The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-10
BOSS COFFIN MENACED BY
MUTINY: LONG time AIDS
REPORTED LEADING FIGHT
Chairmen of Three Wards
Said to Have Raised
Rebellion Banner.
THREATEN TO QUIT COLD
Precinct Committeeman to
Join Move for New
District Chief.

Mutiny spread today in the
legions of George V. Coffin,
Seventh district Republican
chairman.
The first real break in the dicta-
torial power which Coffin has held
in Republican affairs in five years
may be the result, unless the chief
tain who rode in with the Ku-Klux
Klan and weathered the storms
which followed is able to stop the
tide of disaffection, political OBJ
servers said.
Notice Served by Leaders
HutSell and Edwards are under
stood to have served notice that
either a new leader will be OBJ
tanned or they quit cold. Young is
trying to become the leader. He is
satisfactory to neither Hutsell or
Edwards, who were understood to
be discussing A. M. Glossbrenner,
business man and member of the
Republican group which for years
has been distressed over Coffln's
leadership.
The Coffin leaders were worried
over reports that revolt centered
around County Clerk George c.
Hutsell. chairman of the Fourth
ward; william Edwards, chairman
of the First ward, and Todd Young,
chairman of the Seventh ward.
The First and Fourth wards are
two of the largest in the city and
always are depended upon by Re-
publicans 20 bury with Republican
majorities any lead which Demo-
Gratis may have built up elsewhere
in the county.
The Fourth ward in last Tues
days election gave Hoover a 5000
majority.
Behind the ward chairmen we're
numerous precinct committeeman,
reported to be awaiting only the
appearance of a real leader before
joining the break from Coffin.
In the excited buzzing of politi-
clans about the courthouse, there
was considerable talk of calling pre-
cinct committeeman together and de-
liberately and publicly unseating
Coffin.
Action Likely to Wait
In view of the fact that there is
no county primary for year and
a half, it appeared unlikely that
the revolt would go that far at this
time, there being no particular rea-
son for an organization.
Meanwhile, County Chairman
Omer Hawkins rushed about the
courthouse Friday afternoon at
tempting to stem the tide. He has
been Coff1n's man Friday" for
years.
Hawkins at first refused to believe
the reports of the mutiny until he
went to Hutsell's Office and was told
some things by Hutsell himself, in
the presence of a reporter.
County Commissioner George Sni-
der stood by Coffin.
THE entire situation has origi-
mated from bunch of soreheads,"
said Snider. THE thing has been
going on through the entire cam.
paign. There isn't another election
until 1880 and that will be time
enough to make a change"
Criticism Causes Breaks
The break from Coffin appeared
to have been started because the
Fourth and First ward chairmen had
been criticized as not having gone
down the line" and because the
chairman and precinct committee
men have become tired of the odium
attaching to members of the Coffin
organization"
Coffin silently was watching de-
velopments while Hawkins did his
leg work.
Other interested watchers were
the leaders of the c. Otis Dodson
faction, the old Jewett-Roemler-
Lemcke faction, and the old Shank
faction, who we're reported ready TO
join any real movement to rid the
county organization of Coffin, but
not ready to participate in any move
merely to shelve Coffin and replace
him with one of his henchmen.