Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-30

ment defending the good names of the
men whom be said were behind the re
monstrance and denOuncing the opposi-
ton 70 rhaving attempted to blacken their
regulations by unfair. cowardly means.
LIE Is PASSED;
BLOWS THREATENED.
The session grew tense when Or. John
y. Taylor charged Attorney Thompson
had resorted to discrimination, the worst
form Of lying cOwardice-
Leaning across a table Mr.. Thompson
shook a long finger at the physician
and shouted:
I'll meet you afterwards. but you
can't get away with that stuff with
ne
DR.. Furniss and President Russell
Wilson of the council raped for order
and the two disputants were quieted.
Testimony Of the demonstrators and
their agents was interpreted as indicat-
ing they believed the large number OF
penciIed signatures traced with ink were
so doctored after the petition was filed.
The pro plaza forces cOmbated this with
much heat il being contended the names
today are just as they were the day the
document was left at the city clerks
office.
The demonstrators also brought out
testimony to the effect the circulatOrs
we're very carefully instructed to get only
valid signatures, that some Of them were
subjected to beatings and other indig
mites at the hands of members Of the
American Legion and that when Claude
". Miller and c. A York, went to the
Office Of Corporation Counsel Samuel
Ashby in the city hall last Thursday
morning and asked to see the evidence
Of fraud which the plaza forces
claimed to have Mr.. Ashby refused to
let them see il. stating he understood It
was to be exhibited only to Newton
Harding, attorney for the demonstrators,
In the first hearings
PRO-PLAZA PEOPLE
MAKE DENIAL.
The prO-plaza people denied this also.
giving testimony TO show that while Mr..
Ashby denied the two demonstrators the
right to see the actual evidence he offered
Il. get for them a copy Of the answer
filed at the first hearings which set out
In detail all of the signatures whose va
Hdity was attacked
william k jeff, Jesse Ray, c. A. York.
William Allen JUdsOn, J. c. FOgle and
Mr.. Miller were among the men who
passed the remonstrance and who testi-
fed that the signatures they got were
valid. They told what they said when
they asked voters to sign the paper
denying they misrepresented il in any
9ay. Ray declared that when pressed
for his reasons for being against the
plaza project he had on occasions as
serted it was just for the benefit of one
-ity official and said down deep in my
heart ! believe that today" Pressed by
a councilman for the name Of the Of
fetal, Ray said he meant the mayor.
Some of the solicitors said names might
have been signed in the same handwrft-
Ing as the prO-plaza people charge when
persons took the remOnstrance sheets in
side homes to ger TO pen and ink. leav-
ing them (the circulatOrsJ on the front
porch
IF 4 soldier cant have a chance TO
vote, why should be SIGHT for his coun-
try, said JudsOn, an ex-service man.
York told how Prosecuting Attorney
William P. Evans of Marion County had
called him to the courthouse and had
attempted to get him to stop working for
the remonstrance. York is a member OF
the American Legion and a PARTIALLY dis
sbled veteran. it is said he said the
prosecutor Overstepped all bounds Of
propriety by forgetting I wasn't on
the witness stand"
ROBERTS NAME
ENTERS TESTIMONY.
The name OF Dom Roberts crept into
the hearing during York's testimony. The
former soldier had just finished telling
how he had heard DR.. Keene at a meet
Ing Of the Marion County council Of the