Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-18
AYERS HACKERS
OF HOWE STOOD
FOR HARTMAN
Police Judge Nomination Not
Sponsored by Shank
Forces.

Baekers of Thomas c. Howe in the pri-
mary last spring were more responsible
for the nomination Of ]. Herbert Hart
man as the Republican candidate for ~ctty
Judge than was the organization Of Sam
uel Lewis Shank, declared William E..
Kelley in a speech at Davidson and
Georgia street Monday night
The News-Jewett organization. desper-
ate in its effort to get Mr.. Howe across
in order that it might continue in power,
issued states upon which the names Of
Hartman and Howe were linked in strong
Hartman territory in order to please the
Hartman voters, Mr.. Kelley said. The
Shank Organization, he stated, slated all
of the candidates for the Republican nom
nation for city judge because it had
all it could do to fight its battle with
the News-Jewett crowd without attempt
ing to help out any other candidate.
"His opponents, however, adopted a
different strategy, and strategy was all
it was" he said. 81 don't claim that Mr..
Howe's supporters were amp more anxious
for Hartman than anybody else was, but
his hackers early saw that they could
not control the entire ticket and they
adopted the method Of trading. Where
Yockey was strong their slate contained
Yockey. Where Wilmeth was strong their
slate contained Wilmeth. Where Engelke
was strong their slate contained Engelke
and where Hartman was strong their
slate contained Hartman. In the First
ward in the larger cOlored precincts BIZ
Howard carried Hartman and he was OPP
posed to Shank. In the Seventh, Eighth
and Ninth precincts Of the Third ward,
controlled by Rufe Page, the city ma
china carried Howe and Hartman. In
the Sixth ward, except the First and
Seventh precincts, the city machine car
ried Howe and Hartman.
I'm the Seventh ward the city machine,
in almost every precinct, carried Howe
and Hartman. In the Tenth ward the
city machine carried Howe and Hartman
They failed to carry Yockey in the col
ored precincts because he was disliked
by the -colored people. They failed to
carry Jockey on the south side because
Engelke was strong there. In s1xty-two
precincts on the south side Jockey re-
ceived but 1000 votes. In the Second
ward they abandoned Yockey, Hartman
and Engelke for Wilmeth on account OF
his war record. In the First Second and
Third precincts in the Fifteenth ward,
where Hartman was strong, the machinf
carried Howe and Hartman, and as
clinching evidence that the Howe mana
gers carried Hartman and Howe wher-
ever it was expedient, am now Offering
You the documentary evidence"
The speaker then exhibited a slate
bearing the names of Howe and Hart
Charging that sit would probably go
hard on the ice and bakery business to
have their scales inspected regularly" Mr..
Shank last night asserted that A. L. Tag
CART. president, and Henry L. Dithmer,
Democratic member of the board of public
safety have not had regular scale in
spections such as were made during the
Shank administration. He said that the
nrst man he was going TO fire after he
was elected mayor was Taggart and the
SECOND guy is that Democrat ice man"
He said that Taggart's business lis
to charge US 10 cents for loaf OF bread
when -four is selling at s. barrel and
he only charged US II cents for the same
loaf Of bread when -four was selling for
SIS a barrel" Taggart's new tangled
ideas or how to run the police depart
ment. gathered from New York, are cost
ing the taxpayers about $4,000 year,
he SAID. The Democrat ice man, he said,
sbe..t me out Of seventy-fve pounds Of
ice tive other day"
The four Republican meetings last
night were attended, by approximately
two thousand people. Mr.. Shank spoke
at Division and Georgia streets, Liberty
and Georgia streets, Wyoming and High
streets, and at the Odd Fellow hall in
the 28OO block in West Michigan street.
other Republican nominees spoke.