The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-21
State C. O.P.
TIES HOPE TO
HOOVER STAR
Plan to Boom Secretary on
Moral Dry Issue and
Ride to Victory.
EDITORS HEAR JACKSON
SIaps AL Smith for Stand
on Local Option: LaudS
Robinson.
EDITORS HEAR JACKSON
BY ROBERT BEARD


licans designate prohibition, Inciana
Republican leaders hope to arouse
such support for Herbert Hoover as
to carry the State ticket to success
on the tail of the Hoover preSi-
Dental kite.
This strategy, growing more ap-
parent as candidates and party
chieftains expounded their views
before members of the Indiana Re
publican Editorial Association at
west Baden, Corydon and here,
Thursday and Friday, was pur III
plain words by Governor Ed jack
son in the principal speech Of the
closing banquet at Wyandotte lodge
Friday night.
This issue the Republican party
can accept" he said, las the chal-
lenge on which the Republican
party of Indiana can look forward
to an overwhelming victory this
fall."
The Governor, who purposely or
otherwise was refused opportunity
TO address the Republican State
convention, found prominent place
Of which his intimate friend and
"biographer" E. E. Neal, Noblesviile,
is president.
Refers to Corruption
In shirt sleeves, jackson vigor-
ously attacked Alfred E. Smiths
, contention that prohibition is a
matter for States to determine, and
shouted, "It is no more of a State
question than was slavery"
Taking opportunity to praise ac-
compliShments of his adminiStra-
ton, Jackson made one yelled ref
erence to charges of corruption
which concluded his trial for brib-
cry and escape under the statute of
limitations.
1.-THE people will not be r1lisled," :"
he said. Voters can't be thrown off
their guard by false rumors and
statements such as made by some
papers not having the interests Of
the STATE at heart"
In the crowd of seventy-f1ve who
heard him we're probably a dozen
editors, the others having aban-
doned the travelling circus" after
tedious hours of oratory. Com
lnending the full State ticket, Jack
son said of Harry G. Leslie, guber-
material nominee: "He is the sort
of man to whom I'll be proud to
y turn over the commission of Gov
ernor. You can feel secure with the
reins of government III his hands"
Two seats away, while Jackson
declared that Hoover's experience in
foreign lands would equip him to
meet international problems con-
fronting the President, sat Ed Bush,
Salem, candidate. for Lieutenant
Governor, who waved British flag
at the Kansas City convention i'll
leading the Indiana farm fight for
Hoover.
Robinson Praised
Bush heard, too, Congressman
Fred S. Purnell declared that the
farmers" problem boiled down is
lack of organization.
president Coolidge was sincere in
his Veto" said Purnell. Hoover is
qualified to solve the problem. Don't
let anybody tell you he hates
American agriculture"
Senator Arthur r. Robinson had
gone to Bedford, but he received as
a compliment from Jackson the
reference, that splendid young Sen
ator, who has made such splendid
record"
Judge Thomas ]. Wilson of Cory
don, candidate for reelection as
(rcuit court judge for Harrison and
Crawford Counties, who presided at
the banquet laid stress on "the
moral issue unfairly injected by AL
Smith"
Smith injected it; he created it, p"
Judge Wilson said. "It's here and
YOU can't fail to recognize it." He
Quoted the Bible, Shakespeare and
Robert Ingersol in condemnation
of the liquor traffic.
Inconsistencies in Policy
All In all, editors admitted to one
another as they departed for home,
a puzzling task confronts them Po-
litical cross currents, perpleXing to
!. astute politicians, we're even more
y confusing as the results of cam
pdlB1 plCCCpIo oOu1lOCu Wy CdlluI-
dates and leaders in the last two
days.
More or less gracefully, they had
admitted conversion to Hoover and
platform pledges for agriculture re-
lief rather than insistence upon the
NfcNary- -Haugen bill; accepted the
Coolidge veto message as justifica-
ton Of their stand, although it was
available for study long before the
Kansas City convention. They had
cast their lot with Anti-Saloor
League Superintendent E. S. Shu-
maker through LeSlies unprovokeo
pledge of support for the Wright
? bone dry law; opened attacks on
Al Smith for bearing the stamp Of
corrupt Tammany" while agreeing
to keep silent on corruption in In
diana, and pledged to support the
ticket from top to bottom" with
emphasis on "the top" credited with
the strongest "lifting power"