Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 109, Hammond, Lake County, 25 October 1909 — Page 4
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So anxious was he to please the man, whom he admits loaned him )0 to put in one of his many investments, that he ignored the needs and
ambitions of the great city of which he Is the mayor and let the Lake Shore road fill in the harbor with sand. We refterate it is the selfish, personal interest that alone concern Becker. IT MEANS MUCH to Hammond to elect a mayor who is with the council. A mayor with an antagonistic council would be hindered at every turn in the road, and none the les3 would a council with an antagonistic mayor be hindered. So that in electing F. R. Schaaf mayor of Hammond it is by all means essential that he has a council who are with him heart and soul for the planks of his platform. This will be well worth remembering one week from next Tuesday.
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TO SUBSCRIBERS Readers of THE TIMES are repeated favor the maa. igrmnt by reporting: any Irreamlarttea la delivering. Cora man lea te with the Circulation Department. COMMUNICATIONS. THE TIMES vrtll print all eommnaleatlama on anbjeeta of ajeaeral Interest t the people, when nek eammtmlcatloaa are atzraed by the writer, bat will reject all rom muni rat ion net alarned, no matter what their merlta. Tbla precaution la taken to arold misrepresentation. THE TIMES fa published ta the beat Interest of the people, a ad Ita atteraveea always lateaded to promote the general welfare of the public at large. "TWO TIMES IS PLENTY, AND PLENTY IS ENOUGH." This is the final week of the municipal campaign in Hammond and the prospects are that it will be tie warmest ever known in the history of the city and it is freely predicted that it will eclipse the whirlwind finish of the famous Knotts campaign. The majority of the taxpayers and voters of Hammond WANT A CHANGE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITY'S AFFAIRS. They want an active instead of a passive administration. They
rebel against the "ring" domisation that has the city in its grasp. THERE
IS LITTLE QUESTION ABOUT THAT. Many reasons there are that Lawrence Becker should not be elected. It is not necessary to go over and over them. There is one reason however, paramount about all others why the Becker machine should not be put into power again and that is simply this: THE PEOPLE OF HAMMOND LIKE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES ARE DISTINCTLY AND UNALTERABLY OPPOSED TO THE IDEA OF THIRD TERMISM IN POLITICS. The idea is un-American above all things. Lawrence Becker has been in office in this city for nine years and we believe tho people of Hammond will say next Tuesday week that he has had enough. Mayor Becker has not advanced a single tenable reason why the people of Hammond should keep him FEEDING AT THE PUBLIC CRIB FOR THIRTEEN YEARS. Party lines have been abolished in this campaign and there are scores upon scores of democrats who will vote against Lawrence Becker on November second, simply because they are opposed to the work of Lawrence Becker in getting a law changed that would permit him to be mayor of Hammond for a third term. As one of our German friends said of Becker's candidacy "TWO TIMES FOR BECXEP. 133 PLENTY UND PLENTY IS ENOUGH." D- yci iliir'.i Hammond cugfct to take care of Becker and his pets for THIRTEEN" Y!:.?.S?
E. G. JSPROAT AN INDEFATIGABLE WORKER. One of the candidates on the republican ticket whose candidacy has appealed to a large percentage of the voters of Hammond is that of E. G. Sproat for city Judge to succeed Judge W. W. McMahon, whose record there has been a splendid one. Mr. Sproat's remarkable race at the republican primaries was spectacular and stamped him as a hustler in politics of the mo6t advanced type. He Is a candidate with every laudable ambition and teems with physical and mental energy. Mr. Sproat knows what it is to work for a living and th wage earner and laboring man know this to be a fact. He has declared in his speeches that if elected he will give every one a square deal regardless of nationality, color or creed. His sympathies are with those who have to toil for their daily bread. His duties will, if he is elected be discharged impartially and with the sole idea of serving the ends of justice. Probably no man on the republican ticket has a more worthy opponent than Mr. Sproat. Mr. Barnett is a man of integrity and ability. Like Mr. Sproat, he has Just begun to win his spurs as a lawyer. Both of them are made of the right stuff. They differ in that one is a republican and the other a democrat. Since he was nominated, Mr. Sproat has spent 20 hours out of the 24 each day working for the success of the republican party. He deserves the support of the party to a man for In many instances he has sacrificed his own candidacy to put in a few good licks for F. R. Schaaf and the rest of the ticket. When a man is up against so worthy an opponent as is Mr. Sproat he should have his undivided party support. He is deserving of hard work in his behalf because he is fighting a good fight for his comrades.
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ATTACKING A SUCCESSFUL ENTERPRISE.
Publishing compes in this campaign, hostility by makin
necessary to reiterate that the Lake County Printing and y, publisher of the TIMES newspapers, is not an issue A few of the rabid Becker partisans have shown their X the paper a target for vituperation and threats simply
because they want to show their hatred for a successful business enterprise. The Lake County Publishing and Printing company is not a candidate for office, nor is it an issue in this campaign. No member of the company nor any of its employes are candidates for office or have any Interests in the campaign save such as they are inclined by party affiliations. The company
employs both republicans and democrats. May it please the Becker machine and their employment does not depend upon their politics. Union wages and union rules prevail in all departments yet employes of the company have been singled out and villified until forbearance is no longer a virtue. It may
Interest the intelligent citizens of Hammnd to know that the Lake County Printing and Publishing company has a weekly payroll which is one of the largest in the city. It is a successful industry in itself and the company
which has never opposed competition or set a stumbling block in the way of
any other paper, pays wages in its various departments to over one hundred
people. Yet these narrow-minded rnd selfish politicians living off the tax
payers of Hammond are doing all they can to injure an industry which has always boosted Hammond and has tried to give the city a newspaper of republican policy with which it may compare with any city in the west. The
TIMES has always fought for the business and manufacturing interests of
Hammond, for Its public institutions, its churches, lodges and enterprises,
and yet there are those picayunish souls, eaten with jealousy because of their own favor, who claim to be for a greater Hammond when they are
doing fill they can to hurt one of the city's leading industries.
Air OAK PLANK IN SCHAAF'S PLATFORM.
There is one plank in Richard Schaafs platform which will make him hundreds of votes and will probably be responsible for his election. This refers to the "absent treatment" with which the North and East sides have
been doctored during Becker's administration. The platform states, "There shall be no sectionalism if I am elected.
will be with the people of the North Side and the East Side for improvements for which they have asked and not obtained. I shall see that they are not ignored any longer. I will seek to remedy with all possible speed the
present defects in our sewerage system. The problem is a vital one on ac
count of its connection with public health. The sewerage system of Hammond must be sanitary and adequate. I shall use every effort In my power
to make something else of the Calumet river, as it. runs through Hammond
besides a bed of filth and stench. I will prosecute the task of getting a harbor for Hammond with all my vigor. The pollution of the city's drinking water supply will have my earliest attention, for something should be done
with it immediately." TT-. T I .. 1 A j
wutti. nammuuu wains ana neeas is more uniform attention at the
hands of the administration. Under six years of Becker, the south side
where Homewood is located, has been lavished with the expenditure of public
money for park improvements. No one criticizes Becker for this hut what
about the people of the East Side who petitioned Becker and the democratic council for a park along the Calumet river and were turned down. No one questions that the East Side would be as attractive as Homewood if It had as beautiful a park aa Harrison park around which to cluster the homes of its residents. No one questions that the North Side would be as attractive a residential center as Homewood if it had even a small park, in the built up portion, around which the people of this district could build their homes. PRKS ARE PURCHASED AND BEAUTIFIED BY THE TAX-PAYERS OF THE CTTT. SO FAR THE PEOPLE OF ONLY PART OF THE CITY HAVE REAPED THE BENEFITS. Only the favored few have watched the values of their holdings mount to fabulous figures because they fronted on a city park. Schaaf pledges himself to see that the North Side and the East Side are treated equally with the South Side in the way of park improvements. In addition he intends to see If something cannot be done to clean the filth out of tha Calumet river. Probably the most important of his declarations is that he will prosecute the task of getting a harbor for Hammond with all the vigor he possesses. Becker has. because of his friendship for Charles W. Hotchkisa and the Lake Shore railroad, permitted it to fill in the river which is Hammond's only hope , of a harbor.
WHAT SHOP GIRLS MUST ABJURE.
The edict has gone forth in certain of the large retail merchantile houses in Chicago, that hereafter the shopgirls in their employ shall abjure such
horrors as "rats," "false busts," frowsy hair puffs, false curls, etc. Lingerie and frills, flashy jewelry, garish buckles, peek-a-boo waists, low neck collars, rouge, unseemly make-up of all descriptions are also on the tabooed list, and
the Kirls are required to appear for work dressed with a simplicity m Ke. p
in with their business like calling and the hours In which they are employed.
t factiNmia nfrsnns who are bothered with a sense ol tne eternal ni-
ness of things, this will come as a rreat relief. Most Bhop-girls are pretty.
Students of the beautiful in the female form divine and the female face divine, are agreed that the ratio of beauties among girls who work behind the counters in the department stores, Is greater than in almost any other line of employment. Why then, should these girls think it incumbent to make of themselves ridiculous caricatures by the adoption and exaggeration
of every foolish fashion that comes along regardless of when and where it
is in good taste, if it is ever In good taste? Why should they see nt to go
to work arrayed in a garb tnat wouia do vasuy mors uewmms " uuuuuw,
or at a ball, and which is wholly out of keeping In a place of business?
To the credit of the girls who work In the stores and shops of Lake
County, be it Baid, that while some few assume these monstrosities of fashion
which are after all seldom adopted at all by persons who really do oeiong,
the majority of them are free from untasteful vanities. The real people
are always conservative, especially so in the day time, when dress is out
of place. It was noticeable at tne time or tne repuuncau mureuuuu iu
caeo. when almost all the shop girls of the big metropolis, and tne nasny
element who travel In the so-called "smart set," were wearing their hair
cuffed out to very near the proportions of a bushel-basket, Mrs. Alice Roose
velt Longworth and other White House representatives, affected the utmost
simplicity in their coiffures and dress.
THIS IS THE LAST WEEK OF IT. The cities of Lake County are entering upon the last week of the hot
test campaign that has been fought out in this region in a great many years
Each city is wrapped up In its own municipal affairs, and has scarcely time
t rop-ar,i vhot is mmlne to rass In its neighboring towns. However these
neighboring towns have a considerable bearing, the one upon the other
Combined, they have a bearing on the county, and through the county on
the state.
There is an outlook of a republican landslide in Lake County at the
municipal elections this year. The landslide will Include Oary, Hammond
Whiting and East Chicago. All of these have put up splendid tickets, against
which the opposition may hurl the vials of their wrath, without even making
a dent. Consider the names of Schaaf, Schlieker, Brennan and Schrage. All
names to conjure with. All are names of men of brains and character, and each one a man of whom the cities they represent, may be proud in any
company, under any conditions.
With such men at the helm, there is bound to be good government, In so far as the mayor of a city, can control government, and that is to a large
extent. Of course, without a decent council to help them in carrying out a decent administration, the mayor is seriously handicapped, and it is up to the citizens. to the voters to see that adequate councils are elected along
with the heads of the tickets.
In the overpowering Interest that attaches to the question of the mayor
alty, the voters are apt to lose sight of the necessity for councilmen of integrity and character. This mistake must not be fallen Into. Do not handicap your chief executive by saddling onto him, councilmen who are
worse than useless.
So far as the councilmen selected to represent the people on the repub
lican tickets are concerned, they all seem to be men of decency, integrity and Intelligence. The voters will not make a mistake In putting them in
office.
THERE WILL BE PLENTY TO DO.
The remark is sometimes heard, relative to the Crown Point election
that th9 "next board of trustees will have nothing to do," as all the improve
ments have been put in by the old regime and that "it doesn't matter who i put in."
A simple statement, of some of the work to be performed by the next ad
ministration will help to efface that Impression from the winds of those who
think the next board will be "seal-warmers" only.
Sewer extension, water main-extension, methods to be prouded for keeping present improved streets in condition, possibly a new school house to be built, in which the board will have control, matters relative to street-car
franchises which the present board has under advisement, placing of ad
ditional electric lights, extension of fire protection, the matter of Bezor ditch
improvements and in fact a hundred additional and important matters will
demand the attention of the next town board.
The present board have shown themselves fully capable of wrestling
successfully with these civic questions, which are at the time in an incom
plete stage, and their record in the water-works deal by which the town is
saved nearly $1500.00 on that proposition alone, is enough to warrant the!
reelection if nothing else were in their favor. Who do you want to handl
the above business propositions for you? Are not the present board officials
good enough?
RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS
EVERY republican voter should get busy and stay busy until 6 o'clock Nov. 3rd. 4 THE cracker-box and drum stove have begun to hold their meetings for the winter.
stand the political game any longer. He had to turn on the sky tears. F. R. Schaaf has not been charged
as yet with biting off anyone's ear.1
but there are six days until election. CLEAN out the city council; re
member that the ring has its nippers on some of the present city aldermen.
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A WOMAN may tell a story about
her age, but it takes a man to He about what caused his hair to fall out.
TAKING excuse is a great deal like
taking advice, it is always what some one else besides yourself ought to be
doing.
JEFFRIES may be fit as a fiddle to
fight Johnson, but it is a bass fiddle, if the stories of his weight count for anything.
WATCH out for the roorback. We
understand there are a number in the
pickle barrel. Place no stock In the roorback.
SPENDING the people's money for
permanent improvements is a vasty
different thing from spending it In salaries and payrolls.
PERHAPS the lovely fall weather
felt that we were paying entirely too
much attention to politics and not
enough to the weather.
IT certainly was an unkind cut for
some one to suggest that Tom Knotts
use a blind pig as emblem on the tic
ket instead of the rooster.
jrni biuiain nas discovered some
thing better than chloroform. Well
let 'em keep it up and discover some
thing better than appendicitis.
AND in the meantime. It will be
well to watch carefully Wee Willie
Hearst of New York. It looks as If
he might do some tall surprising.
TOO bad to think that the mighty
Carr's recent trip to Chicago to plead
with the Chicago editors was such a fuzzle. How, indeed are the mighty
fallen!
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TO Lake County's great disappoint
ment, James E. Watson has decided
not to come to thi3 locality to practice
law, but will remain in Rushville, his
home town.
A LAPORTE barber who always
takes his wife along when he goes
hunting, bagged thirteen ducks the other day. We don't need to hand
out any moral here.
SCIENCE will never be what it is
cracked up to be until it can tell us
why a man's face doesn't get bald in
stead of his head and save him the
expense of shaving.
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IN other words the Becker ring de
sires to so adjust the situation to its
own interests so that it will have
formidable alignment of "ring" work
ers at public expense.
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THE Toledo Blade very succinctly
says that It seems a shame to spoil a
good month like October with politics.
Well, it makes any of the months
quite sloppy, does politics.
MEESTER KNOTTS' tactics are be ing given the frozen stare by a num
ber of people who think he and his town board are responsible for the
conditions existant in Gary.
Ferrers Daughter, Whose Efforts to Save Her Father Excited Sympathy
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C. OLIVER HOLMES said in Gary the other night that the TIMES is
electing Becker mayor of Hammond
that he heard it when he was In Ham
mond. You know who C. Oliver hob
nobs with when he comes to Ham
mond don't you? Well It isn't the working man. Oliver is one of the
"interests" and works with the "In
terests."
Republican Tickets
TOM KNOTTS can't throw the
blame. It sticks to his fingers and th
people know it.
IN the meantime, Becker hasn'
deigned to tell the wondering taxpay
ers how he got It?
THE fact that some mayors see election day a short time off makes them get extremely busy. THE weath.iir man Just couldn't
HAMMOND. MAYOR F. It. Sefaaaf. CLERK Peer Ripley, TREASURER Paul B. I.lplnshl. CITY JIIJGE E. G. Sproat.
Alderman-at-Laxaje C. AV. Hubbard.
Alderman-at-Large Henry I.undt
Alderraan-at-Large -W. B. ewman.
Aldermau-at-I.arge Fred I.anh Sr.
Alderman-at-I.arge A. J. Sutherland,
ALDERMEN. Ft rat Ward Chart ea F. Brubaker. Second Ward Henry Whltafcer. Third Ward Edward C. Hanson. Fourth Ward Henry F. Eggrere. Fifth Ward William KahL Sixth Ward Daniel Kalman. Seventh Ward Fred S. Cotton. Eighth Ward Arthur Schata. Math Wird M. Hovrer. Tenth Ward J. J. O'Malley. WHITING. MAYOR Henry Schrage. CLERK J. T. Cameron. TREASURER D. D. Griffith. Alderman-at-Lara;e Geo. Fedorko. Aldrrman-at-I.arx, Vt . A. Tipton. ALDERMEX. Flrat Ward Andrew Baron. Second Ward Panto Haralorltch. Third Ward David Paakwtetc. Fanrtb. n-aart.Janias W. Barton.
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caused anti-Spanish demonstrations all over Europe, appealed to King Alfonso
iur a. paraon lor iier iamer, dui owihj 10 me opposmon 01 ms caouiei
ii was unauie 10 KrtlI1t 'ier prayer. i.juiing ner iainers lncarccmuQU me daughter was forced to seek employment in a factory at Barcelona. She is now being- cared for by friends.
EAST CHICAGO. MAYOR Dr. A. G. chlleker. CITY CLERK Walter Spencer. TREASURER A. G. Slocomb. Alderman-at-Large Thome Bnekley Alderman-at-Large M. 11. Schock. Alderman-at-Larice J. II. II u rn a. ALDERMEX. Flrat Ward W. H. Olda. Second Ward Paul I. Myallvry. Third Ward Joseph French. Fourth Ward Dan Varady. Fifth Ward Carl Anderaon. Sixth Ward Wr. M. Mentaer. Seventh Ward John W. Galvla.
DIPHTHERIA I.V ORPHANS' HOME. One of the children of the Orphans' home at Logansport, is IU with diphtheria, and earing- that an epidemic may break out In the home, Drs. X. W. Cady and James Stanton . Saturday morning injected five thousand units of antitoxin into every child in the institution.
GARY. MAYOR John A. Brennan. CLERK Joseph H. Cothrey. TREASURER Ernest C. Simpson. Alderman-at-Large William McNeill Aldennan-at-Large Dominlrk Siy-manskt.
UP AND DOWN IN l-NDIA-N-A
SEEK ELECTION OF WOMEN. The federation of women's club Friday afternoon at Terre Haute practically decided to go a little farther into the campaign for the election of. one or two women to the city school i board by presenting cards to voters prior to election day and by assigning women to each poll to urge voters to , vote for at least two women in the election of five trustees. j ft. JUSTICE FIFTY-THREE YEARS.' D. M. Pulver, of Morocco has Just completed fifty-three years as Justice of the peace, having held the office continuously since 1S56. He is now SO years old, but in every way he is a well preserved man. and appears younger than most men at 60. .
PRAISE FOR F. R. 4 SCHAAF FROM TI1E BECKER. ORGAN. "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 Daily News, Sept. IT, 1906. 4 PRAISE FOR F. R. SCHAAF FROM NORTH TOWNSHIP ADVISORY BOARD. We wish to state to the people of Hammond that the administration of F. B. Schaaf ag trus- 4 tee of North township was carefully, ably and honestly admin- 4 istered as to the disposition of AIJj 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. Fetitions by the taxpayers were made for the Improvements of all roada and school 4 d houses before anything was done with them by the township officlals. We endorse SchaaTa ev4 ery act. CHARLES CHICK. P. II. MLAUGHLJN. L. H. MATTERX. "
Thomas Music Studio EUGENE THOMAS, Pianist
Will open on Oct. 16th, a school of Artistic Piano Playing.
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Beginners Courses Artists' Course, Certificate and Diplomas issued. Hours: Saturday 9 a. m. to 6 p. in. Room: 7 Eder Bldg. 203 South Hohman St. Hammond, Ind Chicaco Phone, Lincoln 3034.