Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-30
NEED FOR RIGHT
MAN TORUN CITY
NEVER GREATER
Myers and Other Speakers Ex-
toll Democratic Candidate
at RalstOn Home.
APPEAL TO THE. WOMEN

There never was a time in the history
OF Indianapolis when the right man in
the right place at the right times was
as badly needed as he is now In the office
of mayor Walter Myers told a crowd
gathered at the country home Of Samuel
N RalstOn, former Governor OF Indiana,
last night Mr.. Myers said he believed
Boyd NJ Ralston, Democratic nominee
for mayor, is the man who is needed.
Other spea kers at the meeting we're
Samuel NJ. RalstOn, Miss Julia Landers,
Mrs Grace Jackson Bodenmiller. Boyd
" Ralston. Frank P. Baker, Mrs. W. II.
Bobbitt and Mrs. Henry Comiskey.
ITO a long and successful career as
business man he has added wealth of
experience which such a career affords"
Mr.. Myers said. in speaking of the Dem
ocratic candidate. He has q vision of
4 greater Indianapolis doing It's part to
make a greater State and Nation and
proposes 10 translate it into being. not
by quirks and gibes that excite the Cuf-
flaws of the gallery, but by that patient,
>painstaking, practical performance which
has made cur Nation and city prosper
throughout all the past.
COMES FROM
HOOsIER FAMILY.
Boyd Ralston comes from a family
whose roots are deep in IndianR's soil,
and whose attainments are matters Of
which the State is proud The brother
OF him who attracted the eyes Of the en-
tire country-Governor Ra1ston might
have been the Democratic candidate for
Vice President last year-he shines not
By reflected glory. but by reason Of his
own high character and virtues. The
Democratic party offers TO indianapolis
rs Of hrrt q
man.
Boyd Ralston is a man Of courage.
both physical and moral Some years
ago we returned together on a train from
Terre Haute, which arrived here about
s O'Clock in the morning. We got sep
erated at the station. Only owl street
cars were running and Boyd Ralston
started to walk home. Somewhere on
Meridian street. near University Park.
burglar showed a gun in his face and
ordered him to hold up his hands. II
had been raining and he was carrying
an umbrella. While pretending to hold
up his hands he jsbbed the burglar in
the stomach with the point OF the UNI
brella. The burglar dropped his gun in
pain and ran. Boyd picked It mp. gave
chase. captured him. and putting the muz-
gle Of the gun to the back Of the bur-
glars neck, marched him to a telephone
and made him call the police to come and
arrest him. That is the stuff Boyd Raj
stOn is made Of, though he is too modest
i, 10 tell it. He has the courage TO look
IN angry mob in the face and tell them
10 do their worst once he Is convinced
that he himself is in the right. There
have been mayors TO whom the thought
Of a mob was anathema. suggesting not
the resignation OF determination but
peril.
when Boyd Ralston is elected mayor
be will be the right man in the right
place because the mayor Of Indianapolis
has problems to meet IN the next four
years that require the abilities OF a real
executive. The world may have been for
sale during the war but Il surely is not
up for auction now. 1t Is on the thresh-
old OF a new era. The day Of the polit-
icai Guack is passing, especially in cities.
The substantial people, the home builders
and the home makers, the bread winners
and those who save and invest are real
hing more every day that you can't cure
the measles with soothing syrup. Neither
can high taxes and intolerable civic con
ditions be cured with jokes and prom
ises. To pay taxes and to live. money
must be earned To earn money. people
&. business
must thrive, and business cannot thrive
when afflicted with political itch Right
now business needs a good tonic and for
Indianapolis Boyd RaIston is the best
man to prescribe it. He is the right man
in the right place
SOBER JUDGMENT
MUST PREVAIL.
He is also the man for the right place
at the right time This is a day of re-
eovery when sober Judgment must pre-
vail; when a spark Of nonsense may
ignite holocaust OF folly and disaster;
when crushing burdens OF high taxes and
nigh costs must be lightened; and when
the individual and the community alike
must practice common industry, honesty
and Irugality. Each administration Is
sharing of a growing tree, and it is our
solemn, civic duty to see to It that tbe
bugs and the borers do not break
through TO make dry rot and worm holes
on the inside of the splendid rings that
have gone before US.
Nj RalStOn IS the man for such
time. He stands on a platform which
people can understand and which means
what 1t says. Ii is a platform that an
peals to people who are citizens first ana
members Of political parties afterwards.
II is a platform upon which Republicans
can stand with pride alongside Of Demo-
Gratis because it is a sensible platform
designed for the best interests of all the
people Of our city. II appeals to no
group or class. Ii does not infame the
troubles Of the poor; nor does It truckIe
10 the rich II is built upon that funda-
mental principle Of democracy, the full
est good for each in the bettermeut of
al, and appeals TO those who love this
city as the birthplace Of their children.
the scene Of their homes and families
and the soil that shall receive their
dead.
lille women may be new to politics
they are not new to the cry for honest
administration, clean government ana
better living. They were makers OF
homes ten thousand years before Doll
tics were thought of and in the home
inculcated the lessons that later bios
sOmed and bore fruit in progress. They
pre- now merely going to 90 directly
what they have been doing indirectly
throughout the centuries.
The women are going to support
Mr.. Ralston's ticket"