Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-16
MARION COUNTY
FRIENDS OF NEW
NOW ORGANIZED
Speakers Ask Support for
Senator on Grounds of
Patriotism.
HAS FAVORED WOMEN

With demands for support on patri-
otto grounds the Marion County cam
paign of Senator Harry S. New for the
Republican nomination for the United
States Senate was launched last night
at a meeting in the Criminal Court
room. The meeting ended with the or
ganization of a Harry S. New for Senator
Club
Heading the club is DR.. Edmund d.
Clark, an ex-servfce man. Many of the
speakers at the meeting were ex service
men. Most of the speeches dealt with
Senator News record during the war
and his efforts in behalf Of exsOldiers.
BOoKWALTER
SPEAKS.
The first speaker and the chairman of
the meeting was Charles A. Bookwalter,
Senator News Marion County manager.
Mr.. BookwaIter declared that Senator
New during the war sank partisanism
in favor of patriotism" and declared he
had mo patience with a man who was
not for the successful prosecution Of the
war without question"
1--WE need more Republicans and fewer
indiyidualists in the Senate" Mr.. Book
walter said. Indiana wants no Borah,
no La Toilette in the Senate. Indiana
wants man who is a Republican and
will support a Republican President. 1t
does not want a brevet Republican"
HENRY LANE WILSON'S
LETTER.
Mr.. Bookwalter then proceeded to read
a letter from Henry Lane Wilson, for
mer ambassador to Mexico, in which Mr..
Wilson called attention to Senator News
record for patriotism and to the ''un
written law" that Senators should be
nominated to succeed themselves.
Following the reading of the letter W.
p. Ptttsford moved that a club be or
ganized. The motion was adopted and
DR.. Clark, who headed Lilly Base Hos
pital No. 50 during the war, was unani
mously named chairman.
Dr. Clark told of Senator News rec
ord during the war and gave him the re-
sponsibility for the fact that the Lilly
Hospital was the twelfth unit Of its
kind out of 200 to arrive overseas.
Claris Adams, former prosecuting at
torney, demanded to know whether Mr..
Beveridge would have voted for the war
and whether he would have voted against
the ratification Of the peace treaty. He
spoke at length and highly praised the
patriotic record of Senator New.
SPANISH-AMERICAN
WAR RECORD.
Mrs. Harry Miller spoke of Senator
News patriotic record in the Spanish
American war and how he saw TO it
that negro captains instead of white cap
tains commanded negro companies in
that war
Dr. Nathan Ward negro, and veteran of
the World War, spoke highly of Senator
News war record and of what he had
done for the negro soldiers.
Jonn 4. Royse, an eX-service man, also
praised the Senator's war record and
told what he had done for the soldiers.
We are not for anyone we did not
hear much Of during the war he said
Miss Eleanor P. Barker. head of the or
ranization of women in Indiana in behalf
of Senator New. brought the first new
note into the meeting when she told of
what Senator New had done for women,
particularly in voting for the suffrage
and prohibition amendments and the
Shepherd Towner maternity bill.
This talk ended the speaking and the
announcement was made that Henry A.
banner will he secretary of the club and
Reilly c. Adams Will be treasurer.
VICE PRESIDENTS
APPOINTED.
The following vice presidents were ap-
pointed Charles Clark, Mrs. Leo K.
Fesler, Mrs. Clarke E. Day, Joe Minor
Joseph II. Broyles. John Kirkwood, Ed
Shuffleton, Mrs. John Judah, Mrs.
Charles Hurst. Mrs. Dan Y. Reedy, Mrs.
Velma Henry, Mrs Jennie Levy. Leona
Foppiano, Anna B. Hedges. Mrs. Mary A.
Bryant, DR.. Frank Jeter, Mrs. Iva Ray
borne John T. Cotton, Elijah Dawson,
William H. Caldwell. John Gullefer,
Hence I. Orme, Lewis W George Charles
Martindale, John jameson, Dr. Henry
Jameson, Booth Harrington, w. W. Tay-
Tor, DR.. David Ross, DR.. Frank L. Truitt,
Mrs. Joseph B. Healing, Mrs. David
Lurvey, Mrs. Harry Miesse, Mrs. R. L.
Remington, William Jasper, James II.
Lott, C. o. Roemler, DR.. Summer A.
Furniss, R. A. Lemcke, Mrs. Irving W.
Lemaux, Frank A. Butler, William Fl.
Thompson, Mrs. John H. Bull Charles
w Wells, Bert a. Boyd, Russell Wilson,
Fl. Foster Clippinger, A. A. Wilkinson,
Donald Jameson, Joseph Foppiano the
Rev. E. l.. Harris, Thelma Pendergast,
Charles B. Riley, Schuyler A. Haas, Mrs.
Thomas D. Stevenson. Mrs. C. W Jewett,
Mrs Sumner A Furnis Mrs c. I, Short