The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-20
Manager OF
Townsend Is
Optimistic
First : Ballot Victory in
Convention Forecast by
Dick Heller.

pOilo May y W IldIilG 1910 Q6IeRdJeS
to the party's state convention in
Indianapolis on June Is.
The 1845 delegates will decide
whether Pleas E. Greenlee. Lieut..
Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, E. Kirk
Mckinney, or dark horse" will be
the partys standard-bearer in the
race for Governor.
Republicans are to name 1923
delegates at the primary who are
to meet here June 3 in state cor
vention to decide the G.. O. P. NOM
inee for Governor.
The Republican gubernatorial
race opened this week with Rsy-
mond S. Springer, Connersville, and
Herbert H. Evans, Newcastle state
Representative, leading field Of
seven, according to observers.
Other G. o. P. Possibilities
Other announced Republican
candidates are Glen Hills, Kokomo
Mayor Samuel Beecher, Terre
Haute; Mayor Clare Bangs, Hunt
ington; George r. Hill, Michigan
City, and Eliza Rogers, Lebanon at
torney.
Today two of the three camps
booming Democratic candidates
make the following claims:
Dick Heller, campaign manager
for Mr.. Townsend Mr.. Townsend
will be nominated on the first bal
lot. 1t takes 923 to nominate and
we have $50 delegates, on a con-
servative estimate, who will be VIC
tors at the polls and pledged to us
in the convention"
Managers Make Claims
Halle Myers, campaign manager
for Mr.. Greenlee: 1--WE have 760
delegates pledged and we believe
they will win in the primary. The
estimate is conservative.
Leonard D. Marshall, Mckinney
for-Governor Club president, re-
fused to make claims of delegate
strength.
ut is foolish to make claims at
this time. We're not claiming any,
thing. The primary and state con-
ventjon will decide the nominee for
Governor" Mr.. Marshall said,
Democrats close to Mr.. McKin-
ney, however, divide the 1845 dele
gates into 100 for Mr.. Mckinney
and TOO for Townsend with 300 to
400 for Greenlee."
See Benefit to Mckinney
Mckinney forces say the Town
send strength has reached it's peak.
They predict his strength will
dwindle and that Mckinney will
benefit.
Greenlee tacticianS are spreading
the same rumor with the exception
that they claim Townsend defec-
tons, if they develop, will go to
Greenlee.
In turn, the Townsend high COM
mand counters: pleas has shot his
bolt" In substantiation they insist
that county chairmen throughout
the state are accepting Townsend
delegates for organization backing
in lieu of delegate states filed by
MT. Greellee.
Greenlee Not Disturbed
Mr.. Greenlee, however, refuses to
be disturbed, his intimates say. The
former patronage secretary is
claiming rs delegates out of the
231 in Marion County.
This McKinney's lieutenants
deny. Hell not get delegate out
Of Marion County He has made
the organization sore by linking
himself up with Sheriff Ray and
the anti-organization group and
where at one time he had a chance
to gather strength in the county
he now has killed all his hopes"
they say.
Mr.. Greenlee definitely linked
himself with anti organization"
candidates in Marion County at a
meeting last week. He advocated
the reelection of Sheriff Ray and
supported Miss Hannah Noone,
county treasurer candidate.
Claim Organization Angered
He is said to have angered the
Democratic county central commit
tee by injecting his "McHaleism"
charge into the treasurer's race
with the allegation that Frank Nc
Kinney, Miss Noone's opponent,
would be controlled" by Frank Nc
Hale.
The outburst resulted in a meet
ing of precinct committeeman and
ward chairmen in a move to defend
the Organization" against the on
slaught.
Claims of delegate strength of
both the Townsend and Greenlee
groups are at variance in various
counties.
A typical claim is the Townsend
camps hope of SIS delegates out of
the lot in Lake County against the
50-delegate claim of the Greenlee
forces. This would leave Mr.. Nc
Kinney % delegates, but supporters
OF the Indianapolis man point out
that his strength is in industrial
areas because of his activity in the
Howe Owners Loan Corp.