The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-12
The Revolt Starts

in the primaries in Illinois, where the Repub
lcan voters have most emphatically rebuked
the forces Of graft and corruption.
These forces in Illinois are duplicate Of the
crowd which has owned and controlled the
same party in this State They had the same
theory of government the same lack of con-
science, the same utter disregard for common
honesty They relied upon the Indifference Of
the ordinary citizen and ruled through the
grouping of the corrupt in the cities and the
misguided in the country districts.
The Governor Of the State of Illinois, it is
true did not descend to the moral depths of
pleading the statute Of limitations to escape the
penitentiary but it may be remembered that
it was the Governor of Illinois who gave solace
to the Governor of Indiana when, at Gov
ernors' gathering on the day that The Times
exposed the offer of a bride to Warren I. Nc
Cray he told him to never mind, that he had
always been criticised and that the people
didn't care and would return him to even
higher offices.
There is something very significant Ill the
fact that on that day of exposure, the Gov
ernor of this State and the now discredited
Governor Of Illinois foregathered and con-
suited.
The overwhelming vote in Illinois means
that the people Of these United States are
aroused as never before, to the one issue Of
corruption in government.
1t means that the men and women of the
party Of Lincoln have decided that they will
no longer permit his memory and his name to
be used as a cloak by criminals and corrup-
tionists.
Many things have contributed to this de-
termination and this awakening.
The purchase of senatorial seats, exposed
by Senator James A. Reed and the exposure Of
the sale of Government oil reserves through the
efforts Of Senator Walsh have shown to the
people that it is time that there was again
government by and for the people, instead of
by and for the gangs Of grafters
The crowd in Illinois was no different than
the crowd in Indiana. 1t was even more adroit
in escaping the positive exposure and proof
which has come to this State
There had been no indictments Of high Off
Gals in recent months, no pleas of guilty, no
Intervention of the statute of limitations as
defense for the Governor Of the State.
There was the very plain and evident fact
that the Republican party in that State, as IN
this, had been taken away from the decent
voters and used by those who shamed and be-
trayed it.
Will the people Of Indiana vote to give hon
ors to those who have been part Of this ma
chine in this State and who have consplred
with those who have been exposed?
Will the Republicans dare to go to the Kan
sas City convention and ask for the nomina-
ton Of Watson for President, with full
knowledge that two years ago Watson owed
his election to the now discredited forces?
Will they dare to ask that he be their stand
ard bearer knowing that the Republicans Of
the Nation will look at Indianapolis and find
here that Watson has had the backing and
support of Boss Coffin, indicted with jackson,
who pleaded the statute Of limitations?
Will the Republicans of the State consent
to again nominate Arthur Robinson, who was
on such terms Of intimate friendship with D.
c. Stephenson that the life term convict sent
a pearl necklace to his home as Christmas
present?
Will the Republican voters name hoDlnson,
whose campaign manager of two years ago,
was an intimate friend of Stephenson and who
is now under Indictment for grating upon the
State treasury?
Will they dare to send back Updike to
Congress with knowledge that Updike signed
written pledge to give patronage in this city.
only to those named by Stephenson?
Will they dare to pick as a candidate for
Governor one Of those many former followers
Of Stephenson who are now trying to deal with
the discredited Coffin for votes or delegates
from this city?
Will Indiana Republicans be less Jealous in
their efforts to smite corruption than were the
Republicans of Illinois?
Will they dare to go to the polls in Novem-
Der on a pledge of ''new DEAL with set of
candidates that are backed by the same old
forces and combination of wisconsin, Stephen
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