The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-13
WET LEADERS
SEEK INDIANA'S
AID AT FARLEY
Bingham and Butler Urge
Henry Marshall to Get
in Line.
BY BEN STERN


peal of prohibition, and noses are
being counted to determine the
lineup.
Senator Hiram Bingham (Rep.,
Comm conferred with Henry Mar
shall, Lafayette publisher, and had
his assurance that, if elected to the
resolutions committee, he would sup
port dripping wet" plank.
Nicholas Murray Butler, leader of
the New York wet forces, also con-
ferred with Marshall, who later
went into a huddle with VIII Hays,
movie dictator and member of the
big seven" delegates at large from
Indiana, said TO be carrying SEN
ator James E. Watson's instructions
which call for "straddling" plank.
Fasteners Are Pleased
Butler and Bingham we're we'll
pleaded with the result of the con-
ference.
Reports were prevalent that M.
Bert Thurman, former national
committeeman, double crossed" by
Watson for the Governor nomina-
ton last week, is using the tele-
phone to line up delegate support
for Marshalls election to the plat
fern committee at the state caucus
tonight.
Indications were rife this morn
ing, following informal conference
of Indiana delegates, that an at
tempt may be made tonight to have
lndiana's thirty-one votes est as a
unit for repeal. This could be done
by adopting unit rule, which would
enable the majority control the
delegation.
Opposed to Unit Rule
But other leaders are strongly
against such action and at to-
nights caucus, when the policy
will be decided, it will be suggested
that the twenty-four delegates
selected by the twelve districts
voice the sentiment of their con-
stituents as shown in the roll call
by counties on repeal at the state
convention last week.
In event of such a split of the
delegation, there will be at least
thirteen votes for repeal plank as
against a possible eleven for modifi-
cation only. The seven delegates at
large or their alternates will be
split.
If John Ruckelshaus of Indian
apoliS votes for Governor Harry G.
Leslie tonight, that means another
wet vote, it said.
Repeal leaders of the delegation
predict that twenty of the thirty
one delegates will vote wet on the
showdown Wednesday afternoon,
when the platform is presented.
The smoldering hatred between
Marshall and Watson, which
had it's birth four years ago, when
Watson thumhed down Marshalls
bid for the national committee
post, may be ect1ued IN the meet
ing of the national conventions
platform committee and play no
little part with the prohibition
plan to be adopted here.
While Marshall has enlisted
a sufficient number of the thirty
one delegates to insure his selection,
Watson's friends are lining up be-
hind William l.. Hutchinson of In
dianaplis, national president of the
Carpenters and JoinerS Union, for
the same post.
More astute leaders point out
that as the state platform gave
labor nothing in the form of an
ahti-injunction or anti-yellow dog
contract plank, this would be a sop
to that group.
Watson Loses Clash
Bit by bit, the real story of the
wet announcement adopted by the
state convention last week is crop
ping to the surface and it reveals
that Marshall scored first blood in
his feud with Watson.
The plank voted into the platform
was not, contrary to popular belief,
that sent TO indianapolis by Wat
son.
The senator's proposal was one
intended to straddle the question
in a manner to prove pleasing to
the dry organizations and is known
here as the three RS" 1t pro-
vided for the calling of state con-
vention to decide on "revisions, re-
submission and repeal" while the
one voted upon asks that the only
question submitted for consideration
be repeal
The liquor question always has
been WatSon'S Achilles heel. In
1908 he was defeated for the gov
ernorship when a special session.
called on the eve of the election,
passed stringent local option laws.
BY reverse English" Marshall
is seeking TO win repeat.
The Marshall-Leslie coalition last
week also defeated Watson when he
sought to have Eliza o. Rogers, for
mer state chairman, named perma-
nent chairman of the state conven-
ton and thus had Ivan c. Morgan
selected.
Leslie on Scene Tuesday
But he will be without his right
bower, Governor Harry G. Leslie,
when the committee caucuses to-
night, because the latter is not ex-
pected until Tuesday, With Leslie to
put on the pressure of his office, it
would not be quite so difficult to
put the publisher over.
Watson's alternate, State Rep
resentative C. Y. Foster of Carmel,
is expected to go along with Mar
shall, it is declared; as will Robin
sons A. M. Smith, Charlottesville
publisher.
Because of the absence of Charles
B. Enlow, Evansville banker, his
substitute, Wilson Naylor Cox of
Terre Haute, will be present and he
hasn't been lined up on either side.
Gaylord Morton, secretary to the
Governor, and Harry c. Fenton,
Subcommittee secretary, are in
charge of the convention ticket dis
tribution, With Mrs. Beryl Holland
of Bloomington, state vice-chair-
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