The Indianapolis times., 1926-11-04
WE'LL. OF COURSE

The Times would like to repeat in all sincerity
the statement of Clyde Walb to his followers
1t would like to believe that the people of IN
diana had registered their owD Judgment
II would like TO congratulate the people on vic
tory.
But it does not read the returns that way.
1t finds that very few of the people voted at all,
and that those who did vote probably robbed OF
their right to rule themselves.
It finds that the senior Senator of this State
got all his plurality, all the majority which is
claimed in one county of this State and that the
home of the Steel Trust which he has served so well
and so faithfully.
1t finds also, that in order to get this majority,
the election machinery in all probability put
ascrew and that unnteligent perhaps venal cleo
ton officials returned vastly different result than
that which the voters desired.
In other words it discovers that the returns from
the election in keeping with the campaigning
tactics of Clyde Walb, who has the temerity to
congratulate the people on the result
1t much prefers to congratulate the people from
the many counties of this STATE who registered their
protest against Stephensonism and wisconsin and
Walbism.
It prefers to look at Marion County and congrat-
ulate the free and independently minded people on
their throwing away Of party bonds and their re-
pudiation of Connism and all that it
1t prefers to look at South Bend, which over
threw its bosses and decided to be Free
II prefers to look over and away from the Steel
Trust baiiwc the farms and villages and country
places and the free cities and there congratulate the
free citizens who cast their votes
For If the vote of Indiana anything, it
means that Senator James Eli Watson goes baek to
the United States Senate as the accredited repre-
sentative of Judge Gary and the Steel Trust, sent
there by it's votes returned by its favor il not by its
frauds.
The rest Of Indiana Will have to worry along
with Arthur Robinson, whose law firm will con-
tnue to represent the booeggers OF Indianapolis In
the future as it has in the past
For when the vote is analyzed, it shows that the
steel interests Of Gary elected Watson.
The people of Indiana voted against him.
The men and women Of the State who carefully
weighed their ballots and cast them in all coed con-
science turned thumbs down these two Sena-
tors.
Up to the last minute the campaign in behalf
of Watson was of Misrepresentation.
Clyde Walb, by his charges of fraud and csrrup-
ton brought Senate investigation of conditions,
when he charged that the international bankers had
flooded the State with money.
The charge was false and brought upon him
rebuke from great Senator that he had deliberately
lied and was utterly discredited by his own test-
mony.
II that not enough. the final day brought
+ Paul McNutt the head of the American Legion
a denial that the organization for the two Re-
publican Senators as the Wab organization had rep
resented it to be.
That was the desperation to which Walb
driven and then he went to the far corner of the
State so close to Chicago to catch it's Infection
and there produced the votes by which Watson will
claim his seat in the Senate.
He goes to represent Gary, not Indiana He goes
there with 90 per cent of the territory of Indiana
against him.
He goes back with the and who
made this State what it is, repudiating him.
But perhaps the Steel Trust needed Senator.
if it does congratulate it upon it's selection
and its victory.