Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 113, Hammond, Lake County, 29 October 1909 — Page 1

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Reservation Idea for Big: Republican Rally at Towles Opera House Monday Abandoned

FIRST COffiE FIRST SERVED l i

Expectations for Immense

Crowd and Great

Enthusiasm.

While n niiiubr of reserved wnn were Klvrn oat for the

republican meeting at Tnwle'a j

iInn hotine next Monday, It ban txr-n decided cot to rfiene any nenln but to throw oprn the opera hoBM to vrybody. : Krcrjbody Uo comes to the meeting itUI be given n aeat

until tl:e home In filled, ao It In

O a cine of con.e early and avoid : I I the rrsb. ! I ;U

Every Schaaf man in Hammond is looking forward to the big rally which is to be held in Towle's opera house at 7:30 Monday evening. This meeting will be the climax to one of the most exciting campaigns that has ever been held In Hammond. The speakers will be. rocked and primed for the occasion and the meeting should be an exceedingly interesting one. While it was thought at first that it would he advisable to reserve some of the seats this Idea lias been abandoned, and any one and every one who desires to attend the meeting will have the opportunity until the house Is filled. Srhaaf Will Make Rouning Speech. Richard Schaaf will make a speech and will have some things to say that will be of great Interest to the voter and the taxpayer. There will te other speakers who will go over the issues of the campaign and will unsparingly attack the methods of the present administration. Great preparations are being made for this meeting, and there will be entertainment and instruction for all who attend. The meeting in fact will be the final word of the Schaaf men to the. people of Hammond and will wind irp a campaign that has been unparal4f"d In the history of the city. JLjf.'he confidence of the Schaaf forces is Increased, hy a positive knowledge that th Becker crowd realizes that the jig Is practically up. Since Sunday the trend of public sentiment in Schaaf's favor has been so strong that nothing can stop it. The psychological crisis has passed, and It is believed that from now on Pchaf will gain In strength until it will be a matter only of the majority. The people are with Schaaf and the Becker crowd know it. That is why they have dropped their arguments and have begun vituperation and abuse. These things have made the republican forces buoyant. Its effect will be seen at the meeting Monday night. Schaaf has a loyal lot of supporters and they are going the limit for him. That la why the tide has turned. That is why Schaaf feels practically sure of election Tuesday.

NOW, WOULDN'T YOU If a candidate running for mayor should go up and down a city villifying people who are not an issue in the campaign, and if he spoke at a public meeting as Becker did last night, introduced by a man practically a stranger in the city, instead of one of the respected party war horses, and if instead of answering logically, questions of vital importance to the taxpayers of the city, he spent most of his time in villifying a newspaper and its employes, not issues in the campagn at all, wouldn't you think that the candidate for mayor knew he was badly beaten and made his speech merely as a matter of spite and revenge? Now, wouldn't you ?

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COUNTY H JURiSDiG

The attorneys representing the re-

monstrators !n the Burn's ditch matter, which is now being heard in the

Porter circuit court at Valparaiso, are prophesying that the whole matter will be thrown out of the court there on the plea that Lake county and not Porter county has jurisdictlos. These opponents to the ditch say that there are 53.000 feet In Lake county and only 29.000 feet in Porter county, aid that under the law this would f 1 ake county jurisdiction.

f H Hi LCI V U. LUV ..IB... V JU..QV..V. tlon will rome when the court decides to consider what is alleged in the petition or what the engineers actually plan to dig. When you go to Gary. Ind., take a ride In the free sight-seeing autoaaoDllc of the United State Land Ca.

RQLEUS j! STARTS HEW BATTLE ?

Why the People Want a Change. CBecause at a meeting of the state board of tax commissioners at Indianapolis in August 1907, as shown by the records, MAYOR LAWRENCE BECKER APPEASED PERSONALLY BEFORE THE BOARD AND ASKED FOR AND OBTAINED A 10 PER CENT. INCREASE UPON THE ASSESSMENTS OF. THE CITY OF HAMMOND. Note well that the 10 per cent, did not effect the railroads running through our city, as Mr. Becker knew at the time. At this meeting, besides the state board, there were present, County Auditor Johnson, County Assessor Black and Township Assessor Escher, each of whom protested AND TKIED TO KEEP DOWN THE ASSESSMENTS after the county board had accepted the figures of the various township assessors. NOTE THAT THIS 10 PER CENT. INCREASE DID NOT AFFECT THE RAILROAD INTERESS, WHICH ARE BEHIND MR. BECKER IN TEIS CAMPAIGN. That's why the people of Hammond want a change. CBecause, while the cities of East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Gary are working to dig harbors, Becker is standing idly by and REFUSED TO TAKE ANY ACTION, THOUGH REQUESTED TO DO SO when the Lake Shore Railroad corporation was filling in the only river that Hammond could use as a harbor. C That's why the people of Hammond want a change. CBecause property owners on streets where public improvements have been put down, such as on Ogden street, have been roused to indignation by the work that has been done and the treatment they received at the hands of the Becker administration. C That's why the people of Hammond want a change. CBecause the people believe that the mayor of Hammond should not be tied up with "interests" that are using him, that intend to use him if he is re-elected, and who have refused to help Schaaf because they know they cannot use him. THE TAXPAYERS WON'T STAND FOR A ''USED" CANDIDATE. C That's why the people of Hammond want a change. CBecause the people believe that the "interests" should keep their hands off the things that belong to the taxpayers. One of these things is the administration of civic affairs. THE CITY OF HAMMOND BELONGS TO TEE TAXPAYERS. No warranty deed to it was ever given to Becker or HIS "INTERESTS." C That's why the people of Hammond want a change. CBecause the people of Hammond do not believe in jeopardizing the city's interests by having a mayor who will close up streets after street for the benefit cf the railroads and not get. anything from the corporations in return except votes for himself. C That's why the people of Hammond want a change. ' CWATCH THE TIMES TOMORROW AND WE WILL GIVE YOU OTHER REASONS WHY THE PEOPLE DEMAND A CHANGE.

SURE, THEY THINK IT PROPER. In working for the re-election of Becker, so that he can have thirteen years in public office, Messrs. W. C. Belman. W. H. Gostlin and J. N. Beckman, believe that it is proper for Becker to owe $1,000 to public utility franchise promoter, C. W. Hotchkiss, of the Indiana & Chicago Traction company; that it is proper for the Becker-Tapper Realty company to buy thousands of dollars worth of Hammond municipal bonds; that the Ahlborn Construction company should get the lion's share of the city contracts, and that the Becker "interests" should run things to suit themselves and not the taxpayers.

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COL. GIFFQRD ROAD NEARS COUNTY SEAT

Lack of Representative Democrats to Act as Chairman for Becker Meeting, Ring Springs a Dark Horse.

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ThU afternoon Special Judge Harold "Wheeler of Crorrn Point, sitting as apecfal Judge to try the mandamus proceedings that have been started by Attorney Joseph Conroy, representing William C. Crollus, Issued an alternative writ to compel the board of election commissioners to appear at 10t30 temorrow morning and show cause why they should not put the "roll us ticket under the emblem of the crowing rooster. Attorney Conroy also filed an amended and supplementary complaint enJoining the election commissioners from putting the Knotta ticket under the democratic emblem the crowing rooster. This revealed the plans of the Crollus men for the future and brings the new elements Into the situation that It was expected would be brought In when Jndge Virgil S. Iteiter rendered his recent derision awarding the verdict In the last mandamus suit to T. E. Knotts, although the evidence snowed that Crollns la the leader of the democratic pnrty la fJory. William C. Crolius is again court fighting for the crowing rooster, the emblem of the democratic party which the election commissioners had already taken away from him and given to Thomas E. Knotts, through the kind efforts of Clerk C. O. Holmes. Another mandatory injunction was filed yesterday afternoon by Crolius, this time mandating the election commissioners to give him the democratic emblem, instead of mandating Clerk

Holmes to give them the commissioner j as they did before. I Attorney Harold Wheeler of Crown !

Point will be selected as special Judge to try the case, which will begin this afternoon at 1:30 in the superior court room at Hammond. This special judge

was satisfactory to both parties.

Local Manager of Singer Sewing Machine Co. to Ee Put in Charge of Central Omce for Northern Indiana.

Through tba hustle and energy of F. C. Miller, the manager of the Singer Sewing Machine company in thi3 city, Hammond Is to be made the distributing center of northern Indiana and Mr. Miller is to have charge of the central office. Today M. M. Tatro, R. M. Clark and W. Roe of the Singer Searing Machine company came to Hammond to look over the situation. They were made to apreoiate at once the fact that Hammond is the greatest railroad and distributing center in the region. Mr. Miller's promotion to the management of the sales agants of northern Indiana came, however, because of his great success in this line of work. With one exception Mr. Miller is the

THEY WON'T VOTE THAT WAY. The office-holder who demands a third term in an executive office must have a mighty high opinion of his own popularity. Well, Becker, has that opinion all right, but strange to say, there are about three hundred old-time democrats in Hammond who are not going to vote that way next Tuesday.

HU1I0REDS THRONG FEDERAL BUILDING

Lawrence Becker, candidate for; mayor of Hammond on the interests" ' ticket, and C L. Allnut, yardmaster at j the Erie, emitted a few bubbles beforai a large crowd of people at Towle'' opera house last night For some rea-i son or other it was Impossible to ge one of the old-time democrats to pre-' side over the meeting and Mr. Allnut, aj newcomer In Hammond whom nobody) knew, was drafted to Introduce the "In-j terests" candidate. Mr. Allnut (from! the best Information obtainable thati is his correct name) Is evidently a' great vote getter. ' What Allan Bald.

Morocco, nd., Oct. 29. Colonel GIf- Mr A1,,.f ..,a that , newgTat-P

ford, owner of a big ranch In northern wh-ch wouM m.ntlon the fact that a Jasper county and who for the last few I ndldate for mayor had a saddle yeara has been engaged in building a horge woul(J nQt hesltate t0 rMOrt to

railroad with his own money, has ex-

horse stealing, and advised Becker t,

tended his line northward materially in j kee h,s gtab; locked or Thb TlJ

me last inreo monwis anu win rcan

Crown Point, it is said, by Jan. 1. From Crown Point the road will be built to Indiana Harbor, Hammond or Gary. The road is known as the Chicago & Wabash Valley and at the present time is perhaps sixty to seventy miles In length. Colonel Gifford Is probably the only man in Indiana who has built a railroad with his own money. Indications for an electric railway through Rensselaer are. It la said,

would steal it. Another logical argument that made Mr. Becker hundreds of votes was uttered by Mr. Allnut when he said: "Who ever heard of Richard Schaaf being connected with anything that was clean f Shortlj- after this Mr. Allnut, we believe the name is right, sat down. Then lie Arose. Then the great political boss and servant of the interests got up to

western Traction company is back 0f!peak. The most of his speech dealt

the proposed enterprise and the city wl iKB ne' it an u .n hh cio, k t in the campaign. Among the things

granting the franchise at its next meeting, Oct. 30. It is said the road will be built through to Monticello,

Logansport, Remington and Rensselaer, and from the latter point will parallel the Monon to Chicago.

HAVE GUESTS HERE

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Structure Given Over Foreigners Seeking Naturalization.

EfiOSTLY BRENHU1 FOLLOWERS

One of Oldest Residents in All This Region Passes Away, Death Being Due to His Extremely Advanced Age.

i feeble health for some time past,

! and loving hands

Deputy Surprise Out of Blanks and Has to Go to Chicago for More.

Three hundred foreigners crowded

best salesman in fifteen states, which

The question of whether or not theilncUldes the whole central states dis-

evidenea in the other mandatory case! trctcan be used in this one or not, will do- Better Salesman and Collector, termine how soon this case can be de- Mr- Miller has not only sold more cided. The lawyers were arguing vari- machines than any other man in this out matters before Judge Reiter of the' lar district, excepting one. but he Terir nnnrt at s r.viocir iaKt nin-bt ' has made better collections. The many

It may be possible that the Knotts bunch and the Gary Tribune crowed too soon over the rooste.r after all.

HEAD-ON COLLISION An emigrant train, westbound on the Erie, collided erly this morning at Tocsin, east of Huntington with a fast eastbound freight, second section of No. 80. Local employes of the road who have heard of the wreck insist that nobody was seriously injured, while another report has it that the engineer and fireman of the freight train were seriously scalded. Xo. SO passed through Hammond about 6:30 last night.

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today waiting their turn to be naturalized in order to get in their vote for their respective candidates next Tuesday. The majority of these were Brennan men and came from Garj-. To add to th situation. Deputy

United States Clerk Charles Surprise j found himself out c? blanks last night,

friends of Mr. Miller will be glad to n,s ,iiu'hL ,Mr lr"l "smngion knnw tt b, Rncceded ho well Jn somewhere on the. road. Consequent-

(Srecial to Thb Times.) Lowell, Ind., Oct. 29. Timothy Serjeant, SI years old, died at his home la North Clark street, Lowell, yesterday. At intervals owing to his advanced age Mr. Serjeant had been in

kind

doing all In their

power to comfort him in his declining years. He bore his sufferings very patiently and with fortitude, always meeting and greeting all with a kind word. He was an exemplary man, beloved and respected by all of his acquaintances who were many throughout Lake county, especially in the southern part. Mr. Serjeant was born

the work that he has undertaken here.

corridors of the federal building' Jn Lebanon county, Ohio August ZS

1SCS, and died in Lowell, Oct. 28, 1909, hts exact age being 81 years and two months. He has been a resident of Lake county for seventy years, living on one farm in Eagle Creek township for sixty-three years and since that time living in Lowell. Mr. Serjeant was among a number of the very tariiest pior.eers who came to southern Lake county and settling along a

a number of foreigners were hur-

he said were:

"The railroads are violating the ordinances. Suppose the mayor was to enforce them. It would not be until he would te on the payroll of the Pennsylvania or New York Central as attorney." "The true political boss makes people come and do his bidding, do business where he dictates." "The control of private business Is the great thing in American politics, and is the theory upon which political bosslsm is based." "I am proud to be connected with Mr. Hotchklss and to know that ho thinks well of me. Mr. Ilotchkiss put rne on the list of incorporators for a little bank he started at Calumet or East Chicago." "No contractor has ever made a kick that he did not receive fair treatment or that the lowest bidder did not

receive fair treatment. There is abDr. and Mrs. W. F. Howatt of 410 ; solute confidence among the bidders of South Hohman street, have as their j this city that the lowest would get thr guests for a number of days their rela. j work." tives, two of whom are Mr. and Mrs. "Eaton sublet the contract he got Robert Burns Cuming, coming from j to Lavene. We borrowed the money far away Adelaide, Australia. The other and took the bonds. They are not ,

Dr. and Mrs. Howat Entertain Relative From Under Side of the Globe.

municipal bonds. They are special as

sessment bonds, based upon the lieu upon our property." There was much more among these lines, and then Mr. Urcker also ad-' Journed. But what did the taxpayers think? They will tell you Tuesday.

that he is to be given charge of all or the surrounding territory. fr Mlltor la fonsHdrrins- the matter

,,f v,i facilities for tho ! Chicago this forenoon, where he

ried to Crown Point, where they could

I secure their papers in the circuit court. ! In the meantime, Mr. Surprise went to

BEWARE "DE COP." Beware ye Halloween frollckers, beware! The bogey man In the guise of a Hammond policeman is on your trail and orders have been issued to the men on the boats to collar anybody who Is caugtit destroying property.

cured 500 extra blanks and he expects that they will easily be filled by next Monday evening. In fact, it is estimated that there are a thousand more foreigners who would bo naturalized if

I ther leaders were not so closely pressed

for time. East Chicago pnd Indiana

I Harbor are anxious to come in with j several hundred would-be adherents of

. j -rT 3 fine various parties, jtammona is geteigners to Hammond. J Ung busy w-MtlT,g is bl!Sy and Crary

' is teeming with non-voting timber. One hundred and fifty foreigners were Cny a few more h0urs remain. Totaken to Hammond today by the Gary j movrow forenoon will be given over to republicans for the purpose of natur- Gary jPaders, the afternoon to Hamellzlng tham to vote at the rolls next! m0nd, and on Monday it will he a rase

of sewing machines in this district, audi

the fart that, through his activities, he j has made Hammond the distributing; center will be appreciated. j

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section of countrj- which now Is known as the Lowell-Hebron road. Only one of the settlers of those days survive Mr. Serjeant, and that is Jerry M. Ke:iney. who resides at Orchard Grove and is now about 87 years old. Mr. Serjeant was a life long republican, never failing to vote until last fall, when he was prevented from goirg to the polls on account of poor health. He leaves a wife, one son, one daughter, one stepson, twelve grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Fur.eri.1 services will be held at the Lowell M. E. church at 10:30 Sunday. Interment wil be in the Hebron cemetery.

Tuesday. As the matter now stands the democrats are still in the lead with the number of foreigners who have been given their first papers, but the republicans have no fear of the. ultimate result In their, voting.

of first rome first served. In the meantime the saloons In the neighborhood of the federal building

are doing a land office businesF, for the!

Knotts followers want their "pero here s well as !r. Gary.

Republican Meeting Saturday. There will be a republican meeting Saturday night at German's hail, Robertsdale. to which every voter in Robertsdale Is cordially invited to be present. Good speakers present. THERr, A,tE S03IE "CASH-TALUE. "ACTS' IX TODAY'S TIMES' ADS.

visitors are M. A. Cuming, a New York manufacturer and uncle of Mrs. Howatt, and the latter's mother, Mrs. George Webb of Hasbrouck Heights, X. J. Thej- arrived yesterday and all, excepting Mrs. Webb, will depart again next

week. Hammond is the farthest point that Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Cuming, of Australia, have reached in their sev- j eral mo.iths' tour. They have traveled the European countries and will return to England again, return to their home j in Adelaide, Australia. j Mr. Cuming, who was born In this i country, left it with his parents when '

he was four years old. He fourd the southern part of Australia a ric.i fielt of opportunity and together with two other men he has built up a chemical works on a scale as large as the institution at Grasselli. While Mr. Cuming has no recollection of this country of the time when he left it. lie says that he realizes the

great progressiveness of it, but he is I

first of all a booster ror southern aus- tl,e rPform waVe wj;i i.,V(-: passed, tralia. His uncle, M. A. Cuming, of,

New York, is a successful manufacturer, his particular line being machinery used in the manufacture of hats. Thcv intend to leave for the east

next Wednesday, although Mrs. Webb !

Intends to remain in Hammond until ; jgt SChlieiuSr Will next Christmas. j

HOORE 001 OH BAIL

Friends of Con Moor of West Hammond came to his rescue in the Cook county Jail yesterday and fnrnishci the necessary $2,500 bond. As a result the West Hammond saloon keeper, wli is charged with harboring a girl under age in his place, is back at his eld haunt awaiting the trial. In the meantime th; other places which have been conducted loosely are laying low and closing up at 12 o'clock at night .and looking to the time wi.tn

BURiEO II 1L0REI

GAH BEER BUY THEM?!

Laid to Rest in Chicago Cemetery.

Sixteen cases of beer and se-eral rounds of cigars were figured by Mayor ' ;,irs. Mary Schneidrr, who die-? Becker to be effective vote gutters ! torday, will he buri-l in the fr among the members of the Teamsters' 1 j,,t at Waldheim c-:i . ti . ry t.;;; union, and having figured it out that; next Sunday. Kumri! e-rvice3

tne teamsters wiii give meir voir tor . been arrar.-rcd ; r .- j. .r :a" ev. r-.ir

beer and cigars, he provided the same ' te heid at the Stew .in ch i; e'. i'i I for the smoker which was given at j mond at 7:30 in the evening. T:: Koth'B hall last evening. Whether an ' Heldberg of tile Ger;.-,an M. K. ': intelligent class of people like the will officiate. Hammond teamsters ran be bought with j Mrs. Schneider was 72 ysars fid

j beer and cigars will be shown nfixt; having been on? ..-f the M le.'.i

Tuesday. of Hammond she had many fri The smoker of Afie teamsters was higi he is also survived by a iargdestination last night after he- had i tionshipfinished his speech at Town's opera) house earlier in the evening. ADTIiaTlSK IX THE TIMES.

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