The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-12
GOVERNOR MAY
STUMP INDIANA
IN PARTY PLEA
Leslie Sees Vital Need OF
Friendly Legislature;
Aid Under Fire.
BY BEN STERN

Indiana may be treated to the
sight of a Governor exerting every
possible effort-perhaps taking the
stump-during the coming cam
paign in order to insure a friendly
legislature.
Determined opposition to the ad-
ministration has been evidenced In
Republican ranks throughout the
state and the Democrats are sex-
pected to take advantage Of every
event and happening which might
be construed an administration
error, in order to win the lower
house of the legislature.
Governor Harry G. Leslie will be
in a decidedly uncomfortable po-
sition if the 1881 legislature has a
Democratic majority or if the
greater number of Republicans
elected are u%nfriendly to him.
Leslie made no effort during the
1929 session to make and keep
friends = instead vetoing almost
everv court measure or pet bill in
PRODUCED by Republicans.
Vetoed Women's Bill
He added to the strength of the
opposition when he pocket vetoed
the registration bill so bitterly
fought for and sponsored by the In
diana League of Women Voters.
Failing utterly to have it recon-
sidered and killed during the closing
hours of the session, he was forced
to listen to the plea of the leagues
representatives and then thwart their
desires.
During the past year, the Cover
nor has failed to favor members OF
either house to any degree and has
made no effort to propitiate men
who now are candidates for re-
election.
In addition, a member Of his Off
cial family, L. O. ChaSey, the chief
secretary, has become embroiled in
the campaign for the nomination of
a Republican joint representative
from Grant and Blackford counties.
YES MAN OppOScO
Sam Farrell of Hartford City, a
member of the state budget COM
mittee, who made the motion
granting the Governor the privilege
of dipping into the $780, 900 emer-
| gency fund to furnish the mansion
and who always has been admins
tration yes" mar on the committee,
is opposed for the nomination by
Grin E. FELTON, of Paramount.
Several days ago, a delegation
from Grant and Blackford counties
favorable to Farrell appeared in the
Governors office, and, it is related,
declared that Felton's candidacy
was being sponsored by John A.
Jones, postmaster Of Marion, Al
fred Hogston, state fire marshal,
and ChaSey.
Incensed at the effort to unseat
50 strong an ally, LeSlie called in
Chasey and questioned him regard
ing his activities in behnlf of FELTON,.
The secretary Unclaimed all
knowledge of the movement or
having had any part in it..
Insist Chasey Sponsor
Grant county friends of Farrell
still insist that Chasey was an &C
tive sponsor of Felton's candidacy.
The latter is said to be campaign
ing on the platform call for re-
ducing the emergency fund to $780,
600 and decreasing the mansion
maintenance fund from $4,000 a
year to $4,000.
For no apparent reason the 1929
legislature increased the emergency
fund to $4,000 and boosted the
mansion maintenance fund from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Democrats have launched a cam
paign to reduce the funds and Paul
McNutt, who is being touted for
the Democratic nomination for sec
rotary of state, has alluded to the
Governors expenditures from the
| emergency fund in several talks
made the past week.
That Leslie is feeling the 1mpor-
lance of his expenditures as a cam
paign issue was manifested at a
meeting of the state committee Fri
day afternoon when he declared
this years campaign to be of the
utmost Importance and urged that
all efforts be made to elect a Re-