The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-28
|NDIANA'S YOUNG
DEMOCRATS ARE
To ELECT CHIEF
President of Organization
Sought by 1000 Dele
gates at Meeting.

More than 1000 members of the
Young Democrats of Indiana today
are seeking a president to head their
organization. at their annual con-
vention at the Claypool and Tom
linson Hall today and tomorrow.
Alvin C. Johnson, chairman of the
executive committee of the organi-
cation, seemed to be the leading
candidate M. Clifford Townsend.
E. Kirk Mckinney and Pleas E.
Greenlee, candidates for nomination
as Governor, denied they have can
didates in the field.
Gov. McNutt, Omer Stokes jack
son, Democratic State chairman.
and Mrs. Emery Scholl. vice chair
men, were to be the principal speak
ers at the meeting this afternoon.
In greeting the delegates, Mr..
Jackson said:
The Democratic Party of Indi-
ana and our nation welcomes into
its councils and working ranks
these enthusiastic hundreds of
Hoosier young men and women who
make up the Young Democrats of
Indiana. The party of Jefferson,
Jackson, Cleveland, Wilson and
Franklin D. Roosevelt is the party
of constructive craftsmanship and
progressive thought. 1t is the party
which, by the very nature of its
principles and preceptS of its foun-
ders is the political organization to
which youth holds birth-right
membership.
THE Democratic Party is the po-
litical training field for all young
men and women who aspire to the
honors that are to be found in pub
lie service. 1t offers a liberal educa-
ton in craftsmanship for those
who would be working for and
thinking about the future greatness
of these United States of America.
1.-THE men who wrote our Constitu-
ton and who signed the Declaration
of independence were young men of
vision and hope like YOU"
Chairmen Are Named
The following committee chairnen
and co-chairmen were appointed to-
day: Sale of the National Young
Democrat, Margaret Mabbitt, Flo
ra, and Paul Abernathy, Wabash;
sale of insignia, Nellie Policy, Green
wood, and Norman Ross, Tell
City; registration. Anne Baker,
South Bend; parliamentary pro-
cedure, Milton j. Fineberg, Indian
apolis; budget, Michael Reddington,
Indianapolis; book of the convention,
Fern Swanson, Indianapolis, and
Kay Evelo, Terre Haute; constitu-
ton, Charles o. Mattingly, Bloom
ington; arrangements, Mary Louise
Walpole and Richard Korbly. In
dianapolis; credentials, Bernard
O'Neil, South Bend; rules and per-
manent organization, Robert Tilton.
Fowler, and resolutions, Preston
Mullan, Cannellton.
A reception and dance are to be
held tonight at the Claypool.
Those in the reception line are
to be: Mayor Kern, Mr.. Johnson.
Mrs. Edwina Munchhoff, national
committeewoman from Indiana;
Joseph P. Mcnamara, national COM
mitteman from Indiana, and Mrs.
Mcnamara; Mrs. Mary Garrett,
president, Statehouse Wonnen's
Democratic Club; Richard Korbly,
president, Young Mems Democratic
Club of Marion County; Mary
Louise Walpole, president, Young
Women's Democratic Club of Mar
ion County; Frank Wickham, Sioux
City, S. D., president, Young Demo-
Gratis of America; Joe Carr, Wash
ington, national secretary; Jack
Snyder, national committeeman
from West Virginia; Ray Kirchdor-
fer, Louisville, former national
treasurer; Ralph Laurence, national
committeeman from Washington;
Eleanor CORN, national COMMITTEE
woman from Illinois; Acey Caro-
way, national executive secretary,
Washington, and Mrs. Carroway;
Eugene Mosley Jr., organizer for
Kentucky, and Mrs. Mosley.