The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-30
CITY GROUPS ASKED
TO REFILL COUNCIL
Remy Demands Withdrawal
of Factions in Return
for designations.
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
Directors of the City Manager
League this afternoon adopted a
resolution directing the executive
committee to plan meeting Of
civic clubs and other organizations
interested in good government to
move for upright men in city
council.
Prosecutors today indicated they
might deal with indicted city coun-
cilmen seeking to trade their resig-
nations for escape with fines from
the bribery charges they face ii
civic organizations are permitted to
pick the councilmen's successors.
Prosecutor William H. Remy
conferred with William H. Book,
Chamber Of Commerce civic affairs
secretary, this morning.
After the conference Book an
nounced that Remy had requested
the civic affairs committee to rec
ommend a list Of names from whom
successors of the councilmen should
be chosen to succeed those of the
indicted councilmen who resign.
Call Meeting for Today
Book also announced that William
Fortune, chairman of the civic af-
fairs committee, had called a meet
ing of the committee, which includes
representatives of many civic or
ganizations for .. m. in the Cham
ber of Commerce Bldg.
Before the conference with Book,
Remy issued this statement:
Nothing will be done until have
complete assurance that such a
move is not backed by efforts to
replace these undesirable. council
men with others equally undesirable.
If a group of factional politicians,
or selfish interests, are to dictate
the successors of these men ? shall
have nothing to do with them.
Demands High Caliber Men
1T do not care to have anything
to do with picking the possible sue
cessors Of the councilmen in case
they should resign, but am going
to insist that they shall be high
caliber men acceptable to the peo-
pie with the best interests of the
city at heart.
"Thus far I have received no as
surance that this will be done. Until
I do receive it I shall not act one
uUov OT~ another -
To this Special Prosecutor Emsley
w. johnson added:
''We believe the recognized civic
organizations of the city have some
thing to say as to who these men
are to be-"
Hold Up designations
Attorneys Frank Symmes and
Henry Seyfried announced they
were still holding designations
of Councilmen Millard Ferguson and
Otis E. Bartholomew awaiting word
from Prosecutor William H. Remy
as to whether the prosecutors would
accept guilty pleas to the municipal
code bribery statute, for which the
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men now face indictments under a
law requiring prison term.
The city council fills its own
and already political fac
ton leaders are scrambling to get
their favorites elected to succeed
those who resign.
AS the situation stands council
must act on three designations,
those of Boynton j. Moore, Austin
H. Todd and Walter R. Dorsett un-
less some are withdrawn in the
at its Monday night
Names Suggested
Some of the names suggested for
the council vacancies were Nathan
Swain, Democratic attorney; Wal
ter Boetcher, Democrat, secretary
of the Meridian Service Company;
Fred Stilz, Republican, Irvington
Coal Company manager; A. Kiefer
Mayer, Republican, Kiefer- Stewart
Company; Harvey Grabill, Repub-
lican attorney.