Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1906 — LEAKS IN SUNDAY LID. [ARTICLE]

LEAKS IN SUNDAY LID.

Sunday Lawlessness at Cedar Lake Furnishes Object Lesson for Hammond. Lake County Times: Encouraged by the obortiveness of the attempt on the part of civil officers who look to Gov. Hanly for instructions and by the self evident fact that this town, of all towns in the quarter section of the governor’s jurisdiction is the focus of zeal in the enforcement of the restrictive laws, the majority of the licensed victuallers of Hammond dispensed with the key and curtain yesterday and bid all who were thirsty to come and be comforted. Today they have put this question up to Gov. Hanly: “What are you going to do about it?’’ Gov. Hanly may accept the defi and order his myrmindons to redouble their energy to the end that the restrictive laws shall be inforced. The spirit which prompted some of the saloonkeepers to open up yesterday is the spirit which prompted them some Sundays ago to proceed against the dealers in non-intoxicants. Only in. this case they have assumed a broader ground and arrogated to themselves a better excuse for defying the law and are not availing themselves of a dead law but a live one. Hammond has been trying to do right. It has stood the abuse of down state politicians and Indianapolis correspondents who have come up here to “investigate’’ things that did not exist; to find horns on every head that bobbed up and vice, villainy and graft in every nook and corner. The correspondents have “made good” with stories along the lines laid down for them before they picked up their little turkeys, hung on their blue hardware and availed themselves of the “courtesies” of the Monon. Hammond is a good town, a clean town. It is so busy on week days that it hails Sunday as a day of rest. Its Sunday rest is not broken up by internal disorder. The most potent factor in the breaking up of its peace is the horde of Sunday roysters which hold forth at Cedar Lake and rounds out its days fun by knocking brakemen off freight trains on the way through town, playfully insulting our women and throwing rocks through our plate glass windows.

Cedar Lake is in Indiana. More than that, is in Lake county. Who is on watch there for our worthy governor? One can get any kind of game he wants at Cedar Lake on Sunday. Who is on watch at the university town of South Bend where gambling bouses flourish? Who is on watch at Lafayette, Logagansport and Fort Wayne? Who is on watch at Indianapolis?

The Lake County Times stands for Law and order and the strict and equal enforcement of the laws.

That is what the sane and practical citizens want. Those sane and practical citizens are goaded to the quick by the infernal accusation of maintaining a "tough dump" which must be watched day and night. If Gov. Hanly will look after Hammond’s extraneous abuse. Hammond may be depended upon to look after the rest.