The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-07
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Evelyn and Harry
The Iowa Test
Princes or Paupers7
BY NJ. f. TRACY

| afterWard until the gray dawn DroKeI
and Sunday papers were quick to
say they might be intending to get
married again, even though Evelyn
denies it.
No need for last names for you
to know who they are.
Publicity, such as few of us would
like, has made the tragedy of their
lives matter of household recollec-
ton and gossip throughout the land.
They have become better known
than most statesmen, educators or
inventors and their movements are
more closely watched,
Harry, you see, shot a man TWEEN
ty,one years ago, but that is not the
reason, for many folks have shot
men within that period.
The reason is that some great
lawyers smelled a family fortune,
while some other great lawyers
smelled fame and the case was per-
mitted to dag out through years of
four-inch headlines.
And what has it amounted to-all
the indicting, prosecuting conviction,
escaping and houndling?
Let those who have the stomach
call 1t justice.
+ T. T.
This is the day Iowa Republicans
nominate a Senator and the fifth
occasion on which the Coolidge Ad-
ministration has gone to bat with
dissent in the ranks of its own party
this spring.
1t lost to Smith in Illinois. to Ware
in Pennsylvania and to Steiwer in
Oregon, but gained a very doubtful
point with Jim Watson in Indiana.
| The Iowa contest is more signifi-
cant than any that has occurred be-
cause the issue is more clearly de-
fined.
Senator Cummins, who is running
for denomination, is a very sound
and dependable Administration sup
porter, while former Senator Brook
hart, his principal opponent. is re-
garded as very unsound and unde-
pendable from an Administration
viewpoint.
If it were not for a third man in
the race. Howard W. Clark, Brook
hart would probably be nominated,
but with him drawing labor votes,
Cumnins has the advantage.
Cummins' triumph, however, would
not clear up the situation at all, but
would be accepted by everybody as
the signal for a bigger, bitter con-
test this fall, with the Democrats
having a good chance to elect an
other Senator through the help Of
Republican discomfort, Just as they
elected Steck two years ago.
j.
A Senate subcommittee has APP
proved the Coolidge order by which
! local and State police officers can
be appointed as Federal prohibition
enforcement agents, and, paradox as
it may seem, a Democrat, Senator
Walsh of Montana, will write the re-
port. We have no parties left.
AS mark of record the present
Administration has received quite as
consistent support from Democrats
as from Republicans.
While this support may be justi-
fed with regard to routine matters,
it cannot be justified with regard to
those that make for more centraliza-
ton and therefore utterly opposed
to Democratic principles.
+ j. T.
On Sunday; June 20, Germany will
vote on this proposition.
The German people through popu-
| lar initiative and referendum decree
the following law:
1.-THE entire fortune of the royal
princes who have ruled in any one
Of the German states until the revo
luton of 1918, as we'll as the entire
| fortune of the princely houses, their
families and family connections are
confiscated without compensation in
the interest of the general welfare. ."
More than $3.50, OOO,O 900 is involved,
not to mention the virtual ruin of
score of great houses which, until
now, have offered positions Of i'm
mense power not only in politics,
but in business and industry.
Since the question has been con-
strued as one of basic policy, it must
be decided not by majority of those
voting but of all registered voters
since that is the rule in Germany.
1t has been estimated that approx
imately 100000 people are entitled
to vote and this means that unless
20,000,000 vote in favor of confisca-
ton it fails.
The issue has been presented as
though it involved the life of the Re-
public, or return of the monarchy,
but that is scarcely true.
A great many honest Republicans
will oppose confiscation without
compensation because they fear such
a policy, quite regardless of its bear
ing on the present form of govern
ment, because they doubt the wis
dom of permitting any government,
either royalist or Republican, to
take private property without pay