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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...
Ticking Minutes. In the state house of representatives, a Craig-controlled committee effectively smothered the Jenner forces' road-blocking bill. Thwarted there, the Jenner men made a last stand in the state senate by tacking an amendment onto the budget bill to prohibit the use of state funds for any toll-road purpose. When the budget got to the House-Senate Conference Committee, Craig announced that he would refuse to sign a budget bill that included the amendment. Instead, he would let the assembly adjourn, then immediately call it into special session and present a new budget bill...
Faced with that threat, Lieutenant Governor Harold W. Handley, Jenner's key lieutenant in Indiana, decided that he would issue an ultimatum of his own. He had an antique mantel clock placed on his desk at the front of the senate chamber and announced that he was going to end the session exactly at midnight on the 61st day. If no budget bill had been passed and the Craig administration had no money, that would be just...
George Craig is a doer, a manager. He is not a philosopher, not even a philosophizer. But he has a philosophy of politics and government that gives him a clear line of difference between himself and Senator Jenner. While Jenner considers Craig an interloper, Craig sees Jenner as a reactionary. Says Craig: "After 20 years out of power, we have a chance to differentiate between those who can think in positive terms and those...
...G.O.P. machinery, he will have a good chance to name his successor in 1956 (Indiana law bars a governor from succeeding himself). He has said he will not run against Homer Capehart in 1956, but he has not said what he intends to do in 1958, when Jenner's present term ends. With firm power Craig might be able to control both senatorial nominations. On the other hand, if Jenner can stop Craig from consolidating his strength, Jenner will stand a good chance of seating his own man in the governor's chair in 1956 and clearing...