South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-03-13
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Rev. }. l.. Imhof. Secretary.
Rev. Henry l.. Davis. ID. ID.
Rev. Joseph y. Greene. ID. ID.
Rev. c. A Lippincott. ID. ID.
Rev. Alfred y. Eeles. ID. ID.
Rev. U. ;. Davis. ID. ID.
Rev. ID. Is. Beck
Rev. G. l. RUIisOn.
Rev. Rudolph Kline.
Rev. Il. Garfield johnson.
Rev Rodney McQuarry-
Rev. g. W. Rench.
Rev. n. J. Martin.
Rev Waidemar GOeffney.
Rev p. J. Cain
Rev. g. W. SwitEer.
Rev. N. &. LeasOn.
Rev. A. n Keck-
Rev. Floyd Johnson.
Rev. o. o. LOsier.
Rev. n. g. Neister.
Rev. j. W. Neill.
Rev. &. j. JOrdOn.
Rev. II. r. Parker.
Rev. G.. w. Titus.
Rev. j. A. Burnett.
And all members of the south
Bend and Mishawalsa Ministe-
rial Association:
Please stand up
Are you able now, in the face
of what happened in the superior
court Wednesday ia the Tony
Barrett liquor case and Monday
in the case of Tom ward, to salts
fy yourself, regardless OF your
own politics, or of the political
compilations of the city admins
tratiOn, or OF the prosecutors Of
flee, as 10 who is "four-flushing"
in the matter of law enforcement,
and who is thinning up" the trial
OF the liquor cases?
Here you have the word. not of
Pros. schwartz, nor of Chief of
Police Kline nor his LEGAL ad-
visor. City Atty. SIick-and thanks
awfully. not the word Of The
News-Times-but the word of
Special Judge Vitus G.. Jones. who
sat in the Barrett case.
Your generosity IN the past. if
not individually. at least, as a
Ministerial association, in care
fully avoiding criticism of the city
administration. while so seeming
~ willing TO condone its stigma
sought TO be cast at the prosecu-
tors office. has been such that
one might almost expect you TO
meet now and pass resolutions of
commentator to Chief Kline for
his splendid work in forcing
Friend" Barretts freedom, and
condemnation of Pros. Schwartz
In not being able to secure a con-
viction in spite of it.
II Is only an exaggerated exam
pie OF what has been going on for
more than a year, even some
times back into the Keller ad-
ministration.
Big splurges, arrests made.
evidence lacking, and then when
the prosecuting attorney is
obliged to dismiss, or fails to
convict, the blame is cast on the
prosecutors office.
OF course, a republican admin
istration, or even a citizen admin
istration, ushered in by Gods
elect" can do no wrong-only
in this case, as in the Tom Ward
case, the situation became so des-
perate, for the protection of ad-
ministration friends, il seems, as
to call for desperate means.
Why did Chief Kline want
Pros. schwartz TO clear the cir
cult and superior court dOckets of
pending liquor cases. do you sup
pose. and why, when he refused
to clear them, do you suppose the
evidence turned up missing, or
degenerated to more tea-like
quality, with in the Barrett case,
the chief nowhere to be found to
explain?
All, yes! The chief said: 1--WE
will start all over again." start,
we suppose, after more splurses
with which to camouflage the un-
sophisticated, make the clergy and
the church folk believe that WON
ders were being done by the ad-
ministration, but that the prose-
cutor is diSmissing everything,
and so what is the use?
The South Bend and Misha-
waka public will be glad 10 know
now, in the face of Judge Jones'
pronunciamento, whether or not
the Ministerial association Is to
be a real moral force in the COM
munity. hosting its Christianity
above party politics, and standing
for what is right, and decent, and
for the man who dares to serve,
regardless of party, because it is
right.
That is why We ask the mem
bers of the Ministerial associa-
ton, individually and collective
ly. to stand up"
If they don't like it, and their
party politics so supersedes their
Christianity, overlooking the NOR
al issue, that they can't stand
up" why, let them sit down."
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