Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-05-20

rolls, is entrusted with the improve
ment of the highways of the state.
PETTY ECONOMY HURTS
STATE CHARITY WORK.
From the moment of his coronation
our Hoosier Caesar mas been a constant
menace to the benevolent institutions
of the state. The republican party has
prostituted its vital interest to party
purposes in its parsimonious refusal to
appropriate enough money for their sup
port This has been done with the view
to reducing the cost and making a finan-
cial showing for campaign purposes. The
result is that improvements and repairs,
imperatively required, have been post
poned. Instead of keeping step to the
onward march of the humanitarian in
stinct of the age, these institutions have
been compelled to stand still and maIk
time. BY this petty party economy these
Institutions have been robbed of the
service of specialists of national renOwn.
There is not an institution in the
state that has not felt the blight of
Goodrichism.
1--WE believe in real economy, but
every instinct OF humanity cries out
in protest against this brutal pros
titution to party ends of the insti-
ments of Christian civilization.
"And this, the shame-they did not
have the money for improvements and
repairs, they did not have money to
hold the specialists in the service or
these institutions. but they could af
ford to squander thousands Of dollars in
the conversion of the statehouse into q
beauty parlor at the expense OF the
helpless wards of Indiana.
I'VE indict the administration primarily
for thus diversing the money from the
purpose OF humanity to that Of vanity ;
but having thus diverted the money, we
arraign the administration for letting the
contracts on the statehouse with such ir.
regularity. and for squandering the peo-
Pies money with such responsibility
that even the governors board of ac-
counts was forced to the conclusion that
the taxpayers of the state have been
Fhamelessly victimized in the course Of
this amazing transaction.
ALSO WORKED TO
EMPTY JAILS.
If politics and parsimony have driven
specialists from the benevolent instltu-
lions, parsimony and politics have been
emptying the jaiis and peuitentiaries upon
the people. Sometimes our governor seems
IKE Caesar. More frequently he suggests
Pecksnifr. Behold him now in the role of
Cole Blease playing boshevist with the
rendered verdicts OF juries and Judgments
or courts in his wholesale and irregular
pardoning of convicts from the jaiIs and
penitentiaries. In the old days before
the French revolution II was the fashion
10 pluck man from the bosom of his
family, and without a hearing 10 throw
MIN into the bastlle He mysteriously
disappeared. Mr.. Goodrich has re7ersed
the order. They now mysteriously re-
appear. Thus we have the case Of the
convicted auditor OF Starke county. tn
dlcted for a crime, convicted by a jury.
and sentenced by a court. who was mys-
teriously found walking the streets OF his
home town within three months OF his
Incarceration, with Goodrich parole in
his pocket and a smile upon his face.
out of the JaiIs and penitentiaries
they have hoeked lIAe an army on the
march-thieves. confidence men. deal
ers in narcotics. bootIegRers and
pimps-wlth a Goodrich parole I'm
their pocket and a smile upon THEN
face.
All, but the governor tells.sns he has
dismissed these men because his great
Aeart was touched. That Is a rank plag-
srism from Cole Blease. And yet Il seems
that our governor does not always be
heve In turning them scot free. Some.
times he merely transfers the scene Of
their labors from the unhealthy sunshine
or the harvest field to the wholesome at
mosphere OF the coal miue-because his
great heart is touched. II. perchance. the
Globe Mining Company. Differed bv
friends and relatives, should be In need
OF men 20 work the mine, the humaul.
tartan conscience OF our governor is suf
recently elastic to cover the case and man
TIE mine with convict labor Scandal7
EVIL TO him who evil thinks" This con
Wet labor was compensated in coal fur
nished TO the institutions Of the state
TURNS LIGHT ON NEWS
AND WATSON'S RECORDS
And whisper it--whisper II so the min
eTs or southern Indiana can not hear
the governor knows that coal mined bv
convicts viii burn as well as that which
IS extracted from the ground by the clean
hand OF honest union toll"
Mr.. Bowers continued with dis
cussion OF the record Of the republican
senate in killing the peace treaty. dis.
cussing particularly the record OF Sen
ators New and Watson.
We do not seek the issue, but we ac-
cept II, he said In discussing the treaty.
we go forth to fight for the pledge
we made the dead. for the promise we
made the mothers of men, for the boon
we promised the masses Of mankind. for
the ideals of the CHRIST of Peace. and
we summon all men and women to the
banners that we raise"