The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09
ROBINSON PUT
FORWARD FOR
G. O.P.LEADER
County Treasurer Doomed
for Chairman Berth by
Party Workers.
DEMOCRATS IN CAUCUS
Attorney Nathan Swain to
Be Recommended for
Leadership.
BY BEN STERN

DA DEN 81 EhN
While the word was being passed
down the line to the boys in the
trenches" that Clyde E. Robinson
was to be elected county chair
man at the G.. O. p. convention
Saturday afternoon, successful can
didates caucused in the courthouse
at noon, and Martin M. Hugg, in
cumbent county chairman, met
with ward chairmen in headquar-
tiers in the State Savings and Trust
building.
Democratic nominees in caucus
this morning decided unanimously
to recommend for their county
chairman Nathan Swain, attorney
and one of the candidates drafted
for city commissioner by the
city manager group.
The proposed Republican county
and district committee, as drafted
this morning at a conference of
party heads in the office of Schuyler
Haas, in the Lemcke building, in
cludes Hugg, district attorney, sue
ceeding William L. Taylor; Mrs.
Ovid Butler Jameson, district vice.
chairman, succeeding Mrs. Arthur
R. Robinson; Clyde E. Robinson,
county chairman; Mrs. Bloomfield
H. Moore, vice-chairman, and
Wayne Emmelmar, reelected, as
secretary. No candidate for treas
urer has been selected.
Democrats Draft Slate
Democrats are considering the
following lineup: Swain for county
chairman; woman, as yet not Sc
lected, as county vice-chairman;
Howard Bates, secretary, and
Thomas Sheerin, treasurer.
No recommendation were made
for the Democratic district chair
man and vice-chairman, 1t being
decided to leave that to the con-
vention itself. At present there
is no district chairman.
Robert Springsteen also was con-
sidered for county chairman, but
he has refused to become a candi-
date because of failing health.
There is possibility that Leroy j.
Reach, present county chairman,
who has refused to be a candidate
for reelection, may accept the dis
trict Craftsmanship.
However, Reach always held to
the theory that the Marion county
chairman also should be district
chairman.
Robinson in Doubt
Robinson, who is county treas
urer, and also treasurer of the Re-
publican county committee, today
said he had not been approached
and was undecided as to whether
he would accept the post of chair
man.
The caucus of Republican nomi.
nees was called by Frank Cones,
a successful candidate for county
treasurer, and the names of Harry
Dunn, county auditor, and Harry
Yockey, attorney and chairman of
the speakers bureau in the mu-
nicipal campaign, we're advanced.
Hugg is expecting to be renamed
as county chairman, and the con-
ference of the ward chairmen was
called, it was understood, to see how
far they would support him.
Many representatives of the in
surgent group, the Citizens Repub-
lican league, which claims eighty Of
331 committeeman, declare they will
be for Hugg against any Coffin can
didate advanced, inasmuch as they
can not elect their own choice.
Two Have Great Power
The two ward chairman who will
have the greatest power in the con-
vention will be Sheriff George
Winkler, who has forty-five en-
ployes, the majority of whom are
precinct committeeman; and Alfred
Meloy, United States marshal, who
is Wayne township chairman and
has thirty-five committeeman.
William L. Taylor, Republican dis
trict chairman, today declined re-
election for the coming campaign.