Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 98, Hammond, Lake County, 12 October 1909 — Page 4
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SOX pulled np a little and then the garters broke again. "MEESTER" Knotts is slowly but
surely reaching the Jumping-off place.
COOK'S may come and Cook's may-
go, but Peary promises to run on for
ever.
OUR dally hint to health and hap
piness "Get ready to vote for Schaaf
three weeks from today."
AFTER Peary had nailed the flag
to the North Pole, he should have
thrown the hammer away. 4
NEWSPAPER head line says, 100 Mutes Flee Fire In Panic. Must have
looked like a moving picture of a St Vitus Dance. .g
MAN always dodges the wages of sin. Woman is not able to and therein she deserves sympathy instead of
condemnation.
VICE in Gary's south end is being
Republican Tickets
GARY.
Buildimg in Mexico in Which Taft and Diaz Will Meet-
MAYOn John A. Brenaan. CLERK Joseph H. Cothrey. TREASURER Ernest C. Simpson. Aldennan-at-IarKe William McNeill AJdrrman-at-Lnrer Doiuialrk Siy-
manskl.
HAMMOND. MAYOR F. R. Schaaf. CUERK Peter Ripley. TREASURER Paul B. Llplaakl. CITY JUDGE E. G. Sprout. Alderniaa-at-Largc C. W. Uobbard. Alderman-at-Large Henry I.uadt. Alderman-at-Large W. B. Newman. Alderiiisn-cl-I. nrit.f Fred Laah Sr. AldcrmaB-ut-l.Hie A. J. Sutherland. ALDERMEN. First Ward rharlea F. Brubaker. Second Ward Henry Whitakrr. Third Ward Edward C. Hanson. Fourth Ward Hfarr F. Ecctra. rifth Ward Wllllaiu Kahl. Sixth Ward Daniel Kalmaa. Seventh Ward Fred S. Cotton. Eighth Ward Arthur Scbuts. Math Ward M. Hower. Tenth Ward J. J. O'Malley.
JUST ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS. It might be well for the people of Hammond, for the manufacturers, for the business men, for the taxpayers of the city to ask them
selves in all seriousnes and calmness whether it wouldn't be better investigated by the grand jury, but
to, have a man for mayor for just four years who wouldn't, in dealing what there is left of it smells just as with a problem of vital interest to the city, always ask first, IS IT loudly as ever. POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT FOR ME TO DO THIS? Wouldn't it be better to have a non-partisan executive who would consult the a vote for John A. Brennan is a city's interests from the people's standpoint rather than from the vote towards the political finish of standpoint of his own political machine? Will Hammond ever be- the vice system Tom Knotts has percome a greater Hammond when it is screwed down and boxed up in mitted in Gary. a selfish, demagogical political machine? ' ONLY three weeks until election THE JOSS OF THE DIVEKEEPERS WANTS IT ALL. and Mr. Becker has enough explainThe unmitigated gall of Tom Knotts in making the conditions under which In to do to keeP him busy rr three he will consent to join in the regular democratic primaries, Is amazing even times' three weeks. to those who know him best. The consummate hoggishness, (no term less " inelegant will do the subject justice,) of this selfish, self constituted Czar of PERHAPS the Knotts crowd at Gary, is beyond the comprehension of even his most blantant upholders. Gary Set a11 the Proof !t nts Had Knotts an ounce of originality he would have thought of some other before the grand jury and the courts excuse than the one on which he proposes to sneak out of meeting his ad- conclude their labors. versary, Crolius, on a fair field, that of failure to be permitted to name the head of the ticket. This lame excuse places him in the light of a fool as IT is a shame that Knotts should
well as a knave. If any one can fancy a more absurd as well as a more make the Gary police work so hard hoggish demand, than that of being permitted to name the head of the for hlm when tn?y nave oaly a few
ticket, under "penalty" of bolting the party, and nominating himself at a weeks to hold their jobs, mass convention, the person so doing Is deserving of a leather medal.
If anything was needed to demonstrate the insatiable greed of this PITTSBURG is working this penobnoxious candidate, the ground on which he refuses to unite with the nant racket for all it is worth so that
Crolius element in the primaries, has supplied it The rest of the ticket may t5ie world mW forget a" about its
go through or not as it best may, provided only that Tom E. Knotts, the scandals and chorus girls
brazen joss of the divekeepers, the blind pig and the baudy house proprietors, gets his. Never fear, "Meester" Knotts. You will get yours, and you will get it with a vengeance on election day.
ONE OF THE NUMEROUS BECKER BOOMERANGS. It will be a long time before the people of Hammond foreet the neriod
of depression in this city and vicinity when there was so much keen suffering and distress among the unfortunate foreigners who lived In the Standard Steel car district. There were hundreds of starving and destitute there AND NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF NORTH TOWNSHIP WAS THERE THE NEED OF POOR RELIEF FROM THE AUTHORITIES AS THERE WAS THEN.. Unfortunately for those people who are human beings after all, THEY HAD EMPTY BELLTES TO FILL. Many of them were in dire need of medical attention. There were sick children WHOSE PITIFUL WAILS DROVE THEIR PARENTS TO DESPAIR. There were wee babes whose starving- mothers had no sustenance to give them. Yes, the records show that there were actually hungry mothers WHO BORE BABES INTO STARVATION. F. R. Schaaf was trustee of the township then and the poverty stricken foreigners flocked to his office by droves to get food for their hungry children. SCHAAF MERELY DID HIS DUTY. He helped them. The Hammond police, the various charity organizations, business men, AND THE CITY COUNCIL-MANIC COMMITTEE HEADED BY JOHN KANE ALL HELPED IN THE GOOD "WORK. There was no thought of politics then.
T. TAGGART naturally objects to having the skids put under him and he strenuously kicks against being
invited to get on them himself. At
PROF. STARR says that the average man looks upon marriage as a
joke. The average man also looks
upon Prof. Starr as a double joke.
IT has been rather odd to think that the stars and stripes were not
planted at the North Pole until C. W,
Fairbanks got out of the country.
ARSON and mayhem are about the
only two things that the Becker machine organ hasn't charged Mr.
Schaaf with yet, but there is time yet. THE Chicago Tribune should be careful and not print any stories about the conditions permitted by Knottism
EAST CHICAGO. MAYOR Dr. A. G. Schlleker. CITY CLERK Walter Spencer. TREASURER A. G. Slocomb. Alderman-ut-Lnrge Thomas Buckley Aldennan-at-Large M. R. Sohork. Alderman-at-Large J. II. Bums. ALDERMEN. Firat Ward W. H. Olda. Second Ward Paul P. Myallwy. Third Ward Joseph French. Fourth Ward IJan Varady. Fifth Wart Carl Aaderaon. Sixth Ward W. M. Meataer. Seventh Ward John W. Galvln.
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Elaborate preparations are being made at Ciduad Juarez, Mexico, across the river from El Paso, Tex., for the
banque't at which President Diaz will entertain President Taft on Saturday. The Mexican president's state coaches
have been broug-ht from Mexico City for use on the occasion and the silver and linen used at the banquet will be from the presidential palace. The banquet hail Is being- decorated of a magnificent scale.
PRAISE FOR F. R.
SCHAAF FROM THE
BECKER ORGAN
Political Announcements
GABY.
Editor, Times:
Pleaae announce to the republicans
that I am a candidate for alderman from the ward In which I reside, which
la to bo named by the town board of
Gary, subject to the republican nonii-
ttiona. MITCHELL DUCHICH.
Editor, Times:
Pleaae announce to the pnbllc that I
am a candidate for alderman from the ward In which I reside, which la to be named by the town board of Gary, aub-
ject to the republican primaries. JOHN KESSERIC.
Editor, Times:
Please announce to the republican voters of Gary that I am a candidate
on the republican ticket for the office
of alderman from the ward In which
reside, to be named by the town board
of Gary, subject to the republican prl marten. A. NAYLOR, "the PtnMerer."
Editor, Times: Kindly nnnonnce my name aa a can
didavte for alderman In Gary on the republican ticket, subject to the repub
lican primaries. HARRY HALL.
or the dailv Pevo will hand it a little
11 was ways ana means to ameliorate ine sunenng ana aistress among tne l ,.,.
umorTunai.es wno un&Die to speait tne tingnsn language were sometimes too weak to make their wants known. Trusstee Schaaf did not turn any one away who was entitled to help. He did not stop to enquire whether he could get votes for the loaves he doled out. Neither did John Kane's aldermanic committee. NO ONE ACCUSES MR. KANE OF TRYING TO GET VOTES FOR HIMSELF, nor is anyone criticising Mr. Becker for the help his administration gave to public charity. Yet last night in Becker's mouthpiece there appeared what is called a "jotting," A SHABBY, SCURVY, SHUFFLING CRITICISM of Mr. Schaaf for spending township money to help those unfortunates. This is part of the "jotting." "Of course it was campaign year and Schaaf was chairman of the repub-
THE beautiful depot built by the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville railroad company in Homewood is one of
the standing monuments of the Becker administration.
THE Sox-Cub-Sunday game is going to bring out a serious aftermath. Mr. Crolius must not stop to wipe a ralnrtrnn off his nose or else "Meester"
lican committee and the larger share of the relief was given to foreigners Knotts may rule him out. whose vote he was working to get, BUT WHAT RIGHT HAS HE TO USE TAXPAYERS MONEY IN PLAYING THE POLITICAL GAME. With THERE were a whole lot of votes
this record oeiore mm ne has a monumental amount of gaul" (whatever no-
that is) to spean or non-partisan work. And these are the tactics that Becker is using through his mouthpiece to get votes from the people cf Hammond to enable him to buy $400 horses and feed at the public crib for thirteen years. Well, Mr. Becker is welcome to all the votes that "jotting" made him. IT WILL MAKE HIM SOLID WITH
the; futtiiiu.Mi.Kt) 111: it ougnt to maKe mm solid also with some mpr i,mw(I unon the weather man
people who believe that a public official has other duties besides influencing ip uke too much turkey Thanksgiving
legislation iu inabuc hiji iu kl.n HiKfaK TIMES FOR MAYOR. tImfl Tr has uuset the W. M. and
made him very ill. Hence these sky tears. e SOME subscriber in Gary asks us what platform "Meester" Knotts is running on. His platform is "I believe the divekeeper is entitled to more consideration than the decent citizen."
made for Mayor Becker as the
result of the democratic doings in a certain Hammond dance hall in the
small hours of Sunday morning.
TOO much praise about Indiana
Editor, Times:
Please aaatonnee to the republicana
of Gary that I am a candidate for aid
erraan from the ward in which I re
aide (to be named by the town board)
subject 'to the republican primaries.
EMERSON BOWSER. 4 Virginia Street.
Editor, Times I
Kindly announce In the columns o
your paper that I am a candidate for
alderman from the ward in which
reside (to be named by the town board)
subject to the republican primaries R. E. ROWLEY, 570 Jackson Street.
"Trustee Schaaf is entitled to great credit for the tremendous amount of work he has done In improving the township school system in addition to his other onerous duties as trustee." Hammond Dally News, Sept. 17, 1306.
PRAISE FOR F. It, SCHAAF FROM NORTH TOWNSHIP ADVISORY BOARD.
We wish to state to the people of Hammond that the administration of F. R. Schaaf as trustee of North township was carefully, ably and honestly administered as to the disposition of ALL monies in his charge. Not a single thing did he do for the township, not a penny did he spend but was with the fullest sanction of the advisory board and the people of North township. Petitions by the taxpayers were made for the Improvements of all roads and school houses before anything was done with them by the township ofnciale. We endorse Schaaf s every act. CHARLES CHICK. P. H. M' LAUGH LIN. (Mr. L. II. Mattern, the third member of the board, is on a three weeks' vacation, but he cheerfully substantiates the above, though his signature is not obtainable till he returns.
two men who attacked him on East Washington street, near the north side opening of an alley between Alabama and New Jersey early Sunday morning.
CHURCH DEBT CANCELED. The Indebtedness of the First Christian church of ShelbyvlUa was can
celed Sunday, the money having been
raised within the last few weeks.
About $2,000 was needed and this amount with two or three hundred over has been obtained. An all-day celebration was held in the church. RAZE DANGEROUS HILL. The Monro county commissioners have voted unanimously to Improve the famous Harrodsburg Hill, near Bloomlngton, known ail over southern Indiana as "the hill of accidents and deaths," because of Its steep grade. Autoists going from Indianapolis to French Lick have been going by way of Seymour and Columbus, many miles out of the way; to avoid the hill. SUPERANNUATED PREACHER OUT. Having been Informed by telephone from Sulpher Springs, a small town
In Henry county, that Sol Turner, a
discovered when ?ne
since been tried on a charge of perJu-V.
and acquitted. '
FAMILY TROUBLES CAUSE SUICIDE.
Because his wife would not live with him, Everett T. Mlntonye of Lafayette, 33 j-ears old, committed Buiclds early Sunday morning at a rooming house on South Sixth street. He retired about midnight and turned on the gas jet In his room. His death was not
until yesterday afternoon, of the occupants of the
house detected the odor of gas. TO TEST SMOKE ABATER. The Eig Four railroad expects to make a test today of a smoke-preventing device which has been installed on a locomotive In Indianapolis, and which. It is said, will reduce the amount Of smoke by 90 per cent. The demonstration will bj made at the roundhouse of the company and will be witnessed by several railroad officials, Smoke Inspector Brown, mem-
! bers of the Board of Safety and news- ' paper men. j TRY RO FOR MURDER, j The trial of Dr. Nelson B. Ross of Muneie, who shot and killed Daniel
deacon of the Christian church at that ' Llnder, a conductor of the Muncle
place, was on his way to Albany to inform him that his services as pastor of that church were no longer desired, the Rev. Frank Powers, also pastor of a Christian church at Al
bany, in this county, disappeared sud
denly and nothing has been heard from him since.
LAWYER NEAR DEATH.
Editor, Times: Please announce to the republicana that I am a camildate for alderman from the ward la which I reside, which la to be named by the town board of Gary, subject to the republican nominations. JOHN BENNETT.
Editor, Times t Please announce to the republicana that I am a candidate for alderman from the ward la which I reaide, which la to be named by the town board of finry, subject to the republican nominations. MIKE BIXZEN.
CALLS IT "A POOR EXCUSE."
The Whiting Call answers the attack made by a Hammond democratic
paper on Mr. Henry Schrage, the republican candidate for mayor by saying: "In the one poor excuse for a democratic newspaper that Hammond can supply, and which through the usual lack of thrift manifested by many in the democratic ranks here as elsewhere, our Whiting dems are forced to seek help from, the reader is informed of the shortcomings of the republican candidate for mayor in a way that would not be so very discreditable if true. The whole democratic speil is just "democratic," full of just such innuendo, giving inferences rather than facts, and which, when sifted down, are the strongest arguments in his favor." ee
AMONG THE MANY vicious and libelous falsehoods published by the legislature to give him a special grant
Post the paper started by Tom Knotts of Gary, to make himself mayor of 10 do Jt- Great is the Becker-Darrow
Gary, are the repeated charges that the TIMES is a non-union paper and Durgan triumvirate. employes scab labor. The statement is on a par with others made by Knotts. " The TIMES doesn't employ a single non-union man. In fact it Is strictly GARBAGE conditions in Hammond
union. It has a chapel of its own. Its sterotypers, printers and pressmen, are a crying shame. Ordinances penare members of Chicago Typographical No. 16. Any labor organization alize the guilty, but it is the object
which deslre3 further proof of these statements is cordially invited to visit evidently of the Becker machine adthe TIMES composing room and interview the chairman of the chapel and ministration to create new ordinances
seeth&-cards. Inot to enforce the old ones
MR. BECKER'S asking for a third term as mayor, is un-American and unprecedented, lie had to get the
Editor, Times: Please announce to the republicana that I am n candidate for alderman from the ward In which I reside, which
Is to be named by the town hoard of Gary, subject to the republican nominations. WILLIAM WOI.F.
'THIS DATE IN HISTORY." October 12. 1492 Columbia discovered America. 1775 Lyman Beecher, noted clergyman, born in New Haven. Conn. Died In Brooklyn, Jan. 10, 1863.
181S A constitution for Connecticut
was ratified by the people.
1SD3 The province of Buenos Ayres receded from the Argentine con
federation.
1S63 Alexander H. Stephens released
on parole from Fort Warren, in
Boston harbor. 1870 General Robert E. Lee died Born. Jan. 19, 180".
1886 Gales and floods in Texas and
I-Kiuislana destroyed 247 lives and
much property.
1906 First airship flight in the south was made at Piedmont Park, At
lanta.
1908 The Servian assembly voted to support the government against
Austrian aggression.
Portland traction line, Aug. 6, at Holt'i
Crossing, three miles north of Muncle, will begin today. Counsel for Ross will try to establish a plea of selfdefense. PLAN BIG LOT SALE. The lot sale which has been planned by the Young Men's Commercial club of Hwshville for several weeks will be-
WilHam A. Brown of Newcastle, one gin Tuesday morning. A mass meetf the best known criminal lawyers lng was held last night to arouse en-
of the state, is in a critical condition . tnusiasm. it tne. peoples iaciory aa-
at his home in Broad street and his ration, consisting of 4(0 lots, is sold.
death is expected at any time. Mr
Brown has been compelled for two years to remain at his home, owing to
broken health.
ACCEPTED A BRIBE. Francis Hardy, former trustee of
Anderson Township, will be arraigned
In the circuit court at Anderson today on a charge of having accepted a bribe while In office. A sensation was sprung here about a year ago when Hardy, then a trustee, was charged with perjury and accepting a
bribe. He was held under bond to the grand jury, and that body found two Indictments against him. He has
It Is estimated the population of Rush-
vllle will Increase 5,000 in two years. These factories have been contracted for and will be located here If the lot sale is made a success. MONON TUNNEL CAVES IN. The Owennburg tunnel, on the Swits City branch of the Monon. has caved in for the thirteenth time. Trains are being detoured via the Wallace junction. While no one has been killed be-wr cause of the cave-ins a petition may be sent to the railroad commission, asking that the tunnel be condemned, compelling the railroad to build around it. a distance of a mile.
Editor, Times:
Please make the announcement
through the columns of your paper that
I will be a candidate for the demo
cratic nomination fcr mayor of Gary, subject to the tleniocratlc nomination.
WII.IJAM C. CROLIUS.
Editor, Times: I wlah to atate through your paper that I am a candidate for alderman from the ward In which I reside (which la to be named by the town board), subject to the democratic primaries. JOHN HOWLING.
Editor, Times:
Please announce mat i am a can
didate for the office of aldrrmnn-at
large, subject to the action of the
democratic party. ELNATHAN E. BRADDOCK.
Editor, Times t
Please announce to the democrats of
Gary that I am a candidate for the of
fice of city clerk, subject to the action
of tine democratic party. I. E. GRIMES.
"THIS IS MY 64TH BIRTHDAY" Julian S. Carr.
General Julian S. Carr, one of the foremost citizens of North Carolina,
was born in Chapel Hill. N. C Oct.
12, 145. He served in the Confeder
ate States army and arter the war enj?aed In business, becoming one of the leading manufacturers in the south. He accumulated a large for
tune in th tobacco business and aft
erward engaged In banking and in numerous Industrial enterprise?. General Carr was honored with the position of commander of the United
Confederate veterans of North Caro
lina. During Hip war with Spain he
defrayed the living expenses of families unable to care for themselves of
two companies of volunteers from North Carolina. For many years he has been prominent in politics In North Carolina and has represented the state as a de!egate-at-large to several of the rational democratic conventions. At the national convection held In 1900 General Carr received thirteen votes for the vice-presidential nomination.
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UP AND DOWN IN !-N-DI-AN-A
ATTACKED AND BEATEN. James Neal Scanlon. a farmer living
near Cumberland, Ind., is in the Indl-1
anapoils hospital suffering rrom
wounds he received at tha ha,-'
of
Thomas Music Studio EUGENE THOMAS, Pianist
:
Will open on Oct. 16th, a school of Artistic Piano Playing.
Beginners Courses Artists' Course, Certificate and Diplomas issued.
Hours: Saturday 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Room: 7 Eder Bldg. 203 South Hohman St. Hammond, Ind Chicago Phone, Lincoln 3034.