Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 16, Hammond, Lake County, 7 July 1908 — Page 4
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THE KNIFE IN THE DARK FOR MR. BRYAN.
FOR THE THIRD TIME IN OVER a decade William Jennings Bryan, who has been in the public eye and in the public prints more than any other
man of his age is to be nominated for president of the United States on the new democratic ticket. Mr. Bryan is a wonderful man and whether he wins or goes down to defeat next November, he has a wonderful following. On the very eve of his triumph at Denver, he is making bitter enemies in his own party, enemies who will fight him irrevocably and as men fight in the dark with deadly thrust and to kill. Mr. Guffey, for the sake of his tenure with his own party will not campaign against Mr. Bryan but who is there who expects him and his friends to put in their good ticks for the Lincoln man, and Mr. Guffey is but one man in a score of leaders who are against Bryan. Be the peerless leader or not even so much the idol of the common people he is by no means the idol of the democratic politicians. Let the feeling among the Lake county democrats be taken as an example of the feeling all over. They have been Bryaned to death, and yet they will vote for him and work for him, just as the republicans will vote and work for Mr. Taft, for whom few of them can find any enthusiasm. AN INSTANCE OF PERVERTED NEWS SUPPRESSION.
THERE IS NOT AN EDITOR in the country but is not called upon at one time or another to suppress news. The suppression of some news does nobody harm; some of it does material harm. How to confront news which he is asked to hush up is one of the problems that vexes and puzzles every editor, and by news is meant legitimate news, news which his readers have every right to demand. The editor is the purveyor of public news and his subscribers pay for it. They expect it and ought to have it. As an example of the dire result from the suppression of news a writer in McClures magazine says:
" Todav California is paying for
pressing honest reports of bubonic plague, when she should have been suppressing the plague itself. That the dreaded Asiatic pest maintains its foothold there is due to the cowardice and dishonesty of the clique then in power, which constituted a scandal unparalleled in our history, a scandal that, with the present growing enlightenment, can never be repeated.
Early in 1900 the first case of the
in San Francisco's Chinatown. I say 'present" because I believe it has never wholly died out in the last eight years. A conference of the managing editors of the newspapers, known as the "midnight meeting," was held, at which it
was decided that no news should be
Chronicle started by announcing under big head-lines: "Plague Fake Part of Plot to Plunder." "There Is No Bubonic Plague in San Francisco." This was "in the interest of business." Meantime the Chinese, aided by local
politicians, were hiding their sick. Out three were discovered otherwise than Chinatown were shipped away; venal cholera," "septeniia hemorrhagica," known ailments. In May, lftOO, came the blow that
and New New Orleans quarantined against the city, and business languished
At this time two men were in control of the city board of health and Dr. J. J. Dr. Williamson and Dr. Kinyoun both
city. The business interests represented in the Merchants' association ap
pealed to Kinyoun to suppress his invited them to read the law which
then tackled Dr. Williamson, who replied that he'd tell the truth as he found
it. and if it was distasteful to them, they needn't listen. They went to Mayor Phelan demanding Williamson's head on a salver. Mayor Pnelan stuck by his man. Governor Gage they found more amenable. He issued a proclamation
declaring that there was no plague. man of scientific attainment. There
show that he could distinguish between
Nevertheless he spent considerable of the state's money wiring positive and unauthorized statements to Washington. His stat" board of health refused to stand by him and he cut off their appropriation; whereupon they resigned, and he secured another and more servile board, remolded nearer to the heart's desire. Meantime the newspapers were strenuously denying all the real facts of the epidemic, their policy culminating in the complete suppression of plague news. Before this, however, they so inflamed public against Dr. Kinyoun and Dr. Williamson that these two gentlemen became pariahs.
"THIS HATE IX HISTORY.." July 7. 1307 Edward I. of England died. Born June 17. 1 230. 1796 Nicholas I. of Russia born. Died March 2. 1S35. 1S16 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, famous dramatist, died. 1S46 Commodore Sloat of the U. S. navy bombarded and took possession of the city of Monterey. 1S54 Turks defeated the Russians at Guirgevo. 1S65 Execution of Payne, Atzerett. Harold and Mrs. Surratt for complicity in the assassination of President Lincoln. 1833 Marriage of. the duke of York
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0tliT Newspaper in Calumet Kegion. 0,970 her sins of eight years ago m sup present bubonic plague onset appeared printed admitting the plague. The of the first 100 cases, I believe only by the finding of the dead bodies. Sick doctors diagnosed the pest as "chicken "diphtheria" and other known and tin all San Francisco had dreaded: Texas of the plague situation: Dr. Williamson Kinyoun of the Marine hospital service declared plague to be present in the reports to Washington. In return he compelled him to make reports. They Governod Gage is not a physician or a is nothing in his record or career to a plague bacillus and a potato-bug and Princess May of Teck. 1S95 A third daughter was born to the president and Mrs. Cleveland at Gray Gables. "THIS IS MY 80TII BIRTHDAY." Francisco Rodrigues Alves. Dr. Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, who served as president of Brazil from 1902 to 1906, was born July 7, 1S4S. at uaretingueta, in the state of Sao Paulo. He was graJuatd from the Dom Pedro II. college in 1S65 and in 1S70 received the degree of doctor of law at the college of Sao Paulo. Shortly after that he was elected to the state legislature of Sdo Paulo. After the proclamation of. the republic in
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Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 1908. by Edwin A. Nye. THE CALL OF THE GOLD. Dr. Carl Eckstein of the University of Chicago got tired of the complex life of civilization and went to Idaho to lire the simple life. Dr. Eckstein went far away from the haunts of men and on the barren anil unfrequented side of a lake built himself a shanty and divested himself of tue ciotnes or civilization, lie answered the call of the wild. The desire to get away from everybody is an impulse that come3 to nil betimes. Every day the doctor spent two hours in the water. He lounged on the sandy beach by the hour. lie hunted and fished to the full. lie ate when he was hungry and slept when he felt like it He obeyed only the primal instincts. So far so good. But one day he had a shock. lie was surprised in his wilderness as much surprised as was poor old Robinson Crusoe when he came upon the human footprints in the sand. The learned doctor, who had turned savage, one day accidentally stumbled upon one of the richest gold mines ever discovered in that part of the country. Whew: That discovery quickly changed his point of view. It awoke in him the dormant desire of the white man for loot Almost in the twinkling of an eye the sight of the yellow nuggets overcame the gentler teaching of Taster Wagner's simple life and tLe primal joys of freedom. Then Dr. Eckstein put on again the garments of conventionality. It is reported that he has sold his claim for a fabulous sum. He will go back to the fatherland a millionaire. It is even hinted that Eckstein is negotiating for a baronetcy. He will try the gold cure for his en nui. The call of the gold was stronger than the call of the wilderness. Is that a reversion to type? However that may be, the story il lustrates the age long struggle of humanity forever oscillating between the sordid and the ideal, forever drawn by this call and that, like children chasing phantoms. Only when we get to heaven shall we be absolutely sure of what we really want. 1SS9 he was elected representative of his native state in the first federal as sembly and helped to frame the Brazilian constitution. In 1SP1 he was appointed minister of the treasury and in 1S95 elected federal senator for his state. Later he was elected governor of Sao Tnulo and was holding this office when elected to the presidency. Ir. Alves is one of the leaders of the republican party, which is also de scribed as "conservative." the opposing faction being the federal party. RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS 0 IX THE SHADE. (With Apologies to Xobody.) Just let me dip and swim in the Polar sen, With a fuzzy white bear for a pal, Aud a big bunch of icebergs on the lea. Goshdlng! How hot it is! Just to shin up Greenland's ley mount, Far away from the seethe and the sweat, SonkinK my frame In a frigid fount. Gadrooks! How hot it is! .lust to sink right down in a bed of Know, Then to shiver and shudder with cold As around me the bit Inn blizsards blow Gee whiz! How hot it is! Jus to pipe the delicate pure white boar Outlined on a rimed window pane, I'd stand for he frost bite nipped nnd sore. Gol darn! How hot it is! Hut as it Is I pant like a pop. And swelter and stifle and roast; Seeking the glass with the cooling sup. Whe-ew! How hot It Is! THE HEAT EDITOR. Following its usual custom, Thi: Times had the only complete list of all the Fourth of July injured and the athletic events in Ivake county yestor day. Everything Comes to him who AA nits until he doesn't want it. The English flag in South Chicago and he Scrvianflag in Indiana Harbor cannot climb the Stars and Stripes on the Fourth of July if the people know it. THIS MAX HAS BEEX THERE. TAILOR (to Tommy's mother, who is ordering him a suit) Do you wish the shoulders padded? TOMMY Ma, ma, have him pad the seat of the pants. Hard times for the restaurateurs!
High prices for food and people kicking if they don't get porterhouse and strawberries for two bits.
It a queer world. Some people will watch a bonehee Kouchee daneer la aa amusement park without taming; a hair and jet they aaie Id horror at a nude atatne and nay their prayers. Speaking of th? killing of poor Fred Koch of Hammond by a crazed religious fanatic who had iust been converted at a revival, it might be well to remember that it was only a short time ago that one Dan Shannon wai here. THAT'S THE WHV OF IT. "There isn't nearly no much call for hammock this mi miner a there was last." declares H llammiiDil dealer. Xo, that's right. Times nre too hard for silk Htockiags. The Kern vice presidential talk seems to be largely poppycock. Hon. .T. W. Kern is too blamed nice a man for that bunch of foxy politicians. WHAT HE GOT. A Ilainmoad man pot a new boy at his home the other day and he wan tellinic about it. "I suppose yon take seeond plaee In the household now," said his friend to him. "No. I take third," the father Maid. "The rubber plant gets second place." How that man Alton 3. Parker does like to make a martyr of himself! Well, The Times did some good, any way. One vile dire in Gary was raided and put out of business. ECHO ANSWERS WHERE f EiKhteen yearly subscriptions to The I ake County Times expired in Dyer yesterday nnd seventeen of them paid for n year's subscription In advance. Where Is there a newspaper that can beat that record f The fight against a prohibition plank in the democratic platform is not only amusing ,but it is positively and up roariously side-splitting. When a woman pnsses herself off as a youne damsel she should remember Lincoln's words i "You can't fool nil the people all of the time." It looks to us as If this squabbling about a republican campaign manager is merely being carried on passively until It is seen which way the cat is going to jump in Denver. AM, AVOMEX ARE ALIKE EXARE ALTO. CFPT THOSE AVIIO G ETHER DIFFEREXT. IN POLITICS Colonel Legrand T. Meyer, who is being boomed by some of his democratic friends for congressman of the tenth district, would add another picturesque figure to America's astute body. In the Saturday Evening Post in the "Who's Who and Why" col umn he would bob up more than onoe as a crack fisherman of muskellonge. Dr. Robert Spear of East Chicago is probably the only Lake county man attending the democratic convention at Denver. Dr. Spear left for Denver last Saturday night and will be gone several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Spear will in all probability locate in or around Denver, since this climate is not agreeable with Mrs. Spear's health. "It is a settled fict." said "Uncle Dick" Schaaf, the other day. "that if I am elected county commissioner from the first district that Hammond wP! receive an elegant bridge on Hohmin street. And it seems to me that it would be pleasing to the people, especially those of North township, to have Calumet and Columbia avenu?.? opened all the way to the lake." "Watson will rpceive all the democratic dry votes, but by the same token Marshall ought to receive all the republican wet votes and that ought to be a good trade," said a democrat in the city hall the other day. None of the Lake county democrat have gone to Denver as was expected earlier in the year. Business and professional engagements have kept all the Hammond men who would love t" go, away. Many of them are watehirg the proceedings, however, with more than the usual amount of interest. "We are for Bryan first, last and always, but in this fight we are with Guffey." This statement by a Pennsylvania delegate puts the democratic national convention of 1003 in a nutshell. The steam roller moves as triumphantly and remorselessly as a juggernaut. But the dismembered limbs it leaves will mend again and the broken bodies rise. The dramatic struggle that is being waged today in Denver is certain as to its issue. For William Jennings Bryan Is master today. But the frreconcil-
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... V l:" iy f-K -i - f "-s s , ables will not be reconciled and the democratic party will go fortli weakened by wounds which blcf(l and will not be healed to meet the disciplined and confident republican hosts. Chicago Tribune. Permanent headquarters for the personal campaign of Willie m Howard Taft, republican nominee fnr president, have been opened at 225 Dearborn street. Chicago, with S. M. Fitch in charge. The headquarters were opened yesterday by Major Beech B. Ray, who arrived at the Auditorium Annex hotel during the day, as the personal and confidential representative in Chicago of Mr. Taft. "I came to Chicago today," Major Ray said at the hotel yesterday, "to establish a permanent personal headquarters for Mr. Taft where his personal interests In the campaign will be looked after. "The national republican committee will establish Its main headquarter' in Chicago, from where the campaign will be directed. The personal headquarters will work for the ticket as well as for Mr. Taft." Washington, D. C, July 6. William II. Taft is taking unusual interest in the Indiana political situation. The reports from that state are of a dis quieting nature. Senators Beveridge and Hemenway, both of Indiana, were in Washington today on their way to Hot Springs, Ya., having been summoned by Taft to talk over the political situation. Beveridge will arrive it Hot Springs tomorrow and Hemenway is due there a day later. Representative Watson of Indiana lepublican nominee for governor, has alro been Invited by Taft to be at Hot Springs Tuesday, when Hemenway Is to have an audience. Hemenway and Watson belong to the Fairbanks wing of the party in Indiana and Beveridge represents the other faction. It is significant that the Indiana visitors are divided into two classifications and are to appear in Hot Springs fin different days. Delegates representing the socialist labor party met at the party headquarters in this city, Saturday, and nominated the following state ticket: Governor Oliver P. Stonor, Claypool. Lieutenant governor Gus Dreyer. Logansport. Secretary of state a. B. Cobbs, Indianapolis. Auditor of state M. Siegri, Kvansville. Treasurer of state Dr. J. I. Baker, Logansport. Attorney general Chris Schadd, Evansvi'.le. Electors-at-large Grover Mundy, Evansviile; F. Decker, Claypool. Supreme court reporter Fritz Lenz, Evansviile. Superintendent of public instruction Mrs. Aima Kirkhnm, Sullivan. Statistician Jacob Fritz, Evansviile. The national platform of the partywas indorsed as political doctrine and the Industrial Workers of the World were indorsed in the economic fu-Id Resolutions were adopted favoring unity of the socialistic forces of Amer ica.
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Sidelights From Denver
(Denver, Colo.. July 8.) In the lobby of the Albany hotel is a girl behind a counter selling tickets to the concert with which the Auditorium. where the convention will be held, will be formally opened. A man fit(.nnf.il in front rtf thp counter to wait for a friend who was downstairs getting a shine. "Buy a ticket to the opening of the Auditorium?" asked the girl. "Guess not," replied the man. "Don't vou want to see the interior of Denver's fine, new, big building?" "No." "Do you live in Denver?" "Yes." "Well," said the girl sternly, "you don't seem to show much interest in the town. Aren't you fooling? Don't you really want to see the inside of the Auditorium?" "Xo, I don't." said the man. "I've been working in that building for the past six months. I know almost every brick in it." Mayor Dahlman met Nurse Lynch of the Johnson boom in the Albany lobby. "Hello, Lynch," said the cowboy mayor, "you're a game sport you've never picked a loser before. Why are you tied up to one now?" "I'll admit." replied Lynch, "that our prospects aren't the very best, but say what's the matter with you? You've been tied up to a loser for twelve years and it looks as though you're going to stay tied to a loser for some time to come." They were both good natured about it. At least, they were in a place of saturation a few minutes later, each with a "smile." C. A. Coldren of Texico, N. M.. who likes to hover around the Johnson nursery, received a clipping from a Phoenix, Ariz., newspaper that caused a lot of merriment in the Minnesota
room. In Arizona, inuians are usually .is tms way: lie, wnoever ne is, aruiname'ess. Phoenix, according to the ed into Omaha shortly after my elec-
clipping, has an Indian dogcatcher. He was nameless when appointed, so he chose a name. It was William Jennings Bryan. The Johnson boomers figure from this that Bryan's chances may go to the dogs. All the Bryan men say about it is: "Well, we'll bet he's a good dogcatcher." Judge Henry D. Clayton of Alabama, who is likely to be permanent chairman of the convention, is a fine old gentleman. Up to 10:30 o'clock last night he was not a candidate for second place. "The south is asking nothincr," said Judge Clayton. "We want the vice presidential nomination to go where It
Some Dispatches That Were Not Delivered
Tt may not be that Col. Gaffey will not le able to prevent the nomination of Bryan, but it must be conceded that he can handle the King's English a few. Still, if we were to suggest anything to the doughty colonel it would be: It's a wise one who knows when he is liked. j Looks as if Tom Taggart would su oecl l in preventing his f lection of chairman j.f national committee. J Said .T. W. Kern when asked if he 'would lie nominated for vice president: ei:, X f wvrii .-.iiijiltcu Wonder if Martin Littleton will speak about "that stupid harmony that smells of chloroform?" The very latest: Johnson's friends have concluded that their Lincoinian governor was never a candidate anyway. Why not acept the Inlvltable and be consistent?
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"1 ft" S3 3 An Ax" "si -Ji 3l i . -' 4 sX - ' !; J ?.SI, JV 4 y C , will do the party the most good. The candidates are all excellent men." j Judge Clayton is a big, solid fellow, Comes from living in the solid south. The following notice has been posted on the bulletin board at the Brown hotel: "Memoranda The national demoj cratic convention will meet in Denver July George Smith is one of the good natured fellows who shoves gold bars into the jaws of the stamp at the government mint in Denver and sees the thing spit out $20 gold pieces. He says he works in the mint because there is money in it. But that is an old one, and no laugh is expected. Smith was rubbing up against some of the sure thing wise ones at the Albany, and by some accident a anguine republican drifted In and was trying to get some one to bet with him on the presidential election. "Well," said Smith, "I'm not much of a sport, hut I will bet you a sawbuek that Billy will be elected this fall." "You're on," said the strong republican, who couldn't see any other "Billy" but Bryan, and the money was put up. "Now, then," said Smith, "you must understand that I am working for the government and the civil service ruling is that I am to have no demonstrative politics, so I will let you know which Billy I mean after election Billy Bryan or Billy Taft." What's the answer? "There's a newspaper man somewhere in this broad world who looks like me," said Mayor Jim Dahlman of Omaha, "and I'm looking for him." "Want to sympathize with him?" asked Colonel Eaton, who is always oa tap to boost for the newspaper man. "Xo, I want to have him arrested for malicious impersonation. You see, it tion. and some one slapped him on the shoulder and said: 'Hullo, mayor; come and have one on me.' "He had one. "From all reports he had several under the disguise of the mayor of Oma ha. "Other constituents of mine dropped into the thirst pallor and they fell to the base misrepresentation, and it wasn't long until my double had climbed on top of an Indian cigar sign and was making a speech. He was hitting right and left and accepting the nomination and the election and highballs and everything that came his way, and the crowd yelled itself j hoarse in approva1." Guffey McGraw et al. never were for Bryan, never will be for Bryan and then poking as managers of his campaign would be a joke if it were not absurd in :the extreme. It is a safe 1 et that Robert T. Burke will be on the deck burning or otherwise regardless what the convention does with his contest. What's al! this excitement about any way? According to Gompers the election will be determined by the language employed In writing the injunction plank. Will somebody near at hand please ask Mr. Gompers: "If the republican convention had adopted your plank and thus secured the solid labor vote would your partly form be seen in Denver? Up to the present writing -there has been no planks presented declaring for the abolition of the United States Sjiprcme court.
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