Indiana daily times., 1921-02-28

I Thomas a Riley, ono Of the members
/ Of Jewett's board Of works tried to
| put over for city chairman You know
Tom Riley Tom Riley, who as an cleo
tiOn commissioner four years ago re
fused to permit the opening Of the ballot
boxes which would have shown that l
was cheated out OF the election"
! Mr.. Shank took q fling at the police
| department as conducted by the board
Of public safety with A. L. Taggart as
chairman.
They've got more sergeants and de-
tectives and what-nots down there at
police headquarters than they have po-
| licemen. What we want is a police
force which viii go out here and ar
rest some of these crooks that are over
running the city. I believe in more per-
form and less reform. I'll put a man at
the head of the police department who
will see that they do some work down
! there"
! The candidate pointed out as an in
stance Of how the police department was
! being run by the present administra-
| ton, the fact that two weeks ago the
board Of safety put a 22-year-old girl,
! weig hing eighty pounds, who never
had any children, on the police force
to tell YOU women how to bring up your
| babies"
INTERESTS NOT
IN KOKOMO.
| "My interests are not IN Kokomo.
They are right here in indianapolis My
| wife didn's leave a million and a half
and give me the opportunity Of going
around talking about what a great 'busi-
ness man l am. I'm not 8 professor.
didn't even get through the seventh
grade. 1 don't think it takes botany to
run Indianapolis 1t takes just common
horse sense"
He said that If he is elected mayor
I that street car company is going to live
up to the law and they're going to build
cross town lines so you working men can
spend half an hour more u day with your
families"
We've been having the city run scien-
/ tifcially for the last three years. 1t don't
take science; It takes horse sense.
Charles been trying to use science. He's
using it on his hog farm and they tell
me that on that last sale Of his he lost
S30,000."
He read from some recent rules laid
down by the board of public safety for
the scientific physical training of lremea.
They consisted Of a set OF directions for
calisthentics, which Lew said "a fat lady
l know tried out to reduce herself with
out success"
/ TINE TO USE
COMMON SENSE.
"Tbe scientific time Of running the
city is over, It's now time to use some
common sense"
Replying to the arguments OF advo-
Gates OF Mr.. Howe that Shank Is a dan
gerous man." the candidate declared:
NO man need be afraid Of me- I'm
not going TO let hogs run wild around
-.
/ der more than l, but at the same time no
man believes in equality for all as l do"
| T. E. Maholm, candidate for the Re
| publican nomination for city Judge W.
s. Henry, negro; Robert Dalton, attor-
ney; kev. Parker. negro preacher; DR..
Z. Z. Hodgin; DR.. James r. Nor
rell, negro; Elias Dulberger, attOr-
ney, and Robert r. Sloan, president OF
| the Belt Elevation League and the
/ Southeastern Improvement Association,
spoke in behalf Of Mr.. Shank Ben Bron-
son was chairman.
/ NEGRO PREACHER
FLAYS JEWETT.
The Rev. Parker created almost as
much excitement as Mr.. Shank, himself
/ He said that he WIS opposed to Mr..
Howe as a candidate for mayor because
he tried his best TO get the negro chill
dren segregated from the whites at an
Iry1ngton public school He said that
{ Mayor Jewett is one Of the highest
/ highbrOws" and that be 'is an migrate" "
"Jewett told me a lie as black as
night" the negro preacher Numbered
. He hitched me 10 the curb and left me
there. l wouldn't believe him on oath.
He throwed me down. II l had been a
rounder 1 would have been all right.
Some Of the boys went to the polls and
worked all day for him and they've
/ never been paid yet.
There are not enough soldiers IN the
Army to keep me from cussin' him out
and I don't teach Sunday school when
I'm dealing with cut throats and robbers,
either.
They tried to give me a fist full of
money the other day but I wouldn't
take It and I won't II that's the last
nickel I ever see"
He advised all OF the members Of his
race TO beware Of the Jewett- News crowd
and to work for shank