The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-31
DALEY SOUNDS
ITO arms FOR
WAR ON G. 0. P.
Democrat State Campaign
Formally Opened at
Salem.
RALLIES REPUBLICANS
interest of Indiana Must
Come Before Party,
h; Says Candidate.
RALLIES REPUBLICANS
By Times Special

guns today and exhorted patriotic
Republicans, willing to place State
welfare above a party emblem" tx
help redeem the. State with a Demo
cratic victory at the polls in No
sember.
Frank c. Daley, indianapolis
attorney and Democratic nominee
for Governor, was the speaker
whose sharp denunciation of Re-
publican machine control and en-
phatic demands for a governmental
"house- cleaning" will be echoed anc
,re-echoed to the far corners Of the
State during the campaign.
Decency Is Issue
Daley was the principal speaker
at the rally here which marked for
NAL opening of campaign hostili-
ties. other State candidates con-
tributed to the attack, renewed cam
paign pledges, promised support to
platform promises and urged cleo
ton of Governor Alfred E. Smith
and a sweeping State victory.
Voicing again the statement that
won him the gubernatorial nomina-
ton, Daley declared: 1.-THE domi-
nant issue is common honesty and
common decency in State govern
ment.
at is unnecessary to state the
facts constituting the proved wrongs
of recent administrations. Sworn
testimony has been offered in courts
of justice, and the facts are more or
less familiar TO the people.
A~-eLet lis ask Republicans to lay
aside party predisposition for the
moment and to consider impartially
the existing situation in Indiana.
This is a time for frankness. No
change of condition can be made
without the aid of patriotic Repub-
licans, men and women, who are
willing to place State welfare above
a party emblem!
"The complaint in Indiana is not
against Republican because he is
a Republican. The grievance is
against a machine leadership be-
cause of the place to which it has
led and is leading"
Republicans Must Help
Exposure alone lays bare the dis
grace" said Daley, "but does not
effect a cure. The only available
remedy is the ballot box this fall.
With the aid of patriotic Repub-
gicans the State can be redeemed.
Indiana has been injured in
reputation, humiliated in pride and
harmed in material growth and well
fare by those in control OF the
State" the nominee said.
''Many Republicans looked to the
Republican State convention for
come evidence of publication" Dali
lev said, but found it inconsistent
unsatisfactory, Disappointing"
Governor jackson, he said, was
denied the privilege of addressing
the convention and refused the
honor of election as a delegate at
large to the national convention
because "they were ashamed OF his
Eecord."
"On the next day." said Daley
: Etne convention selected ticket
kicked from the Statehouse, not one
of whom had ever, or has ever made
a public complaint relative to the
Impossible conditions in Indiana.
Daley called attention to the fact
that every one of the Republican
candidates who "openly complained
in the primary campaign, met de-
feat. Harry G. Leslie, the Repub-
lican gubernatorial nominee, on the
other hand had not talked against
the organization, Daley reminded
his hearers.
No Hope in G. o. p.
He charged Leslie with using his
influence to compel every Republican
member of the House in 1928 tC
vote against the resolution Of George
l.. Saunders of Bluffton, asking ar
investigation of rumors OF ot1c1a
misconduct.
'The election of the Republican
- Eket means q COUUllludVAOh Va 0AAN
Eind of government you have had,
DALEY asserted. THE system is II
full and complete control. INT
house was not cleaned. The refuse
was swept under the bed.
"a promise to do better amounts
to nothing. A change of men among
those in control will not bring re-
lief. What is needed is a change O.
partiesI"
The gubernatorial nominee pro
nounced Governor Smiths accept
ance speech "as an expression O
faith in the ability of the Ameri
can people to control and direc
their own Government" to be "th'
most profound pronouncement sinct
the days of Thomas jefferson"
National issues, he said, had beer
so well presented that he chose tt
confne his speech ito the ISSUES
which trouble harrassed common
wealth"