The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-27
Ed Jackson Has Not Resigned

1t becomes increasingly apparent that Ed Jackson
intends to sit tight in the Statehouse hoping, ostrich
like, that if he keeps temporarily out of the meght
the people Of Indiana gradually will forget that he
remains Governor only by grace of legal techncalty
1t also is ceratn that the Republican State COM
mittee intends to do nothing to remedy the situa
ton Any action in the matter outside its province,
says the committee. It's members are steering wariy
away from the issue. They wisely do not attempt
to gild the party lilies but their evasion might be
construed effort to perfume the party polecats
If rottenness inside the c. o. P. is not within the
province Of the committee then there seems to be
precious little left the hands of committee
bers If the committee is relying on the traditional
forgetfulness Of voters for Republican in the
1928 election there will be a sad awakening. The
voters of Indiana will not be allowed to forget the
record of the Republican party in this State in the
last four years
Nothing more is needed to whet the memories of
the voters than the spectacle of Ed Jackson sitting
in the Governors chair in the Statehouse deaf to all
demands that he resign.
And the Nation will not allow Indiana to forget.
Pitiless publicity this States portion in journals all
over the country But mixed with the broadSdes
hurled political conditions there is sympathy for
Indiana's predicament and hope that the Hoosier
commonwealth will take steps at once to clean up.
Indiana'S problem is described with striking clear
in the following editorial which appeared in
the Milwaukee Journal headed Indiana Still Has IT,
Indiana must view with a good deal more Of
chagrin than satisfaction the outcome of the jack
son trial. The guilt innocence of its Governor
on the charge that as secretary of State he tried
with $4,000 to bride and debauch the then Cover
nor, McCray, is not settled
The only thing determined is that if there
bribery, the crime has outrun the statute of lnita
tons. And Ed Jackson is still at liberty to adj
minister the highest office in the State.
This outcome only makes the whole Indiana
situation the more untenable. Everybody knows
that there was super government, everybody knows
that Ed Jackson a beneficiary of that super
government, everybody knows that housekeeping
day is long past due.
Also, everybody has seen that all efforts to clean
house have failed-whether through elections, grand
jury hearings court trials. Every time it is the
blank stone wall for those who try.
And now the State must suffer the further
ignominy of having a Governor from whom the
cloud of accusation that he committed crime can
not be lifted.
This of course is Indiana'S problem Maybe
public sentiment which is now beginning to speak
will grow strong enough to force Jackson to resign
since his name is not cleared
Maybe Indiana will some day decide to make a
clean sweep of that slime and disgrace which
Judge McCabe, who heard the Jackson trial, says
brought by the Ku-Klux Khan. Maybe.
But what object lesson it is to other States
when they are tempted by the wiles of those who
deal in super government When you get it, what
are you to do with it, and how in the world are
you ever to get rid of it?
That is harder than getting a divorce in
South Carolina