Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 116, Hammond, Lake County, 2 November 1908 — Page 4

THE TIMES.

Monday. November 2, 1908.

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VOTE EARLY.

Vote early. If you can't vote early, But be sure to vote. Let republicans over Lake fate of the state ticket and pend upon them.

There was once a national

by one vote. Don't be a stay-at-home. Don't neglect your duty! r.. Your place tomorrow is

in fearly and get your neighbor's vote m early. The dem

ocrats are counting on a large-stay-at-home republican

vote to elect their ticket.

Don't think that your vote makes no difference. If a few score of voters among Lake county's 25,000 voters think that, it may mean the defeat of the republican

county, legislative or state ticket. Help the faithful party workers tomorrow by cast ing your vote early.

Vote before you go to

polls are open at 6 o'clock. The last plea of County Chair

man Schaaf to the voters and party workers. Vote early. Vote! THE ISSUES UP TO THE VOTERS.

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1908 is over. The quadrennial presidential election is at hand. By this time tomorrow the voters of the nation, of Indiana and of Lake county will have cast their ballots for their favorite candidates and the election will be over. The die is cast and all the arguments that could be presented on the eve of the balloting would be of no avail, for the voters have, by this time undoubtedly made up their minds as to the personnel of the ballot they will mark in the secrecy of the booths they will frequent for a few moments. It has been both a spectacular and an important campaign and has

presented novel features that never before in the history of. American politics have been eclipsed. The masses of the voters seem to betray little anxiety over the result and whether the republican or the democratic party is successful, will undoubtedly pursue the even tenor of their ways, giving credit to both the presidential candidates for sincerity and honesty of purpose. So the questions of the nation and the state are now with the voters for settlement. As far as the national ticket is concerned, the signs of the times point to the election of William Howard Taft. The great newspapers of the country predict his election by a varying electoral vote. The most conservative of them give Mr. Taft many more votes than he needs. Without detracting from the pleasing personality of Mr. Bryan, his splendid following, the great interest in his career, it is only necessary to point out that he is rash and spectacular on his methods and has not instilled a firm conviction into the hearts of business men and thinking voters that he would be as safe a man as Mr. Taft, whose deliberateness,

determination, experience, familiarity with achievement would make him a president who would be trusted in the White House. It would be worth while for the voters to ask themselves which is the safer and more conservative man for them to bank their faith. They have had pointed out to them at many times-and in many ways that the prosperity of the nation will be safe in the hands of the republican candidate and his election is vital to the host of interests upon which they depend and upon which their homes and families depend. In short Mr. Bryan, estimable man that he is, has been a man of many mistakes and Mr. Taft, every whit as estimable, is a man of none. Perhaps of more importance to the voters of Indiana in this campaign is the outcome of the state election. There is a wide difference here and no voter in Lake county and in Indiana should fail to pause well before he casts his ballot for the state democratic ticket. There has not been a campaign in the history of the state in which a party has been so much abused, villified and misrepresented as has the republican party in this campaign. The abuse and conscienceless assaults that have been made upon James E. Watson, candidate for governor, have come from the brewery combine, which has taken upon itself to dictate and engineer the opposition to the republican state ticket because of the county option law. The arrogant millionaire brewers have driven out of the democratic party, thousands of clean-minded, home-loving democrats, who will vote for Bryan, but refuse to support Marshall and the state ticket. This ia evidence enough to the republicans who falter on state issues that they should stand by their party. They refuse to vote as the under-world will vote. They have not yet reached the stage where they are willing to surrender the state of ' Indiana to brewers and "bar flies." There is only one question for the Indiana voter to consider in state politics this year and that is: Shall the brewers and bar flies rule the state , or shall the people rule? Mr. Bryan himself says that the people ought to rule. As far as Lake county politics is concerned, the republican county ticket is composed of men who are deserving support of the suffragists. They are all deserving of election to give prestige to that party which will aid us in future city, state and national campaigns. And so these things are for the voters to settle for themselves and

The Times believes they can be safely entrusted with the issues and is

sure that the great responsibility placed

We have ample faith and confidence in the voters to do the right thing

in their suffrage.

In bidding farewell to the campaign issues The Times is happy to say

that In spite of the opprobrious epithets of the democratic candidates can point

against them in its columns. The verdict is with the people.

THIS HATE IS HISTORY." Nov. 2. 1302 Columbus entered the harbor which he called Porto Bello. .1767 Duke of Kent, father of Queen , Victoria, born. Died 1 820. 1793 James K. Polk, eleventh presi

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FOR INSPECTION AT vote as early as you can. county remember that the the national ticket may de election that was decided at the polls. Get your vote your work if you can. The upon the voters will not be shirked that have been heaped upon it, none out a single word that has been said dent of the United Staets. born in North Carolina. Died in NashNashville, Tenn., June 15, 1S49. 18o7 Lord Farar Herschell, English statesman, born. Died March 1 1S99. 1852 Fire destroyed a large section of

For President

WILLIAM H. TAFT He la as strong aa he Is great le. Ills reputation ia simply spotless. 1st all the agitation of a heated campaign for the greatest offlce la the world, no one has ventured to intimate a doubt of the absolute honesty of this man who has been before the country for a quarter of a century. Nor can any one successfully dispute the simple proposition that in the whole history of the Unite States no one was ever named for the presidency who was so fitted by nature, by training and by experience for the duties, dignities and responsibilities of that unique office CHARLES HOPKINS. In "The Independent." the city of Sacramento, CaL . j 1861 General Hunter superseded John , C. Fremont in command of the ; western department of the army. ; 1SS0 James A. Garfield of Ohio elected president of the United Staets. 1893 Steamer City of Alexandria, from Havana for New York, burned at sea; thirty lives lost. 1903 New Irish land act went into operation. "THIS IS MV 56TII BIRTHDAY." ALBERT R. LEDOU . Albert Reid Ledoux, a noted mining engineer and metallurgist and a former president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, was born Nov. 2, 1S52, in Newport, Ky. After graduating from the Columbia School of Mines he studied for several years in Berlin and at the University of Gottingen. In 1876 he returned to the United States and became etate chemist and member of the staet board of health of North Carolina. Since 1880 he has been engaged in practice as a consulting engineer and metallurgist and has figured as an expert in many noted cases in chemistry and engineering. For two years he was employed in an advisory capacity by the New York electrical subway commission. RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS They stopped a honeymoon in the east the other day because the groom got his ear full of rice. By the by the proper way for a groom to start on his honeymoon will be wearing a pair of earmuffs. It doesn't pay to tell your everything. Silence is often better than separation. You can bet all you please on election now. General Grosvenor has been heard from. People Make lots Of fnn at parades, But we have yet to see a time Where anyone will Stick to his work When one goes By. The campaign is a little bit complicated from the fact that we don't know whether we are going to have a cataclysm, a landslide or a tidal wave. Nothing jolfs a narrow-minded man more than being forced to admit that he is in the wrong. Some of these election forecasters are mighty bum arithmeticians or else there are a great many more electors than we had any idea of. A Oil It I. SELDOM MAPS OUT A CA REER UNTIL AFTER SHE HAS BEEN DISAPPOINTED IX LOVE. Of course, Merry Widow parties go ing home from supper parties and thea ter parties in an auto can't come under the head of night riders. Heaven hath bat few sorrows that a good done of tears connot waHh nway. The man who failed to nail down his porch in Lake county last Saturday night was sorry for it on Sunday morning. Of course, lots of honest men go into politic we jiiat lone night of them in the snaffle. The only thing that will make a living for some of us after tomorrow is that Christmas shopping is on the way and you can get all the consolation out of that you can. The right kind of rharlty In a charlotte made from the whipped orenni of human kindness. Colonel Bryan has Mr. Taft beaten so badly, he says, that he begins to feel sorry for him. Save your pity, Colonel, for the loved ones at home. COREY'S SISTER WEDS. Philadelphia. Pa., Nov. 2. Miss Ada B. Corey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Corey, and sister of William Ellis Corey, the millionaire president of the United States Steel corporation, was married today to Dr. Charles Edward Aufhammer, a member of the staff of the Episcopal hospital in this city. The wedding was a quiet tffair, attended only by the parents of the bride and a few Intimate friends of the couple.

For U-President

JAMES S. SHERMAN "We certify to all the great electorate that when their votes in November shall have chosen James S. Sherman to be vice president of the United' States, the seaate will be sure of a presiding officer in character and competency worthy of the best traditions of that great deliberate body, and that- which Go j forbid the sad contingency were jj to come which should for fourth , time call a vice president from New j York to the executive offlce, the in- j teresta of the whole country would f be safe in good hands, and the great office of the presidency would suf- j fer no decadence from the high j standard of dignity and honor and j competency of which we are so f Justly proud." ELI HU ROOT, at Sherman Notification Ceremonies. IN POLITICS Will your vote be cast for the brew ers and the barflies? Bring your friends to Fayette and Hohman streets tomorrow night where The Times will throw the election re turns on canvass. In the meantime, what has become of Mr. Meekison and the $850 he didn't get? "Watch our smoke tomorrow."Three Creek Townships.. -The The republicans are watching St. John township with renewed interest. They look for an increased republican vote there. Figuring on deputies and new political slates has already begun, and whichever way the election goes, "there are some big surprises in store. News comes from Crown Point that the Bridgeport Braves are preparing to vote "right" this year. ,The voter who has not been suftlmeficiently instructed how to vote must by this time be a rarity. The democratic roorback that Rocke feller was going to support Taft has already reacted. The people haven't forgotten Mr. Haskell. Tomorrow is also the day when the mill workers at Gary will show the Chicago Journal what sort of contempt they have for its lying methods. The old soldiers of Lake county are determined to show Mr. Thomas Mar shall that there are no Lincoln demo crats in their ranks anyway. , J. M. Bradford, one of the veteran campaigners in republican county poll tics, is sanguine of the results and be lieves the whole republican ticket from soup to nuts will be elected. County Chairman Schaaf is making a determined effort to have his work ers get the republican vote out as early as possible to pave the way for the rush of voting in the afternoon. He wishes to impress the urgency of getting the vote out early and hopes to stimulate the stay-at-home voter who two years ago lost the republican party two county offices. There is bitter indignation among Tom Grant's Odd Fellow friends over the calumny in the democratic organ over the "cigar question" at the last Odd Fellow meeting. Mr. Grant bought a box of cigars of Mr. Fred Lash to be distributed at the meeting and they were passed around among the brethren the same evening. Mayor Becker's indisposition, which has kept him in the house, came at a very inopportune time for the democratic county organization. During the campaign he was booked as one of the principal speakers, but his services, greatly as they were missed, had to be dispensed with. For the first time in many years there seems to be a close fight on in St. John township for the trusteeship. Henry Batterman and Frank Scheldt of Dyer are the republican and democratic candidates, respectively. Mr. Batterman is running to succeed himself, having been appointed to fill the unexpired term of the late John Wcls of Schererville. Mr. Scheldt is a former township assessor. Both men have made a clean campaign and have good records. As an indication of what the voters in the township think of their respective candidates, it may be mentioned that a bet was made .last week between a Dyer and St. John man, the bet being even, for one hundred dollars a side. THE CREAM OF THE Morning News j YV . H. Taft issues a statement at Buffalo explaining that despite Gump ers opposition he will. If elected, not only be just to labor but will advo cate new laws favored by the workers. Candidate will make a few speeches to day and then will go to Cincinnati to vote Bryan reiterates regret at disappointing Chicago citizens and declares his victory is assured. Dr. Emil G. Hlrsch calls Deeneen foes "liars" and in a heated volley from pulpit urges flock to vote for governor as a God-given duty. Labor "O. K." on a political candi date is a hoodoo, says delegate as Chi cago Federation indorses Gompers. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, makes a last fervid appeal in New York to union men to vote for Bryan. Death's heads in a west side Chicago anatomical laboratory cause a negro to run in circles and resign his lucrative new job. As the result of the robbery by masked burglars of the home of Hains'

awyer at Cedarhurst, L. I., villagers save formed a committee to cope with narauders. Professor Charles Zueblin declares j

-ountry is desperately In need of bet- ' er worklngmen. ! More than 3,000 attend the B. M. Z. j jail for the benefit of the Jewish Home or the aged and about J 6,000 is cleared. ' M&njv aeronauts wiil compete for i prizes in novel aerial tournament to ! be held at Westchester, near New York.1 Newport conference confirms charge by Commander Keyes that . United States war ships are defective and finds it is now too late to remedy all weaklesses. Chancellor Von Buelow is raked with such a storm of criticism as result of ihterview he may resist n resigning. Wheat speculation is limited on both sides of the Atlantic, Europe Is not impressed with the Argentine crop losses. Corn and oats are stubborn and the provision list irregular. On the eve of election prices of stocks remain firm and Wall street is decidedly cheerful, Taft being regarded as an almost certain winner. University of Chicago football team is in line for western championship owing to brilliant victory over Minnesota. ' Chicago is practically sure to draw the Grand American handicap shoot next season. WoodJawns and Mcuurxs put up a fast soccer game, the former team win ning 3 to 1. reports or proposed outlaw race meeting considered another blow to turf game in this country. UP AND DOWN IN INDIANA COMPANY INCORPORATED. . The Clark Land company of Ham mond; capital stock, $45,000; B. M. Winton, R. M. Shaw and G. B. Winston of Chicago, directors. ENDS HIS CAMPAIGN. James E. Watson closed his tour of Indiana tonight with a monster meet ing in Evans hall in Evansvllle. In his two days' swing over southern Indiana in a special train he made twenty three speeches, talked to 50,000 per sons and traveled 571 miles. BREAKS DRINKING RECORD. Elmer Given Is in the Jail at Frank fort in a critical condition as a result of an attempt to display his ability as a whisky drinker. After drinking thirteen glasses in twenty-three min utes he collapsed and was at the point of death when physicians arrived. ARRESTED AT OPEN GRAVE. Stephen Cole and his son Charles, 22 years old, of Washington, as they stood at the open grace of George W. Cole the father's cousin, who was shot to death last Wednesday, were arrested by Sheriff Colbert today, and are held in jail, charged with murder. The ar rest was made following affidavits filed by the dead, man's father-in-law. WONT SUBMIT TROUBLES. Overtures of the district mine work ers officials, of Terre Haute, to sub mit the Hudson mine trouble to Na tional Secretary-Treasurer W. D. Ryan were rejected today by the Indiana Bl tumlnous Coal Operators' association. LAST RALLY HELD. The final big meeting of the campaign was held last night when Senator Al bert J. Beverldge addressed an audience at Tomllnson hall in Indianapolis. Con gressman Overstreet presided and made an address, though the senator made the chief address of the evening. INVESTIGATION ENDED. The grand Jury, summoned at Nobles v-ille, to investigate charges that liquor and money figured Improperly in the republican primary election Jan. 18, thi year, completed its work Thursday, but it was not known until today that a report had been filed. , DE PAUW HAS NEW HEAD. Dr. Francis McConnell, pastor of the New York Avenue M. E. church, Brook lyn, N. Y., was selected to the presi dency of De Pauw university of Green castle this afternoon by the trustees o that institution. At the same meet ing the resignation of Bishop Edwi Holt Hughes as president of the uni versity was accepted. GIVES OUT LIST. A. F.-Heinelan of Valparaiso, secre tary of the state board of pharmacy tonight announced those euccessfu candidates at the examination held at the state house in Indianapolis. SUES PREACHER FOR DAMAGES. Miss Ella Fisher of Waterloo filed suit against the Rev. Samuel P. Klotz for breach of promise and $3,000 damages. Miss Fisher is the daughter of Mrs. Solomon Fisher. She is 40 years of ago and the Rev. Mr. Klotz is nearly 70. TRAINMEN SUPPORT WATSON. J. E. Curd, member of Hoosier lodge 261, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and a former member of the old A. R. TJ., has come out in a strong appeal to laboring men to support James E. Watson for governor. SEVEN JAIL BIRDS ESCAPE. In broad daylight and the full view of a score of workmen, seven prisoners made a daring escape from the new Vigo county jail at Terre Haute today and up to a late hour last night only one fugitive had been apprehended. Two more, it has been learned, are hiding in the cornfields north of Paris. ELECTION IN NEWFOUNDLAND. St. Johns, N. F.. Nov. 2. Following a spirited campaign. the quadrennial general election in Newfoundland is being held today. Newfoundland is the only portion of British North America which enjoys an independent government apart from Canada. The population of 250,000 is distributed in about 1,800 fishing hamlets, large and small, around 6,000 miles of seaboard. The result of this widely scattered population is that the returns of today's election will hardly be obtainable before the end of the week. Sir Robert Bond, the premier, is leading the government forces in the contest, and the opposition is headed by Sir Edward Morris, who until last year was attorney general !n the Bond cabinet. TELEPHONE TOUR ICEWS TO THO SUCKS.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S STANDARD BEARERS

JAMES E.: WATSON. Hon. James E, Watson, candidate fot governor of Indiana on the repnblican ticket, is one of the most popular men in public life, not only in Indiana, but in the United States, and if he is elected governor of Indiana will make one of tho best who ever held that high executive position. Mr. Watson's con gressional record is one that he can point to with consumnate pride. As whip of the house of representatives, he made an enviable record there and it was due to this record that he was enabled to win the nomination for governor over such brilliant republic ans as Hugh Th. Miller, Wm. A. Taylor and Charles Miller. Mr. Watson has made the longest and the most ardu ous campaign in Indiana that any can didate ever made. He has beep bitter ly assailed by the brewery trust. They have heaped calumny on his head and are using the most desperate and unheard of efforts to defeat him. He stands for county option and a clean administration of state affairs. He has visited Lake county often enough to be idolized by the people and his majority in the county will be a remark able one. HON. E. D. CRUMPACKER. Edgar Dean Crumpacker represen tative from the Tenth district of In diana, and candidate for re-election on the republican ticket at the coming elections, was bom in May 1851. He has represented this district continu ously for the past twelve years, and Is now the candidate of the republican party for the seventh time. In the six terms that Mr. Crura packer has been In congress his in fluence and prestige have grown until now he is recognized all over the United States as one of the leaders in this great legislative body. With the recognition of his ability has come many Important assignments on the various committees of the house until now he is on the best committees in the house. He is chairman of the census com mittee and as such will have charge of taking the census of the United States in 1910, a year hencee, he is the rank ing member f the committee on in sular affairs and has recently been ap pointed a amember of the ways and means committeee, the most Important in the house. It Is a well known fact that it is the committees in congress which do the work and consequently the Tenth Indiana district Is very fortunate in having a representative who is a man of such Influence in the lower house of congress. During th entire legislative career of Mr. Crumpacker he has had the rep utatlon of being scrupulously honest. thoroughly reliable and true to his con stituents and his friends. These rare characteristics coupled with his unquestioned ability, have been the secret of his success, both at the polls and in congress. Mr. Crumpacker has been the friend of the laboring man and there has nev er been a time that they have ap pealed to him for support that he has not proven himself their trusted friend, Mr. Crumpacker was born on a farm in LaPorter county, near the town of westville. His first private enterprise was a partnership in a horse-power thresher. He studied law in the office and went to school at Bloomlngton where he completed his legal education. He has been a resident of Val paraiso since 1880. JUDGE V. S. REITER. Virgil S. Reiter, present judge of the superior court of Lake county, was born in Fulton County, Indiana, on the 17th day of September, 1864. He graduated from the high. school at Rochester, Ind., in June, 1SS1, and in fall of the same year entered Heldel bere university, at Tiffin, O., from which institution he graduated in 18S6 After studying law for three years, he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law at Rochester, Ind., and was immediately selected as attorney for that city, which position lie held until he took up his residence in Ham mond, Aug. 16, 1893. He was city attorney for Hammond for two years, during which time, by his careful attention to the legal af fairs of the city, thousands of dollars were saved to the taxpayers. During his years of practice of the law. Judge Reiter acquired a most splendid clientage and won a reputa tion for honesty and fair dealing un excelled by any member of tho bar of Lake county. By the solicitation of a large majority of the lawers of Lake county, he was appointed judge of the superior court to the vacancy occasioned by the change in the superior court judicial district, which made Lake county a separate superior court circuit. He assumed his duties Gas judge Aug. 1st, 1907, and by strict attention to his work, coupled with his honest methods and fair-mindi ciness. lie has established a reputation any man should be proud of. During the year that he has served on the bench, more than eight hundred civil oases have been disposed of, in addition to a large number of criminal, probate and miscellaneous matters. It is doubtful if any court in the entire state f Indiana has such a record for the dispatch of thf important business that has co-ne before it as the Lake superior court lias during the past year. Since this court was estabshed the number of cases on its docket have increased to a remarkable extent, owing to the commercial development of the Calumet region. With a judge less devoted to his duties than Judge Reiter and less capable of disposing of the civil matters which this court is continually required to pass upon, the interests of the taxpayers and all the residents of Lake county, who have occasion to resort to the courts for redress, would be seriously jeopardized. The offlce requires an able, conscientious and industrious man to properly

serve the interests of the people, and those who know Judge Reiter and ara familiar with his work, agree that he has all these splendid qualifications. His decisions have been remarkably clear and just. No litigant In his court has ever received mor or less than he was entitled to under the law. He is a man of no prejudices and, as his splendid record indicates, his sympathy is with all the people. The wage-earner is upon the same footing in his court with the corporation and has always received at his hands fair and just treatment. It is no more than due Judge Reiter to say that his services upon the bench for the past year have been entirely satisfactory to all

the people of Lake county, and that, if he is re-elected to this responsible poition, they, know that their Interests will be safe in his hands. RICHARD SCHAAF., SR. Richard Schaaf, sr., of Robertsdale, who is more popularly known as 'Uncle Dick" and the "Mayor of Rob ertsdale," is the republican candidate for commissioner for this district. He is a German and strong with his fel low Germans. He came to Whiting In 1889 and has lived in this region ever since. No one knows better what it wants and needs are than Mr. Schaaf. He has been an alderman from his ward ever since 1894, and has done wonders for Robertsdale. He has been a hotel keeper, groceryman and is now In the real estate and insurance business. He Is at present an alderman from the Fourth ward in Hammond and was the only republican elected in the landslide of the last city election, getting 82 majority. He secured a fire sta tion, sewer system and park for Rob ertsdale and has been remarkably acttce in getting things for his constituents. He has seven children, one of them being F. Richard Schaaf, Jr., republican county central chairman, and the Calumet region by electing Mr. . Schaaf, sr., for county commissioner, may rest assured that it will be well looked after by Richard Schaaf, sr. THOMAS GRANT. Among the entire list of candidates on the republican county ticket there is none more universally popular and better liked than Thomas Grant, of Lowell, who is a candidate for sheriff of Lake county. A democrat said to writer a few days ago in speaking of Mr. Grant: 'I cannot find a thing that anyone has ever said against Mr. Grant." This is true, he has more friends than is usually given to the lot of one man to have. A plain, humble citizen of a great farming com munity is Mr. Grant, honest in his con victions and clean in his life at any man could be. He is Idolized in Lowell, where he resides with his wife and daughter. He has been trustee of Cedar Creek township in the past for four years and gave such satisfactory service to his constituency that his term of office didn't elicit a single complaint. He had been defeated for the nomination of sheriff by Lawrence Cox. of Hammond, yet he turned around and took his coat off for the victor with zeal and his "riends determined that if they had their way he should be the next republican nominee. Mr. Grant is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias, a Forester and an Odd Fellow. MAT J. BROWN. It is perhaps unnecessary to say anything about Mat J. Brown, republican candidate for commissioner for the south district, one of the best known republicans and business men in this part of the state. Mr. Brown has done more perhaps for the upbuilding of Lake county's diversified interests, as far as they are related to the board of county commissioners, than any other official. In roads, public buildings, bridges, not in one part of Lake county, but in all, has Mr. Brown helped to make improvements that next to Marion, have made Lake county one of the leaders in the state. He is deserving of re-election for what he has done and in order to carry out the plans which the present board has under way. Mr. Brown's sincerity and honest' have never been questioned and never have his motives been impugned. He is the only farmer on the ticket, and will get their support solid. EDWARD W. WICXEY. Edward W. Wickey, republican can- ' didate for representative of Lake county, is a leading attorney of East Chicago. He is 42 years old, and resides in an unpretentious but comfortable home on Maeoun avenue. Mr. Wickey has never held an elective office, but has filled the office of city attorney for a number of terms, on the appointment of the city council, receiving the votes of democrat as well as republican eouruilmen, bet-ause of his recognized ability. Eaft Chicago has always numbered among its jwipulation a few persons, inor.t of them more or less prominent in d'-mucratic circles, who. to the detriment t f the city, have continuously and without discrimination, eor.di--mr.ftd and reviled every successive administration and official of the city, and Mr. Wickey lias not been an exception, but tha great majority of its citizens recognize his ability and Believe in his honesty of purpose and loyally to his city and people, as was shown in the exceedingly large majority he received at the republican primary. Mr. Wickey has been a resident of Lake county for about eighteen years, with the exception of a short period spent in Indianapolis and a brief residence in the south, largely fo rthe benefit of the health of his wife. On their return to East Chicago, Mr. Wickey again took a leading place in the affairs of his city and this section, being reappointed to the office of city attorney, which he later relinquished, the city retaining his service as special counsel. Mr. Wickey has always been interested in farming and agricultural pur (Goaliaaed oa laj- fs

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