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...Hoosier would deny that shortly after Governor Craig "burst" into office, the air was hot and heavy with toll-road plans; and certainly no Hoosier could deny that, as a political tool for graft-minded politicians, the toll-road project is a tremendous achievement. What you didn't mention is that the remainder of our highways have acquired the not so complimentary name of "Craig's corduroy road system...
FINALLY FOUND FACTS ON HOOSIER POLITICS AND THE TOLL-ROAD ISSUE. WE DON'T GET REPORTING LIKE THIS FROM THE LOCAL PRESS. IT IS TOO BUSY BEATING DRUMS ABOUT THE HERITAGE OF A FREE PRESS. MOST HOOSIERS AREN'T AS PROUD OF THIS PATRONAGE MUCK AS ARE THE POLITICIANS. AT LEAST THE BEST...
Since early January, Indiana's Governor George North Craig and the followers of Indiana's U.S Senator William Ezra Jenner have been locked in a furious battle in the state's General Assembly (TIME, March 7). Feuding bitterly over control of the Hoosier G.O.P., the Craig and Jenner factions concentrated this year on the issue of toll roads. Jenner forces tried to push through a bill to hamstring toll-road construction, thereby hamstringing the governor's political power and patronage. Last week, after stopping its clocks and stalling for 28 hours and 11 minutes beyond...
...crossroads of America," as Indianans call their state, political collisions are frequent and violent. Says one veteran U.S. Representative from the Hoosier state, describing conditions back home: "Hell, we play it rough in Indiana. There's always blood on the floor, and the guy whose blood it isn't just happens to be on top-temporarily." Last week the Wabash River was running bank-full of political blood, and the man on top in a statewide political brawl was a swift-footed, swashbuckling lawyer-politician named George North Craig...