be-
ing sent out to county chairmen for
distribution among the workers who
may find use for them.
1t IS the hope of the State Chairman
Sims that the Republicans of the state
will study carefully the new laws. so as
to he ready to do the campaign work
under them this year. He says that
many questions are coming in to the
headuarters from over the state, and
that he hopes the attorney general S
opinion will answer all of them.
| One of the things that has been dis
covered to be legal under the present
law is that while a candidate for office
cannot pay opt a cent for anything OF
value to give voter. yet he can hire
as many voters as he pieases TO work
for him in the campaign. He can, also
hire them to work for him on election
day, although he cannot authorize then
to pay out any money for him or give
away cigars, liquor or any other thine
of value. One inquirer wanted to know
whether under this law. a candidate
could hire men to leave the county ars
! work for him in some other place or
election day, thus keeping them from
voting at their home precincts. There
is difference of opinion as to whether
he could do without being prose
cuted, but the authorities seem to think
he could.
: Some of the anti-Taggart Democrat