| Show I lIt MR UN UX I Tom Taggart chairman of or the tho I Democratic national committee is in trouble For many years he has permitted permitted per per- the maintaining an and operation of or a great gambling enterprise at his West Vest Baden Ind lad resort where tho the Pluto water comes from been recognized as the tha biggest gambling es establishment establishment es- es between the oceans I French Lick and Wet West c t Baden lying hying a apart in the southern Indiana hills have drawn gamblers an and monc money from front every state in the Union There Thero was no limit to tho the pla play and no game known to sports which was not provided there for the votaries of chanc Crowds have thronged the casino every night for far seven years ears with tl the e exception on of or rare occasions when ministerial associations or companies com corn panics hanes of ur educators have havo stopped for a n aday day day day- at the resorts It is impossible to sa say how much money moncy has bias been won von there but it Is hs certain ls certain that on onman man many nights ten th thousand nd dollars ollars have been lost by patrons of the tho place Men and women both have played at French Lick and and West Vest Baden It has been the most mOlit offensive gambling ambling es establishment es- es in the tho country the mos most t notorious and the most harmful The state b by direction of or Governor Hunly has instituted legal proceedIngs proceedings proceed proceed- ings bugs a against Tag Tag- Taggarts Taggart's arts art's company and ancl andis is annulling its charter and the local authorities have havo seized two freight freight cars of gambling mach machinery Mr Taggart was in 1904 1 made chairman of or the lie Democratic national committee and anti he stands tolla today as s the hea head of or that par par- ty He has long been known as the exponent of that wing of or tho the Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic party parly dominant in the tho hoosier state stale As things stand the representative of tho the Democratic party part Is head of the biggest gambling es es- es In the country It does docs no not look well In that party are far to too mall many decent men too many men wh who gamble nor approve It Theare The They are entitled to bo be represented by a clean chairman Mr II Taggart d declines decline to resign his position But he lie m ma mabe may maybe I be he heel el very certain these decent and amid orderly or or- d derly deily mon men will not hot fol follow low him him In a campaign They rhey will refuse to give cv I e him any countenance at all The Time Idea Ide that DI Democrats do not car care for the th morality of their leaders Is a mistake and the lie biggest one even the smiling Mr 11 Taggart has hiss ever ver ma made o. o |
