The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-01
HAYS NOT TO
Be CANDIDATE
FOR GOVERNOR
EDITORS TOLD
Attention to be Given to Nat
ional Craftsmanship, Indiana
Republican Announces -
Will Finish the Job.''
GOODRICH IS SPEAKER

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H. Hays. chairman OF the Republican
National committee, will not be a can
didate for the Republican nomination
for governor of Indiana. He will con.
tinue to give his undivided attention
to the national craftsmanship. Mr..
Hays, in a brief statement, announced
his decision at the midsummer meet
ing Of the Indiana Republican Edi-
torial association at Magnesia Springs
near here today.
Il am very sensible Of the privilege
incident to the opportunity for service
and distinguished honor in the gov
ernorship of Indiana" said Mr.. Hays,
in declining to make the race, "but I
cannot, however, further consider be-
ing a candidate"
Chairman Hays statement declining
to ask the governorship nomination
follows
1T is difficult for me to express the
gratitude which I feel for the assur.
ances that have come to me relative
to the governorship. The friendship
and confidence which these assur-
ances prove mean more to me than
anything else and move me very deep
ly.
Will Finish Job.
II am very sensible Of the privilege
incident to the opportunity for serv-
Ice and distinguished honor in the
governorship of Indiana, but I cannot,
however, further consider being can
didate. I am committed to a definite
undertaking and l shall finish that
job.
THE work in connection with the
Republican National Craftsmanship Is
daily becoming SO all absorbing and
the Importance of the successful out
come SO vital that there l must do
that which 1t is given me to do and
must do 1t to the hilt
1T has been thought by many of
my friends that I could do both but
I know that it is impossible to give
the hundred per cent eficiency in in,
itiative and execution due each posi-
ton, II have the other on my mind.
Course Is Clear
Believing this, as do, then my
course is clear. l must do the one or
the other. There is no doubt about
complete Republican victory in In
diana and the nation, and it is simply
for me to decide where I may be able
to do the largest good and where my
duty lies.
This, believe, IS in the work which
I have in hand in aiding insofar as is
in my power to bring the complete Re-
publican national victory so absolutely
essential to the country's welfare.
Therefore. l shall not be a candidate
for governor"
When it became known some time
ego that Indiana friends Of Chairman
Hays were urging him to seek the
nomination for governor Of Indiana,
Republicans in various parts of the
country began to insist that he retain
the party leadership in the nation.
There has been much speculation, but
to all queries Mr.. Hays has replied
that he would announce his decision
at the midsummer meeting Of the In
diana Republican editors.
ooodrieh Defends Tax Law.
Defending the new tax law and ar
raigning the Democratic critics of the
law Gov. James P. Goodrich addressed
the meeting Of the Indiana Republi.
can Editorial Association at Megne
sia Springs, near here. He quoted
from actresses of Vice-President
Thomas R. Marshall. made when he
was governor Of Indiana. and former
Governor Samuel NJ. Ralston, which
Gov. Goodrich asserted were in sup
port of the tax law enacted by the
1919 session of the Indiana legisla
ture.
In short" declared the governor
I'VE say again to our Democratic
friends: We have acted in this ta2
matter Just as your own party prom
ised to do if entrusted with powel
and just as your own tax commission
and your own governor urged shoulc
be done, but which you lacked the
courage to do notwithstanding the
fact that your own commission re
ferred to the existing law as a legal
ized system of robbing the small prop
erty owner
I'VE can safely challenge the Dem
ocratic party to state its objections
to the underlying principles Of th'
law. demand that it point out exactl.
what provisions it would repeal ant
what provisions it would amend i
given the opportunity
Follow Democratic Recommendation
This law follows almost exactl.
the recommendations Of the Demo
cratic members of the Ralston Specia
Tax Commission. The first four rec
concentrations are followed exactly
AS 10 the fifth recommendation, in
stead of fixing statutory limit to tn
tax rate, as recommended by the Com
mission, the law gives the State Ta
Commission control over the rate an
power to control bond issues. Il
short, the present tax law is the Law
recommended by Governor Ralston'
Commission and by him transmitte
to the General Assembly of 1917.
Il have never believed nor do l nov
believe that this is a final solution o
the tax problem. but l do believe tha
it is the best solution that may be ha
until our constitution is amended S
as to give the General Assembly nee
essary power in dealing with tn
problem of taxation.
ITO those who oppose the law,
ask the question:
ITO what feature of it do you OF
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