Indiana daily times., 1921-02-28
Flags JeUett and
His CrOwd m Hot Speech

More than 500 persons tried in vain to
get into the Moose Hall, 1876 North Della
ware street, Sunday afternoon to hear
Samuel Lewis Shank, candidate for the
Republican nomination for mayor, fay
the administration of Mayor Charles w.
Jewett, Mr.. Thomas G. Howe, former
president Of Butler College and News
Jewett candidate for the same office, and
/ Edward J. Robson, another candidate.
They tried in vain because the hall was
packed to overfowing with between 600
and 700 persons who came early.
1t was a typical Shank meeting, with
/ speeches by a number of lesser lights
| interspersed with vaudeville numbers.
| One Interruption was unannounced This
was when a negro band, hired by the
| Oriental Club, the Republican club Of
! Hebrew citizens of the south side,
marched down Delaware street playing
popular and patriotic airs with such
! gusto that Lew had to send word out to
them to please stop so the meeting in
| side could go on. The band waited i'm
patiently with the crowd outside for
| fifteen minutes and then struggled up
/ two flights Of stairs and into the hall
| playing Justify. What the trombone
player lacked in ability to follow the
notes he made up in spirit and the In
| imitable Lew rewarded him with q
| hearty, special nauQSudk6-
REMOVES COAT
TO GET IN ACTION.
| When the band finally got that tune
| out of its system Lew was able to plunge
into his speech Unable to get into ac-
tion properly with it on, the candidate
took off his coat and tossed it over
the rostrum. This was the signal for
some Of I.ew's red hot oratory and wild
| acclaim from the audience, which, by
the way, included a goodly sprinkling
! Of women. In general Mr.. Shank told
/ the crowd that be is merely carrying on
/ the fight he started four years ago when,
he said. he was cheated out Of both the
nomination and election by the N9ws-
Jewett combine With some heat he made
use Of the opportunity to let loose a
/ little inside Information upon what the
| backers Of Mr.. Thomas 6. Howe and
/ Mr. Robson this early IN the campaign
have started doing to try to keep the
Republican nomination from going over
whelmingly Shankwise.
"I am not a candidate as Mr.. Thomas
| c. Howe Is a candidate, picked by three
men in a backroom on Pennsylvania
street" said Mr.. Shank. Il am not
/ candidate as Ed Robson is candidate,
Mr. Robson being a coal baron. l am
candidate because I have been CON
( vinced that the common people Of In
dianapolls want me for their mayor"
| He said that Ed Robson has prom
ised Eve negroes $500 each II they
would be for him.
/ II told Mr Fleming and Big Jack mat
7 couldn't buck that kind Of politics. -
I be said.
He pointed out the fact that the Irving
/ ton Republican Club. when II held a
meeting I'm Irvington TO demand" that
Mr.. Howe be candidate, could not even
/ half III a small picture theater.
OUTLINES
PRINCIPLES.
/ Outlining the principles which he win
follow in conducting his fight, he said :
I'm not going TO defame any candi-
/ date or anybody in this campaign until
/ they start On me and Their l can shoot
/ back"
You sure can" yelled some enthuiast
in the crowd.
/ His honesty as mayor OF Indianapolis
was alluded to and he declared that he
started in business a few decades ago
! with $3.50 and Il haven't got much more
/ than that now"
/ Now and then Mr.. Shank got down to
/ brass tacks long enough to cite some
salient facts about the kind Of govern
meut that boy" (Mayor JewetD has
given the city. He dwelt upon the fig
ures which show that IN 1910 one Of
the years Of the Shank administration,
a total Of $2.3OO0OO was spent TO run
the city and that during 1920 ten years
later. Mayor Jewett's regime spent
/ s., SO, 1883, an increase Of more than
i've millions of dollars.
! do you think that you've had Ave
million dollars worth OF better service
under Charles Jewett ?" Queried the can
didatc.
No thundered tho audience.
SAYS JEWETT DID
! NOT BEAT HIM.
"Well. he never beat me and I'm not
afraid to 20 before him or before my
God and say So They stole that cleo
tlan from me- Don't let them steal it
this time he continued.
I'VE won q big victory over at the
Democratic city convention the other
night when we licked the man that