The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-02

us a Supreme Court that win be
dry and not wet" Positions on the
court which are to be filed mt the
next election are those now held
by Judges Louis Il. Ewbank OF
Indianapolis and Julius G. Travis
of La Porte.
Shumaker again took the high
State tribunal to task when, in his
report, he said
"Only about six State Supreme
Courts have held that a defective
search warrant should operate TO
let a guilty person go free. Our
own State Supreme Court Is one.
This court. in the Flum case from
Beech Grove, in Marion County. has
held that no matter how guilty q
person may be OF violating the pro-
hibition law. even though he might
have as many as three stills in his
home and be engaged in manufac-
turing a white mule that Is as poi
sonous and deadly in it's effects
should there be any mistake in the
search warrant-such Il peson must
be turned free.
1--WE think that such rulings,
coupled with the splitting of judi
cial hairs i'm many cases coming
before our Supreme Court whereby
substantial justice has been de-
feated repeatedly has been to
great degree responsible for the
great increase i'm the appeal of
criminal cases to our States high
est judiciary"
In his reply Gilliom said, mo
one who is competent to judge
can Justly criticise any of the de-
cisiOns Of the Supreme Court Of
Indiana in liquor cases, or any of
its judges. Because this, court
will not follow intOlerant bigOtry
and cast aside the law and the
Constitution i'm the administration
of justice, representatives Of your
organization have for some time
past sought falsely to bring the
court into contempt. What may
be realized some day is that the
patience and the tolerance of the
court finds q limitation i'm the
necessity of protecting its dignity
from contempt"
On the back page of Shumaker s
pamphlet is an audit Of the league
finances for 1925. in which receipts
and disbursements are purported tc
be shown. No mention is made OF
any sums spent in political activi
ties outside of $109 item for "adver
Using and publicity" S1,173.69 foI
postage and $37S.33 for printing anC
stationery"
Gilliom, pointing TO the audit,
declared: "Such activities attrib-
ute to your organization the char
acter that brings il within the pur-
view of the corrupt practices act Of
the State, wherein "a report Of
moneys collected and expended for
political purposes must be made.
OF course, an organization which
advocates law enforcement will
want to observe such laws as ap-
ply to it,"
Under the caption "Laxity of the
Courts" Shumaker criticises Indian
apolis and Marion County, quoting
figures to bear out his argument
that only about per cent of those
arrested for liquor law violation!
ever reach the state Farm. WHY
those appeals TO the Crimina
Court?" Shumaker asks. answering
that less than "a per cent OF thos'
tried before Criminal Court are con
victed
us il any wonder, the. that crimi
nails are fiocking to the city OF Indi
annapolis and that hold-ups, robber
les. murders and other crime:
against persons and their possession:
are so frequently committed? Fortu
nately for us, the courts in the bal
ance Of the State have not gone Sc
far afield, as between IS per CEN
and so per cent Of the liquor cases
taken into those courts result in con
victions," Shumaker said.
Newspapers Unpatriotic
At the wind-up of his report
Shumaker declared, the great ma
jority OF the big newspapers OF ouI
land in a sense never known be
fore, have given themselves 10 the
unpatriotic and near.traitorous
purposes Of undermining faith In