Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-05
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trusted in democratic ranks and betrayed
the men who trusted him. He built up
a personal organization among the demo
Gratis of this city who have the, least
sense Of morals and the least respect
for the law In so doing he has admit
ted that he falsihed payrolls and there
| BY robbed the city treasury of Indian
apolis of thousands of dollars which he
psed to strengthen this personal ma
chine. He has that personals machine
| yet, and he maintains his position with
It, owing to the fact that while he was
often indicted by the republicans who
| controlled the ma hinery Of justice then
and now, he has never yet been pun
ished for his populations from the city.
CASE AGAINST HIM
rs STILL PENDING.
More than twenty cases against him
| in the courts of Marion county have
| been dismissed without prosecution. Only
/ one has ever resulted in his trial and
/ that case Is pending on appeal to the
supreme court Of Indiana and is today
| the oldest case on the supreme court
docket. It has not yet been decided and
| it will not be decided until this defend
ant has done his work for the repub-
| primaries as the leader Of the organiza
ton on which they depend for their po-
! litical success.
In certain office building in Indian
| apolis there is race horse pool main
tanned by several common gamblers, who
! have long been known as such to the po
lice and other authorities of Indianapolis
This race pool is conducted steadily and
without police molestation. Occasionally
| 1t has been moved from one place to an
other. Last spring it was maintained at
| what is known as steve Becks Place"
| on Ohio street, until an expose IN The
| Times upset ambitious plans to enlarge
the public gambling house. Since that
| time it has been moved from one Office
/ building to another, but it has never
| been raided by the police and today,
Jerry Kinney, the chief Of police, dares
not assign detectives to stop its opera
ton.
This race horse pool concession from
| the republican administration Is popu-
larly believed and Is generally reported
4 to belong to Dennis Bush, former street
| commissioner Of indianapolis, who Is the
! defendant in the oldest case on the SUI
preme court docket. Bush, however, has
never been publicly connected with the
race horse pools. He spent much of his
/
ponies were being played there, and he
was once such a frequent visitor at po-
lice headquarters that George V. Cofhn,
then chief of police, expressed the wish
that "that feller would stay away"
FRIENDS POINT
! WITH PRIDE.
More recently Bush has been spending
some time in Detroit, where 1t has been
asserted he was engaged in gathering
evidence for the prosecution of Senator
1 Newberry, as an agent of the department
of justice.
Among Bush's friends in Indianapolis
it is generally believed that he is "big
stuff" and they point with pride to his
ability to escape trial in the Marion Grim
inal court, to the long delay in the
handling of his case by the supreme
court, and to his participation in the
Michigan government prosecutions as evil
| dence Of the fact that he IS good guy
to tie up with for an election"
Bush is now looked to by the machine
/ in Marion county to break into the ranks
| of democrats who are not particularly in
/ terested in their own primaries and corral
some votes there. to be supplemented by
/ the doaters that only a man Of his type
can control. and drive to the polls for
/ the support Of the LEGAL machine enough
! votes to save it from the ants.
/ OF course the machine leaders and
henchmen viii have nothing to do with
| this actual corraling Of the votes. They
| will, however, make it easier for Bush by
keeping down all the enthusiasm they
! can in the democratic ranks. They have
their agents in the councils of the dem
ocratic party of the county and the state.
They are ready to lend their support to
! the selection Of a democratic county
chairman who will help Bushs manipu-
latiOn by inactivity. They had such a
man groomed to run for the county
Craftsmanship last week and only failed
to offer him for nomination when ad-
vised that the whole scheme would be
fought if they did. This candidate is
today a member of the Jewett official
family and his disposition is well known
by the bulk of the politicians of Indian
apolis who remember that he blocked all