The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-30
SHUMAKER SAYS
G|LL|OM SHOULD
RESIGN OFFICE
Anti Saloon League Leader
Fears Return of whisky
Drug Stores.

Although Attorney-Grreral Arthur
l.. Gilliom in his letter to Governor
Jackson asking the chief executive
TO recommend legalization of medi-
cinal whisky, said nothing as to the
method except that it be "a care
fully guarded provision" Superin.
tendent e, S. Shumaker of the In
diana Anti.Saloon League insists
that this means "a return to the
whisky drug store"
In a statement issued Sunday,
Shumaker challenges Gilliom to
battle Of authorities as the beneficial
results of whisky as medicine, terms
the attorney generals letter a wet
movement" again condemns Gov
ernor Jacksons silence in the mat
ter and says the people would be
justified in asking Gilliom to resign.
According to Gilliom's letter TO
Jackson both officials broke the law
to secure whisky in emergency, the
Governor to save the life Of Mrs.
Jackson and the attorney general.
the lives of his children. Shumaker
doesn't think was right.
w. c. T. L. OH Warpath
Neither does the Central Women's
Christian Temperance Union. Last
Friday they adopted a resolution
condemning Gilliom's action and he
wrote a reply suggesting that they
vote on the following questions at
the next meeing:
81. If your children were serious.
ly i'll and your physician would adj
wise the use of whisky, would you
cooperate with the physician and
procure the whisky or would you
brutally substitute your judgment
and resign your helpless children to
what seemed certain death?
"2. Should the medicinal liquor
provision which is now present in
the Volstead Act be repealed. or
should a similar provision be placed
in the Indiana statute?"
BE Fair. Asks GilliOm
In closing the letter Gilliom said:
"Will you please give the answers
~ NAANSt dutoNlOilo ZIG SAINT DuplltlAN
that you gave to the resolution Of
May 27?"
The Shumaker statement launches
a diatribe against the use Of whisky
as medicine and says that one Of the
worst cases of pneumonia in the
State was that of former Governor
James p. Goodrich and that he was
saved from death without a drop of
liquor.
1t continues in part as follows:
Attorney General Arthur L. Gil
liom, boldly and openly states that he
himself has been guilty of violating
the Indiana prohibition law to get
whisky, and that he helped Governor
Jackson procure whisky in violation
Of the law Then he gives out sob
stuff to the effect that he did 1t to
save life.
shameless Debauchery"
For every medical authority that
can be cited in support OF whisky as
medicine, ] can cite at least an
other equally renowned who will at
least say whisky is not needed.
Many Of them will say that it Is
harmful.
THE reoopening of whisky drug
stores would not only lead to shame-
less debauchery. but would probably
mean the loss of far more lives than
they could possibly save.
Attorney General Gillioms boast
that he has at least twice violated
the law, a law which he had taken
solemn oath before God to enforce
and that according to many ply
sicians unnecessarily this sob
stuff in his appeal for booze, as q,
medicine, and his appeal to the Gov
ernor nearly two years in advance
to ask the next Legislature to legaG
lie once more long since outlawed
traffic certainly would justify the
people in demanding his resignation
from an office to which he has been
untrue"