Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-06

Forrey, Jr., treasurer.
In a speech TO the convention Charles
w. Jewett, former mayor, formally sur
rendered to the Shank faction.
To-day l surrender and hand over TO
my successor the reins of leadership" he
said.
He reviewed the victories OF the party
since the Jewett faction came 1ptO con
troll.
ments." he said. land Of the great organ
ization, Mr.. Freeman, that we turn over to
you.
we hope the pluraIities built up by
the Republicans these past years may
be increased by you, Mr.. Freeman, and
we hope you will have the same kind Of
cooperation we have had from the pre-
clnct and ward committees and the work
ers TO the end that we may elect this fall
the shining light of our party, Albert J.
Beveridge, who. with his great ability
as a statesman, VIII distinguish our
State as well as our country"
Il say to you, all. Don't go out of
this room with any sore spot, any place"
Mr.. Jewett continued.
Turning to Mr.. Freeman, new Repub
lcan county chairman, he said: Il pledge
to you under the Republican party our
George " Coffin appeared and urged
that bear stories" be forgotten.
William z. Reilley was elected district
chairman.
Twenty policemen were assigned to the
convention. Before the surrender of the
Jewett faction. Shank leaders feared
trouble might arise II the Jewett Lemcke-
Coffin -Dodson machine attempted TO pre-
vent the Shank committeeman from Vot-
ing for county chairman. y check of the
POS committeeman upon whom they be
leved they could absolutely depend
showed 13S of the 205. Ninety-three of
this number are city employees and the
remainder bound to the city administra-
tion by ties equally as strong. they said.
Charles W. Jewett and George V. Cof-
fin leaders OF the two factions which
had hoped TO defeat the Shank -Armitage
faction in the county convention, sur
rendered shortly before noon and in
formed the Shank camp there would be
no opposition to William II. Freeman
for county chairman and William E.
Kelley for district chairman. Freeman
and Kelley have been backed by Shank
and Armitage for several months.
Opposition to the Sha nix -Armitage pro-
gram blew up when the anti-Shank fac
tions realized they could control only 73
of the 205 Republican precinct committee
men in the convention. A meeting or
anti Shank leaders and several Repub
ncan county candidates was held during
the morning and the decision to sue for
peace with-Shank and Armitage reached.
Both Jewett and Coffin telephOned
their capitulation to Joseph b. Healing,
Republican National committeeman from
Indiana, who relayed the news to Mr..
II Jo1 10 20 h. Cff
hall.
Freeman and Mayor Shank issued state
ments TO the effect ''the war is over and
no hard feelings are left" The mayor
said he would welcome his erstwhile enc
mics into the fold
The admission of defeat by Mr.. Jewett
marks the final dissolution Of one OF the
most efficient political machines that ever
ruled Marion County. From 1914, when
Democrats were swept out of office by
the Jewett- Roemler Lemcke combine un-
til the spring Of 1921, when Mayov Shank
gave them their first beating, by win
ming the Republican nomination for
mayor, Mr.. Jewett, Charles o. Roemler
and Ralph A. Lemcke held the county,
so far as Republican politics went, in
their hands.
The defeat of Harry S. New In the pri-
and the old machine was completely
scrapped when William Armitage lined
up more than majority of the precinct
committeeman against them.
MIGHTY PLEASED
SAYS MAYOR SHANK.
II am mighty pleased with the way
things turned out" said Mayor Shank.
II am going to treat those fellows a good
deal better than they treated me. l am
going to welcome them into the organiza
ton with open arms.
II am for the Republican ticket all the !
way down the list and I'm going to ask /
all the city employees to make this a 1
Republican year all the way down. |
have no bitter feeling against anybody |
and all of them that want to come in and |
make the Republican ticket a success /
this fall will have a golden opportunity J
"The hatchet is buried" said Mr.. Free |
man. Were all Republicans and for |
complete Republican victory. We have /
had an exciting, manly fought contest, /
which reminds me of a story related by |
the Hon. Warren G. Sayre, Wabash, Ind. !
who in making a speech related that a |
spirited Republican contest was com
parable to a cat fight, and just as a cat
fight usually results In more cats, a
spirited Republican contest usually re-
suits in more Republicans.
II appreciate very much the honor and
shall give the office my conscientious ef-
fort. | shall he he chairman but at all
times will cooperate and advise with Re
publicans in and out of the organiza
ton
Hopes of the Shank faction began to
mount higher and higher this morning
when a report came 10 the city hall that
Coffin and Jewett had failed utterly to