The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Pleas Greenlee Endorsed
in Appeal by Minton
at Hometown Rally
Lutz and Other Prominent
Officials Are Present at
SheIbyviIle.
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est and fearless representative OF
the taxpayers"
Others who made short talks were
AL Johnson, a deputy attorney gen.
eral and state organizer of the
Young Democrats; Carl Gray,
Petersburg, member of the state po-
lice board; State Senator Claude
Mcbride, Jeffersonville, and Russell
Dean, Indianapolis.
Indirect Slap at Mckinney
Mr.. Dean. who was defeated for
Marion County prosecutor in the
last election, said that Marion
County's big delegation is safe for
Mr.. Greenlee. In what was inter-
preted as an indirect attack on the
candidacy of E. Kirk Mckinney
former Home Owners Loan Corp.
fcad, Mr.. Dean said:
Marion County is tired of chas-
ing rainbows and supporting stalk
ing horse candidates. A so-called
leader has been put up who is not
popular with the rank and file of
Democrats, but we are going to elect
delegates who will not block the
convention this time"
Mr. Greenlee, in discussing his
platform for Governor, said lie be-
lieves tax laws should be amended
to exempt from taxation household
furniture up to $500 and that the
tax on homesteads should be
lowered.
Pleas Raps Capitalization
Increasing gross income tax re-
ceipts should make it possible to
eliminate the state property tax, he
said. Declaring himself for an ade-
quate old-age pension law, Mr..
Greenlee vigorously attacked the
Capitalization of authority program
being pushed by Gov. McNutt and
his advisers.
1.-THE township form of govern
ment is the most democratic we
know" Mr.. Greenlee said. "It is an
outgrowth of the old town meeting
and gives folk who are too busy on
the farm to study and investigate
the distant workings of government
a chance to vote for responsible Of
flee holders whom they know per-
sonally and intimately.
Call it a heritage of the oxcart
days or what you will, but the town.
ship as unit of government must
be maintained"
Predicts Vicious Campaign
Warning that the political cam
paign would be vicious one, Sena-
tor Minton said, 1--WE know that the
chief difficulty will be to penetrate
the smoke screen Of the enemy.
Every obstacle known to the art
will be used by the enemy, seconded
by the partisan, prostituted and
kept press of the country. Misrep-
resentation and Justification of the
record will be resorted to by the
opposition to confuse the people
and befuddle the issue.
But the issue is clear cut today.
1t is fight on the one hand be-
tween entrenched greed and spe-
cial privileges, the forces of the
reactionary and the standpatter,
and, on the other, the liberal and
progressive forces of the country"
Lauds McNutt Regime
Referring to the state admins
tration, Senator Minton said, "Un-
like Gov. ALT Landon, the so-called
Kansas Coolidge Gov. McNutt has
really balanced the budget, reduced
axes on tangible property without
closing schools or chiseling the
Federal government out of the
money to meet the relief load.
mo man can have or deserves to
have the Democratic nomination
for Governor of Indiana who does
not Fundamentally indorse the
splendid administration of Gov.
McNutt."
Attacking the Manufacturers
Associations, National Chamber of
Commerce and Liberty League, he
said, Those who cry balance the
budget are the du Points, Raskobs
and their business associates who
contributed to the Liberty League
$3.50 900.
DEGREES Budget Talk
"They are very sensitive about an
unbalanced budget now, but they
weren't always so sensitive. Back
in 1917 and 1918, these same du
Points were selling munitions of war
to be used in killing American boys
and every day of that war the
budget was unbalanced.
1T was all right for the govern
ment to sell Liberty Bonds to you
then to get the money to meet the
budget deficit, pay the du Points and
their crowd for munitions, but it is
all wrong now to have an unbal-
ahced budget and sell government
bonds to meet the deficit in order
TO feed starving men and women
of this country who are the help
less victims of a damnable depres-
sion not of their own making.
Challenged Is Hurled
1--WE want to balance it as soon
as possible, but we will not balance
it on the anguish and tears of starv-
ing men, women and children. 1t
was not humanity possible, in this
depression, to balance the budget
and nobody knows it better than
the opposition.
Il challenge the privileged classes
that have waxed fat at the public
trough and the Liberty League TO
tell the people of this country if
they would have balanced the bud
get when doing so would have re-
quired banks to close, never to re-
open, farms and homes sold, never
to be recovered; business to collapse
and countless thousands to face
starvation"