Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1910 — MISSED HIS TRAIN. [ARTICLE]

MISSED HIS TRAIN.

And Made a 100 Mile Auto Trip to Fill His Speaking Engagement. Hon. John B. Peterson had to make the trip from Chicago via auto Monday’ evening in order to fill his speaking engagement in Rensselaer Monday’ night. He was in Laporte Monday and took the train there for Chicago, expecting to catch the milk train there to come to Rensselaer. His train was late, however, and when he reached Chicago the milk train had left. He at once hired an auto to take him to Crown Point, his home, where he ordered out his machine and with a chauffeur hurried to Rensselaer, reaching here at 8 o’clock. It was feared that he would be unable to reach here in time to fill his engagement, as the meeting was called for 7:30 arid several who had edme up town to hear the speaking went home only a" few moments before he reached tow n. He was at once hurried to the opera house and soon . began his speech. The attendance at the speaking was very good indeed, although the crowd would perhaps have been one-fourth larger the impression not gone out that he would not arrive in time to speak. The speech was excellent, one of the best ever heard in Rensselaer, and Mr. Peterson was listened to with rapt attention by the audience. He spoke clearly and drove home his points with good solid argument that was nn- - disputable. The fallacies of the tariff theory of the opposition w as exposed in all its grptesqueness? The position of Congressman ■9 •

Crumpacker on the Payne-Ald-rich tariff law aiid his negative votes on the important amendments thereto which would have been for t'he benefit of the public in general rather than the trust barons, was read from the Congressional Record, the official journal of Congress. The speaker replied to most of the attacks of Mr. Crumpacker and the Republican press and showed their utter falsity. On the charge that he was a corporation, lawyer he said that he had never for one moment been in the employ’ of any corporation whatever as a salaried attorney, but like other attorneys he had tried a few corporation cases and had tried to do his duty by’ them the same as any’ other client. “A corporation lawyer,” he said, “was one employed regularly’ at a salary to look after the corporation’s business." He had never been employed only in individual cases the same as Judge himself and other lawyers. But he showed conclusively by printed briefs prepared by Mr. Crumpacker to the higher courts, that the latter six and eight years after he was elected to Congress and wlhile drawing a salary from the government, had been employed in cases for the Standard Oil Co., as its attorney ; by the Columbian Athletic Club of Chicago, the gambling and prizefighting orgariization which was driven from Indiana by the state militia; by a Chicago bucket shop company’ in its efforts to force the Chicago Board of Trade to furnish it with market quotations, and that only a few months ago Crumpacker tried a case in Porter county for the Western Rawhide Co., a corporation which took four weeks to try, and which in a former trial a judgment of $60,000 was In the Standard Oil Co., case Crumpacker was attorney for the. Standard Oil Co., bear in mind : in the Columbia Athletic Club case he appeared for the club and against the state of Indiana, it being a state case; and in the bucket shop case he appeared fcr the bucket shoppers. Mr. .Peterson had the printed briefs in these cases, showing Mr. Crumpacker’s name printed therein as att>rnev as above set forth, so the ev - derive was conclusive. His position on all public questions was clearly defined and he said that if elected to congress he would consider that his ser-j vices belonged to the people, and. unlike Mr. Crumpacker, he would take no cases from corporations or any’one else while serving as congressman. ,Mr. Peterson made a very favorable impression here and all who heard him speak were convinced that his home reputation as an honest and sincere gentleman is well based.