The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-07
Redeem Indiana

Redeem Indiana
If there were no more compelling reasons
for voting for Frederick Van Mugs for SEN
ator and Paul McNutt for Governor, the
vicious methods of the Republican state
committee should cause the thinking voter to
redeem Indiana from the hands of those who
would triumph by deceit, prejudice, passion,
and SANDER.
During the past few weeks, this COM
mittee has broadcast an appeal to min
listers to turn their pulpits into soap boxes,
their prayer meetings into mobs in behalf
of the Republican ticket. Even in the palmy
days Of Stephensonism, no such brazen
effort to tie the churches to partisan politics
was made.
In the past few days, an effort has been
made to drive the Negro voter into the Re-
publican camp by patiently deceitful, SANDER
Gus letters mailed from Texas
The appeal to race prejudice is of a piece
with the religious appeal.
In addition, the state has been covered
with slanderous advertisements concerning
Paul McNutt, the candidate for Governor.
He is condemned for the alleged putting
into form of utility law which was passed
by Republican legislature and signed by
Governor Leslie. Yet Leslie has the brazen
effrontery to criticise McNutt for writing as
an expert lawyer named by himself, law
which he later approved.
When it comes to Senator James E. Wat
son, not only the state but the nation can be
glad that the threatened landslide offers
every reason to believe that he will pass from
national life, and in passing, wipe out one
of the last symbols of reaction and greed
which has flourished under the name of the
Old Guard.
Senator Watson has survived through
set Of circumstances which alone kept him in
office.
Exposed years ago as an INSCRIPTIONS
lobbyist, the foe of labor, the servant of spe-
cial privilege, he went into the senate
through the untimely death Of Democrat at
a time when a national election clouded the
judgment of voters.
Six years ago, it required the suspicious
vote of Lake county to send him back with so
slim a grip upon his job that an investiga-
ton of the origin of his vote might have loos-
ened it.
Since then, Watson has been exposed once
more, this time as the purchaser of sugar
stock when the tariff bill was under consid-
Grafton, in return for which he gave his note
There was profit if the tariff could force
dividends from the people. There would be
no loss for Watson and he finally brazenly
admitted that he had given a worthless note
for stock which became worthless, and had
the callous indifference to say that this made
it "fifty-fifty."
His whole career has been one of serv-
ice to the seekers of special privileges and
of opposition to any relief for the plundered
many.
The United States senate will be a better
place without the influence of Watson,
termed by his fellow Republican, Senator
Couzens of Michigan, double crosser.
His own political followers, the friends of
other years, know how well that term fits.
The election of Van Mugs will be notice
to the nation that Indiana stands for prog
ress and is no longer the vassal state of
special privilege. 1t will bring chills to the
power trust, the sugar trust, the other pill
ayers of the public.
The election of McNutt will bring a diff
ferent standard to the statehouse and permit
the people to forget the past three admin
istrations, especially the nightmare of the