The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-29
"a Different Call


Announcement that Clyde Walb had
called conference of Republican leaders for
the middle of August to discuss affairs may
mean something-or nothing.
That the leadership of that party has
reason for a conference can be CLEANED from
every section of the State, where the hon
est, righteous men and women of that party
are voicing their disgust with the leadership.
The only question raised by the an
nouncement is whether Clyde Walb, despite
the fact that he is chairman of the Repub-
lican party, is the proper person to call
conference Of real Republicans.
1t is now becoming known and demon
strated that ,Walb holds his position and
eninence not by the gift and confidence of
the rank and file of the voters of his party,
but through the manipulations and secret
deals and doubtful deals which Stephenson
inaugurated and carried out.
Walb was possible only because Coffin
was made a power in Marion County.
The pedigree of Walb politically can be
traced to those conferences in which Ste
phenson participated and to the innovations
which he introduced into State already ia
miiar with all the doubtful methods Of
politics.
The people understand just how Walb
worked. It did not even require his own
Grass stupidity when he declared last fall
that "there was money in every precinct fur
nished by international bankers to defeat
Watson and Robinson" to demonstrate just
what he really represents in politics.
1t hardly required the publication by The
Times of that letter written by Stephenson
to Ed Jackson, then a candidate, reminding
the Governor that at the instigation of Walb
and Jackson, the former dragon and then a
private political adventurer, financed fake
candidacy and tried to steal the name and
honor and respect of La Toilette to divert the
citizens who gagged at the situation from
taking the one sure means of getting rid of
Stephensonism.
The people have been informed authori-
tatively concerning the state Of their own
party leadership and condition-and that
means Walb.
In public speeches Arthur Gilliom has de-
clared that renegade Democrats-and he
meant Stephenson-had kidnapped the Re-
publican party and delivered it to the Gus
tody of hateful, secret blocs which did not
represent real Republicanisnl.
The members of that party have the true
condition of affairs from the chief legal Off
GER of this State-and it is matter of sig
nifcance that Gilliom is the one Republican
whose comments have received any degree Of
public applause.
Who will Walb call into his conference?
VIII they be the same old faces whose pic
lures graced his walls and dealt with Ste
phenson and who took his aid and perhaps
his money?
Will there be an effort to keep the lid
upon the scandals which have been perpe-
trated in the name Of the Republican party?
Will it be the same gathering of those
who assisted in the rape of the party and its
continual degradation?
There should be conference of Repub-
licans-but an entirely different one
Somewhere in this State there must be
man with the ideals of Beveridge and
the honesty of a Lincoln who will summon
real Republicans to take stock Of party con-
ditions and remedy it.
All over this State thousands of Repub-
lican men and women are waiting for that
voice to lead them from the wilderness of
deception and trickery by which the present
leadership has thrived.
Those thousands would welcome gath