Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 18, Hammond, Lake County, 9 July 1908 — Page 4

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REAL ESTATE MEN SHOULDN'T BE CAUGHT NAPPING. A PROSPECTIVE BUYER OF REAL ESTATE came to Hammond from Chicago and looked over the field. He was shown some lots on the north Fide which were selling for $75 to $100 each. The visitor did not like the looks of things and shook his head. He went from Hammond to Indiana Harbor and there, after sizing up the situation, purchased a lot and paid $1,200 for it. The Hammond man was disgusted after he heard where the lot was located and declared that almost any of the lots on the north side were as good as the Chicago man had purchased. This same real estate man pointed out the fact that in Gary investors are going miles from the center of the city and making purchases of property at prices That simply stagger the Hammond owner of property. The problem which is presented by this condition of affairs is exceedingly difficult, of solution. There is not a man in the entire region who will not admit that Hammond is a good town. . It has weathered the recent financial depression as well as any city in the vicinity with the possible exception of Indiana Harbor. Its industries do not run intermittently like the Republic Iron & Steel company at East Chicago. During ordinary times they may be counted upon to run full blast all of the time. During the present financial crisis the smaller industries have been employing hundreds of men whose wages have been poured into the various channels of trade. But realty values, notably on the north side, are way below what they ought to be and the statement has been repeatedly made that yon could not give lots away in some parts of Hammond. Of all sections of the city the values on the north side should be increasing. The Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend interurban line will soon be in operation giving the north side perfect communication with the growing cities of Gary and Indiana Harbor and with the town of Hegewisch. It has been announced that the Wabash railroad is about to put in a greatly improved suburban service and although it is not generally known, the Pennsylvania railroad now runs more suburban trains through Hammond than any otlvr road excepting the Lake Shore. This means that the north side is about to have transportation facilities which will be second to none in the Calumet region. On the north side will be afforded the opportunity for the laboring man to live in a modest home of his own on a cheap lot and be close to a well established city like Hammond. Whether he rents or buys he can live on the north side cheaper than he can live in Gary evn though he has to pay ten cents a day carfare. And if he wants to own a home here and work in Indiana Harbor he can do so cheaper than he can in the city where he Is employed. But these facts have not been presented to the wage earner. Hammond real estate men are standing around kicking about the lack of business and bewailing their fate instead of getting together and pointing out the advantages of the property they have for sale by judicious advertising. There is certain to be a boom in north side property but it is sure to be delayed as long as possible unless the property owners in this section of the city make the most of their opportunities and force the early arrival of the boomThe north side must have a sewer, it must have more cement walks and paved streets. It should have a little park if it is only a block in size. Instead of bMng a ramshackle neighborhood of tumble down houses with the blight of a burstcd boom on it the north side will come unto its own as one of the best parts of the city. Its business men will be able to double the size of their stores and as surely as fate every property owner will be able to demand an increase of from 15 to 2." per cent on all of his holdings. ' North Hammond is suffering from about the same complaints as the rest of the city. There is too little enterprise and too much grumbling. It Is said that certain Hammond business men were dumbfounded on a recent visit when they saw the remarkable progress that. Indiana Harbor has made in the past year and yet such progress is possible in Hammond.

RANDOM THhNGS AND FLINGS Mr. Guffey's guff pot him the gaff. If Mr. Pattee of Crown Point put a few ties in the Crown Point-Gary -Hcmmond roatl at Gary yesterday, a lot of people will rise up and call him lessed. It not only look n If the Denver affair was going to be a rat 111 rat Ion meeting but thnt It will also he n gratification merlins:. This "Was In Homewood. They had a whist party there not long ago. " 'Ladies.'" called the president of the clu, "it lias been moved and seconded

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thnt there be no conversation at the card table?. "What shall we do with the motion?" "I suggest that we discuss it while we play," riped a shrill voice from tale 4. And the suggestion was unanimously adopted. Oh, ladies, ladles: Make a confidante of n woman when you have nothing to tell. She can converse cntertatnlngly on any subject. London physician vlelting In Amer ica says that insanity is Increasing here. Never mind, doc, come again about the middle of November and wa won't be so bugs then. I-OVE AM) HATE ARE PRECIOUS PASTIMES TO SOME WOMEN. OFT-

- A CHRONOLOGY OF WILLIAM J. BRYAN. I860 March 1, born at Salem, III., ton of Judge Sllaa Lillard Bryan and and Marlah Elizabeth (Jennings) Bryan. 1881 Graduated at Jacksonville college. Illinois. 18S3 Began the practice of law at Jacksonville. 1S87 Removed to Lincoln. Nebraska. 1890 Elected to the Fifty-second Congress and re-elected In 1S92. 1893 Received the Democratic votes of the Nebraska Legislature for United States Senator. 1894 Became editor of the Omaha World-Herald and filled the position for two years. 1896 Delegate from Nebraska to the Democratic National convention at Chicago and made a speech resulted in bis nomination for President of the United States. 1S96 November, defeated for President by William McKlnley, after a strenuous and bitterly fought campaign. 1S97 Lectured for two years on bimetalism, and In opposition to trusts and imperialism. 1S9S Raised the Third Regiment of Nebraska Volunteers for the war with Spain, and was its Colonel. 1900 Again nominated by the Democratic party for President In the Kansas City convention. 1900 November, again defeated in the national election by William McKlnley. 1901 Established The Commoner at Lincoln. Nebraska, which he still conducts. 1904 Headed the Nebraska delegation to the Democratic National convention at St. Louis, and took an active part as a speaker in the subsequent campaign. 1905 Started with bis family on a trip around the world. 1906 Attended the meeting of the Interparliamentary l'nion In London and upon his return to New York was given n great public ovation in Madison Square garden. 1907 Entered actively upon bis campaign for a third nomination for a the Presidency. Mr. Bryan was married at Perry, Illinois. October 1, 18S1. to Mary Elizabeth Baird, and they have three children: Kuth, born in ISSo; William J., Jr., born in 1SS7, and Grace D., born In 1S91

TIMES A MAX IS UNLUCKY WHO CRTS EITHER. The principal of a Pennsylvania school was found guilty of assault and battery recently because he kissed the school teacher at recess. If we remember rightly, kissing the school teacher at recess was always considered a midget masculine perequisite. Is it a crime to kiss a school teacher? What are pretty school teachers for, pray? Time Is nigh when In every corner you will bubp Into the man who says he trembles for the safety of the republican pnrty, when lie Is merely shaking In his shoes for fear that he will lose his job. We learn that the farmer is in dire need of hands for the hay crop. Where, oh. where, are all our young boy graduates who want a start In life. SHE nm. "I believe In making the little things eonnt," wnJd the kindergarten teacher, and just then she asked one tot how many were one and one. Oh, Mr. Taft, you must also have some front porch pictures taken! You have such a good one. And if the democrats are looking for a good vice president, one whose name has not yet been mentioned in connection with it, why there's that sturdy Jacksonian limb, Robert Emmet O'Connor. The water souse In the Intent. We are Informed by the physic-Inns who never He thnt water drunk immoderately Is as intoxicating as red eye. He Would Get Our Vote. Mr. Meal Is running for mayor in Ilarrlsburg. Pa. If he Is a squara meal, us for him. Fine Slogan, that: Kooray for the Meal ticket. IN POLITICS Things politically are livening up In Illinois In anticipation of the genoral primary next month. Governor Deneen and former Governor Yates will fight it out for the republican nomination for governor. On the democratic side there are half a dozen aspirants for the nomination, Chicago alone furnishing three. It is said that the reason why Chairman W. J. Connors and Leader Charles F. Murphy worked so hard to get prominent bankers and business men on the New York delegation to Denver was to have those men at the national convention to explain to the delegates form other states that the great business and financial Interests of New York do not want Bryan as a candidate for president in a year where there is a good chance for the democratic party to win the national election with the right kind of a candidate and platform. Representative Winfleld S. Hammond of the second Minnesota district, who has been selected to make the speech nominating Governor John A. Johnson for the presidency before the democratic national convention on at Denver, is known in Minnesota as Johnson's political "mascot." Mr. Hammond Is the man who defeated James T. McCleary, one of the republican leaders of the House, during his service in that body. He nominated Mr. Johnson for the governorship for both of his terms, and each time Johnson carried a normally republican state. The democrats of the tenth district will meet in delegate convention on Wednesday, July 22, 1908, in the city of Monticello, Ind., at 1:30 p. m., for

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the purpose of nominating a candidate for congress to be voted for at the November election in 1908. The delegates from the several counties will be elected in such manner and at such time as the county central committee of each county shall designate. The several counties of the district will be entitled to the following number of delegates, to-wlt: Benton, 7; Jasper, 7; Lake, 14; Laporte, 22; Newton, 5; Porter, 7; Tippecanoe, 21; "War ren, 5; White, 10. Total, 98. No one Is likely to laugh more heartily than Mr. Roosevelt over Mr. Bryan's easy conquest of Herman Kidder. Having gone to l'airvlew to "tell Mr. Bryan to his face" that he should decline the presidential nomination because he could not possibly be elected, Mr. Rldder emerged from his interview with the announcement that he should support Mr. Bryan on a conservative platform. And this means that the German paper of NewYork City, the Staats Zeitung. will also support the Nebraskan, insuring him at least one journel in New York City as an advocate. Mr. Roosevelt once described Mr. Kidder as the "limburger envoy," and somehow the name sticks. The Staats Zeitung used to be a power in New York when its former owner and editor was alive, but its political influence has somewhat declined with the gradual passing of the generation of Germans who spoke and read almost exclusively in the German language. Springfield Republican. A reason advanced why John W. Kern of Indiana is not more seriously considered at Falrview as a candidate for vice president is that Mr. Kern has the same record of defeat that Mr Bryan has two thrashings, as a candidate for governor of Indiana. Perhaps it isn't expedient to load up a ticket in so suggestive a style. Springfield Republican. LABOR NEWS The Central Labor Council of Washington, D. C, has given its unqualified indorsement to the movement for the passage of a law that shall prohibit the United States from contracting for any article manufactured by convicts. The H. C. Frick Company of Pittsburg, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, has ordered into effect a new code of rules governing its mines and miners, the most remarkable provision of which is the prohibiting of the company's miners from drinking whether on duty or not. The Superintendent of Immigration at Ottawa has issued a notice to the effect that the only classes of immigrants wanted in Canada at present are experienced farm laborers, farmers financially able to take up homesteads or purchase lands, and female domestic servants. The demand for railway labor, says the superintendent. Is filled for the season. INDIANA SWEETHEARTS ELOPE. Son of Railway Official Weds State Employe's Daughter. LaPorte, Ind.. July 8 Miss Mildred Gamble, daughter of A. W. Gamble, steward of the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, today eloped with E. H. Beatty, Richmond, Ind., and was married at Covington, Ky this afternoon. Beatty's faijier is an official of the Richmond division of the Panhandle railway. When you go away on your 4 vacation. The Times will be sent to you for 6 rents per week and while you are enjoying yonr trip you will be getting all the news s from all parts of the county. In no other wny ran you get all the social news nnd get It first than by taking The Times. Telephone s the circulation department. No. 111, and The Times will be sent s to you for 6c a week, no matter where you go nor how long you stay. 4 0

Friendly Suggestions for the Nominating Speeches (By One Who Attended the Republican Convention )

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ICopyrlght: 1908: by The Chicago Tribune. Extracts from speeches made by the audience during the nominating speeches In Chicago: "Great Scott, will he never stop talking?" "It would have been a great speech if he'd stopped ten minutes ago." "He must like to talk" "What's he use of spending half an hour talking about

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A SUGGESTION FOR THE SPEECH NOMINATING BRYAN. Time of delivery, four minutes. , Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen of this convention I wish to place in nomination for the office of president Mr. Bryan of Nebraska. You all know who he is and all about him. The newspapers have been full of his aims, ambitions, and teachings lor twelve years, and what the papers have omitted to tell you be lias told you himself. No American in history lias stood face to face with as many of his fellow countrymen as he has. He has spoken in nearly every city and village in the land. The fact that his dominance in the democratic party has Increased in proportion to the growth of his personal acquaintance may be taken as an indication of the bold he has in the affections of several millions of his countrymen. Nothing I can say will add anything to what you already know or will change a single yote in the ballot you are soon to take. He will be the nominee of this convention because lie has the votes. Machine politicians have warred against him in every state; newspapers have lampooned and ridiculed him yet today he Is absolute in his supremacy in the. democratic party. Somebody must believe in him somebody must have faith in the man who has steadily advanced the aid of

machine or money, and who now, in hs stronger than ever before.

Ladies and gentlemen of this convention, I am not

going to weary you with a prolonged and unnecessaryspasm of eloquence; I am not going to take advantage of this opportunity to show off my accomplishments as an orator; I am not going to make a bid for applause byworking in any of the clap trap tricKs of the orator, hence there need be no reference to the grand old flag or

Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln. present the name of William Jennings the people, who, in my opinion, stands being elected.

A SPEECH NOMINATING JUDGE GEORGE

GRAY. Time of delivery, thirty Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen

I arise to nqmlnate Judge George Gray of Deleware. There's nothing that I can say about him that you don't already know, and there's nothing anybody can say against him. He is strong with the conservative element

of the party, but frankly, I don't believe Is enough of that element in the party to elect a man. So, what's the use of talking about it any further. I thank you.

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Sidelights From Denver

Denver, July 8. The gavel used by Henry D. Clayton, permanent chairman of the democratic convention, came from the old home of Andrew Jackson. It was sent to W. J. Bryan by former Governor Benton McMlllen of Tennessee, with the following letter: "Nashville, July 1, 1908. "This gavel was made from hickory obtained by me from the Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson, and is for use at the democratic national convention of 190S. "BKNTON M'MILLEN." The gavel was sent to Denver by Mr. Bryan for the use of Mr. Clayton, when he became permanent chairman of the convention. Denver, Colo., July S. Former Governor David R. Francis of Missouri, a Cleveland democrat of the type Mr. Bryan Is said to desire as a running mate, is the new and formidable figure tonight In the vice presidential race. Former Governor Francis was formally forced in the race by the Missouri delegation at a caucus held at 5 o'clock this afternoon. It was asserted they have already signified their intention of casting their votes for the former member of Cleveland's cabinet and a man who is regarded as one of the sturdiest and ablest representatives of the Cleveland school. Significance is given to the Francis candidacy by the fact that it enamates from Edward P. Goltra, a delegate from Missouri, who is one of Bryan's closest and most intimate personal friends, who has often entertained Mr. Bryan on his yacht. Mr. Goltra himself made the motion in the Missouri caucus which placed Mr. Francis In the race and he was placed at the head of a committee of three to call upon ex-Governor Francis and secure his consent to the use of his name, and, in case he agree,!, to begin an active campaign for his nomination. Mr. Francis Is a delegate at large from Missouri, but he was not at the caucus. Great in political strategy and great in spectacular demonstration of enthusiasm for the leader and dictator of the party has been this day In the democratic convention. The unparalleled display of Bryan hero-worship in the convention hall came a day ahead of schedule time. That long-confined passion could no longer be restrained. It broke out 1n such cyclonic fashion, and swept along with it such a large part of the great assemblage that all doubts of Bryan's mastery of his party, if any there were, are now scattered to the winds. One of the surprising developments of the day was the harmony which existed in the committee on resolutions where even the conservatives or so-

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riper years, seems I merely want to Bryan, a man of a good show of minutes. of the convention called anti-Bryan minority earnestly and cheerfully co-operated with the Bryan majority in an effort to secure the best results. Moty Tiger, a full blood Indian, chief of the Creek nation, which has 17,000 people, was one of the arrivals this morning at the headquarters of the Oklahoma delegation at the Brown. He is 65 years old, worth $100,000, and this was the first time the delegates from his state knew he was a democrat. A little later he was seen in a box at the convention hall. "Tate" Brady of Tulsa, one of the political lights of Oklahoma, took him there in a motor car. This was the first time the chief ever had attended a convention and he was viewed with considerable interest. He didn't make many comments upon it. "Ugh, heap talk. Much noise?" was about all he'd say in English. He talks through an interpreter almost altogether. "The chief says he's impressed and that it looks as though Bryan would be elected," said the interpreter. "He doesn't understand what the platform is for and I can't make him understand. He says it is al! heap foolish and wants to know how Bryan feels about the Indian question." The spectacle provided last evening by the people of Denver was something to make the old timers who have been going to national conventions open their eyes. Denver was out to outdo herself, and she apparently did it. The principal streets for miles were arched by colored lights, the big buildings were lined In the same fashIon, and through these thoroughfares moved at intervals a string of trolleycars festooned with lights and with a band aboard each car. From all over the west, from the mountains and from the ranches on the plains, people had come to see the show. It was a crowd of gigantic proportions for this part of the country. But what struck folks here from the big cities of the east was the small number of police and the lack of disorder. Denver seems to have only a handful of policemen, but they were all that were necessary. Most of the Chicago visitors are living In their sleeping cars, which have been "parked" In the railway yards. There has been a great outcry from the Denver hotelkeepers at this. During the Chicago convention the railroads were made to agree that not a single sleeping car should be kept on tracks and used for sleeping purposes. Not being so experienced, the Denver hotel keepers forsot to Insist on ,

a man who hasn't the ghost of a show of being nominated?" "These political orators never know when to stop."

"If some fellow got up and made a short snappy speech he'd made an enormous hit." "O, heavens he's beginning again." "What time is it?"

A NOMINATING SPEECH FOR GOV. JOHNSON. Time of delivery 2 minutes. Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen of the convention I wish to place in nomination a man who eight years ago was hardly known outside of his native village, who four yenrs ago was practically unknown outside of his state, and who now is known only by name to the country at large. I refer to Gov. Johnson of Minnesota. His rise has been swift and sure He is an inspiration to every young man in the country, for lie has proved that honest effort may surmount all obstacles of environment and advances even the humblest to the highest eminence in this great free for all nation of ours. He is a great man and would make a splendid fight. 1 don't think that be has the ghost of a show of being nominated and I'm not altogether sure that he has had the experience in public affairs which a man of presidential stature tOiould have. But the people of Minnesota believe in him because he lias made a good governor and has never faltered in the execution of his duty. If you decide that he is not yet ready to hope for the distinction of being made the party's standard bearer, we hope you will kindly keep your eye on him in case you may want a good man four or five years from now.

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such an agreement. Some of the Chi- ' cagoans have been living the life of , a sleeping car nomad for four or five nights wish they had. An Incident illustrating the kindly feeling of the people in this mile high city occurred the other night in one of the best restaurants. A woman, poorly dressed, carrying a baby, and leading another child, came In and ordered a bowl of soup, which she divided between all thre". She bad not been In the place long before three or four men offered through waiters to pay for anything the little familjr w-anted to eat. But the woman was as proud as an Indian princess and after she and the children had the bowl of soup they left the restaurant without accepting any of the proffered help. Why didn't the committee on arrangements provide a seat on the platform for James Hamilton Ix'wis of Chicago? It must have been a mere oversight, and of course no mere oversight could be allowed to keep the colonel from the seat of honor which was his by right. Nor did it. Bowing and smiling, throwing kisses from the tips of his gloves and grasping the hands of his myriad friends on the way from the front door to the paltform, the colonel marched up to a seat in the front row back of th chairman. He had no ticket for his seat, but no sergeant at arms was bold enough to impede his progress. The seat Mr. Lewis took had been reserved for National Chairman John H. Atwood of Kansas. Mr. Atwood came, looked for his seat, saw who was in it, and retired without a murmur. Fenver, July f. Mrs. Ruth Bryan I. eavitt came near missing the great demonstration in honor of her father. The tip had gone forth that the committee, on credentials was not ready to report, and that nothing would happen, so Mrs. Ieavitt left for her hotel for luncheon with a party of friends. George Fred Williams was so anxious to get back to the convention that he lunched frugally on a cantaloupe and a highball. The others of the party had larger appetites and Mrs. Leavltt got into the hall just as Senator Gore was mentioning' the name of her father and the lid was about to rise. Mrs. Leavltt with her brother, William J. Bryan, Jr., got up and stood in the front of tho box as the yell started, waving her hand to Mrs. Abbot, and then Joining frantically in the cheering. ."I'm not going to miss a single session of this convention," said Mrs. Ieavitt. 'and I'm going to see every bit of enthusiasm there is from now on. I would not have missed this for anything." Mrs. Lorgworth had left the hall before the bis scene of the day .besai '