Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1914 — Hammond Postoffice Plum Goes to John L. Rohde. [ARTICLE]

Hammond Postoffice Plum Goes to John L. Rohde.

John L. Rohde, president of the Board of Public Works of Hammond, has been recommended by Congressman Peterson lor the Hammond postmastership. His only opponent was Editor s. E. Swaim of the Hammond News, bait the latter evidently did not bear “Boss” Murphy’s stamp and was turned down. The Indiana democratic machine hates newspapers—except along about election time—like the devil does holy water, and •‘Boss” Murphy is the Tenth district spoke in the Taggart-Fair-banks-Roberts machine, hence no newspaper man in this district is given any consideration whatever. The machine dislikes publicity, of course, hence its bitter hatred of the honest and incorrupt newspaper. But perhaps "Boss” Murphy will not always be the big stick up here, and the machine of which he and Peterson are a part will be sent to the democratic scrap pile for keeps one of these days, and that day is not far distant either. The Hammond postofflce pays $3,400 per year salary. Mr. Rohde, who lands the plum, has held office a ■greater part of the time for the past 16 years, it is said, is well qualified for the place, and will make a good postmaster. But Bro. Swaim, who hat fought the battles of his party for twenty years or more, is no doubt, the better qualified of the two.