The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-14

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It is, primarily. simply Northwest
ern revenge.
In Illinois, 1t should again be
noted, the issue is not anything or
anybody. at Washington. In
Illinois the issue - Governor Small
Of Illinois.
Illinois may conceivabIy go Demo.
cratic this fall. It may conceiv-
Coolidge. The possibility Of such
an event IL much discussed among
high authorities In the Republican
party in illinois.
II such an event happens, how.
ever, 1t will mean little or nothing
from the standpoint Of national
issues and policies. It win mean
primarily simply that a certain part
Of the anti-Small Republican faction
has swung over to the whole
Democratic ticket in order to be
sure Of preventing the Republican
Small from again becoming gov
error.
Here in Indiana the issue is the
Ku Klux Khan.
There is some interest here, it Is
true, in the oil scandals. Ex-senator
Albert J. Beveridge, who will be a
delegate at large to the Republican
national convention, said today to
this writer:
Senators at Washington will
make a great mistake II they fail
to keep on investigating until every
innocent person involved has been
proved innocent and every guilty
person involved has been proved
guilty. The country wants to see
condefnnatfons and punishments. 1t
wants proofs to the finish; and un'
less 1t gets them now, there some
day soon will be loud political ex.
plosions along these quiet streets"
Mr.. Beveridge points to the streets
Of the little town of Brook, whose
Inhabitants he was about to odify
with a deliverance OF his most de.
manded and appluaded lecture.
Must Be Cleared Up
This lecture, however, was not on
the oil scandals, nor was it on the
Mellon tax plan, which Mr.. Bever.
idge eloquently adores. or on the
world court, which he blisteringly
hates. 1t was on THE Bible as
Good Reading.
Mr. Beverage, who still is Indi-
ana's favorite lecturer and orator,
and also beyond any doubt Indiana's
foremost political author and
thinker, was insistently emphatic in
saying that the people, of Indiana
would not. he at .ease politically
until the national scandals disclosed
by the Walsh committee and the
Daugherty committee were cleared
up"
He warned the Republican party
against thwarting any legitimate
continuation Of the work of those
committees.
Yet this writer must also report
that the local liveryman who bore
him from Mr.. Beveridge's high
presence to a nearby-by railroad
train did not volunteer at all to
talk about scandals at Washington.
He wanted to talk about local boot.
leggers and about the Ku Klux
Khan.
He said that the Khan was not
against Catholics but only against
their institutions. When asked If
Catholics appreciated this distinc-
ton he said he did not know.
Graft at State Capitol
He then said that the Khan would
have deserved well Of the republic
If it did something to get rid of "all
this graft"
When asked what graft, he said
the graft in the State capitol at
Indianapolis.
The Governor of Indiana lie now
up before Judge Anderson, who sits
In the Federal district court in
indianapolis and who delights in
giving long prison sentences to
distinguished culprits. The Cover
nor has to persuade Judge Ander-
sons court that he is innocent of
certain alleged financial crime in
the long list of colossal financial
crimes alleged against him. Mean.
while the State Superintendent of
Buildings and Grounds in the State
government Of Indiana is already
serving prison sentence for hav-
ing embezzled $4,000 worth of
State property.
Ihls writer notices in numerous
parts of the country that the voters
nave SO much to do in trying to
clean their own nests at home that
they have really little time to join
nest-hunting expeditions up high
trees in Washington.
In any case in Indiana, on coun.
try roads and on trains and in
hotels and in the houses of friends,
and in the multituinous political
headquarters with which Indiana is
infested, there in endlessly and over.
whelmingly more talk about the
Nu Klux Khan than about anything
that Washington Is thinking or
doinR-or failing to do.
Khan Supports G. o. p.
While Illinois, which would
naturally go Republican this fall,
may be swung into going Demo
cratic by Governor Small's Republi-
can enemies, it simultaneously and
equally absurdly happens that In
diana. which would probably natur.
ally go Democratic, this fall, may
be kept in the Republican column
by the khan.
The khan is heavily supporting
1ndiapa's Secretary of State Jack
son for the Republican nomination
to be Indiana's Governor. There
are perhaps some 100000 khan
voters in Indiana, according to
moderate estimators. Lavish es.
timators say 100000 or 600,000. In.
dianans whom this writer has
found on previous occasions to be
reliable guides say anywhere from
100000 to 100000.
Now the States whole total num-
Der Of all voters does not go up
above 1900. 900; the kluxers accord.
ingly in Indiana are from one
quarter to one-third Of the whole
electorate.
Maanvhtla there are about 1sO