The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-31
The Shumaker Attitude

ATTORNEY General Cilliom should resign, says
1RG. o. S. Ghumaker the head of the AnttSaloon
3Leagus in indiana.
2 1re frank statement of that official that he had
been compelled to violate law in order to save the
life ct his little son is called sob stuff by the
7drF lsader, who says that such an act has made
the CHEST legal officer of the State untrue to his
'ofBce
X - him, the fact that the life of the boy
'saved that the father resents being made criminal
kuat he has discovered by most tragic experience
tine fanaticsm of the law in this State that he be-
istes hat other fathers and mothers should be per-
mitted without inviting Jail sentences to follow the
adyice of their physicians nothing to the man
who boasts that he has kept the law upon the stat
sute books.
In order that there may be no mistake as to the
latitude of MI shumaker, read more this rather
remarkable statement
Y Attorney General Gilliom's boast that he
has at least twice violated the law law which he
had taken a solemn oath before God to enforce,
and that, according to many physicians, unneces-
sarily then this sob stuff in his appeal for booze
as medicine and his public appeal to the Gov
epnor nearly two years in advance to ask the next
Legislature to legalize long since out
lawed traffic certainly would justify the people IN
demanding his resignation from Office to which
he has been untrue.
Il "In the meantime Governor Jackson's silence,
since he has been accused of being party to at
least one of these violations, is disappointment
to. law-abidng citizens
Z If Mr. Shumaker really believes that the action
pffilliom in saving the life of his boy by following
The advice of his physicians should drive him from
phice, he has very easy manner to accomplish it.
= The act violates at least four provisions of the
hry act Men have been sent to Jail for those viola
lions. The prosecuting attorney of this county is
feputed be very close friend of the head of the
hry forces. A demand for warrant and affidavit
charging Giom with these violations would accom-
plish his purposeif he really believes that saving
b life under these circumstances is crime which
makes Gilliom untrue to his oath.
6 Why not have this test of sentiment? And
tainly if public sentiment would resent such prose
Eution, then the law itself is absurdty, and has
hoeplace upon the statute books of this State.
THAT law is intended specifically to limit the
physicians of this State in their treatment of dis
base. 1t tells them what they may not do even if
their Judgment and experience directed the use of
whisky to life, happened in the case of the
t1iiiom boy and of the wife of the Governor of this
state
Y Does Indiana approve the attitude of shumaker,
which would drive man from Office for saving the
life of his son. or does it believe with Gilliom that
suGh a law is naurderous fantaicism and has
blsre in an enlightened age and State?
On one point the people will probably agree with
Mr. shumaker. They will agree that the attitude
bf AGovernor Jackson is disappointing. They per-
hans had right to expect that the Governor would
heny the use of whisky in saving the life of his wife,
If he used no whisky and his physicians did not pre-
scribe it, or if he did it, that he would be as
fearless as frank and courageous as was MIR.
f5iliiom
z The people really interested in knowing
whether the Governor after his personal experience
ktands with the demand of Gilliom for enlightened
law or with Shumaker for relief by bootleggers.