Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-29
Goodrich Goes Overheard

James T. Goodrich has admitted that personally he is as dead Is a
door nail in republican politics in Indiana
Camoufaged as it is, his announcement OF his Withdrawal IRON ue
preferential ace for the republican nomination for president stands out
as the final admission that the party in Indiana which ne a controne
for more than three years, has at last reEoted and repudiated him
Bitter as is the dose to the gentleman from Winchester he has elected
to take his medicine and retire from the arena rather than stand up IN
take the political beating that was in store for him
The rettremenhof James P. Goodrich is yet another evidence that the
world do move"
IL never was fitted to become a candidate for the presidency. He
was fitted to become governor of Indiana, but he masked that IN
atness well and, since he has been in the governors chair, he has had
such a wide range of control over the party, the administration and the
newspapers of this state, that for two years he succeeded in masking from
he neonle o. Indiana the things in his administration that the people
will never tolerate long.
During the last year the public of Indiana awakened to the real
nnrnosa Of coodrtcb'g Capitalization schemes. They saw these schemes
cover abuse of power, personal gain at public expense, infringement N
their right to govern themselves, and they revolted-
This revolt was not sudden. The ground work for it was laid many
months ago There are men in Indiana who have worked day and night
to gather the facts with which to lay the case of the People of Indiana
20 The m p Goodrich Republican Administration before the voters of
In this movement The Times rejoices that it has been able to take
tnar+ ~ II the nanerg in indianapolis it is the only one which has
had the courage to set forth, for public inspection, the facts it has found
in the Investigation of the Goodrich administration. 1t is the only Indian
Ii go 7bicb mn to the present dav has printed the story of low
Goodrich and his "cose business associates" unloaded the garbage plant
on the citizens of Indianapolis for $175OOO,a after a director of the company
had declared, under oath, that you could not get $4,000 for it."
The Times is the only paper in Indianapolis that dared to expos the
use of convict labor Oh the Globe Mining Companys property and sub
sequenty the affidavit o a stockholder in that company that a block Of
stock had been given to James P. Goodrich "or services"
1t is the only indianapolis paper that has advised the public of the
cement scandal in the building Of state highways, the pecuiarides of the
bonding of road contractors, the interest in the state Institutions coal con-
tracts, the iniquides of the state tax boards work against the schools and
against the small taxpayer.
statement of facts in connection with these things. which he has so long
admitted by his intense silence, came with the withdrawal of his prest
Dental aspirations.
Goodrich is personally done in the politics of Indiana
But the James P. Goodrich administration of the affairs of Indiana
with all its sins of commission and ommisdon still stands.
It is the administration OF TN republican party II IS e"oor'9u'
approved and defended by the republican state committee. 1t represents
the best efforts Of the party at a time when it controlled everything from
the gOvernorsbp down to the political appointments Of statehOuse 1anitors
The collapse Of Goodrich is an admission of the fa1sty Of Goodrichism
The republican party today stands committed to Goodnchsm. 1t
can not escape the responsibilities of the maladministraton of the Good
rich crowd by the mere expediency of throwing Goodrich overheard