Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-18
GOODRICH
HIMSELF ISSUE
IN STATE FIGHT
Says Republican Vote in
November Will Be One of
Confidence in Him.
TALKS AT VINCENNES
BY FELIX BRUNER,
Times staff Correspondent.

VINCENNES. Ind, Feb. 1S.-Declaring
that vote for the republican candidates
in Indiana next November will be vote
of confidence in his administration, Gov.
Goodrich in a speech at the courthouse
here last night irrevocably made his ad-
minfstratiOn an issue in the campaign
andSmade It necessary for the republican
nominee either to declare himself in
favor of the Goodrich method of doing
things or to repudiate the present ad-
ministratiOn.
'If the republican administration in
Indiana has failed it viii have an adverse
effect on the outcome of the republican
national campaign" the governor said.
IF the republican administration in In
diana has been true to its trust it is
entitled to q vote of confidence. II I have
allowed personal interests to interfere
with the state government have not
kept the faith
TALKS On COAL.
IGNORES CONTRACTS.
The governor declared that his proposal
calling for the enactment of an excise
tax was in opposition to his own per
sonal interests because 1t would have af-
fected corporations in which he is in
terested He declared also that his tight
to have the government price of coal re
duced was in conflict with his own in
terests He did not say, however. that
this was amply made up by contracts
made by mines in which he or his family
were interested to supply the state with
coal and by the use of state prisoners in
mine in which his son was interested at
a rate of S3 a day when no other labor
could be obtained fer that price.
He said also that the tax law brought
/ about increases in valuations Of corpo-
rQfin0S in which bc fDfe faG Auf
did not explain why, If he had the in
A~terest of the small taxpayer at heart. his
corporations did not give in their true
cash value in the first place
OIL PAY ROLL
OUT IN LIsIELIGHT
The governor pointed with pride TO the
fact that the old fee grab oil inspection
department was abolished and new one
established. He said the old derart-
ment was operated with seventy Eve en-
ployes and the new department with only
twenty five, evidently not having looked
up the pay roll of the latter recently.
In talking of the tax law the governor
told how corporations would be re
quired to pay much more in additional
taxes than home owners and then quoted
figures showing that in Knox county the
proportions are almost identical. He ex-
planned this by saying that Knox county
Is an exception to the rule.
He insisted that the control of the tax
board over levies and bond issues was not
intended to be permanent, but at the
same time emphasized the necessity for
the tax board retaining the power to re-
move assessors and the advisability Of
giving ftsthe power to appoint-asseSsors
The governor continued by saying that
. Allen county must pay s160 more taxes
, this year than last and that Lake county
must pay S5so.OO0 more than last year
pointing out that this operates to the
benefit of the southern counties
ONCE MORE oVERLoOKs
PAROLE OF CHAUFFEUR.
The governor repeated his explanation
Of his pardon record made first in his
speech at Ft. Wayne last Friday, and
again made the statement that he had
not paroled a life prisoner, again over
looking the temporary parole of a man
serving a life term for murder to drive
his automobile while visiting state tnsti-
tutions.
Il have no apologies to make" the
governor concluded. I'VE have KEEP. the
faith. We Will go before the voters next
fall with this record and we will expect
vote Of confidence"