Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-22
SPAAN ARRAIGNS
HIDDEN GOVERNMENT

we believe IN local SELF government
and not government behind closed DOORS"
Henry y. Span. candidate for the demo
cratic nomination for congress from the
Marion county district, declared in a
speech at a meeting in McClain's hall,
Hoyt and State avenues. last night.
Mr.. Span declared that Gov. Goodrich
sought TO bring about political control
OF the state through the enactment OF the
tax law.
There are now only two people who
are defending the tax law-t'ov. Goodrich
and Philip Zocrcher" Alr. Span said
"ZOercher is talking 10 hold his job
Ar. Span went into considerable detail
in the discussion Of the new assessment
sheets. in which each item OF household
goods must be listed separately. and OF
the now supplementary information"
sheets. In which The details OF business
organizations must De set out.
GIVES BRIEF ANSWER
FOR INSURANCE OF EsTIoN.
He also spoke OF the question asked by
the tax board concerning the insurance
carried on the goods listed.
There Is no law which compels you
to answer that question" he said.
If you have not already dHed out
your assessment sheet Just write In that
space. It's none Of your d bust
ness"
The horizontal increases were charnc-
terized by Mr.. Span as vicious.
Mr.. Span discussed at some length
the failure in Office Of the state, county
and city administrations
In referring to the county admlnistra>
ton he told OF the Whiteside case. in
which the county undertaken buried
n,
OF the surface Of the earth and buried
the body Of a dog with the body Of
man.
He also told Of the mismanagement
and law violations at the county jail and
OF mismanagsment at the county hos.
pital for the insane at Julietta.
Mr.. Span criticised the legislature for
approving universal military service and
declared that II he Is elected 10 congress
be viii vote against any such measure.
Candidates for the various county Of
fees and the Legislature made brief
speeches.
Albert A. Henry and Walter McNa-
mara, candidates for the state house Of
representatives. declared they favored
the return Of beer.
James Z. Berry and Thomas y. Carroll.
candidates for county chairman. spoke
briefly, telling Of the need OF organize
ton.
Others who spoke were Edgar A.
Brown, Blythe O. Hendricks and Chalmer
SchlOssser, candidates for Judge Of the
circuit court; William Clay Batchelder.
Edward p. Brennan, Paul G. Davis. John
F. Geckler, Earl n. McFerren and Jacob
l.. Steinmetz, candidates for prosecuting
attorney; George NJ. Spiegel and Frank
Wooling, candidates for county treas-
urer; Edward A. Mcbride and william,
7. Sindlinger, candidates for county
sheriff; Heyden w. Buchanan, DR.. Fred
erick p. Crum and DR.. Albert w. Miller.
candidates for county coroner: James
Kervan, candidate for county commits
sioner. Oren S. Hack, Frank Bruce Ed
ward b. Raub and John J. Dugan, cal
didates for the senate; Andy DonIan.
william A. Gibson, Humphrey c. Har-
rington, Don II. Herr, John b. Parsons.
Russell J. Ryan and J. Olias VanNier.
candidates for the house.
SPAAN NOT IN
"NEWBERRY CLASS"
Mr.. Span is the first Indiana congress.
sional candidate to announce publicly the
details of an expense account fled at
Washingto nunder the federal law
The following letter written by Mr.
Span to William Tyler, clerk of the
house or representatives,, speaks for
itself:
Enclosed please find my preliminary
statement Of expense account, only :
cents. 1 had no opposition therefore
1t was not necessary to get into the New.