Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 80, Hammond, Lake County, 21 September 1909 — Page 8

THE TIMES Tuesday. Sept. 21.1909. Pastor and Girl Who Eloped and Then Found Forgiveness Gary as Wide Open as in its most

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Flaunts Shameless Methods In Defiance of All Decency. Thomas E. Knotts, who is seeking the democratic nomination for mayor of Gary, has 'lifted the lid" and Gary ia as wide open again as it ever was before. Not only has Knotts lifted the lid, but it is a daily occurrence that he visits the south side dives and 'blind pigs" and spends his money in the hope of securing votes. Last Sunday Knotts and his henchmen made several rounds of the south side district and money was freely scattered in the saloons and dives. MANY URCNKS ABROAD. Last night was a fair example of the wide open condition of the south end Drunken men were seen on the streets nt a! lhours of the night and in two cases drunken women were seen stag gerir.g down the street. No arrests have been made for drunkenness at the local police station during the past ten .lave of narties whose residence 13 Gary. It is said that Knotts has issued orders to th epollce department to make no arrests on any petty charge until aflfer election. Not alone beer, but whisky is also being sold in certain saloons on the south side without any pretence of keeping it a secret. Johnson's, Jackson's Jennlng's and O'Malley's places arc wide open and continue to house scores of disreputable negro men and women. J1H DOWLING GETS HIS WALKING PAPERS One of the Oldest Men on the Gary Police Force "Canned." "POLITICS" IS RESPONSIBLE His Refusal to Take Active Part In Campaign for Knotts Rears Fruit. James Dowling, one of the oldest men on He Gary police force and who has been night desk man at the station for the past year, received a note at liis desk yesterday, upon his return from a five-day vacation, which stated that his services were no longer requirt and requested him to turn in his accou'remcnts. The ax has at last fallen up the head of one of the men on the Gary police force who has had backbone enough to refuse to lie made the tool and weakling of His Majesty Tom Knotts through his whip. Chief Joseph Martin. Dowling has told his friends that he expected to be discharged from the force because of his refusal to take an active part in the campaign for President Knotts. I AVnrned of Appronchlnjc Action. Mr. Knotts approached Dowllng's

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WHAT CHAIRMAN C- L. KIRK SAYS ABOUT IT.

The primaries are over and Dr. Schlieker and a strong bunch of running mates have been nomi nated and the ticket looks most promising for election in November. The question of success of the re publican ticket seems to me to be a foregone conclusion, and we should all join In to make it a party vic tory. Personally, I am going to do my 'best. C. L. KIRK, Chairman City Central Committee. father and warned him that his son was not lining up politically just as he cared to have him. This gave Dowling, who felt that he could not conscientiously desert his political beliefs, an intimation that he was about to be discharged, and he had been expecting the notice every day. A peculiar fact about the discharge is that no reason has been assigned for dismissing him from the service of the city. Dowling has the reputation of a man who attends to business, so that his discharge seems all the more like bold political vengeance. Dowllng's father is a candidate for alderman on the Crollus ticket in the south end, and Jim's politics are similar to his father's. COLORED G. 0. FS. IN 0U511 MEETING )i Trustee Sears One of the Speakers Advocates Clean Candidate. EXPECTS TO GARRY SOUTH END Locality Has Always Been Republic an and Overwhelming Majority 13 Looked For. The Colored Republican club met last night In their hail at 1337 Washington street an-", held another rousing meeting, a. iiumber of candidates on tha republican ticket were present and ad dressed the members of the club. Prominent among those present was j Trustee John E. Sears, who was asked to speak at the meeting. Mr. Sears said that tho south end had always been a republican territory and In his belief they could roll up an overwhelming majority. He advocated the selection of a "clean" candidate for mayor and one who would conscieniously serve the constituants. "It is up to the people," said Mr. Sears, "to elect a man who will represent the citizens of Gary and not his own selfish desires. If you have a mayor who will not recognize your wants, force him to do so." " In speaking about graft, Mr. Sears said there had been an awful lot of talk about graft of late. "While I have been serving as a trustee," said Sears, "I want to say that I have seen no graft. I went In the office as trustee a poor man and I will retire as a poor man." Mr. A. A. Hodman, prominent colored republican worker, was the next to speak after M. Sears and said he was glad to hear Mr. Sears advocate a "clean" candidate for mayor. He took issue with Mr. Sears on the graft propnsttion, and said he was mightly ruspiclous that there had been some graft. Among the other speakers of the evening were Atty. Clarence Eretsch, Joseph Cothery and Messrs. Charles Gregory, Simon, Fredericks, Edwards, Streetor and K. E. Smith. Each dwelt more or less on the "rottenness" of the present city administration and advocated the selection of clan candidates. )W(Dier

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Ottawa, Kas., Sept. 20. The Rev. "Wallace M. Stuckey. i njail here, charged with enticing from home a girl member of his congregation, bowed his head last night and made the first payment of bitter tears upon his debt of sorrow for sin. It was the first time he has wept since his arival with the girl in Waukogan, 111. The tears trickled between the outspread fingers that covered his face, and his shoulders heaved with sobs. It was a message of tender love and trust and loyalty from his wronged wife that brought his collapse. From her home in Williamsburg she has called up a friend in Ottawa and told him to go to the Jail and see her husband and tell him that she and their children would be there on Monday to see him and that she had forgiven him and would stand by him on matter was happened.

Gary's Enrollment Shows Remarkable Growth Since This Time Last Year, and This Is Only the Beginnmg. The Gary school enrollment for the beginning of the present year has been! found to be 1,160, or 410 more than at! the beginning of last year, represent-j Ing more than a 50 per cent increase. During the course of the school year J It Is expected that there will be a' large number of students brought into the schools, as the workingmen bring their families to this city and enter them in the classes. The students are divided among the following schools: Jefferson. 385; Fourteenth Street, 210; Twenty-first Street, 120; Clark Road. 40, and Emerson, 425. There are seventy students enrolled in the high school and this number is also expected to be Increased during the year. Jpffrrnon Overcrowded. At the present time the rooms In the Jefferson school are overcrowded. There will be no relief for this building dntll more of the rooms at the Jefferson are finished, at which time many of the students will be transferred to the new school which has been erected at a cost of $200,000. Owing to the fact, also, that the Emerson building is not completed, the sub-primary classes cannot be started for about two weeks. At the present stage of completion of the building they have no facilities for handling those students and the equipment which will be necessary. Before the end of the present school year it is expected that the total enrollment wil lamount to about 1,300 or 1.400. FOOTBALL Gary will have the best town football team tills year to offer to the public that it has ever had, and one of the best teams that Lake county has ever produced, providing the men can be induced to stick together and will train the way they should train. It seems likely at the present time that the man who will captain the local aggregation is Walter Steffen, former captain of the Chicago university team who has been employed in this city. Among the promising candidates who will try for the team in Gary this year are: Walter StefTcn. Clark Williams, Duke Wellinghof, Forrest McNally, Walter Corr, Harold Multon, Walter Doutt, Henry McCIure and Ross D. Ketherton. Wellinghof was formerly

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AN OPEN LETTER. To the Voters of East Chicago, Gentlemen Among the family of towns and cities that have sprang up in the Calumet region in the last twenty-two years, I claim East Chicago as my child. It was present at its birth. I rocked its cradle and my efforts were always in its defense. Though feeble, nevertheless, they wero always freely given against the encroachment of outsiders and the reception of some of its own citizens. Now, I again enter the arena to battle for retrenchment in taxation and economy In the expenditure of the people's money. The lowering of taxation, the equalization of the valuation of taxable property. To save ourselves from total ruin, it is imparattve that we elect an honorable, capable man as mayor of our city, one who has honor to lose if he does a dishonorable act. Such a man ought to be elected, regardless of political appointments, regardless of political affiliations, regardless of what ward he lives In, regardless of his location, his country or creed. My record of twenty-two years among you is my platform, and upon that platform you must elect or rapect me as mayor of East Chicago, subject to the citizens' party. R. D. WALSH. the Purdue star center and Netherton has played on the Indiana university team. The town team this year expects to meet the best from Chicago and the northern part of Indiana. They will probably join the association and try for the heavyweight championship, which Hammond nearly won last year in the Chicago league. REMNANTS OF LOCAL G A. R. MEET. (Continued from Page One.) Fellows hall was the scene for these features. For the afternoon a business session had been scheduled. At this, plants for the next year's session were talked over and new officers were elected There are only two offices to be filled, Captain F. Thomas of Danville and William Power of Wilkinson having been president and secretary, respectively, for the past year. War Ilemlnlwceneci Interesting;. War reminiscences and their wander ing in later years, constituted the bulk of their conversation today. D. R. Lucas, the chaplain of the regiment, has written a book about the work of the 99th, in the Civil War. It is a glorious record, but does, of course, not contain every Incident in connection with the r?giment. Some of the best tales are unrecorded and live only in the memory of the old soldiers. The hook Itself is interi-sting. A paragraph taken at random and giving an idea of the 99th in the field. From the diary of Andrew J. Clayton of Company D written on the ground, tells of the skirmishes in connection with the battle of Ezra Chapel near Atlanta on July 28, 1S64. He says: A Hard Enttle. "In the morning, at daylight, our corps commenced swinging around to the right of our lines. We swung In about two miles over the hills, and through the hollows and over fences and through thick woods in line of battle and every other way. There was continual skirmishing as long as we were advancing. About noon we halted and commenced throwing up works; got some temporary works built out of logs and threw up some dirt with tin plates and our hands; we had not worked long until the rebs commenced advancing on us; they came with strong lines and with terrible yells; then came crackings of the Springfi.-ld rifles that filled the woods with victorious echo. The woods were very thick; we gave them a few rounds; then we charged on thm and ran them back, and our regiment took forty pris.-

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oners. v e then leil back to our worKs, and they again came, more determined than ever, but we held them at bay. The fight lasted until dark, the rebs being beaten very badly; they did not break our lines anywhere. Their dead lay over the ground like sheaves over the harvest field; they lost easily ten to our one. The weather was very warm." Some of the Visitors. Some of the old soldiers who wero at the reunion today were: Captain F. Thmas, Co. G, of Danville, 111.; A. A. Ream, Co. J Peru; Calom Springer, Co. I., Converse; Dan Summers, Co. I, Greetnown; II. W. Wise, Co. C, Crown Point; Myiel Pierce, Co. A, Merrillville; Mat Boney. Co. A, Hammond; Cyrus Brunton, Co. E, Morrocco; Peter Young, Co. A, Crown Point; Levi A. Boyd, Co. A, Merrillville; Jacob Lutz. Co. A, Hobart; Cyrus Kiknich, Co. A, Hobart; Isaack T. Erb, Co. A. Crown Point; Thomas C. Moore, Co. E, Kentland; Nicholas Bever. Co. C. Michigan City; Williams Livingston, Co. A, Crown Point. EO QUORUM: i HEW CG1CIH (Special to The Times.) East Chicago. Ind.. Sept. 21. It was expected yesterday that East Chi cago would wake up this morning with at least four new aldermen to her cred it, including one alderman-at-large. Such was the plan, but like other well laid plans of mise and men, it went "agley." The aldermanic question constituted the reason why there was no meeting of the city council last night, for it was during the season of lobbying for various candidates, before the meeting was called to order, that Alderman Lewis and Alderman Schock withdrew leaving the council wit hnoouor et leaving the council with no quorum. The matter of appointing temporary aldermen to Oil the unexpired term of office in thi newly created wards, was the special business before the council. The new wards are the fourth, fith sixth and seventh, representing Okla homa and what was formerly the fourth ward, covering the whole of Indiana Harbor. Now Oklahoma is the fourth ward, and Indiana Harbor, the old fourth ward, has been divided into the fifth sixth and seventh wards. The eouncilmcn came early, all but E. V. Walton, who failed to show up at all. Then the lobbying began. Just who the various aldermen were supporting is clothed in mystery to a large extent, the friends of the rival candidates preferring to withhold the names from publication until there is a chance to put their men through. Schock and Lewis, it appears, were agreed upon a certain candidate, while the favor of the other councilmen were variously divided. When 9:30 o'clock arrived and no agreement had been reached as to whom to appoint, Schock and Iewis withdrew, and then there was no quorum. Why the Eagle? "As free as a bird in the air," we say. Now, of ell the bird3 of the air the eagle is king, and, therefore, of all birds he is the freest. This fact, coupled with the eagle's independence, self-reliance and unconquerable courage, caused it to be chosen as the emblem of the youngest and greatest of republics Xew York American. The Secret of Happiness. "The secret of marital happiness ia not always in letting a, woman have her own way, but in letting her have it without letting her now that you knoi that she's getting it. The Modern Flat. Jack "Hello, Tom, old man, got your new fat fitted up yet?" Tom "Not quite. Say, do you know where I can hnv a fo'din? toothbrush?"

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Respite in the Republican Ranks Gives Other Party Opportunity to Speak Its Little Piece Convention Set for Next Thursday. (Special to The Times) East Chicago, Ind., Sept. 21. Xow that the republicans are finished with their little tea party, or rather that they have paused to take their breah preparatory to starting in afresh enter the citizens' party. Posters informing the public in gen eral and the voters In particular, that the citizens' mass meeting is to be held Thursday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 o'clock at the Coliseum. Indiana Harbor, have been placed in conspicuous places all over town, and the citizens claim they expect quite a crowd to attend the event. The convention is for the purpose of electing a city chairman and commit teemen "and such other matters as may come before It," as the posters sig nificantly set forth. The proclamation is signed by Joseph E. Quinlan, the present city chairman for the citizens' party. St rone Ticket W ill Be Needed. Thus Tar the public generally has been too busy discussing the outcome of the republican primaries to have paid much attention to the citizens end of the game, and the latter are not talking much. They do not hesitate however, to declare that they are go ing to "put out a strong ticket," which they realize wiil be necessary If they expect to stand any show, in counteracting the influence of the republican ticket just named. A few candidates are whispering their aspirations, to friends In strictest confidence, or intimating that they may. enter the race, without really saying so, and there is some curiosity evinced as to whom they will choose, both for chairman of the city central committee, and subsequently as candidates for the various offices for which the race is being made. A steeiworker, James Lynch, employed at Gary for the past two years, committed suicide at the Vestibule hotel in Chicago yesterday evening. The hotel is located at 99 Van Buren street, and is more in the nature of a rooming house.for workingmen. i Lynch had not lived in Gary long j enough for him to become very well ac ouainted with any one and he is little

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CENTRAL C011IIIEE HOLD OPEd IEIIHG Whiting Presents a Strong Group of Republican Candidates. ALL REJOICE OVER SCHRAGE Hereafter Campaign Work Will Ba Done on the Ouside No More Meetings. (Special to The Times.) Whiting, Ind., Sept. 21. The repub llcan central committee held an open meeting in the city hall last night and the number of republicans in attendance and the enthusiasm which predominated throughout the entire meeting, was sufficient evidence that the G. O. P. will be as strong In Whiting this year aa ever. The purpose of this meeting was to get all the names of candidates to run on the republican ticket. As the name of Henry Schrage, sr., was mentioned for mayor, there was not a dissenting voice in the house, and one ot the oldest republicans in Whiting said ha never saw anything to equal the enthusiasm and rejek-ing among the members of the party, as all are of the opinion that he is the one man who can lead them on to victory. The meeting was called to order by Chairman James J. Nedjl, and John J. Keller, acted as secretary. There was also great cheering when the names of other men who will b candidates were mentioned. Here They Are, (ientienten. The full list is as follows: Mayor Henry Schrage, sr. City Clerk John T. Cameron. City Treasurer D. P. Griffith. Aldermen-at-Largf John G. Fischrupp, George Fcdoska, Frank M. Long, Paul J. Scholz and W. A. Tipton. Alderman of First Ward Andrew Barren. Aldermen of Second Ward C. A. Hellwig and Pante Haralovltch. Aldermen of Third Ward Henry Gobel, John J. Keller and Pavid J. Paskwietz. Aldermen of Fourth Ward James Burton. , It is thought that tijere will be no more open meetings now until after the primaries, which are on Saturday, Oct. 2nd, from 1 to S o'clock, but thi-rc will be much work done on the outride. Insisted on Wedding Veil. This from Servia: "The parisA priest of Nish refused to perform the v.edding ceremony for Peter Golubovitch and Mara Hetnar in Belgrada cathedral because the bride wore a hat instead of the traditional veil. The shops being closed, it was impossible to procure a veil and a substitute was finally improvised from a lace curtain." TIMES "AD5" PULLERS." ARE TUSIAESS known of in the city. Letters and the contents of his pockets, however, positively established his identity as James Lynch and i) Is residence as Gary. A half-filled bottle of carbolic acid lying at his side told the story of his death. His mouth and throat were burned from the acid as he lay partly undressed on the bed. The inquest ha not yet been held, but will probably take place some time today.