Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1906 — THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAN. LY AND MATTHEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAN. LY AND MATTHEWS.

When Claude Matthews, a Democrat, was governor of Indiana, he not only wiped out the .thieving race-track which Chicago gamblers started at Roby, but he smashed the “Columbian Athletic club" which undertook to have prize fights in Indiana. But Governor Matthews did not go over the state and throughout the country bragging about what he had done. He was not like the present governor. Mr. Hanly is understood to be a member of the Columbia club, an aristocratic Republican organization at Indianapolis. This club does not promote prize fights, like the Columbian Athletic club did, but it is charged that It sells liquor without license and has a beautiful assortment of poker chips in stock. Governor Hanly does not go after it nor has he attempted to suppress the prize fights which have been numerous in Indiana since he has been governor.