The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-28
THE LAST APPEAL

The final desperate appeal for Senators Watson
and Robinson has been made, and it is now coupled
in pleading terms to Republicans to stand by the
party" The one and only argument left which is
being made is that these needed down at
Washington to assist President Coolidge and his
party policies.
Here is the final confession of weakness, the most
abject admission of desperation. For the answer
is to found only in the fact that these Senators
have departed from the Coolidge policies on every
major issue but that the divorce is emphasized by
the failure of any representative of that adminisra
ton to indorse their candidates.. The Indiana mem
Der of the cabinet has campaigned in other States
but he has not entered Indana or spoken one word
that would indicate that his chief is especially wor
ried about the return of these Senators.
The private secretary of the President has been
too busy to come back home. The anxiety about
support for Coolidge to from the Sen
ators, rather than from the White House.
But even if they should ask that these come
back under the name Of the Republican party, recent
developments most strongly suggest that the livery
Of their party has been stolen and that the honored
name and traditions of the party have become in this
state but the trading stock which the gullibe
may be misled while secret deals for power
made behind closed doors with who moth
ing about parties but great deal about power and
ability to rule cities and counties.
It is an open secret that the two Senators made
their bargain to stand or fall together On the one
hand and this did not need the Reed investigation
as evidence, Watson contributed his Khan workers
and the machine he had constructed through privi-
leges and favors.
And for that he obtained in return the machine
ruled by George v. Coffin Of this city whose darling
tical lawyers to do the many things it wants to do
That bargain was known to every voter in the
Republican party that when there is made an ap-
peal to party loyalty there is really request to
the voter that those who believe in the principles
of Lincoln and of Roosevelt surrender their loyalty
to these idols and support bargain between
wizard at Washington and boss in indianapolis.
Party loyalty under such circumstances, becomes
mere trap and lure not clarion cry, for the
party itself has been captured and is in alien hands.
Let 1T be hoped that the thousands of Republican
voters who dedicated to decency and honesty in
government, who tired Of the sings and slurs
which Indiana has had and merited because of its
low political estate will look at the situation calmly
and then decide between partsanshp and patriotism
The chairman of the Republican committee, the
manager of these two Senators, has been openly
denounced by the head of Senate committee for
having attempted to perpetrate deliberate false
hood in order to bolster up their cause.
When did the party of Lincoln Of Roosevelt
need 10 resort TO deliberate lies to obtain an audience
in Indiana?
Were that not enough. there comes from the
same Senate committee chairman denunciation
and denial of the attempt of the Indianapolis News
to minimize the exposure and the discrediting of
Clyde Walb
When did the party for which loyalty has been
claimed need distortion, suppression and concoctions
to commend its candidates to the voters?
y And when there came, a shock, the charge that
there was and has been grave corruption and graft
in this State, charge made by the master mind,
now in the penitentiary who once ruled the very
machine which is in charge of the Watson campaign,
what did these two Senators do to save the fame
and reputation of the State?
Did heySdemahd investigation, with punishment
for the guilty if there be guilt exoneration for
found?
Rather not the silence at sleast suggestive
that they feared a full and free investigation OF
their organization?
Those days of silence while the nation looked
on in amazed wonder, those days when every effort
of those In power to suppress and close the lips
of this prisoner who a car, will not be
forgotten, let it be hoped.
The sleeps clothing was lost when the animal
was chased into the open.
port for this organization is but insult to the
memory Of those great men who in other days made
it glorious and honored.