The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-28
CLEAN HOUSE,
/ c. 0. P. TOLD
! BY GILLIOM
Warning Sounded That Khan
Is Trying to Throttle
Representative Rule.
SEES HOPE FOR PARTY
Attorney General Also Hits
at Super Government
of Dry League.
By Times Special

By Times Special
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 3D.
The Republican party will win the
next Indiana election if it faces
bravely the task of releasing the
people of Indiana from "the grip of
super government that has been
fastening upon them"
This was Attorney General Ar
Athur l.. Gilliom's challenge to the
= Hamilton Republican Club in a
speech before the club Tuesday
night.
Gilliom openly named the Ku-
Klux Khan and limited at the In
diana Anti-Saloon League as the
agencies attempting to throttle
representative government in In
diana.
The Republican party never has
had better opportunity to serve
Indiana, Gilliom declared.
Must Break Grip
THAT opportunity lies in the
necessity of destroying super-gov-
eminent in Indiana" he said.
organized fanatics and intoler-
ants under the leadership of indi-
yiduals who give their whole time
to the commercializing and to the
politicianizing of intolerance and
fanaticism have undertaken to set
up super government in Indiana
over political parties and over con-
stitutional government" Gilliom de-
clared. "These super-government
groups have succeeded in consider
able degree in establishing their
power over the people of Indiana
by making candidates of both po-
litical parties in considerable num-
bers primarily responsible to them,
either under oaths of super allegi-
ance, under corrupt bargains, or I'M
der the threat of massed group OPP
position at the polls.
More than this, these groups I'M
dertake to exercise direct police
power over the people through their
own representatives, such as the
horse-thief detective associations
| and specially authorized association
attorneys.
Issue Clear Cut
"The overshadowing issue before
the people of Indiana in the next
campaign will be whether we shall
have genuine representative govern
ment by political parties or whether
we shall have super-g government by
intolerant and fanatical minority
groups"
1t is plain on what side Of the is
sue the Republican party belongs,
he SAID.
ut would be idle to deny" he said,
however, "that the Republican party
wholly escaped the i'll effects of the
political activities of such group
leaders as the heads of the Ku-Klux
Khan"
Hits at Southerners
The Democratic party also did
not escape the Khan, Gilliom de-
clared, and pointed out that ut was
such Southern Democrats as Hiram
Evans and and D. G. Stephenson
who came to Indiana to transplant
the intolerant and fanatical spirit
that characterizes Southern Democ-
racy."
Striking veiledly at the Anti-Sa-
loon League, Gilliom said:
"A part Of the super government
that has fastened its grip over In
diana consists of persons who have
found. it possible by means of con-
slant agitation and misrepresenta-
ton of constituted authorities, to
fan prohibition sentiment into
fanatical fervor to the point where
they can commercialize and politi-
calize the prejudice and fears thus
,gengendered to their personal advan-
tage.
Believes in Dry Law
''I believe in prohibition, and am
certain the Republican party be-
lieves in the proper enforcement OF
the Eighteenth amendment and OF
the laws enacted to make it effec-
dive, but the governmental policy
thus involved is for constituted all
thority to carry into execution, and
there is no need or room for any
tntolerant super government in this
respect any more than there is need
or room for a Khan super-govern-
1nent to keep our Government 100
per cent American"