The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-12
Plain Treason

Even more serious than the charge Of at
tempted bribery against Governor jackson,
which he avoided by pleading the statute of
limitations, is the injunction Of Judge Collins
to the present grand jury.
The situation he outlines amounts to an
archy, raw, red anarchy
In asking for an investigation of the last
primary, Judge Collins became specific and
direct. No Judge ever delivered more sig
nifcant or more menacing challenge to the
powers that destroy free government.
Judge Collins says that there is evidence
that the results Of the last primary were con-
trolIed by frauds, and that the will of the
voters was overthrown by trickery.
He charges that in one precinct eighty-fve
votes were cast in the names of persons who
were either dead, who had moved to other
places or were wholly fictitious.
These things do not happen by accident
They are the result Of design and carried on
by men who are powerful enough to get away
with them.
What does it mean when eighty-fve fraud
ulent votes are cast in precinct?
1t means that the earnest patriotic, prayer
9Hl ballots of decent citizens are nullifed.
1t means an overthrow of government by
forces that are too cowardly and too skulking
to indulge in revolution, where the penalty is
death
Compared with the red bolsheviks of Rus
STA who obtained power by ruthless murder,
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often found in pulpits by invitation.
The tragedy Of it is that every one knows
exactly the forces and influences that are able
to commit these frauds with impunity and they
still get votes of misled and betrayed citizens
Of honor and integrity.
Think back to the contest in the last pri-
mary. 1t is very easy to know and to under
stand who profted by frauds
On the presidential primary, there was
contest. Does any one believe that any one
was either sufficiently interested, or in posi-
ton to commit frauds if the interest be adj
mitted, to secure fraudulent votes "for Mr.
Hoover?'
In the senatorial contest, who were in posi-
ton to profit? Is there any one who believes
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those protected underworld characters who
are always in the shadow of the jail, but who
find themselves on election boards, was desir-
GUS Of naming either Attorney General
Gilliom or Scion Carter as the Republican can
didate? Who got those crooked votes-and
why?
When it comes to the delegates to the State
convention, whose states profted by these
frauds? Follow those delegates to the State
convention and find out whose orders were
obeyed. Remember the selection of Governor
jackson as delegate to Kansas City?
The highest form Of treason is the poison
ing Of power at it's source When election
frauds are committed, free government and
self government disappears. There is erected
instead a hideous gang government, which
thrives by protecting vice and crime and
crookedness and lives by pillage upon the peo-
pies taxes.
With the fact firmly established that frauds
did exist, the people should not be satisfied
until not only the tools who committed these
frauds, but the master minds who directed
them are sent for repentance and punishment
to some spot where they can no longer destroy
the votes of honest men and women by their
trickerieS and their crimes