The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-26
CARTER FIRES
FIRST SHOT IN
SENATE FIGHT
Attacks Corruption in State
and Rivals; GiIIiom
Speaks Tonight.
BY ROBERT BEARD

BY ROBERT BEARD
Booming guns in Indiana's three
sided Republican senatorial battle
resounded over the Hoover political
battle-ground today, threatening to
drown the din of the Hoover Watson
clash and the scattering firing of
eighteen gubernatorial candidates.
Echoes of Scion j. Carriers OPEN
Ing bombardment rang in the cars of
-Nttorney General Arthur l.. Giiliom
as he rolled his artillery to South
Bend. In his home bailiwick to-
night, Gilliom will pull the firing
cord unloosing his opening volley
on the camp of r-government"
as did Carter, without avoiding per-
sonalties, in his home town of Rock
vile, Saturday night.
Matched BuZZardS
Senator Arthur r. Robinson, in
cumbent of the post in question, and
third candidate in the triangular
encounter, was still picking verbal
buckshot from wounds suffered in
the Senate set-to when he insinu-
ated Al Smith and Harry Sinclair
were not strangers.
Carter disposed of D. G. Stephen
son, who, he said, "builded his nest
high in the top of a dead tree and
Matched the foulest nest of buzzards
that this or any other State has
ever seem" and laid waste to Cover
nor Ed Jackson, George V. Coffin,
Marion County Republican boss,
Ralph E. Updike, Seventh district
Congressman, Harry f. Rowbottom,
First district Congressman. Dis
creetly avoiding the slightest men,
ton of Watson, he drew up snorting
before the names of Gilliom and
Robinson, his rivals.
Gilliom, he said, was the attorney
general who went through two
grand jury Investigations of corrup-
ton only to report in an address at
Vincennes, Oct. 80, 1926, that: "They
say that vast corruption exists in
the State Offices as if the charges
prove it. If that is so, you would
have heard of it long before this
time, can tell you that I
have been authorized by the Cover
nor to spend as much of his con-
tingent fund as is necessary to pur-
sue the investigation that is being
made"
GilliOm Deludes
"Thus we see' Staid Carter after
reading Gilliom'S statement, that
this gang not only committed the
crimes but concealed them so eff
fectively as to delude and confuse
even the Attorney General,-the
mirror of the law,-and his assist
ants"
Declaring Jackson convicted by
public sentiment although acquitted
under the law, Carter said: ut was
this same Jackson, who upon the
death of Samuel Ralston offered
the appointment of United States
Senator to Frank Ball, Muncie, and
it was this same Jackson who before
an answer could be given by Mr..
Ball, appointed Arthur Robinson, at
the request of George V. Coffin and
Clyde Walb who also is under in
dictment."
jackson, Carter asserted, needs the
assistance of Coffin, Updike and
Robinson to prevent the calling of
the legislature to GUST him. and
Coffin, he continued, needs Updike
and Robinson "to keep him from
being placed behind the bars"
IF for no other reason, Jackson
must remain in the office clothed
with the power to pardon so that he
may pardon his henchman, Coffin,
as last resort" Carter declared.
The junior Senator of this State
he continued has from the begin
ming been the personal confident,
intimate friend, professional ad-
visor and political supporter Of every
member of this crowd"
Carter promised to uphold en-
forcement of all laws, including the
Volstead Act.
1T am against hypocrisy and I
should feel that it would be incon-
sistent for me to appeal TO dry
people for their vote, if my law
firm was making thousands of dol
lars every year defending boot
leggers, many of whom were ar
rested by enforcement officers of my
selection, as is the law firm of which
Senator Robinson is the senior
member"
Carter professed tc have no
"panacea" for the difficult farm
problem" but said Il pledge myself
to give to that question my most
serious consideration and to do
everything in my power to reach a
just and equitable solution of it,"