The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-27
RESIGNATION OF
Mckinney seen
ASL0CICAL ACT
Expected Move Would Be
Result of Work by
His Aids.
BY JAMES DOSS

Expected resignation of T. Kirk
Mckinney, Indiana manager of the
Home owners Loan Corp, to seek
the Democratic nomination for
Governor would be logical result
OF his lieutenants' activities during
the last two or three months.
1t has been an open secret for
some time that Mr.. Mckinney is
ambitious TO become Indiana's next
chief executive.
In fact, Mr.. McKinneys political
ambitions, plus his allegiance to
Senator Frederick VanNuyS, almost
put him into the fight for the sena-
torlal nomination in the last Demo-
cratic state convention when Sen
ator Sherman Minton, the state adj
mInistration choice, Spread-ea
a field that included then Mayor
Reginald H. Sullivan as the Van
Nuys nominee
Then, Mr.. Mckinney would have
had TO fight only with his Marion
County delegation and what little
out-state strength Senator VanNuys
could have mustered.
Can Point to Record
Now, Mr.. Mckinney and his sup
porters can point to the record he
has made as Indiana manager of
the Hole. The Indiana setup is
said to have been unusually sue
cessful in comparison to HOLC Or
ganization and administration in
other states and to have been used
as a model in many instances.
There apparently is no question
that he rates well in Washington,
in view of the executive position
offered him in the national Hole.
theoretically, Federal agencies
can not be used as political
machines but, naturally, the prac-
tlce is something else. VanNuys
and Mckinney lieutenants have
been beating the bushes" for pros
pectiVe delegates and several times
have challenged the state admins
tration in county chairman cleo
tons.
Shown in Elkhart County
Most recent examples of this was
in Elkhart County where both sides
claimed victory. 1t wasn't a clear
cut decision because it was dis
covered, peculiarly enough, that too
many votes were cast.
Political observers see the Nc
Kinney candidacy, if it develops, as
a declaration of war by Senator
VanNuyS on Pleas Greenlee. Gov
McNutt's patronage secretary.
The senior Senator came back to
indianapolis last spring and issued
an appeal to "Old-line Democrats"
He served notice on the state adj
mlnlstration publicly that he would
not stand for any more packed state
conventions such as that which
elected his colleague Minton.
What He Meant
BY packed conventions. Senator
WanNuys meant conventions stacked
with delegates who were state adj
ministration employees, relatives of
employees or persons vitality be-
holden to the McNutt forces in anv
way.
He reiterated this insistence last
summer at French Lick at the
Democratic Editorial Association
convention. There was a great deal
OF loose talk about truce" being
effected with Senator VanNuvS,
Gov. McNutt, Senator Minton and
State Chairman Omer S. jackson
participating.
The so-called truce" was what
the boys in the back room know
as lot Of malarkey.
The prospective Mckinney cam
didacy is the second of two political
developments which came in Sc
quence.
Campbell Appointed
Hardly more than a week ago,
Alexander Campbell, Fort WAYNE,
was appointed assistant United
States attorney in the northern
Federal district It was a VanNuys
appointment. Mr. Campbell is a
law partner of R. Earl Peters,
former state chairman and now In
diana manager of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration.
Mr.. Peters once bucked the state
administration ard has no love for
Gov. McNutt nor his lieutenants.