The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
INCOME TAXES
WILL Be MAIN
ISSUE IN 1882
Both Personal and Corpora
ton Levies in Campaign
Spotlight.
FARM BUREAU SPEAKS
Business Against AgriCuI-
ture Apparent Alignment
in Voting Duel.
BY BEN STERN

campaign will be a tax on both
personal and corporate incomes.
This can be said without hest
fancy, and the first hot in the
campaign, which will find capital
arraigned against agriculture, in
stead of it's old opponent, labor,
was fired by Lewis Taylor, first
ice-president Of the Indiana
Farm Bureau Federation, in an ar
ticle in its organ, the Hoosier /
farmer"
From all indications labor will ally |
itself with agriculture because the |
homecoming worker is also groan- I
ing under the ever increasing
burden Of taxation paid entirely by
real property.
That party which best keeps its
weather-eye cooked toward the
trend Of sentiment will incorporate
an income tax plank in its platform
as a definite bid for the $4,000 to
10000 members of the farm or
ganization Political expediency it. !
self calls for that.
Opposed by Business
However, a determined effort will /
be made by big business interests
of the state to keep such a plank |
out of either party's platform.
This group may go SO far as to
urge the nomination for Governor
by each party of man who is
pledged against such legislation.
Although the Democratic 1880
platform contained an income tax
pledge and such bills we're intro
duced by party leaders and passed |
by the Democratic house, Taylor
openly accuses Chairman r. Earl
Peters and Speaker Walter Myers
Of lacking good faith in this move
ment.
On the other hand the majority
of the Republican members of the
legislature were against income tax
alton of any type and were led in
the opposition by the state commit
tee heads.
Governor AsSaiIed
Taylor's attack on the Democratic
leaders and Governor Harry C. Les
lie and his political mentor, Henry
Marshall, Lafayette publisher, is
one Of the most vitriolic in several
years and indicates definitely the
stand which will be taken by the
farm bureau.
Although no third party move
ment will be precipitated under it's
leadership, there will be a distinct
effort made to select a slate.
There seems to exist no doubt |
that industrial leaders Of the state
will seek to have a candidate for |
Governor in each party.
Some mention has already been |
made of Ernest NJ Morris, South /
Bend financier and former Thir- /
teenth district G. o. P. chairman.
AS yet there has been no men
ton of the Democrat whom big
business logically would select as its
candidate for Governor. John
Friedrich, Kokomo manufacturer
and seeker of the Democratic nomi-
nation for that post in 1923, appar-
entity would be suitable. There is
some talk that in event insurgent
Democrats, headed by Rudolph Ack-
erman and Chester Montgomery of
South Bend, and Gilbert Bosse of |
Evansville, can not come to an
agreement with Frank Daley, 1928
nominee. an effort will be made to
induce Friedrich to become their
champion.
CIassed as Insurgent
The Kokomo manufacturer has
been identified with the insurgent
group and his close allies headed |
the move to unseat Peters as state
chairman in 1880 and put Lee Bays,
of Sullivan, Second district chair
man, in his place.
Although that attempt proved |
abortive there is much talk that a
second will not fail. Peters is
cognizant of the insurgency, but can
make no effort to quash it until he
gets Paul V. McNutt and Walter
Myers safely on the road to the |
nomination for Governor and sena-
tor, respectively.
There can be no doubt that the !
chairmans active sponsorship to put /
over these two is hurting his |
chances for retaining a hold on the
organization