The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-20
FOES OF MAYR
IN HUDDLE,TO
SELECT RIVAL
Simmons of Bluffton Out:
Mcconnell Doomed for
Secretary Post.
REPEAL PLANK FRAMED
CauCuSeS Are Slated for
Tonight; Prohibition
Hearing Held.
REPEAL PLANK FRAMED
BY BEN STERN

Jr., secretary of state, shall be re-
fused the Democratic nomination to
the post and, if so, the identity of
his opponent, was being debated at
huddle of the McNutt- Peters
horSemen early this afternoon.
Tentative decision reached. it is
reported, is that the call will not be
given Virgil Simmons of Button.
Fourth district chairman, who made
bid, in 1880.
Friends were advancing Thomas
Mcconnell of Fowler, Second dis
trlct chairman and president of the
Indiana Township Trustees ASso-
citation, while boomletS were being
fabricated for Mayor William Krau
OF Elkhart, Lawrence Handley of
Richmond and Paul Frye of Linton.
Seventh district chairman.
This is the fourth huddle To. be
held in three days and it has been
impossible for the ''horsemen" to
make choice.
Mayr Victory Claimed
Noses were counted Sunday night
and the Mayr opposition claimed
900 sure" delegates. Seven hun
dred eighty are needed to nominate.
Because of the strength and pop
ularity of Michael FanZler of Lo-
gansport and the prestige he is ex-
pected to give the ticket, his sole
opponent, Ralph N. Smith of La
Porte, has been prevailed upon to
seek the appellate court nomination
instead of the supreme court.
Smith thuse will be pitted against
Francis Bowser of Warsaw and
George w. Osborn of Sheridan.
Model for an acceptable prohi-
bition repeal plank which today is
being framed by a subcommittee
headed by Mayor Samuel Trabue of
Rushville and submitted to the
regular platform committee selected
at tonight's caucuses.
Labeled Temperance" like its Re-
publican prototype, this plank
promises sWifter and more eco
nomical action through having the
legislatures ratify the repeal
amendments instead of following
the G. 0. P. pledge, which would
have this action taken by non
partisan conventions following a
special election.
Model Plank Drafted
The model plank, which is ex-
pected to be closely followed, states:
THE eighteenth amendment to
the Constitution of the United
States and statutes in aid thereof
have failed to prevent manufacture
and sale of intoxicating liquor in
our state and nation, and the cause
of real temperance has not been
advanced thereby.
ITO the end that Illicit, lawless
and unregulated traffic in intoxi-
cants may be supplanted by govern
mental supervision and control, to
the end that instead of the ex-
penditure of enormous sums raised
by taxation in a futile effort to
abolish the liquor traffic, and that
legitimate revenue may be derived
therefrom to the relief of the over
burdened taxpayer, and to the end
that non-preventable traffic may
be controlled effectively in the in
terest of true temperance and an
economic measure, we recommend
that the congress Of the United
States Immediately propose an
amendment to the Constitution of
the United States for the repeal of
the eighteenth amendment.
Pledge for Temperance
I'VE recommend that said amend
ment be submitted as soon as pos
sible for ratification to the legis-
latures of the several states. This
will permit speed and economic
action, involving no expense, while
submission to a constitutional con-
vention and special elections will
involve great delay and cost the
taxpayers of Indiana alone approx
mately $l,0000O0.
1--WE pledge our legislative can
didates to support of such amend
ment and to enactment of such
regulatory laws as will promote
temperance and good morals.
1--WE pledge also repeal Of the
Wright bone dry law and enact
ment of such legislation as will con-
form with federal regulation and
enactment of such laws as will pre-
vent return of the saloon
On the committee with Trabue
are Handley; Frank Finney, Mar
tinsville; Hume Sammons, Kent
land, and Mayor Frank J. Pritch-
ard, Madison.
State Senator Walter Chambers
of Newcastle, heads the subcommit-
tee which is framing planks on taxa
ton, public utilities and education.
No Drys Appear
An open hearing was held on the
subject of prohibition and not dry
appeared. Repealists were repre-
sented by Mayor Wood "Posey of
Terre Haute, Governor aspirant.
Robert Proctor of Elkhart, former
state senator and author Of the
town and city option law; Clay
Metzger, Plymouth editor, and
Sammons.
The Democrats were asked by
Otto Deluse, past grand president
of the Eagles, not to recede from
their 1890 platform stand and again
to declare for old age pensions;
while T. N. Taylor and Adolph
Fritz, respectively president and
secretary Of the state federation of
labor, urged them TO continue in the
fight for enlightened social legisla-
ton and again oppose the use Of
court injunctions in labor disputes.
the. yellow dog" contract and
amend the workmen's compensation