South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-31
Consider 4 $50 the State Issues That Strike
Close Home LnUOIUing Your Tax-D1sbIicate and
The Use of 1t to Grease Party Machines

20 Offices Of this kind, equipped for the place
That is Mr.. wesolowski. He has been in the Office
for years knows It like a book; is honest, indus
trious. obiging capable What more could you
want? But this Is not all
These three local ofices-these over all.-should
20 TO democrats this year; necessary in order "a
divorce them from the city hall-avoid that much
extension Of the grasp for which the city hall ag-
gregation extended its cinvs We say this not
because Of party but advocate it for all who have
civic pride-and would clip the wings of expanding
and would-be self-perpetuatng municipal malad-
ministration. particularly matters OF public
should be an onnni-p partisan am btion: the
ambition Of all who believe in good government
The reason is obvious and that there Is a con-
Meeting link, busy weaving itself about those Offices
70 attach them the city hall machine Is evident.
That connecting link is City Atty. Thomas W. Slick,
who Mayor Carson's campaign manager. and
the reputed brains OF Carsonism down TO the mo-
ment We have exposed. the alignment of the prose-
cutors Office with the city hall administration, to
subdue interference before. The sherirs treas
urer's Offices quite "prize-worthy"
Sheriff Louis Duck sinned away his independence
of that city hall group conceded even by republl-
to be a Ioadstone about the neck OF local re-
pubcansm, when after Judge Chester r. Mont
gomery Of the superior court. ordered him go
a year ago last July, he managed to lnger in the
vicinity OF the office OF City Atty. slick-who is
Mayor Carson's legal genius.-untn he could be
temporarily enjoined." Then ne wasn't particular
about having the state interplead and have repre-
sentation. in effort to have the injunction dis
solved. Pros. Schwartz had wiggle his way by
application to the court The sheriff. personally.
represented by a lawyer who worked hand in
hand with the city attorney, whom he was supposed
to be opposing.
After the injunction had been appealed and
was about ready for hearing Sheriff Duck went even
farther and informed County Atty. MacKibbin that
he wasn't particular about prosecution Of the ap-
peal. There you have It. Continuance of Sheriff
Duck in office means at least least resistance" on
his part, in sheriff is needed to do certain
work that the city police ought to do but under the
Carson regime can't or won't do,-or maybe to make
them do their work with a Slick picked prose-
cutting attorney, such the republican nominee
would be. willing and anxious cooperate with
the police and sheriff" as the candidate admits
he wouId,-and a sheriff obligated by party 20 CO.
operate with the prosecuting attorney and the po-
lice; WELL there would never have been any arrest
OF thinner and Dambacher. and the police would
have had the opportunity to get away not with IS
cases of American Pride" whisky, but 139 cases;
including the 1913 cases which Pros Schwartz de-
administration resistance and Sheriff Duck sub
mission finally able to recover.
Here Is an actual experience illustrating the op-
erave possibilities of the political workings of the
city hall machine. with any continuance OF Sheriff
Ducks "cooperaton;" with Mr.. Floyd o. Jellison
cooperating" as prosecutor-but they the
county treasury additional We have no suspicious
that Candidate sHck-brother OF the city attorney,
would loot the strong box" if elected but that
his possession Of It would add great strength to
Slick Carson organization. goes without saying Give
that city hall crowd such control over county af-
fairs and they would have machine quite doubled
IN menacing force. Regardless OF party you cannot
afford to permit It,
Mr.. wesoIowsid can be trusted with the treas
Office FOR efficiency honesty for courtesy
for industry. and he will be interested in build
ing up political machine, in making his office
a super-active wheel in such machine. The county
treasurer IS the custodian OF the city as the
county funds The city might want to dictate tho
county repositories: it might want to- and might not
find It difficult to- attain numerous advantages
through cooperation from the county treasurers Of
fee That Is business Office not a political one. or
should be IN the OF operation at leas.
Whenever a political machine starts out to enlarge
and entrench itself. plainly visible this in
stance IS time for the public regardless OF party
to call a halt
Mayor Carson is already grooming himself for re-
election Success for the republicans especially in
the three offices above named would enable his
political manager and city attorney. pretty near
guarantee his northumberland the city would have
four more years Of Slck-Carson NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
the city hall And should Carson be sidetracked
City Atty. Slick with the machine ne is building.
trying build. could wel-nigh dictate hts sue
cessor the ticket
South Bend cannot afford that and neither can
the republican party A political party owes some
thing itself The city surely has enough. and
one would think the republican party had had