New Britain herald., 1923-10-03
INDIANA fl. O.P.IS
 FACING BAD SPLIT
Trouble Arises Over Governors
 Financial Muddle

Indianapolis, Oct. 3.--Republican politics in Indiana were thrown into a turmoil as result of charges and counter charges concerning the re- publican state central committee meeting here Monday to consider Gov crnor Warren T. McCrays ,inancial affairs.
 A declaration by John Moorman, Knox, Ind, political adviser to Gov ernor Mccray, that yesterdays meeting was ordered by President Coolidge at the instigation of for mer Governor James P. Goodrich was followed by subsequent denial by Mr. Goodrich Mir. Goodrich in turn asserted that charges by prom inent men that Mir. McCray had been guilty of actions involving the most serious consequences alone led to the meeting.
 Both men issued statements, MT. Moorman declaring that the "nub oi the whole effort to remove Governor McCray from office is the fear of re- publican leaders that they will be held responsible for the depression in the value of farms and farm products and they are alarmed over the effects that ma yfollowin the wake of such notable example as the collapse or the governors fortune" MT. Good rich termed Mir. Moorman's statement as being absolutely false. He denied discussing Mir .McCray's affairs with President Coolidge and charged MT. Moorman and the governor in their public statements with trying to htrow dust in the eyes of the people of this state and create the impress sion that the meeting of the commit tee was simply an effort on the part of certain machine politicians to ob- tain control of the committee.
 Charges have been made by men thoroughly familiar with his affairs and highly responsible in every way that the governor had been guilty of actions involving the most serious consequences, MT. Goodrich declared in a signed statement to the Asso- ciated Press. When these matters came to the ears of the state commit tee, responsible as they were to the party, Mir Walb conceived it to be his duty as chairman of the state commit tee to call the committee and lay the entire situation before them for such acion as they might deem proper.
 "I spent nearly three months in trying to untangle the governors af- fairs and finally raised s350,o00 to save him and some of his associates from the most serious personal con sequences as the result of his own acts and I deeply resent the efforts of Mir Moorman or the governor or any one else to reflect upon tn motives and good faith of the men responsible for the conduct of the affairs of the party in this state"
 Charges Coolidge Sent New
 Mir Moorman also charged that Postmaster General Harry S New came to Indiana at the direct request of President Coolidge to look into af- fairs. The postmaster general, wilo was in Mr. Goodrch's office at the time the former governor was prepar- ing his statement, also entered a denial.
 Mir. Moorman also asserted that the plan is unquestonably to attribute Governor McCray's failure to his own vicious and unlawful acts rather than to economic depression. In other words, Governor McCray was to be removed from office, to be branded as a criminal if possible, in order to show to the whole country that he was not victim of agricultural depression