Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-19
MANDATE MAY BE
NEXT PARTY MOVE
New Ticket Refused Place on
County Ballot.

The arbitrary action Of County Clerk
| Richard Sipe and Jackson Carter, Repub-
| lican members of the Marion County
board Of election commissioners, In re-
fusing to place the name of the Inde-
pendent Republican party with its can
/ didates for county office on the Official
ballots today paved the way for the fling
of possible mandamus proceedings to
compel the commissioners to place the
party name and candidates on the bal
/ lots.
| The action in refusing to place the In
| dependent Republican party candidates
on the ballots was taken by Sipe and
Carter late yesterday afternoon after
! Harry c. Hendrickson, Republican county
I Chairman, fled a petition Directing 10
representative eolored citizens running for
Office on the Independent Republican
4 party ticket.
Chairman Hendrickson expressed his
objections to the cOlored citizens having
their own party candidates in competition
to the regular machine Republican ticket
on the following grounds:
That the name of Independent Repub-
lican party is similar to the Republican
party.
! That the name Of the colored party
might cause confusion" at the polls.
OBJECT TO
REPUBLICAN NAME
| That it lis not fair and legally sound
that the name of Independent Repub-
| Hcan party should be used"
That substantial justice to all voters
Of Marion County demands that this
name be not used"
That the names Of seven voters signed
TO the petition are not registered and
are not legal voters.
That Hendrickson has statements Of
seventeen persons who signed the petit
tion who claim that they did not Under
stand such petition and did not acknowl-
edge the same"
That five Of the persons whose names
appear on the petition and are legal vo-
| tiers. placed only their initials to the pc
! tition.
That the name Of Sally C. Carey of
I III Hudson street can not be located at
/ that address.
! The Republicans have been worried
since representative colored citizens de-
cided to have their own candidates for
county office instead Of submitting to
the machine ticket of the Republicans.
/ FIND MANY FAULTS
WITH PARTY.
Commissioners Sipe and Carter first
] AONAA iduAN wiz ftAC Rd@Ag rbIDACAnF a
/ bust Of Lincoln. which the Independent
/ Republican party members asked to be
| placed on the ballots.
The two Republican commissioners re-
fused to permit the placing OF Lincoln's
\ bust on the ballots. as well as a picture
/ Of an elephant. as they held the Repub-
leans had a monopoly on elephants.
! The condescending Republican election
commissioners decided that a lion. tail
and all, would be en- appropriate emblem
| for the colored voters
| Now, after moro protest from Chair
man Hendrickson, the Republican mem
bers of the election board hold that the
colored citizens do not legally have a
/ right to vote for candidates on an indie
pendent Republican party ticket.
4 It is said TINT mandamus suits viii be
I fled to compel the Republican commits
/ sioners to follow the law.
WOODBURY. Mason, Democratic member
Of the election board, refused to be a
party to the actions subscribed to by
Sipe and Carter.
Woodburn Mason, Democratic member
of the county election board, in discus
sing the arbitrary actions of Sipe and
Carter. said:
II made written objection for cha
minutes Of the meeting which was sud
denly called for about o'clock yester.
day afternoon and when I arrived with
out knowing the nature of the meeting
Charles Roelnler pulled out OF his pocket
the petition of Chairman Hendrickson.
NOT HARD TO
FoRETELL ACTION.
II told him that it was not necessary
I to read 1t as | knew what the two other
members Of the board were going to do
I knew that they we're going to throw
out the ticket of the Independent Re-
publican party after they had agreed to
| place it on the ballots.
Il maintained the colored voters had a
right to be heard. as the time expired
last night for the filing OF petitions to
/ be placed on the ballots.
"a hearing was denied over my pro-
test that the board had no Jurisdiction
70 question petition when It was sworn
to and signed according to the proyi-
sions of the statutes.
II called the attention Of the board
that the Republican members had agreed
to place the colored ticket on the ballot
and It was not until the Republican
County committee got busy and cracked
the whip that the majority members Of
the board decided to jump" said Mr..
Mason.
Attorneys were working on mandamus
proceedings which were to be filed in the
interest Of the colored voters late this
/ aff or aarlv fomarraxr