The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-10

Stephenson had at some time the documents
to which he had referred.
The Times has produced all the evidence
which has been given before any one of the
three grand juries to which has been en-
trusted the duty of sitting facts and evil
dence.
On the side of the people, there was no
champion and no assistance, except from
such efforts as were possible for William
Schaeffer, deputy of Prosecutor Remy, to
make. He worked.
The first grand jury was in session be-
fore the last election and it is one of the
sad commentaries that the people in that
election went to the polls still ignorant of
the little conspiracies which had been COM
mitted against them
The prosecutors before that grand Jury
said that there was no evidence of corrup-
ton on the part of any State officials and
pleaded for votes for Senators Robinson and
Watson.
The expense of that injury was obliging-
ly paid from the contingent funds of the
Governor and in return it's official report
said that no evidence against any State Off
cial had been presented.
But the Times had produced before that
jury whose report Stephenson predicted
weeks in advance, witnesses who said that
Stephenson had checks in the Noblesville
jail, that he had documents, that he had had
them photographed.
When the Times pointed to L. G. Julian,
the business partner of Stephenson as the
probable custodian of these documents,
Julian disappeared.
He left the State and was gone for
weeks, returning with some tale that appar-
emily convinced officials that he had no docu-
ments.
When the Times pointed to Mildred
Meade as having important knowledge, she,
too, was ushered from the State and kept in
an expensive hotel away from the grand
jury.
1t was against this strong official and un-
official interference and the impotency of
honest officials that the Times was compelled
to battle it's way to the truth.
When the present grand jury was drawn,
its membership was such as to invite public
confidence and trust. There were no wbis-
pers of suspicion.
There had been denials up to this time
that there had ever been any documents of
any kind in the possession of Stephenson to
back up his charges.
The Times had proved to the public that
there had been. But Stephenson always re-
fused to make good until he was seen in the
prison by the editor of the Times A week
later the originals Of the checks whose ex-
istence had been persistently denied were in
the hands of the Times and turned over by
it to the grand jury.
The famous 'Black Boxes came to the
hands of Prosecutor Remy, not through his
own efforts, but through the Times.
The grand jury has written into its in
dictment of the Governor the record of the
Times in disclosing the facts upon which it
. bases it's charge against the Governor.
1t declares, officially, that the crime was
concealed until it was disclosed by this news
paper.
This is but brief review of the part
played by the Times. 1t has kept to the
course. 1t has never relinquished the task
of discovering the truth behind that bitter
blast from prison cell because it recognized
in that letter the note of truth and meant
that the people should know how they had
been misled and betrayed
Tt should not be hard, now, for the people
to find the way even in the partial light
they have.
For not all the facts have been published
Not all the men who hid beneath hoods and
plotted for the control of Indiana have been
dragged into the light and shown for what
they are
Some of them are high in power. Others
aspire to power and places higher than those
they now hold.
If the people, knowing of secret deals and
bargains, desire to still follow those who
hold these theories of Government and of
life, that will be the fault of the people.
The Times does not believe that the peo-