Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1920 — J. FRANK HANLEY IS KILLED [ARTICLE]

J. FRANK HANLEY IS KILLED

Former Governor a Victim of Grade Crossing Accident - I Dennison, 0., Aug. 1. —J. Frank Hanly, ex-governor of Indiana anu candidate for president on the Prohibition ticket in 1916, and Dr. and Mrs. C. M. leaker of Kilgore, 0., are dead as a result of an accident at the Philadelphia road crossing on thedß’ennsylvanla railroad, six miles eastof this city, when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by., a freight train at 7:40 o’clock this morning. All three suffered fractured skulls* and crushed bodies, and they failed to recover consciousness after being rushed to the Twin City in this city. Mr. Hanly died at 9 o’clock, Mrs. Baker at । 11:30 and Dr. Baker at 3:30. r Dr. and Mrs. met Mr. Hanlv in Dennison this mornin? and were driving him to their home in Kilgore, where he Intended spending the day. Tomorrow he was to deliver an add res® at a Chautauqua in Carrolton. Dr. Baker had driven his .automobile on the track after an eastbound freight train had passed, directly into the path of a westbound train, which struck the automobile. The machine was carried half a mile on the pilot of th® engine, K is said. Mr. Hanly’s head was badly crushed.

The crossing where the accident occurred is considered a dangerous one and several persons have been killed there. There is a heavy grade and it Is said the freight train that /struck Dr. -Baker’s automobile was traveling down the grade at a high rate of speed. J. Frank Hanly was born April '4, 1863, at St. Joseph, 111., and moved with his parents to Williamsport, Ind., when a boy. He practiced law at Williamsport, after having taught school for several years, and was elected to the Indiana state senate in 1890. He later served two years as congressman from the ninth Indiana district, but was defeated for re-nomination by E. D. Crumpacker of Valparaiso when the state was redistricted, and Warren county became part of the tenth district. He was later a candidate for United States senator, and was elected governor in 1904 by over 80,000 plurality. In 1908 he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for president. Following this he traveled all oyer the country lecturing on prohibition and was the nominee of the Prohibition party for president in 1916. For a number of years Mr. Hanly was the g. o. p. idol in Indiana, but his administration as governor, during which he called a special session of the legislature to enact the county unit liquor law —and the last special session, by the way that Indiana has had up to the Goodrich adminsitration —was disastrous to his party and he had been persona non grata with Republicans ever since.