The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-04
HITS DALEY AS
/ 'BOSS-RIDDEN
CITY RESIDENT
Frederick Attempts to Stem
= Sweeps Of Convention
e Here Wednesday.
BY ROBERT BEARD

Attempting to stem the tide of
Democratic sentiment which prom
ises to sweep Frank G. Daley into
the gubernatorial nomination on an
early ballot in the Democratic State
convention here Wednesday, John
E. Friedrich, Kokomo manufacturer.
who ran $4,000 votes behind Daley
in the primary, has sent letters to
the 1,185 delegates labelling Daley
as a resident of "the boss-ridden
capital city,
Although Daley carried sixty
nine of the ninety-two counties in
the State and attained 10000 of
his $4,000 plurality outside of Ma
rion County, Friedrich in his appeal
to delegates, predicts defeat for the
party in November if Daley, an In
dianapolis resident, is nominated.
Encloses Stamped Envelope
"It is my belief" the letter to
delegates read, that we can profit
by the sentiment shown at the re-
cent Republican State convention,
when a vast majority of the dele
gates refused absolutely to consider
an Indianapolis candidate for Gov
ernor. Due to political conditions
in Marion County in recent years,
the people of out-State are not
inclined to turn over their entire po-
litical structure to the boss-ridden
capital city.
"Few would say that, with our
candidate for President, Evans
Woollen, and our candidate for
United States Senator, Albert
Stump, both Indianapolis residents,
it would be the part of political pru-
dence for us to name a Marion
County man for our gubernatorial
nominee. This in the face of the
further fact that Indiana has de-
feated every Indianapolis candidate
for Governor in the last f1fty-six
years, among them five Democratic
candidates."
Friedrich, asking an expression of
delegates views, enclosed a stamped
and addressed return envelope with
each letter he sent out.
Popularity Statewide
Daley came to Indianapolis from
Blufton, Ind, where he was born,
reared and entered the law practice,
January, 1914, when he was ap-
pointed United States district attor-
ney. He has resided here ever since,
although Bluffton persists in it's
claim upon him.
His friends point out that his
services as district attorney and spe-
cial assistant to the United States
Attorney General in the prosecution
of election frauds indicate his free
dom from "boss-ridden" politics and
fit him for the political cleanup
that exposures of political corrup-
ton make timely.
Primary returns bear as evidence
that Dailey's popularity was State
wide the fact, that he attained a
majority of votes in thirty-six of
the sixty-nine counties he carried.
lie received a majority in five dis
tr1ctS and plurality in four others.
Demands Ninth District.
He failed of a plurality in the
First, Fifth, Ninth and Thirteenth
Districts; but in the Fifth carried
four of six counties; in the Ninth,
Fredrick's home district, carried
four Of the eight counties; and in
the Thirteenth, carried six out of
seven, losing st. Joseph county be-
cause Of South Bend.
Friedrich, it is understood, Is de-
handing the support of all the
delegates in the Ninth district,
where each carried four counties.
and at the same time asking an
even split oof Seventh District (Ma-
rion County, delegates where Daley
received 21,066 votes to LOTT for
friedrich.