The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
LESLIE HAILED
BY MENTOR AS
SUPER-LEADER
Great Achievements Cited
in Reviewing Two Years
Of Regime.
LAUDED FOR COURAGE
OyerIookS Old Age Pension
Veto in Emphasizing
HumanitarianiSm.
LAUDED FOR COURAGE

Henry w. Marshall, Lafayette,
publisher and closest adviser Of
Governor Harry Ct. Leslie, is well
pleased with the first two years Of
the Leslie administration and par
ticularly with the Governors con-
duct during the 1881 legislative ses-
sion
His views on the subject are set
forth in the May number of the
Purdue alumnus," and the title:
Leslie. the Governor-Two-Y Year
Resume"
"All Indiana shares in the bene-
fits accruing from the successful adj
ministration of Governor Leslie" is
the keynote sounded in the opening
paragraphs of the Marshall tribute
and the theme is carried out in this
tone.
Praised to Skies
ut is possible at the midway point
in the Leslie regime to make fair
appraisal of the things accomplished
and to take the measure Of the man
in the Governors chair" says Les
lies mentor. Such estimate, i'm
partially made, will be generally &C
cepted as timely and proper, "the
article continues.
THE thing that stands out in any
survey Of the Leslie record is the
rugged honesty of Leslie the man,
the citizen, the public officer, the
Speaker of the House and the Gov
ernor Of a great state.
Gifted with judicial fairness,
endowed with outspoken courage
and having the poise that comes of
long experience in public life, Gov
ernor Leslie was unusually well
fitted and practically prepared to
take on the responsibilities and
duties of the states chief executive.
Man of Broad Sympathy"
Trained in self-reliance at Pur-
due, schooled in the law, equally at
home on the farm and in politics,
Harry G. Leslie carried with him
to the state Capitol the keen alert
ness, the open-eyed intelligence,
the broad sympathies and homely,
wholesome fundamentals essential
to the handling Of the peoples
problems"
Leslie appointments, majority of
which were the remaining of hold
overs from the regime Of former
Governor Ed Jackson, then are cited
in proof.
Governor Leslie has set new
standards of executive sympathy,
understanding. helpfulness and in
tensely practical humanitarianism
in connection with the proper han
ding of the states unfortunates in
penal and benevolent institutions"
Marshall writes.
Marshall does not mention the
Leslie veto of the old-age pension
bill, the only humanitarian legisla-
ton passed in Indiana for decade.
Marshall was on hand when the
veto message was written and de-
livered)
Points to Vetoes
But vetoes are mentioned en-
maSse as follows:
1T is a genuine tribute to the
integrity and commanding ability
of Governor Leslie that while he
has set up q record Of seventy-four
vetoes, not a single one of his vetoes
ever has been overriden by the law
makers. In this support of the
Governor is to be found a remark
able non-political acknowledgment
of Leslies leadership qualities"
Marshal doesn't explain that the
great bulk of these seventy-four
we're pocket vetoes," made by the
Governors failure to sign bills,
handed down the last three days,
after the legislature adjourned. Ad-
journment precluded any effort to
override the vetoes0
Under Leslie, the highway syS-
tenn has developed as never before
and has achieved a national repu-
tation for economical and efficient
read construction and mainte-
nance" the article states. CNo men
ton is made here of admitted fall
ure Of the highway department to
collect federal aid in 1880, which
resulted in a senate inveStigation)
Help" to Farmer
In the fields of sound and prac-
teal farm relief and in emergency
employment activities, as well as in
the important business of encour-
aging the use of Indiana products,
Governor Leslie has been forceful
and resourceful. He has earned in
all fairness a high place in the re-
gard of the workers on the farms
and Cities
leslie vetoed the only two bills
backed and passed by organized la
Dor. Out of 100000 annual
emergency fund he didn't spend a
cent for farm drought or unemploy-
ment relief)
A paragraph is devoted to the
Governors backing of the r. o. T.
c. and Marshall then closes. as he
began, with paean Of praise.