The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-23
COFFIN'S CITY
RULE BLASTED
BY NICHOLSON
GloSsbrenner Is Only Tool
of G. 0. P. Boss, Asserts
Noted Author.
SCHOOL SWAY ASSAILED
Councilman Voices Plea to
Voters to Wipe Out
Machine.

Whether Republicans like it Oh
not, the issue is Comnism," declared
Meredith Nicholson, city councilman
and novelist, in ringing address
at the Indiana Democratic Club, 319
North Pennsylvania street, at noon
today.
Nicholson asSailed George V. Cof-
I'm, city Republican chairman. and
Alfred M. Glossbrenner, Republican
mayoralty candidate, throughout his
entire speech.
He asserted voters should not be
deceived by the emphasis which Re.
publicans are placing on Gloss
brenner's fine qualities" and should
realize that "the issue, whether the
Republicans like it or not, is Coffin
ISM"
The leopard hasn't changed his
spots-he's only dressed up in a
new fall overcoat," Nicholson said.
Without Coffin, Glossbrenner
couldn't have been nominated; with
out Coffin, Glossbrenner wouldn't
have the ghost of a show of being
elected.
Hit Coffinism, His Plea
NNoW is the time for the citizens
OF indianapolis to assert themselves
and strike down CoffiniSm.
Republican leaders have shown
a strange callousness to the vicious,
destructive element that has DOM
mated their party. A Governor
sent to the penitentiary and his
successor crawling to safety under
the statute of limitations, mayor
indicted, convicted and driven from
Office, rather calls for some mani
festations of contrition.
while D. C. Stephenson ran the
party he was regarded by the Re-
publican powers as a mighty smart
fellow The Republican leaders
were proud of him. They also saw
in Ed Jackson an astute statesman
and in ex-Mayor John L. Duvall a
wise business man who would bring
great honor upon the city. Con-
gresham Ralph Updike and SEN
ator Arthur r. Robinson were great
by the same Stephenson and Coffin
standards.
"The most damaging advertising
ever given Indiana came through
Stephenson and the disclosures of
his far-reaching power Coffinism
has given Indianapolis a wide pub
licity detrimental to the prosper
Gus course of business. The world
was hearing of us as a city con-
trolled by vicious spoilsmen.
Coffin Still Rules
"Glossbrenner's friends say that il
he is elected he will be strong
enough to combat Coff1nism. For
number of years some influential
members of the Republican party
have struggled against Coffin dom
nation without result. GloSsbren-
ner sits jauntily on the Republican
porch, but inside, with the blinds
down, Coffin and his precinct COM
mitteemen are wondering how soon
the Charles w. Jewett carollers will
give them a Serenade.
'Coff1nism in control of the city's
schools has destroyed the city's
prestige as a center of enlighten-
ment and high aspirations.
'Once the schools of Indianapolis
stood high among American cities
in the rating of public educat'or
The three Indianapolis newspapers
are united in demanding the elm
ination of Coffin from the control
of the city's schools. What applies
to the schools is applicable to the
civil government of the city.
while Coffin still sits comfortably
in the saddle he hasn't lately been
finding the going so good. No one
reads the handwriting on the wall
more expertly than Coffin.
He must have laughed heartily
when, at a time of great anxiety
as to his future control of things,
group of reputable and influential
Republicans offered him Glossbren-
ner as candidate.
Easy for Boss
Naturally, he was delighted. To
be approached, hat in hand, by such
a group was a big feather in his
cap. 1t tickled him almost as much
as if they had invited him around
TO the club for luncheon. OF course,
nothing would give him greater
pleasure than to meet the wishes
of gentlemen so distinguished in the
business and social life of the COM
munity.
"Just why the distinguished gen.
tlemen so meekly approached Boss
Coffin is a question that, as yet, has
had no happy calculations. If the
Boss has had sudden change of
heart and is sorry for all the injury
he has done the city and the shame
he has brought upon his party, it
would be a kindness to Glossbrenner
II he would say so.
1.-THE people of Indianapolis have
a right to know just what Gloss
Ibrenner thinks of Cap Coffin as
the dominating Republican power
In indianapolis and whether he re-
ally believes the best interests of
the city would be served by permit
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