South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-10-30

figures and leaving $4,000 to spare at that
Wood, while here. mt and conversed with
about the same hosts-with some exceptions
-as Col. Mulhall put down on the "fat
tributors" To his haul. simultaneously too,
with the arrival OF Wood. though perhaps by
mere chance, the republican cry of calamity
revived with all the Mark Hanna vigilence,
from press, curbstOne, and factory foreman,
while merchantmen and tradesmen began TO
notice a considerable unusual circulation OF
nice. new. crisp one, two, five and ten-doIlar
bills.
James Eli Watson, former congressman
from Indiana. republican ''whip" OF the house
under "UncIc Joe" Cannon. and now one OF
the "stand-pat" candidates for United states
senator. whom MuIhall put on his roaster.
rived in South Bend Immediately ON the heels
of Wood leaving, Ostensably for Lancrte. Wat
at the high school auditorium Saturday
night, served the calamity howlers with sew
cral new Inspirations snatching adversely
from just around the corner where the "end
OF the war was I'm hiding, and from all pres
cnt appearances the campaign of cajOlery,
intimidation, bulldoze, bully-rag, excitement
to fear and, II need be. resort to the long
green. is on i'm fun blast
Meanwhile Frank Daley, former U. S dis
trict attorney who sent Don NJ Roberts, ex-
Judge Eli Rcdman, and others from Tcrre
Haute to LeayenwOrth now appointed by the
department OF justice at Washington to act
a. special investigator of election frauds I'm
this state, attached to the Office of Dist. Atty.
l.. Ert Slack, has a small army of secret SER
vice i'm Northern Indiana, and what is
dome Is IN no ,naarthad AZ r,oSSiIIa ond nroca-
cuted under the federal statutes.
Wood is believed to be a mere solicitor of
campaign funds under State Chairman Hays,
and National Committeeman Hemenway,
through whom his Accommodations, and those
from other sources, are turned over 10 local
leaders, be checked out to the workers"
They are instructed To keep Mark Hannas
ghost in bold display, shouting protect
your job, choose Hughes" in ink and hot air,
wherever they can and cinching the that
it engenders, or the vote that fear doesn't
cinch, by adding more workers" wherever
they must.
To escape LeavenwOrth, Investigators assert
that several more fine brick or frame resi-
dences may be built in south Bend by repub-
liCan leaders maybe some churches be con-
structed church debts paid a of
getting rid OF the money, rather than take the
chance of having too many workers" bulging
with hills and running Mt the mouth. Intimi-
datiOn, coercion, and fear, may be regarded as
sufficient for the voter, but that the money is
here to be utilized by the leaders literally
as they can, taking chances on the peniten-
tiary, is quite without question.
This being a presidential year, a senatorial
year. a congressional year, the federal govern
ment becomes interested i'm the election, and
hence the appointment of special investigators
i'm the various states, TO force compliance with
the federal statutes. The action has been
prompted, perhaps much as anything. by the
unusual immigration of southern negroes to
the nOrthward, begun several months ago. and
colonized i'm Ohio Indiana, Michigan. Wiscon-
sin and Illinois. The Chicago Daily News pub
Ishcd a story about ten days ago, asserting
that the republicans had colonized and regis
tered several thousands of these I'm Chicago
and Illinois, practically assuring the state to
Hughes. and then n week later. after pretend
ing Independence during the months that had
passed il too turned out for Hughes and
climbed into the negro bandwagOn.
Most of the negro cOlOnizng i'm Indiana
however, far as investigation shows, APP
pears TO have been done in Indianapolis. TT
Wayne, Evansville and Terre Haute, but south
Bend has not been thoroughly gone into. Tab
is being kept on the number and identity of
the colorcd walters mt the Oliver hotel and i'm
other parts of the city where the regroes con-
grcgate.
Exactly how far the federal statutes will APP
ply is somewhat hazy among lawyers, but that
they were broad enough TO land Don Roberts,
Eli Redman and others I'm Deavenworth, is
quite wildly understood \ bill intro
duced i'm congress during the last session. cal
culated to cover corrupt practices i'm federal
elections more clearly, but the republicans
with the aid OF a few democrats, succeeded in
having t sidetracked It Is contended by
Special Investigator Daley and Dist. Atty.
Slack however i..at the federal statutes arc
sufficiently brood for all purposes, even
broader than the state corrupt practices act
passed by the democratic assembly i'm 1911.
Dist. Atty Slack is unstinted i'm his stated
determination that corrupt practices i'm Indi-
ana this year will h. vigorously prosecuted: