Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-26
MACHINE GRAB
FOR PLUMS is
CAUSE OF ROW
Township Assessor Jefferson
Hides While Deputies
Are Named.
JOB LIST KEPT SECRET

Determination of the Jewett city
hall machine to control the appoint
ments Of deputy assessors for Town
ship Assessor NJ. l.. Jefferson has re-
suited in an upheaval In political
circles.
The Jewett organization is demand
Ing that their men" be appointed
deputy assessors for a period Of
seventy-fve days. The plan appears
to be that the precinct committee
men, most of whom appear to be
Jewett machine men, are 20 name
the assessors for the various pre-
cincts.
In the last few years the assessing Of
this township has been n medium Of
patronage for the city hall politicians.
AS several hundred assessors are needed,
the average pay being about s. a day,
the appointment Of assessors is of vast
Importance to petty Republican organi-
cation workers. The township and county
pays the assessing bill and the political
workers get the jobs-if the Jewett ma
.
Efforts Of reporters TO obtain a list Of
the assessors, VITO will begin work prob
ably Tuesday, have failed Township
Assessor Mike jefferson IS following his
hiding policy" Hundreds Of political
workers, both black and white, are daily
storming the office Of the assessor, de-
manding that they be appointed deputy
assessors Mike, as his custom, gOes into
hiding" and stays away from his office
U - utya FaF In
appointments.
1t Is known that deputies are swearing
In deputy assessors and accepting bonds,
but not even partial list of those who
have qualified have been given to the
public.
MIR HOWE NOT
UNANIMOUS CHOICE.
As the political workers flock to the
basement of the courthouse and take mp
their positions In front OF the doors
leading to the assessors office heated dis
cussion follows the mentioning OF the
names Of Mr.. Thomas c. Howe, former
president Of Butler College, and Samuel
Lewis Shank
The outstanding feature of many Of
these conversations, often staged In loud
! voice is that the political workers are
not considering Professor Howe as the
! =
( for days that another candidacy Will be
! announced in a few days which win
! change the entire complexion Of machine
| interests at the primary.
| There also is developing at the court
/ house in certain sections strong support
! for Shank. The fear Of th4 Jewett forces
/ that some Of the Shank men will be ap-
! pointed deputy assessors is understood
! to be the reason the Jewett machine
! forces have demanded that the machine
| name the assessors. 1t is admitted at the
office Of the township assessor that dep
/ uty assessors in certain precincts have
( not been named.
| COUNTY ASSESSOR
HOLDING FORT.
! James &. Douglass, county assessor. re-
mains In his Office and meets the hun
/ dreds OF office seekers who are demand
/ ing to see Mike Jefferson. So far JEFF
| ferson has been able to remain In exile -
| The way the machine political workers
are expecting to be appointed adds to the
anxiety Of the Jewett forces, as they fear
that q break" might be made to the
Shank workers if the plums from the as
/ SCISSOR plum tree do not fall into the laps
of the loyal Jewett machine workers.
! 1t is understood the official list of the
appointments will be announced Monday