The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-01-22

halls, gambling houses, and resorts,
assessments to be used for the regis
tration of voters; of hiring men to
transport repeaters from one precinct
to another, conspiring to place only
men this money could influence on
certain election boards, of ordering
the arrest of certain men to prevent
their voting, and of directing the max
ing of false registration cards" And
to cut off premature rejoicing in more
righteous communities, the District
Attorney hints of Investigations in
indianapolis, Evansville and over the
line in Paris, Illinois
The best thing that could happen
for the Democratic party in Indiana,
says the New York Evening Post,
would be the conviction of the guilty
persons involved in Uhis industry
no matter how high their official po-
silions.' With this the Indianapolis
News agrees. Though it notes that
the list of indictments includes men
who call themselves Republicans, Pro-
gressives and Democrats yet ''the men
under arrest are all members of the
Crawford Fairbanks-Roberts machine,
and most of them are habitues of the
red light district" That is, it adds
they belong to the governing class
| in Terre Haute, And the Indianapo
lis daily goes on to explain it's JOY
in the blow dealt at this System"
Precisely such crimes have for
years marked Terre Haute elections
| The men guilty of them have never
felt that Their was the slightest danger
that punishment would follow They
have gone about the business as though
it We're legitiamte industry.
There is no worse machine in the
! United States than that which of late
has assumed to represent and to speak
and act for the Democrats of Indiana"
Mayor Roberts slipped off to Wash
| inston, we are told, with the remark;
Il can raise more hell in a short time
than any other one man down there,
He returned to Indianapolis on the
same train with the president-but not
in the same car, it is noted. In Wash
ington, says a New York Sun dispatch,
southern Democrat leaders took con-
siderable interest in the case. 1t is
not pleasing to them, as they affect
!
to see in it the ghost of the force bill
stalking abroad and the possibility
that in some future election a Re-
precedent now being established by
a Democratic district attorney in IN
diana, may order its federal district
attorneys in the south to proceed
against Democrats for interfering with
the exercise Of the franchise by the
negro voter" Congressman Stanley
of Kentucky, we are told, has been in
duced to act as counsel for the indict-
ed men. Nevertheless the IndianapO-
lis News feels assured that Mayor Ro-
berts is lab0ring under a delusion ii
| cAISClluS an Iedi Hclp HUH w dSi'
ington:
He was able absolutely to boss the
government of Terre Haute, and ever
to exert some influence in Indiana pol
! tiles. But when it comes to tacklint
I the federal government he is likely tt
i find that it is beyond his reach Othe
men have made the same mistake =
We fear that he will have to meet tn
{ charges against him in the court pre-
sided over by Judge Anderson. 1t il
| however, quite characteristic of hin
> that he should think that there i
3 some way in which courts can be con
5 trolled, or legal process perverted
l So we are in no way surprised tina
: he should think that he can stir u
1 the southern senator's by showing
: them where his prosecution woul,
I lead to In cases of preventing negroe
, from voting, or felt that he can brin,
Influence to bear on the ATTORNEY peu