The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23

ATTITUDE LAID
TO ROOSEVELT
Stand in Scandals oil
Tammany Hall Brought
On Criticism.
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only three counties Of the sity-one
outside New York City.
On Jan. !, 1929. Roosevelt, the in
coming, and Smith, the outgoing
Governor, sat side by side on the
inauguration platform at Albany. 1t
vas Hello, Frank" and Hello, Al"
Smith had planned to stay a
month in Albany. He remained
only two days.
Roosevelt was the successful can
didate, having reached another mile
stone In his trip to Washington, the
Albany newspapers pointed out.
Takes Over Smith Policies
Smith was a defeated candidate,
on his way to Salt river, though he
had received more than $4,000 900
votes for President, more than any
Democrat ever had received
The two men had gone so far as
they could together, and Smiths
friends accused the new Governor
Of dropping the pilot"
There was no open break, for
Roosevelts friends, on their part,
saw it would be dangerous for
future preferment to antagonize
the immense bloc of Smiths adj
mirers.
Roosevelt's first act was TO take
over the Smith policies on water
power and the executive budget,
and his next was to formulate a
program to appeal to the rural dis
tricts.
In Lieutenant Governor Herbert
H. Lehman, a genius of finance and
philanthropy, Roosevelt had, and
has, an aide of far greater ability
than the Governor himself in the
opinion of the legislative cor
respondents.
AntagOnizes G. o. P. Group
Lehman threw himself whole
heartedly into his task. He for
mulated program of state hospital
and prison reform, the finest in
the country, and showed Roosevelt
how the money could be raised.
The Lieutenant-G Governor cut
himself off entirely from all his
financial connections-but not his
. charitable af11liations-and this cost
him millions of his personal fortune.
When the bottom dropped out of
Wall Street, Lehman took it calm
ly, though in the very hours that
he was presiding over the state SEN
ate his investments were shrinking
like dry votes in wet territory.
Republican leaders accepted
Roosevelt's invitation to confer with
him and returned, white Tipped with
anger, saying that the Governor
had double-crossed them; that he
had stolen" their ideas for reform,
particularly on old age pensions.
Honeymoon Is Soon Over
But the legislature, Republicans
in both houses, concurred in many
Of the ideas advanced by Roosevelt
or readvanced by him from the
Smith program.
Commissions were appointed to
study water power, the abolition of
the state census and other matters
Of purely state interest, and the
legislature got behind Lehman's
plan for a bond issue to rehabilitate
the state institutions for the un-
fortunate.
The honeymoon was soon over.
however. The federal attorney in
New York City, Charles H. futile,
Republican, was uncovering by
means of income tax statements
evidence of widespread corruption
in the New York City judiciary.
Magistrate Albert H. WHALE was
removed by the appellate division
Of the supreme court.
Judge Bernard Vause of the
Kings court court went to At
lanta.
Investigations by futile were
under way aimed at other iuristS.
Worst Was Yet to Come
futile asserted that Tammany
was reaching into the courts, and
clergymen and bar associations de-
manded the Governor act through
a special grand jury.
Roosevelt finally assented, but
limited the investigation to the
Ewald case.
In contrast to his reluctance to
investigate Tammany, the critics
said, Roosevelt was jealous in APP
pointing special grand juries with
full powers to investigate condi-
tons in Greene and Monroe coun-
ties, which then were heavily Re-
publican.
State Secretary Henry L. Stimson
(Rep) asserted that Franklin
Roosevelt's great cousin, Theodore
Roosevelt, would have spoken and
acted differently in the face of a
similar situation and a similar OPP
portunity."
But the worst was yet to come
in Tammany scandals, with other
public-spirited men and bar associ-
ations and newspapers to denounce
Roosevelt for his alleged tempo
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