The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-09
GREENLEE AIDS
TURN HEAT ON
FRANK M'HALE
Link MCNutt Adviser to
LiaiSon' Charge Aired
by G. O. P.
SPECIAL SESSION limited
Senators Go Into Huddle to
Discuss Dispute Over
RoadhouSe Ban.
BY JAMES DOSS
Times staff Writer

FRENCH LICK, Ind, Aug. g.
Charges voiced by Republican ed
itors that a bipartisan alliance ex-
lists between members of the Repub-
lican State Committee and state
administration leaders are being be-
lieved to some extent by many DEM
ocrats here for the annual mid
summer outing of the Indiana Dem
ocratic Editorial Association.
These charges, though somewhat
vague, reached the public discus
sion stage last weekend at the
Republican editors meeting: They
implicate Burrell Wright, Repub-
lican State Committee treasurer
and Frank McHale, the So-called
No. l adviser in Gov. Paul V. Nc
Nuts political family.
OF course nothing can be done
about the situation by the Demo-
cratic editors because Mr.. McHale S
connection with the state admins
tration and the party is entirely I'M
official.
Special Session RumOred
The belief that there is a great
deal of foundation for the charges
is being voiced chiefly by supporters
of Pleas Greenlee, the Governor
patronage secretary and a potential
candidate for Governor. Mr.. Green
lees thus far unavowed candidacy
for Governor is being opposed by
Mr.. McHale.
There are reports that a special
session of the legislature is in the
offing. One spur to this belief is
the meeting of Democratic members
of the Senate scheduled for to-
morrow.
The meeting was called by Sens-
tors Claude Mcbride, Jefferson
vile; William James. New Albany,
and William D. Hardy, Evansville.
They are reported to have recog-
nized the general dissatisfaction
over the hoadhouse section of the
state liquor control law and to be
preparing a number of proposed
changes in the law if there is a
special session called primarily for
participation in the Federal social
security program.
The boom for Lieut.. Gov. M. Cliff
ford Townsend for Governor as
sumed growing proportions.
That Lieut.. Gov. Townsend is TAX
ing himself seriously as a candidate
for Governor in the next campaign
is indicated by the fact that he has
not only engaged a room for him.
self but also has arranged for sew
eral conference rooms.
Heretofore he has not cut much
of a figure at these meetings and
his evident interest in the present
one is regarded as just one more
straw in the wind.
Simmons May Spring Coup
There were reports that Mr..
Townsend is receiving some under
cover support from the majority
group of Gov. Paul " McNutt's adj
viSers. These StatehouSe leaders,
generally known as the Boy
Scouts" are said by supporters of
Pleas Greenlee, the Governors pat
ronage secretary, to be engineering
the Townsend candidacy with the
hope that Mr.. Townsend and Mr..
Greenlee will serve as a check on
each other.
If this could be arranged, the 1896
convention might see a coup which
would result in one of the Boy
Scouts" getting the nod. The most
frequently mentioned possibility in
a situation of this kind is Virgil M
Simmons, state conservation direc-
Tor.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Greenlee contin-
ues to deny he is a candidate for
the Office. He is for the party first
of all, he says, and when the right
man comes along he will be for him.
Pleas for Pleas, IL Seems
Almost every one realizes that
Mr.. Greenlee's name for the right
man" is Pleas Greenlee. He knows
that he is extremely strong in the
organization. Many of the county
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