The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-03
STATE VOTERS
SLUMDER WITH
ELECTION NEAR
Both Parties FranticaIIy
Attempt to Arouse Bal
lot Interest.
CANDIDATES USE RADIO
Watson Opens Campaign;
FeSs and Fort to
Speak Here.
BY BEN STERN

General apathy toward the cleo
ton of Nov. 4, which is being evil
denced at the present time, is worry
ing and presenting problem to
leaders of both parties.
Stimulation OF, the voters through
use of appeals over the radio, thea
ter talkies and rallies is being
planned for the remaining few
weeks of the campaign and both
Republicans and Democrats will re-
sort to all of these means in order
to stir up interest.
If this can not be accomplished
the election will be a battle of
organizations and the party with
the strongest and most efficient will
win.
Heavy artillery of the Republican
national committee is being brought
into play in Indiana.
Watson Opens Drive
The program sarted Thursday
night when Sena Or James E. Wat
son spoke over a lookup of forty
five stations of the Columbia broad
casting network.
Franklin Fort, formerly national
committee secretary and defeated
candidate for the New Jersey Re-
publican senatorial nomination, and
w. o. Wood, treasurer of the United
States, will make a wllirlwind tour
through the state during the week.
The big gun, however, will be
Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, ma
tional chairman, who will speak at a
rally in the National Guard Armory
here, Friday night, Oct. 10.
Fess vii be introduced by Senator
Arthur R. Robinson. Other speakers
will be Governor Harry G.. Leslie,
Eliza o. Rogers, state chairman;
Archibald M. Hall, Seventh district
congressional candidate, and Telford
3. Orbison, president of the Irving
ton Republican Club, which is spon-
soring the meeting.
Robinson has been speaking ex-
tensively in the state and the entire
tenor of his speeches has been
that of an attack upon John Raskob
Democratic national chairman.
Khan Flavor Disliked
Other and unimportant speakers
are using the same tune and it is
having an unpleasant reaction at
Republican state headquarters be-
cause it bears tang of the Klan.
Sending Robinson out to make
speeches is just like sending a boy
to war with a popgun," declared one
Republican leader.
HE peppers away at Raskob, and,
although without doing any injury,
it is beginning to annoy members
of Raskob's faith.
I'VE had a chance to win them
back into the fold as the Khan issue
is dead, but Robinson is doing his
very best to revive it,"
Watson's itinerary has been fully
planned. On Oct. 10 he will speak
over Station WKBF here; Oct. ID
he will appear at Terre Haute; Oct.
Is at Evansville. On Oct. 81 he will
speak in Lake county, at a city as
yet not designated; Oct. % at Elk
hart; Oct. % at Ft. Wayne, and
Nov. l at Cadle tabernacle here.
Following his custom of years he
State Broadcast Studied
will wind up the campaign Nov.
in his home town, Rushville.
Democrats are not bringing any
national speakers to the state but
are concentrating their efforts on
county and district organization.
A statewide radio hookup is be-
ing considered for the middle of the
month when county chairmen over
the state will call meetings and a
half hour of speaking will be held
from headquarters here, during
which the state candidates will be
introduced and Paul McNutt, con-
vention keynoter, will speak.
1t is only in Marion county that
the general apathy is welcomed.
Coffin organization leaders believe
that if only a light vote turns out,
the strength of their organization
will turn the tide in the county.
Great interest in constitutional
convention referendum is being re-
ported from the rural districts, while
nothing has been done in the larger
centers to stir up popular opinion
on this question.