The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12

inSon, in which he characterized
the senior senator as the states
one remaining memorial to D. G.
Stephenson and the laughing stock
of the senate"
The Governors speech bristled
with fight throughout.
Of Major Norman A. Imrie, Re-
publican keynoter, and the conven-
ton, Governor McNutt said
Last week the remnants of the
Republican party met in drab and
sullen convention; imported as a
keynoter a former British subject
and soldier, recently naturalized, a
professional lecturer, for whose
opinions, utteranceS and activity our
outstanding military school found it
necessary to diSclaim responsible
ity; listened to this visitors hymn
of hate and Misrepresentation;
nominated for the United States
senate the man who, according to
the New York Times, knows the
most things that amt so Gnclud-
ing the organization of the state Re-
publican committee); and adopted a
platform consisting of n1iscellane-
Gus program of measures, formed by
no principle, unified by no purpose
Except to pick up a few stray voteS),
and designed to substitute chaos for
the orderly processes Of government
in Indiana.
Bitterness was the dominant note
of that Republican convention; de-
struction of fundamental public in.
StituJions, its announced purpose"
Praises "AIphabeticap Agencies
Major Imrie had spoken derisive-
ly of the NRA, and civil works adj
ministration, agricultural adjust
ment administration, public works
administration, the states tax pro-
gram, the escape of prisoners from
state institutions and had added
charges of scandal and graft.
Governor McNutt painted the
alphabetically agencies as having
brought better conditions to all
classes, having fed the poor, having
brought money into Indiana.
He said that prisoners had es-
capped past guards inherited from
Republican administration.
Where is the evidence?" he
Numbered to the charge of graft.
"If the spokesman for the Repub-
Gcan party have evidence of graft,
then common decency demands, and
their duty as good citizens directs,
that they present such facts to the
proper grand jurieS for action"
Cites Bond Theft
To this he added the taunt that
the only scandal of his admins
tration had been the theft of $4,000
of bonds from the teachers retire.
ment fund by a holdover Repub-
lican appointee.
What kept the school doors open
on the banks of the Wabash?" he
asked in reply to the Republicans
onslaught on taxation.
Turning to Republican platform
proposals, he said they would spell
ruin for Indiana if carried out, and
added that it made little difference,
even if Repubiicanism could tri-
umph, since the party VIGOROUSLY
did not keep election pledges.
Nor we're his jibes at Senator Rob-
inSon restrained to reference of
Stephenson, convict ex-leader of the
Ku-Klux Khan, and to quotations
from newspapers outside of the
state.
Indiana can not completely re-
deem itself in the eyes of the ma
ton until Robinson's retirement is
an accomplishment fact" he Shout
ed-and the convention cheered.
Governor McNutt spoke of his adj
ministration's relief work in detail.
told again of the state executive
administrative act last year, des-
cribed the new system of taxing in
augurated year ago. spoke of the
revision of bank regulation.
THE enemies of this plan (the
state executive administrative
plan) have called it dictatorship.
Governor McNutt said scornfully.
1T is not that. Among other
things, government is business
and must be managed as business.
The people Of Indiana have made
their Governor the general man.
ager of governmental activities"
Then he said that the making Of
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