The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-05
And In November?

row Will determine very largely whether the
independent voter, who wants to see Indiana
redeemed and rescued from forces which have
disgraced and Inundated her, will have
chance in the November election to cast bal
lot which means something.
The vicious interests and influences which
have controlled the Republican party and still
control it, have been able to win very largely
because they created situation where the
thinking citizen could find little enthusiasm for
either party.
They have won in the past by disgusting
the independent voter and the thinking voter
and creating in the mind of the decent citizen
the fixed idea that politics is too rotten to be
touched and that nothing was to be gained by
taking an active interest in government
Groups and blocs have controlled Repub-
lican conventions When fraud has failed at
the primaries, there has been an appeal to
deals, purchased proxies and the control of
delegates by sinister methods.
1t would be very unfortunate if the Demo
cratic State convention should exhibit signs of
harboring the same influences which have Sc
cured so firm grip in the opposite party or
Of being controlled by the same methods and
means which were successful in drowning the
protest of decent Republicans.
The primary vote showed beyond dispute
that the majority of Republicans revolted
against the control of their party and really
wanted decency.
Despite every effort to bewilder the voter,
to divert ballots by appeals to sectional pride,
by the lavish use of money and in this city by
fraudulent votes from vacant lots cast by re-
peaters, the total vote of Adams and Lands
was greater than the combined votes of the
forces which finally nominated Leslie
The only manner in which it is conceivable
that Frank Daley can be denied the nomina-
ton on the first ballot is by repetition Of the
same methods and forces which submerged the
will and wish of the Republican voters in the
Republican State convention.
The vote of Daley in the primary
outstanding and compelling, both as to num-
Der and to territory, as to make his nomina-
ton imperative if there is any regard for the
wishes of the voters of his party.
That there is any opposition at all to his
nomination in the convention suggests that
there are sinister influences at work to seduce
and betray the Democratic party just as this
Republican party has long been shackled and
kidnapped by vicious forces.
The public career of Frank Daley is the
only platform which the Democratic party
needs to win in November.
I'll h.
had the power He was selected by President
Wilson to prosecute Newberry of Michigan the
first Of the men of wealth to attempt to pur-
chase seat in the United States Senate
His nomination would be blazoned to the
Nation as evidence of the sincerity Of Indiana
in planning to get back to honest ways and
decent methods Of government.
He would be more than the candidate Of a
political party. He would be, by the very vir-
tue of his reputation and his known attitude
toward public office, the standard bearer Of all
those who believe in real cleanup.
His candidacy would offer an opportunity
to the voters of all political faiths who want to
see the State turned back into hands of the
honest influences and decent citizenship.
If the delegates to this convention have no
higher motive than desire to win, they should
ask themselves what would happen in Novem-
Der were the word to go out that the Demo
cratic party.had turned down the man who had
prosecuted frauds and crooks, who stands for
clean government and honesty in office, who re-
ceived almost a majority of the votes in the
primary.
They should ask themselves what appeal
party which had refused a nomination to Daley
under these conditions would have to the ma
jority of Republican voters who were tricked
and defrauded by the Republican convention.
Ordinarily the Independent voter has little
interest in the success of either party organi-
cation. Party appeal grows less and less.
But this is something different. A majority
of the citizens of Indiana, regardless of party,
are asking for chance to save their State
They want a chance to rebuke their betrayers
They want TO clean house and clean it in