Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-27
SHANK HOLDS
OUT IN WAR ON
HIS ENEMIES
Continued From Page one0

the name Of the "shank- for Mayor" Club
with the same officers which headed q
club of this name before the primary.
After discussion of the Craftsmanship
situation had ended the candidates adopt
ed a motion, made by Mr.. Shank, that
committee of prominent citizens, not
practical politicians for the most part
he chosen to meet at the Marion Club on
the evening of June s. to discuss the
writing Of a platform and the selection
of a committee Of three or five to draft
it. Twenty-three men and six women
were named for the general committee
with the understanding that more are to
be added if any OF the candidates so de-
sire.
The expression of loyalty to the entire
ticket, which was nothing more or less
than a move to ascertain whether the
other candidates viii stand behind Mr..
Shank in his fight for a city chairman,
was Unanswered by Mr.. Shank.
NO DISSENT
TO MOTION.
His motion, as put by Chairman Wise,
was as follows:
"All in favor of the ticket as nominated
from the head down will signify by
saying aye"
There was a chorus Of "aves."
'Those who are not In favor and de-
part from any one will vote no." Chair
man Wise said.
There was silence and the chair an
nouneed that the motion had been unani-
mously carried. There was no dissent
from the ruling
Mr. Shank stated that he had received
word from Mr.. Claycombe, who could
not reach the meeting. that he voted
aye" on such a motion.
Before the vote was taken Mr.. Hart
man suggested that il be by secret bal
lot Mr.. Shank Immediately objected and
the vote went through publicly.
While Mr. Thompson did not reach the
meeting, it was said by Shank leaders
that they understood he would join the
other candidates in the loyalty pledge.
SHANK TELLS OF
NEWS-JEWETT PLANS.
The charge that the News-Jewett out
ut intend to play a bipartisan game TO
defeat Shank and Hartman was made by
Mr. Shank in the following language:
I tell you, I've got IL straight that
they've got it all framed up to dump
Hartman and me and that this man
Thomas D. AIeeker, the Democratic chair
man, is to dump all the rest Of his ticket
for the Republican city clerk and coun-
cilmanic candidates"
Throughout the meeting Mr.. Shank
kept reiterating this charge and elab-
Grating upon it with assertions that
Lemaux is known to have had confer
ences with Meeker at the Columbia Club
and at the Republican chairman's place
Of business both before and after the
primary and that Meeker had been over
to the city hall to confer with Mayor
Jewett.
When Mr. Harris, in response to n
query from the chairman if he had any
thing to offer said: Il have no sugges-
lions. I wish I had. It's too bad we
haven't got a Thomas Taggart in the
Republican party now" Mt. Shank Durst
out:
swell. III tell you this! there's no way
OF ever getting this man Charlie Jewett
and me together. You all know that
he's my bitter personal enemy and that
I'm an enemy of his. Why $1,000 people
voted to throw him out OF power in this
primary. Do you think I could go back
on my friends in the face Of thatl
"Im loyal to you fellows I want 20 !
to know that. You'll never find any one