The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-07-09

for the indictments navel !
included Democrats, Republicans, ana
Interparttzan combfna-
lions, however. have doubtless been
made easy by the existence Of corrupt
party organizations, and It 10 pleasing
to see the investigation reach lea01xtd
In the Taggart and Fairbanks ranks.
II 1t is pushed to completion It may
show the qualifications OF an intricate
web of political intrigue, and deliver
the state from iniQuiues that havel
been admitted but unpublished for dec
AIDES. The Terre Haute prosecution
was vigorously pushed by Federal Au-
thorities; In conducting that at Indian
apolis the state officers have an OPP
portunity to exhibit equal zeal.
In Indianapolis The News (lnd,) has
no doubt of the existence of corrupt
and rotten system" though 1t remem-
beers that an indictment is one thing
and a conviction another. 1t says:
Recent elections in indianapolis
have seen many OF the rotten practices
that finally brought Terre Haute e
the verge OF anarchy. Terre Haute-re-
peaters have been brought to Indian
apolis to teach how primaries could
be controlled. More votes have been
cast at times for machine candidates
lin some precincts than the total num-
her of the party's voters. living and
dead, in the precinct In some pre-
cincts nearly every vote cast has been
counted for the favored candidate. not
! withstanding it was known that other
, candidates had been voted for. The
rotten conditions have existed SO long
t that feeling was growing up here that
) everything or anything, to win was
: permissible 1t had come to be sucn
: matter of course that many men did
: not realize that they were committing
j. crimes. Nothing but landslide could
S defeat the machine. To correct such
: condition and to save the city from
J. utter political degeneracy was the
= problem.
W every one knows that there has
l. been crookedness. The only questions
s are. Who are the men guilty OF 1t, and
< whether the men indicted are guilty..
se According to the Indianapolis star
lie (Prog), however, it Is we'll known
IN there that these indictments have beer
K long and ardently craved by certain
o. influences to which Taggart and Bel
II. have refused to bow the knee, tina
h. this stigma upon their names was coy
a eted for the publicity that might b
de made of it." And readers OF this pa
ne per are reminded of the legal assump
a ton that even an indicted man Is In
II nocent until the guilt is proved.
NJ. At the distance of Toledo from In
" dianapolis, The Blade finds it indee
he impossible to tell whether the actio
he of the grand jury represents an carr
Ia. eat and bonafide endeayor to clean
ne. election crimes and abuses in Indian
IN or merely phase of the old feud b
m tween the Fairbanks crowd and tt
by Taggart outfit" But in either case
rst opines, "the airing ought to be got
Ill for Indiana politics and that wheth'
,rk lor not a single manipulation goes !
the jail"
ma OF course, says The Tribune,
ici- South Bend, Indiana, the state mu
suffer by reason of the notoriet
of that can not be avoided Yet
ties, adds:
the at is distinctly to the credit ratn
Al.
IA; than to the discredit of Indiana tn
ials / it is cleaning house thoroughly q
Of vigorously When the job is done Il
,een will be the most wholesome state
Vigo litically in the Union. This is, prov
the ing the work is done we'll, complet
In and without regard to anything but
II to law and the evidence"
eady Outside of Indiana many papers q
and urally coment upon the more gene
last Implications of the Indianapolis
erre dictment. Perhaps, observes the n
adelphia Public Ledger, it justi1
one the hope that latter all, the natio