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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
The Anti Hoover Campaign

American political history reveals few instances in
which a man has had much popular support for
a presidential nomination as Herbert Hoover has
now, five months before the convention. Newspaper
polls and commitments by nonpoltical Republicans
show he is regarded as the eminenty quail
fed. If this in fact government by the people
instead of by political bosses. Hoovers nomination
would be inevitable
But the bosses do not want him They do not like
Hoover because he is not small-bore politician be-
he does not place partisanshp before the Ma
TONS good, because he does not consider patronage
the most important thing in public life.
Certain financial forces, which supply the Sinews
of war for professional politicians, do not want
Hoover, because his attitude many foreign and do
nestle questions has confcted with their selfish in
terests. These two groups make powerful combina-
ton, and this is not the first time they have
bned to try to thwart the popular will.
Alarmed at the progress of the Hoover candidacy,
they have started two definite movements to defeat
him. One is the time honored method of encouraging
favorite son candidates. and the crop is becoming
larger each day.
Nobody comedies these candidates real chance for
the nomnation-least of all their political sponsors
Their only purpose is to build up bloc of delegates
than be kept from Hoover until the politicians
able to unite behind dark horse candidate who will
do their bidding, if elected.
Warren G. Harding was an example of the kind
of President we get from such strategy.
The second method consists of picking delegations
sympathetic to the denomination Of President Cool
idge, but which be swung against Hoover at the
proper time. This course is being followed in New
York and several New England States, even in the
face of definite evidence that the people of that
ton favor the Secretary CT Commerce.
Prominent members of the Republican national
committee understood to have suggested this kind
of anti-Hoover campaign.
These men, in the face of the Coolidge do-not-
choose torun statements, SEEK nevertheless to use
the prestige of his and Office to defeat Of
the men who has been mainstay of the Coolidge
Administration.
1t is obvious that the Hoover supporters can not
to meet such attack, and the result may be the
selection of hand-picked delegates ready to do what
the bosses tell them.
These delegations, with those from favorite son
States will be used to create deadlock If possible
and force the nomination of Lowden or Dawes
anybody but Hoover
These things not being accomplished crudely
or openly The average individual has not the time
to follow the maneuverngS of professional politicians
If he did, forces trying to block free expression
of sentiment at Kansas City would have no chance
of success.
They will surely fail if, between and June,
the people make clear to the politicians, in the pri
mares, in the newspapers and in the political club
houses, that the Republicans best chances to win
with worthwhile candidate is to nominate Herbert
Hoover.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09

When Municipal Judge Clifton r. Cameron re-
fused to convict negro of taking purse, because
there was evidence offered except statement
signed in the presence of two detectives who ar
rested the man. he announced that such procedure
would be precedent in his court.
Detectives oftentimes make prisoners say what
they do not wish to say, the judge declared in ex-
planning his stand Such unSworn statements will
have no bearing in his court unless accompanied by
further cooperative evidence. he added
While such announcements from the courts often
make the officers irate, their justice is obvious.
The "get your man" idea is not confined to the
Canadian Mounted. 1t pervades all police depart
ments and, by fsld large is the proper spirit. 1t
has been a long time since excessive methods of
duress have been resorted to generally in the Indian
apos force, but here elsewhere the danger is
present, of placing the desire for conviction above
the desire for justice.
1t is entirely proper for the judge to caution
against such methods
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09

on the point Of being reservatoned to DEATH Presi-
dent Roosevelt strenuously objected to the procedure
'"This amendment makes the treaties shams," he
protested to Senator Lodge "And it is my present
impression that we would better abandon the whole
business than give the impression of thickness and
insincerity which would be produced by solemny
promugating sham"
When the Senate, by vote of 76 to II, led the
United States up to the door of the world court and
knocked for admission, reservations in the hand it
was genuinely DESTROYS Of getting in Otherwise it was
"Solennly promulgating sham," which will give to
foreigners 1.-The impression of thickness and insin-
certify"
We can not, therefore, remain standing where we
are now. We must do something to clear the at
moSphere of any lurking suspicion that our gesture
was not made in good faith. The Glett resolution
affords the Senate needed opportunity to prove
our sincerity.
OF late the world has seemed rather prone to put
unfattering interpretations upon acts 1t would
be difficult to estimate the damage the appellaton
Uncle Shylock' has done us throughout the world.
Don't let needlessly give it chance now to call us
uncle Sham"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
TINE one blot on Marcus A

THE one blot on Marcus Azure
Il Illus reign was his enforcement
Of edicts against the rising sect OF
the Christians; he scorned their
mythology and hoped to stop their
success in converting the people
from their ancient gods.
He himself, though doubtless
aiming more to give prestige to
piety than to secure the interven-
ton Of heaven for his purposes,
practiced the old rites faithfully;
after every victory he sacrificed a
hecatomb of white oxen, so that
wit of the time circulated a petition
addressed to the emperor by the
oxen, and begging him, for their
sake. to abstain from further vic
tories.
For the rest, he might have been
a Christian, and his MeditationS are
the Stole analogue of the Imitation
Of Christ.
When Avidius CassiuS led revolt
against him in Syria he regretted
that the suicide of the rebel had
prevented him from converting, by
clemency, ar enemy into a friend;
and his leniency with the associates
and relatives of the dead man
proved the sincerity of his sentiment.
He condemned slavery, laid upon
it restrictions that aimed, very wise
~, at its gradual extinction, and
legislated against the maltreatment
of these unhappy toilers.
When his wife Faustina (whose
beauty is preserved in a bust in the
British Museum, found his atten-
tions inadequate, and summoned to
his aid variety of lovers from the
court, he preserved a judicious in
nocence of her infidelity, took no &C
ton against those who had betrayed
him with her, and treated her with
gentleness to the day of her death;
though it is difficult to say whether
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
Third Term Issue

Noble Senators are quite content
to discuss the third term issue now
that it is no longer an issue.
Because of his courage and in.
dependence, Young Bob La Toilette
might have introduced that
resolution if President Coolidge had
not clarified the meaning of II do
not choose to be a candidate in
1921 but how would the old guard
have taken it?
1t is proper, even at this late
hour, for the Senate to go on record
as opposed to more than two
successive terms for any President,
but it will not fool anyone as to who
settled the issue in this particular
instance.
To Calvin Coolidge, and to Calvin
Coolidge alone, belongs credit for
having maintained the precedent
established by Washington and
confirmed by Jefferson.
The Republican party would have
nominated him for third term not
only with complacence, but with
enthusiasm, if he had so much as
nodded consent.
The Republican party was not
only prepared to scrap century,
old precedent, but to eat its own
words for the sake of capitalizing
his popularity.
Now that he has prevented il
from trampling craftsmanship and
common sense under foot for the
sake of politics, the Republican
party is glad to cllirp its approval
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
Politics and Prejudice

Speaking on the subject OF 9
monument for the late Field Mar
shall Haig, Premier Baldwin informs
us that Stonewau jackson was one
Of the greatest modern military
leaders, if not the very greatest.
This may be just another bit OF
that pro-British propaganda which
worries big Bill Thompson so
much, but most folks will accept it
as an example of that mental alert
ness and liberality which make Eng~
lishmen so hard to beat.
Wide-aWake and broad-nlinded as
we Americans claim to be, there are
many among us who never thought
of rating Stonewall jackson among
the outstanding generals Of the ages.
While this may be traced partly
to ignorance, it can also be traced
partly to prejudice.
Politics and sectionalism have cut
no small figure in robbing Thomas
Jefferson and Jackson, as well as
quite a few others of their just
deserts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
What Other Editors Think

failed to live up to this policy Of
not supporting those who were
wet" that many advocates of
temperance and prohibition have
little faith in such declarations.
The first district of Indiana, in
its candidates for Congress in the
two recent elections is one of the
outstanding incidents to people
in this part Of Indiana.
Many candidates know from
evidence and result at the polls
that DR.. Shoemaker is first for
anyone on the Republican ticket
and then for candidate on any
other ticket when the Repubii-
can candidate is so wet" that he
is not able to ignore the situa-
ton.
When it comes to picking can
didates that are wet and dry"
DR.. Shumaker usually has his
fingers crossed until he learns on
what ticket they are running.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
"Uncle Sham"

Senator Gllett's new move to clarity the position
of the United States on the world court issue must
not be allowed to die locked in the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee room, where it is now.
Either want to join the world court do
not. If don't, let's say If do, let's say SO.
We afford to be frank. At present, however, SO
equivocal is our position, nobody can say with GER
ainty whether the threshold of that insti-
tuition, bound in million miles away, travelling
fast in the opposite direction.
The situation requires Qualification and we can
think of no better way to bring it about than the
one suggested in the resolution of the senior Senator
from Massachusetts.
On JAN 81, 1885, as the resolution points out, the
Senate, by vote of rs to IT, consented to adher
to the court subject to certain reservations. AS
the other world court powers would be members also
of the League of Nations and we not they would seem
to enjoy certain advantages in the court which we
would not possess The Senate reservations quite
properly, therefore, apparently framed to put
a basis absolute equality with the other
members.
# that is what the reservations really were in
oended to do-nake us all equals in the court-the
other powers expressed themselves quite ready to
accept them But there seemed to be some doubt as
20 the exact meaning of of the reservations it
vas suggested that perhaps further exchange of
views" might not come anliss
And there the matter rests. There has been no
further exchange of views" We simply let the
whole thing drop. 1t is the aim of the Gett resolu
ton to authorize the President to sound out the other
powers to see whether the difference between them
and the United States can be adjusted.
In short its object is to get off the world court
doorstep where have been doing for the last two
years.
Really, the question is of considerably more i'm
portance than the casual observer might think. The
sincerity Of Government is at stake.
Once when number of arbitration treaties with
other countries were up before the Senate and were
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
NJ. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
I'm Nine Cases out of
Ten, Abuse of the IN
junction is Tracea6Je to
s care d or Biased
Judges.''

InjunctionS are not always used
against labor.
But for one issued by Federal
Judge j. G. Hutcheson of Houston,
Texas, last August, Southern Pacific
clerks would be looking for "com-
pany union" instead of their own
brotherhood for representation.
AS things now stand, their
brotherhood not only is upheld, but
the Southern Pacific must recog-
nize and deal with it, unless or until
the clerks themselves vote otherwise.
The Southern Pacific is ordered
to disestablish it's company union"
and reinstate two clerks who were
discharged.
Unless this order is complied with
Immediately, Judge Hutchinson
threatens to hold four important
Southern Pacific officials including
Executive Vice President Lull, in
criminal contempt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
COMPANY Unions

Judge Hutchinson believes that
labor is entitled to the full benefit
of arbitration as provided for in the
Esch-C Cummings act, but that this is
impossible unless labor can speak
through an organization and reps
|resentatives Of its own choosing.
In his opinion company union~
permits the employer to sit on both
sides Of the table.
No sensible man could figure 1t out
any other way.
What is there to arbitrate when
one party choose all the delegates2
BY the same token, where would
those Southern Pacific clerks be to-
day but for q fearless, straight-
thinking judge with the power to
issue an injunction?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
Questions and AnS0ve1cS

Duke of Reichstadt, the only child
of Napoleon I and Empress Maria
Louisa, died at the age of 81 from
overindulgence in violent exercise.
What is the fifteenth wedding an
niversary?
The crystal anniversary.
How often should dog be fed?
Feed a puppy frequently; feed an
old dog twice day, giving him his
heaviest meal at night.
How much space would ton of
anthracite coal occupy?
Anthracite coal weighs from so
to 81 pounds per cubic foot. A short
ton 10000 pounds) would occupy
from IS to 40 cubic feet.
Who we're the mistresses of the
White House during the term of
Zachary Taylor and Andrew John
son?
The younger daughter of Mrs.
Taylor, Elizabeth Betty wife of
Maj. w. w. S. Bliss was the mistress
during Taylor's administration.
Martha, daughter of President and
Mrs. Johnson was mistress in place
of her invalid mother.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09

ty, state and national election
until the vets give up their as
saults on the law and constitu-
ton"
THAT plan of warfare against
the vets finds its complement
in the other plan. which is that
Of education and information.
These two great halves of one
with eXactitude."
Speakers at the convention
stressed both parts of this pro-
gram. 1t was made clearly mani
fest that the dry forces of this
state will go down the line for
the nomination, in May. of Off
Gals absolutely pledged to the
strict Interpretation and enforce
ment of the Wright act. In No
vember, these dry forces will in
sist on the election OF only such
officials as these"
There have been so many in
stances in the past in which DR..
Shoemaker and his organization,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
Respectfully yours.
GEORGE H. REIBOLD,
Editor Times:

Editor Times:
see that some papers that have
done their utmost to blacken the
name of Ed Jackson and to ridicule
the tactics of the Ku Klux Khan
have taken a turn about and are
asking what Jackson ever did that
was out of the way and telling how
quickly he paid off the State debt,
etc. ETC.. ad nauseum.
The next stunt that has been
pulled is to publish Senator Hehin's
speeches in an effort to mollify a
lot of disgruntled Republicans who
got tired of paying a big salary tax
to Doc. Evans and of voting for
Office stealers and quit the Khan
cold.
II is a very patent fact that sew
eral thousand Republicans Swal-
lowed a lot of the CUFF that was put
out at the Klaverns at the last
election. but if the political wizards
think they can make a lot of people
swallow the hook a second time by
brazenly publishing Klan speeches
IN sheets that have connected al
most all our public officials with
the Khan and told of their short
comings in the same breath, the wiz
ards are due to receive a big jolt.
Politicians in silk socks and Buick
sedans can bunco a farmer once,
but the second trial may take quite
a lot of talking and make the slick
teller sweat bullets before the hick
signs on the dotted line.
OF course there are a lot Of ex-
Klansmen in Indiana who will lap
up Senator Heflin's speech like a
hound dog tapping up a skilletful
of chicken gravy. but when it comes
to convincing them that there is
nothing funny about the condition
of State politics and the number of
ex-Klan officials behind prison bars,
some one is due to sweat a lot of
political blood in the process.
STAN MOORE,
County Engineer,
Union County, Liberty, Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
- The STORY OF CIVILIZATION ---
Marcus Dies i'm Midst of Triumph
Written for The Times 6g WiU DMrant

into his veins; he called life "a
point between two in11nities," and
saw it as something too small to
warrant a merry wisdom.
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1T was his final misfortune that
n he, who abhorred war and every
manner of killing, was compelled to
spend the greater part of his reign
leading the Roman armies in an eff
fort to repel the German barbarians
who were swarming over the Dan
ube into the Empire, carrying
rayage and ruin into the villages of
the north.
He accomplished his purpose, and
won honorable victories; but in the
midst of his tasks and his triumph
an illness contracted in the I'M
wonted hardshipS of the camp laid
him low. and he died on the banks
of the Danube in the year 100 A.
D., conscious that the Empire which
he had ruled 50 justly might at any
moment be brought to an end by the
multiplying hordes of barbarians
who hen1nned it in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09

You can get an answer to any answer
able question OF fact or information by
writing to Frederick M: Kerby. question
i inston Bureau, 1928 New York Ave,
Washington, d. c.. enclosing two cents
in stamps for reply. Medical and le-
gal advice cannot be given, nor can sx-
questions will receive personal reply.
Unsigned requests cannot be answered.
All letters are confidential You are
free service as often as you please:
EDITOR.
Who played the part of the SER
geant in the movie "Tell 1t to the
Marines?
Lon CLANCY.
Who was responsible for the burn
ing of Lawrence, Kan, during the
Civil War?
Quantrell and band of guerillas.
who burned the city Aug. 81, 1863,
and maSsacred about 125 persons.
Who were the first and second
wives of Napoleon BOnaparte and
what became of the child born to
the second wife?
The first wife was the young
Creole widow, Josephine de Beau
harnais, and the second wife was
Maria Louisa, daughter of Emperor
Francis 1 of Austria. Napoleon
Francois Charles Joseph Bonaparte
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09

this behavior was due to kindness
or ignorance.
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A ND so he lived his plain, almost
L n ascetic life, taking on the dress
of the Stoics, and INDUCING his ap-
petites so abstemiously that for a
time he lost his health.
To do good was his pleasure; his
subjects so loved him that they
reverenced him as a god; and yet
he shrank from letting the recipi-
ents of his generosity know who it
was that had favored them.
Zone man." he writes, when he
has done a service to another, is
ready to set it down to his account
as a favor conferred.
Another is not ready to do this,
but still in his own mind he thinks
of the man as his debtor, and he
knows what he has done.
"a third in a manner does not
even know what he has done, but
he is like a vine which has pro-
duceo grapes, and seeks Tor noth-
ing more after it has once pro-
duced its proper fruit.
"As a horse when he has run,
a dog when he has caught the
game, bee when it has made its
honey, so a man when he has
done a good act, does not call out
for others to come and see, but he
goes, on to another act, as a vine
goes on to produce again the
grapes in season."
Nevertheless, he was not happy;
that transformers of all things
which seems to be the ultimate les
son of most PHILOSOPHERS had sad
dened him; and it did not avail to
remind himself that lit is not SEEM
ly that I, who have not willingly
brought sorrow to any man, would
permit myself to be sad"
Insensibly, the primitive Christian
scorn of human existence had crept
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
One Reason for Willis

The estimable president of the w. c. T. U. puts
Senator Willis of Ohio among the Republicans avail
able and satisfactory presidential candidate
The for his availability, of course is that
he is bone dry in his political convictions and is pet
protege of the one-time politically powerful Anti
Saloon League
So long as Senator Willis thinks he is candidate
for the Republican presidential nomination it is
we'll to have one for his availability because
we can't think of any other
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
3-WHY ROME FELL

VXTHO would have thought that
w 80 great an empire, ruled for
a century by the wiSest and bravest
men, was already, at the height of
it's grandeur, sick with the seeds of
decadence?
Who could have forseen that with
in hundred years of Aurelius'
death Rome, which had now won
the respect and habitual obedience
of all civilized Europe, would become
the playboy of the western world,
shorn of its independence and pride,
and cast about from army to army
as the helpless prize of barbarians
daring to be emperors?
Copyright. 1928. by VIII Durant)
Ito Be Continued
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09

While much fault can justly be
found with the law, more can be
found with the men who manage it.
In nine cases out Of ten, abuse of
the injunction is traceable to scared
Or biased judges.
Admitting that some of our laws
should be changed or repealed, we
might derive just as much adj
vantage if the same thing were to
happen to some of the men who adj
minister them,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-09
BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright. 1928. by The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace; liking; O.
queen; Jack; X--any card lower
l. In no-trump. how can you de-
tect that the lead may not be the
fourth from top?
2. When is a bridge game a
failure?
3. What is an encouraging dis
card? ..,
The Answers
1. If it be an honor or the part
ner'S suit that is led.
2. When the partners refuse to
cooperate.
3. Seven or higher of another suit
than led.