The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-08
G|LLIOM Files
FOR Senate:
DEFIES kLAN
Challenge to Shumaker Is
Hurled in Announcement
Of Attorney General.
DRY LAW STAND TOLD
,Un-RepubIican influences
Have Shamed State Long
Enough, He Says.

AurI1Ilg his .cnaIlenge OF cOmDaJ
to the Ku Klux Klan, its officers
and E. S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti
Saloon League superintendent,
Arthur L. Gilliom, Indiana's At
torney General today announced his
candidacy for the Republican
senatorial nomination in the May
primaries.
His formal declaration of can
didacy bearing $500 names was filed
with the Secretary of State today
by James House, deputy attorney
general. Gilliom issued his an
nouncement statement at his home
in South Bend.
Calling upon Hoosier Republicans
to return to "Old-Fashioned Re-
publicanism, he declared:
1.-THE same unRepublican in
t1uences that have meddled with
the nominations of both parties in
Indiana in recent years are de-
termined again to control them.
They have shamed our State
enough.
Stand on Big Issues
During the campaign will, with
out straddling, sideStepping or
pussyfooting, make clear my position
on important public questions such
as the tariff, farm legislation, water
way development, State sovereignty
foreign relations, and others, includ-
ing prohibition.
II am a dry, both personally and
politically. favor the more vigor-
ous, but more lawful, enforcement
of the eighteenth amendment.
1.-THE Volstead act now provides
for medicinal liquors, but organized
fanaticism favorS the repeal of these
medicinal liquor provisions. I am
against such repeal
Il am in favor of complete free
dom of the medical science from
legislative prescription or proscrip-
ton.
For the commercial liquor boot
logger, favor higher penalties than
> the VolStead act now provides.
Against Secret Rule
"In this fight naturally will have
the selfish opposition of Superin-
tendent Shumaker, Wizard Hiram
Wesley Evans, Dragon Joseph
Hufington, their ill-gotten money,
and of other self-seekers, who seek
to control Republican nominations
for their own selfish purposes.
This is as it should DE, for I
stand for constitutional representa-
tive government on Republican
principles while they stand for secret
and super government relationships.
IF this nomination cannot be
had except by their leave, then I
shall not want it.
Shall we rally at the sign of the
eagle, or shall we rally at the sign
of the pillow slip?
Shall our Republican elephant
lead an orderly Republican parade
toward tolerant, common sense,
common decency and prosperity or
shall it in fright follow the Klan
dragon in a wild. stampede toward
intolerance, bigotry, corruption and
boycott.
Native of Missouri
The attorney general was born in
Elkton, Mo-, Aug 2, 1886, the tenth
child of family of fourteen chill
dren. He graduated from the
Goshen Gnd.) College in 1910 and
obtained his bachelor Of laws de-
gree at the University of Michigan
In 1918.
He was admitted to the Indiana
bar at South Bend in 1918 and prac-
ticed there. He still makes it his
home.
In 1923, he conducted the suit
against Ed Jackson, then secretary
of State, testing the constitution
atty of the automobile licensing law
and won the case in the Supreme
Court, saving the automobile owners
of the State millions of dollars.
He was elected attorney general In
1924 over the opposition of the Klan,
leading the ticket headed by Cool
idge in his home county by 10000
votes.
Member of National Bar
Gilliom is a member of the ma
tional, State and county bar aSSo-
Citations and was a delegate to the
convention of American, Canadian
and English bars in London in 1924,
and to the convention of the Ameri-
can, French and Canadian bars in
Paris the same year.
He is a Presbyterian, member Of
the Masonic order, knights of
Pythias, the University Club at
/ South Bend and the Columbia Club
here.
He was married in 1913 to Miss
Nancy Belle Kulp of Elkhart, and
they have four sons, Ebert Ray
mond, Luther Allen, Arthur Vernon
and. Richard Lawrence Gilliom.
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