Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-23
JEWETT FROTHS
IN HIS ATTACK
ON DAILY TIMES
Mount Paran Church Meeting
Made Occasion for I'm
cOrking Wrath.
RUFF PAGE ALL SMILES

Like quart Oh champagne from
which the cork suddenly has been
released, Mayor Charles w. Jewett
exploded at meeting in the inter-
ests of Mr. Thomas c. Howe, former
president Of Butler College and
News-Jewett candidate for mayor,
last night, and fixed all over the
basement Of the Mount Paran Baptist
Church, Twelfth and Missouri streets,
where the gathering was held.
The mayor took tho occasion to lam
bast those who differ with him in civic
matters, devoting much Of the hour in
which he rOared forth torrent of abuse
TRADE against the Daily Times.
As Mr.. Jewett plunged into his ar
ralgnment of the newspaper it appeared
that he does not agree with it. In fact,
as bitter invective succeeded opprobriOus
epithet one was able to gather that his
honor does not care for the Daily Times,
never did and never will
TIMES REPORTER
GIVEN ATTENTION.
Even the humble representative Of this
paper, who sat on the floor scribbIing
like mad to catch as many as possible
/ of the mayors choicest expressions, did
not escape his attention.
/ Waving at the reporter and calling
/ him by name, the mayor declared that
even should he reproduce what trans
pired at the meeting 1t would be 30
garbled by the editor that it never could
| be recognized by the time it got into
print. 1t was the mayors inning and
/ he made the most Of it, leaving the sub
| Ject with apparent reluctance to take a
few shots at Samuel Lewis Shank and
| Edward J. Robson. Professor Howes
| chief opponents.
The professor, Claris Adams, former
| prosecuting attorney, and others. spoke
but the real meat of the evening. so
/ far as the 300 negroes who tammed the
hall were concerned, was the mayors
heated remarks, judging from the gIeeful
/ shouts that came In response to his
/ thrusts
1t was the best meeting Of the Howe
campaign from the standpoint of attend
ance and enthusiasm, News-Jewett lead
ers were not backward in admitting.
"RUFE" PAGE ATTENDS
his MEETING"
"Rufe' Page, negro operator Of notori-
Gus gambling joints under the Jewett ad-
ministration's protection, was present in
| all his glory. "Rufe" advertised for sew
eral days in advance that the meeting
was going TO be my meeting" and he
predicted that 1t would be a hum
! dinger." 1t was. "Rufe," the admins
/ tratlon pet, did not come out into the hall
with the rest of his people, but kept to
back room. appearing in a door open
ing into the meeting place now and thea
! with broad smile on his face and
| cigar stuck in the middle of it at
rakish angle. In addition he was coat
/ less. What was transpiring in the back
room can only be surmised. Charles o.
/ Roemler, one Of the leaders in the News
Jewett machine was one of those who
entered it and conferred with "Rufe"
With all the cleverness as an orator
with which he is endowed, the mayor
played upon the fears Of his negro list
eners that there might be a return of the
days when the riot clubs Of policemen
would be broken over their heads. he
| insinuated that If Professor Howe is not
elected mayor that this will take place.
PAYS RESPECTS
TO THE TIMES.
/ Stepping from the speakers platform
| to the narrow space between 1t and the
| front row Of seats, the mayor began:
Il can't talk up here. I'm liable to
! get worse than Lew Shank and take of
my coat"
Then he waded into the Daily Times
paraphrasing the name in several un-
supplementary ways.
Il see they have sent their city han
/ reporter here and I have no doubt that
everything I say tonight will be fully
reported, and then some"
He INDUCED in further sputterinR Of
like nature and. declared that both Lew
Shank and the Daily Times are menaces
to the community. He accused the pa
per Of melting race prejudice and then
famed forth into statements apparently
calculated to arouse the hatred of the
negroes toward white people not behind
Professor Howe's candidacy,
TELLS OF SERVICE
IN PROGRESSIVE WING.
Now we are hearing the calamity
howl" he continued. I'VE hear them say,
The Jewett machine is going to cor
rupt the primary"
! He recalled the campaign Of 1912. as-
serting that the Republican nomination
for President had been stolen from Theo-
dore Roosevelt. He said that he had
been called upon TO serve as chairman Of
| the Progressive party in Marion County
and boasted that he and his associates
had battled until the Republican party
began putting up "clean, honest candi-
dates"
Reverting to the charges frequently
made that he was dishonesty elected as
mayor four years ago he said:
| Il challenge anybody ever to find one
| syllable that 1 ever uttered directing any
political worker to break the law or do
anything that he could not face four
! square with his own conscience"
| This led to a fresh outburst against
! the Daily Times because it has not been
Continued Page Three.)