The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-26

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more mysterious, since I am told
that a reputable business man of
Indiana already had been offered
the appointment to the Senate.
am told he went home to discuss
it overnight with his wife. and that
when he called Governor Jackson
and told him he would accept, he
was informed indirectly that the
place already was f1lled-filled by
the man who sits here
Tydings then reviewed the story
of Jackson's trial on a charge that
he attempted to bride former Gov
ernor McCray,
after five witnesses had testified
in detail to the offer of the bride,
Jackson, without a word of confut-
ing evidence, secured his acquittal
on q technically under the statute
Of limitations. The people of In
diana have about concluded that,
guilty as Warren McCray was, he
was much the more honorable in
the conference in which Jackson
offered him the bride,
Ninety out of hundred of
them writhe with impotent shame
and anger at his continued presence
in The Governors chair, and Jack
son was the ostensible source of
our friends appointment here.
Who is Ed Jackson? He cam
paigned in Stephensons auto Tor
the governorship of Indiana and
the latter claims he spent $4,000
to make Ed JacWson Governor,
which he. succeeded in doing upon
a wocful day of weeping week of
a fearful year for Indiana--thc
year 1924.
Coffin Is Target
THE Senator's old personal and
political pal George V. Coffin, the
political boss who conferred with
jackson the midnight Robinson was
appointed, goes on trial May 2, or
SO I am told, for completely in Jack
sons attempt to bride McCray.
THE cOnspirators, so I am In
formed, wanted to seize the prose-
Cutorship of Marion County and
offered McCray $4,000 for it. Ac-
Cording to testimony at the Gov
crnor's trial they wanted to con-
troll this position because they be-
lieved they thus could control TO-
900 votes in the Indianapolis I'M
derWorld and shift them to the sup
port of Ed Jackson. In his cam
paign for Governor, and thereby
to the support Of the precious crew
of rascals led by Stephenson, who
wanted to kidnap and gut the State
Of Indiana.
1T was as vile a conspiracy and
as unholy a purpose as ever stained
the pages of history; conspiracy
which merits the deep condemna-
ton Of every honest man. Has the
Senator ever uttered condemnation
of it? No. he goes wild-goose chas-
ing into other States to divert the
attention Of the citizens of Indiana
from their own affairs.
Aid Under Indictment
Il am also informed, among
other things, that the Senator, in =
his forthcoming campaign for re-
election will be without the services
of his campaign manager of two
years ago, one Ora Davies, who can
not lend his power to the Senator
because he is under indictment on
charge of getting a rake-off on
State funds deposited by him when
State treasurer in a bank which
later failed
II also am Informed that for the
same reason Davies has resigned the
lucrative position Of receiver of a
National bank at Noblesville, Ind.
to which he was appointed by tho
Senator's influence.
Perhaps the Senator's own debt
to the kindly offices of an appointive
power so filled him with the milk of
human kindness that he was willing
to extend it in this fashion. Will he
not digress from his histrionical and
hysterical discussion of appoint
ments in other States to discuss this
one?"
Tydings brought out the indict-
ment of Clyde Walb, former Re
publican State chairman, who, he
said had aided greatly in the Sen
ator's campaign for election in 1925
by charging that the Democrats and
the international bankers were
spending millions Of dollars to de-
feat the Senator in Indiana.
Raps Dry Corrections
rs not the Senator's law firm
representing many bootleggers be-
fore the Indiana courts while he
makes speeches throughout the
State under the auspices and at the
expense of the Indiana ti-Saloon
League, unfolding the sacredness of
the law which has proven so profit
able as we'll as sacred to his legal
partners?' he asked,
WAS he not accused out of the
letter-file of a distinguished col
league of seeking by improper means
to modify the sentence Of the Anti
Saloon League superintendent who
then was before the State Supreme
Court on a contempt charge and
improperly to influence the court?
THE Senator. in a hysterical way,
unworthy of the calm which should
distinguish great statesman, has I
discoWsed to us of the imaginary
evils of an appointment in New
York, and has said that birds of a
feather flock together. I invite his
further discourse upon the subject
of appointments and the evils of