Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06
SHANK TAKING
NOCHANCESOF
GETTING IN BAD
Won't Ride in Car Without
Making Sure There Is No
Booze in 1t.
TO GET 14,OOO MAJORITY?

Declaring that he firmly believes he is
going TO be elected by at least 1900
votes, Samuel Lewis Shank, Republican
nominee for mayor, launched a counter
offensive against the Indianapolis News
for its attempt TO link him with J. Her
bert Hartman, Republican nominee for
city judge, who has been involved in the
confession of Frank Francis, burglar,
held in Louisville, in speeches at meet
ings at the Mckinley Club and at Indiana
avenue and West streets last efening.
Between 5000 and + 600 persons, mostly
negroes, attended the Indiana avenue
meeting, which was preceded by parade
in Senate and Indiana avenues.
Hartman's name was~not mentioned at
the Indiana avenue meeting by Mr..
Shank or other speakers. The nominee
for mayor referred to the Francis Hart
man scandal, however, in the following
manner:
They (The Indianapolis News) had
this thing about the other candidate
(HartmaGl ter days ago. They held 1t
up trying 70 find some way to connect
Lew Shank with it. Finally they thought
they had me broke. They said l rode to
the races at Louisville with this burglar.
They had me guessing because 1 didn't
know who it WIS I rode with down there
in Louisville. But Mrs. Shank remem-
a.
sandy complexioned man and then I kne,y
I was all right. knew that wasn't the
description of this burglar.
Tonight one of my old friends came
to he house and 1 went to the door and
saw him standing there with a twenty
FIVE pound pumpkin on his shoulder. He
said he wanted to give the pumpkin TO
me.
Il said: HoI1 on there. Wait a min
ute
Il called Mrs. Shank and said to her:
Swear this fellow She did.
Then asked him; Do you solemnly
swear that you didn't steal that pump
kin? And do you solemnly swear that
you haven't got any white mule con-
cealed in tn And boys the poor old fell
low stood there and said. I do
yesterday l started to go out IN
machine with three fellows Before we
started I made them swear they were not
tootleggers and had nothing hidden III
the car. Boys. this lying sheet is not
going TO get me in the next thirty days.
Its a terrible thing to he a candidate
for mayor and go through with some
things like this. I wouldn't be your
candidate for mayor tonight If did not
believe 1 was your candidate four years
ago. | wanted to beat this ring. If |
had thought my good friend Ed Robson
could have beaten them in the primary
I would have been for him. But l knew
he couldn't beat Howe so 1 went after
him and 1 was right. l beat them all
right
Now | want to say that the domino
ton Of this newspaper has got to cease.
1t has been ceasing every year. They've
been losing all their fights"
The crowd cheered.
Mr.. Shank said he might not know
much about grammar. hut lit doesn't
take grammar to run the city" He did
know something about algebra and hence
knew how to figure. he said.
Il know how to tell a crooked deal"
hc asserted. pointing out that he turned
down the crooks who tried to get him
To rene ia on a deal whereby he could
make = Il ward for all the asphalt laid:
the men Who wanted him to do the same
thing en- curbing contracts for 10 cents
= yard, and the gamblers who offered
him Si0.C00 4 year for gambling
privileges.
Let anybody go back over my four