The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-06
NO Offer 70
M'CRAy, SAYS
GOV. JACKSON
Visited Former Executive at
Bishop Fout's Request,
He Declares.
SUGGESTED MCDONALD
Admits ParIey, but Asserts
Innocent Transaction
Misrepresented.

Governor Ed Jackson this after
noon broke his long silence upon
the charge, made July Is in The
indianapolis Times, that he carried
to Warren T. McCray, Governor, in
December, 1928, an offer of $4,000
for attorney fees and a guarantee
that no jury would convict him
upon financial fraud indictments
then pending, if he would name
James P. Mcdonald, choice of
George v. Coffin, Republican county
boss, for prosecuting attorney.
The Governor, in a letter to Boyd
Gurley, editor of The Times, said
he talked with McCray and men
toned McDonald's name, but the
transaction was an innocent one
which has been misinterpreted.
Says Charge Is False
The Governors letter:
Some weeks ago you made the
charge, through the columns of The
Indianapolis Times, that I, in 1923,
while Secretary of State, offered a
bribe to Governor McCray in con-
sideration that he appoint Mr.. Nc
Donald prosecuting attorney instead
Of Mr.. Remy.
"I thought at the time that this
charge, like many other false
charges that have been made,
should be ignored.
"I have felt that one occupying
the Office Of Governor of the State
should not engage in answering
such charges as have been so freely
made without any foundation for
them.
However, since my return from a
short vacation, my attention has
been called to recent editorial in
The Times in which you suggest
that this charge should be taken as
true simply because it has not been
answered.
Wants to Erase Doubt
"Such conclusion is no more war
ranted than the charge itself, but
for the sole purpose Of avoiding
even a doubt in the minds of your
readers as to whether such con-
clusion should be reached, I want
to say that the charge published
by you is untrue.
> "I did talk with Governor Nc
Cray about the appointment of Mr..
Mcdonald, at the request of my
friend, Bishop H. H. Fout. Bishop
Fout came to my Office and re-
quested, as a personal favor to him,
that present the name Of Mr.. Nc
Donald to Governor McCray for ap-
pointment to the office of pros
ecuting attorney.
II told him that I had no per-
sonal interest in the appointment of
a prosecuting attorney, but would
suggest Mr.. McDonald's name for
the place.
Congratulated Governor
when I told Governor McCray
that my friend, Bishop Fout, wanted
me to suggest Mr.. McDonald's name
for appointment to the office of
prosecuting attorney, Governor Nc
Cray informed me that he already
had concluded to appoint Mr.. Remy.
This was the first time that I
knew that Mr.. Remy was being con-
sidered for the appointment. I told
Governor McCray so and comph-
mented him upon the selection of
Mr.. Remy.
Il was Governor McCray's friend
and talked with him as such at the
request Of Bishop Fout. This is
only an example as to how an in
nocent transaction can be misrep-
resented and an entirely wrong
light placed upon it."
The Indianapolis Times at no
time has charged Governor Jackson
with Offering bribe" to McCray,
but The Times has charged that
Jackson carried the offer of the
$4,000 for attorney fees and the
promise that no jury would convict
him, to the former Governor.
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