Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-13
REPUBLICANS
DISRUPTED BY
ORGANIZATION
Candidates Resent Chairman's
Efforts to Form Party
Primary Slate.
WARNS AGAINST THEFT

The desperate methods of the
republican organization in Marion
county and the state to make James
w. Fesler the republican nominee
for governor are rapidly causing a
split in the ranks of the republicans
which will mean their defeat at the
polls in November.
Republican adherents of the candi-
dacies of Warren T. McCray and b. {.
| Toner are today serving notice on the
organization republicans that II they per-
sist in their tactics the party will be
split wide open before the primaries.
Opponents of Fesler charge:
1. That Fesler adherents control
the state and Marion county organt-
nations and are using tho organiEa-
tion for the purpose of nominating
Fesler.
=. That FesIer adherents are plan
ming to steal the nomination for Fes-
Ter IL they can not win 1t otherwise.
3. That candidates for other Offices
are being forced TO indorse Fesler by
coercive methods exercised by re
publican organization heads.
4. What money Is being freely
spent and municipal and state Jobs
freely dispensed with view to lining
up Feslcr support, particularly in
Marion county.
That the Marion county organization is
being used for the purpose Of boosting
Fesler's candidacy is not disputed.
Documentary evidence has placed such
a charge beyond all dispute.
Z HI
publican chairman Of Marion county and
county attorney, issued a call for all can
didates to gather at the Marion club.
Those who went TO the meeting In an
swer TO the call which did not specify
why the call was issued were confronted
with resolution calling on them to in
dorse the candidacy Of Fesler.
CALLED ON TO SIGN
AFTER MEETING.
Those who were not present at the
meeting were then called on by Claris
Adams, county manager for Fesler and
county prosecutor, TO call at Fesler head
quarters and sign the resolution of in
dorsement
The letter from Hendrickson and the
letter from Adams show what the or
ganization is about
One is the logical appendage to the
other.
Both are parts OF a scheme to force
| candidates to get behind Fesier or fight
the county organization.
Both F. G. Toner and Warren I. Me
Cray are dissusted with these methods
and Toner Is particularly outspoken In
his denunciation Of II.
Toner has served notice on the or
ganizatio that there viii be prosecu-
tions following the election n the usual
tactics of stealing nominations are fol.
lowed in Marion county.
In an open statement to republicans he
says;
II don't purpose to have the nomina-
ton stolen from me " ! can help IL.
II have been able to keep I'm very close
touch with developments and / am serv-
ing notice upon the election crooks In
Marion county and at least three other
counties In the state that any crooked
work Will be uncovered and prosecuted
with unreIenting vigilance.
II want every vote cast for me counted
and 1 have a right to expect that this
will be done.
1T is common knowledge that votes
have been stolen In Marion county largely
with impunity and while have no per
sonal interest In what has been done
heretofore am vitality interested in
what takes place at the primary on
May T."
COERCION DEFIED
By G.. o. T.. CANDIDATE
Henry Wing, a candidate for the
nomination for representative on the re-
publican ticket, has issued a statement In
answer to an attempt on the part Of
Claris Adams, county manager for Fesler,
Continued on Page Four.)