Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 208, Hammond, Lake County, 22 February 1912 — Page 4

THE TIMES

NEWSPAPERS By Tke Lake County Prtotlae and Fab. liaklna; Cowpamr. The Lake County Times, dally except Sunday, "entered as second-class matter June 28, 1906"; The Lake County Times, dally except Saturday and Sunday, entered Feb. S. 1JI1; The Gary Evening Times, dally except Sunday, entered Oct. 6, l$09; The Lake County Times. Saturday and weekly edition, entered Jan. SO, 1911; The Times, daily except Sunday, entered Jan. 15. 1913. at the postofflce at Hammond. Indiana, all under the ot of March . 1879. Entered at the Postofflce, Hammond. Ind.. as second-class matter. FOREIGN ADVERTISING OFFICES, 12 Rector Building - - Chicago PUBLICATION OFFICES, Hammond Building-. Hammond. Ind. TELEPHONES, Hammond private exchange) . . . . . .111 ' (Call for department wanted.) Gary Office Tel. 1S7 East Chicago Office Tel. 47S-R Indiana Harbor Tel. 550-R Whiting:. , Tel. 80-M Crown Point.. Tel. tS Advertising- solicitors will be sent, or rates g-iven on application. If you have any trouble getting The Times notify the nearest office and have It promptly remedied. LARGER PAID IP CIRCULATION THAN ANY OTHER TWO NEWSPAPERS IN THE CALUMET REGION. ANONYMOUS communications will not' be noticed, but others will be rrinted at discretion, and . should be addressed to The Editor. Times. Hammond, Ind. GfeliSciMS) 435 TO CANDIDATES. Articles In. the Interrat of raidl4ates for office will not be printed la Tfce Times except at regular advertising ratea. Political Announcements CALL. FOR REPUBLICAN JUDICIAL CONVENTION. To the Republicans of Lake County, Indiana, and to those who desire to cooperate with them: . The Republicans of Lake County wlll meet in their respective townships, at the respective places designated below on the 8th day of March, 1912, at 7:30 p. m. in mass conventions, for the purpose of selecting delegates to the Joint Judicial Convention of I-ake and Porter Counties, Indiana, the delegates so selected will meet in the city of Valparaiso, Indiana, on Saturday, the 9th day of March, 1912, at 1:30 p. m., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the office of Prosecuting Attorney of the 31st Judicial Circuit of the State of Indiana. Representation in said . convention will be upon the basis of one delegate and one alternate delegate for each two hundred votes cast for the Honorable Ottls E. Gulley for Secretary of State at the November election, 1910, and one delegate and one alternate for each additional fraction of one hundred votes or more cast as aforesaid and apportioned to the several townships of Lake County as follows: Delegates. Alternates. Calumet l Gary 8 8 Hobart 2 Ross Township l Center Township 2 ft. John Township... H Hanover Township... H Cedar Creek. 2 "West Creek 1 Eagle Creek 4 Win field '4 North 1 Hammond 7 Whiting 3 I.ast Chicago . ... 8 2 -1 4 1 7 3 8 39 39 The places of meeting in said mass conventions In the several townships of said county shall be as follows: North Township Hessvllle Schoolhouse. Hammond Huehn's Hall. East Chicago Cohen Opera House, Indiana Harbor. Whiting City Hall. Calumet Township Griffith Town Hall. Gary Binzenhoff Hall. Ross Township Merrlllyille. St. John Township Dyer. Center Township Court House. West Creek Township Lake Prarle. Cedar Creek Township Lowell Town Hall. Eagle Creek and Winfleld Township LeRoy Schoolhouse. Hobart Township Stratton's Opera House. Hanover Township Brunswick. CHAS. JOHNSON, - Chairman. VERNON' M-GTRR. Secretary. FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. Editor, Timks: 1 am a candidate fot the Republican nomination for the office of Prosecuting Attorney of the Thirty-first Judicial Circuit of the State of Indiana, comprised of Lake nd Porter Counties, subject to the will f the nominating convention. RALPH W. ROSa Editor TftfEs: Please announce that I am a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney for the Thirty-first Judicial District, comprising Lake and Porter

counties, subject to the decision of the Republfcan -Judicial convention. J. A. PATTERSON.

Editor Times: Please announce that I am a candidate for the office of Prosecuting Attorney of the Thirtyfirst Judicial District, subject to the will of the Republican Judicial convention. W. F. HODGES. FOR AUDITOR. Editor Times: I desire to announce that I am a candidate for the Republican nomination for County Auditor, subject to the decision of the Republican primaries. The support and assistance of the Republican voters of Lake country are respectfully solicited. (Signed) JOHN A. BRENNAN. Gar". Ind. Editor Times: You are hereby authorised to announce that I am a candidate for the Republican nomination for Auditor of Lake county, and I ask the support of the Republican voters of Lake county at the primaries to be held March 29. ALEXANDER JAMIESOX FOR RECORDER. Editor Timks: Tou are authorised to announce that I am a candidate on the Republican ticket for Recorder of Lake county, subject to the will of the Republican primaries, and I ask the support of the voters. EDWARD C. GLOVER. Editor Timks: Please announce to the voters of Iike county that I will be a candidate for Recorder of Lake county on the Republican ticket, subject to the decision of the Republican primaries, April 5 . .V H. W. JOHNSON. Editor Times: Tou are authorized to announce that I am a candidate on the Republican ticket for Recorder of Lake county, subject ta the will of the Republican primaries, and I ask the support of the voters. W. A. JORDAN. COMMISSIONF.lt, . FIRST DISTRICT. Editor Time?: Please state that I will be a candidate for renominatlon to the office of County Commissioner from the first district, subject to the Republican nominating convention. RICHARD SCIIAAF. SR. FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR. Editor Times: please announce to the voters of Lftke county that I am a candidate for renomlnation to the office of County Surveyor, subject to the will of the Republican primaries. RAY SEELT. FOR COUNTY TREASURER. Editor Times: riease announce in the columns of your paper that I will be a candidate for renominatlon to the County Treasurership, subject to the decision of the Republican nominating convention, March 30. ALBERT J. SWANSON. FOR REPRESENTATIVE. Editor Times: Will you announce that I am a candidate for representative of Lake county on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the convention? J. W. BELSHAW, Lowell, Ind. FOR CORONER. Editor Timks: please announce that I will be a candidate for renomlnation for the office of County Coroner, subject to the will of the Republican nominating convention, March 29. DR. FRANK SMITH. FOR SHERIFF. Editor, Times: PIea.se announce that I will be a candidate for sheriff of Lake county, subject to tho decision of the reDubllcan county convention. WM. KUNERT. To"eiton, Ind Editor Times: I take tMs means to advise the Republicans of Lake county that I am a candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject to the wishes of the Republican county nominating convention, and respectfully solicit their support if they find that my work for the party in the past is worthy of consideration. HENRY WHITAKER. Editor Times: Please announce to my friends over Lake county that I am a candidate for the republican nomination for Sheriff, and that I ask their support at the Republican county convention, whose date is to be announced later. FRED FRIEDLEY. IF NOT, WHY NOT? If the people of Lake county want Mayor Tom Knotts of Gary for governor ,as THE TIMES primary indicates, what high advancement have they in Btore for the Hon. M. Napoleon Castleman? Mawruss for secretary of state? No. Let old Battle Axe .ever ready to defend tha pe-pull, be sent to the IT. S. Senate. Before his oratory and spittoon aims your Ben Tillmans ,Jeff Davises and other firebrands would stand like distant stars compared to the glowing sun. If it is to be Governor Knotts why not Senator Castleman. JUSTICE MISCARRIAGES. Lawyers profess to be greatly agitated over the growing demand for the recall or judges. They look with horror upon the prospect of having the courts disturbed In their present grand isolation and independence. They have visions of judges rendering decisions, not in accordance with the law, but to please the laboring men, the h packers, the steel trust or any other interest that i3 likely to beeome a political factor. The lawyers are right in their con-

4 tention. Judges asa rule are honor

able and the farther they can be removed from the necessity of making political alliances the better will they be able to administer justice impartially. But the demand far the recall of judges is so persistent that tnerc must be some reason for It. The public generally does not soem to, be satisfied with the judiciary. Perhaps the layman is attempting to apply a remedy without making a diagnosis of the case, but nevertheless he knows that Fomething is wrong. In Lake county the people of the community are becoming skeptical of the manner in which the law is being administered. There is no doubt that there is something radically wrong here. There does not eeem to be an inclination to place the responsibility for local miscarriages of justice at the door of the judge's chamber, but, as we have remarked before, the people of Lake county know mighty wwell that there is "something rotten in Denmark." Two or three years ago it was a notorious fact that there were scores of "blind pigs" ia one city. It was also a notorious fact that the administration knew of their existence, but refused to prosecute their keepers. Finally a number of them were raided and wholesale arrests made. One official called in his saloonkeeper friends, allowed them to plead guilty, fined them a nooiinal sum and commuted the sentence to jail when the law specifically Etates that a jail sentence must be imposed. An effort to force the imposition of a jail sentence resulted in a number of disagreements by juries and the cases were dropped. This was the first palpable miscarriage of justice in Lake county. There arc isn n-. anv -.(V,m.a ikt - " ' ""i.r v l. v j o mat c have lost track of them. One man shot and killed a woman. The jury acquitted him because it declared he wan insane when ho committed the murder. When an attempt was made to send him to an asylum for the criminally insane another jury cf doctors declared him sane. He i3 a free man today. At least a dozen men have been involved with young girls under the age of consent. Their guilt has been practically established and in most instances they have escaped punishment. A number of officials were indicted as a result of the nicst disgraceful election disturbance that Lake county has ever known. Ballot boxes were stuffed, ballots were mutilated, riots occurred and sluggers were shipped into the county from Chicago by certain forces. Nothing ever came of the lndictment3. A rottenness was uncovered in another city, the officials there were tried. A police chief was impeached and removed from office. Houses of prostitution flourished, but one official wa3 tried and acquitted and the rest of the cases were dropped. The state board cf accounts has come in with a report that makes it necessary for nearly every official in a nearby city to restore funds to the city which were either illegally spent or misappropriated. And anybody who thinks that this is a joke is mis-' taken for a good many thousands of! paid back into the city treasury before th'.B body is through with official dom of this citv Then came the bribery cases. No one doubts that certain officials are rotteuest grafter in Indiana, yet the jury in one case disagreed as a result of the refusal of one man to vote for conviction. One alderman was con victed and then masters dragged along until the state's chief witness either sold out or was proved a perjurer and the rest are jubilant over what they believe to be a collapse of the prosecutions. Just across the line there has been open and notorious grafting and yet every time these cases have been taken to court the reform forces have been beaten. Gambling houses and houses of prostitution hove run in defiance of the law and the wishes of decent citizens. This is only a partial list of the gross miscarriages of justice that have occurred recently in this community. 13 it any wonder that the community raises its hand3 in disgust and cries out for some remedy it knows not what? Is it any wonder that the courts have come into general disrepute among the citizens of this locality and that the demand for some reform is so insistent? The laws's delays were undoubtedly responsible for the fact that the defense got" to Himmelblau, if'such was the case. The law's delays killed the "blind pig" prosecutions. Even Attorney General Honan lent himself to the task of bringing about legal abortions when he refused to permit the prosecutions against a certain official in the "blind pig" case3 to go further. Reports ofjury bribing are circulated and yet nothing is done. Is there no force, no peirsonality, no instrumentality that can assert itself at this time and make the administration of Justice swift and sure? . .

THE TIMES.

SHOWING HIS SOEE TOE. The Hammond News which poses as the democratic organ of Lake county says that the gubernatorial primary ballot in this paper in which Mayor Thoa. E. Knotts of Gary received 527 votes was faked. As Judge Becker of Hammond got nearly 30b votes and Judge Peterson of Crown Point got over 100 votes, th? charges of "fake" probably extend to them also. What the democrats of Gary, Hammond and other parts of the county think of this charge of fakery we can right well imagine. Let them not forget that the charges were made in ths Hammond News. As an example of impudence to the men on tho ballot and insult and discourtesy to a newspaper the Hammond paper's charges of "fake" is throughly in keeping . with its own unimltated brand of shabby journalism. f MAY REVEAL S0METHNG. A couple of days ago we read that J. Pierpont Morgan and a couple of others were to be summoned before the Stanley committee to tell how many millions they got !n securities for organizing the steel trust. Perhaps their testimony will throw some interesting light on why wages have not kept pate with the rise in foodstuff prices. Of course, if there is three or four hundred million dollars worth o fwatered stock in a big trust that means twenty or twentyfive million in extra dividends every year and it is no wonder that mill managers and superintendents have to keep awake nights worrying and figuring o ut new schemes to cur down costs, labor, etc., to hold down their jobs and pay off the demands of the task masters. COUNCIL PRAISED. The majority of the Hammond city council are to be congratulated on the fact that they advanced the Gavit franchise to its third reading. They will find that while there are a few people who are insisting on thi3 or that that there are a great many more who want to see the franchises granted and service made possible. Then too there are a number of other franchise matters that will come up Tor consideration later and which will also have to be given the proper consideration. It is better to get these things out of the way now so that the actual work of construction can-begin next spring. What the people want service and the council will find It better to provide that than to bear the odium of having blocked extensions that will retard the growth of the ciyt for years to come. "FAREWELL" was the title of a poem sent to a certain newspaper, says the Laclede County Republican. "It's a good thing the gifted authoress bade it goodby," the editor remarked, "because she will never see it again." CALIFORNIA woman wrote a beautiful lecture on ideal motherhood and the ennoblement of fatherhood. She is now suing her husband for divorce. GoEh, you can't always Eometimes tell, can you? NOTICE that in a New York mission they have a reformed banker, reformed anarchist, thieves and bartenders. In fact every kind of bad man there is almost except a reformed editor. AN exchange truthfully says: "For the good of the party there are entire ly too many democrats who are seemingly not caring how the thing goes if their cannot get it." F. WE certainly believe you can marry on $10 a week, seeing that you are so kind to enquire. The great difficulty, however, take it from us, will be in keeping married on it. WHAT has become of the oid-fash-ioned rural editor who at the beginning of the political season kept ehouting "now is the time to subscribe." LONDON measures the sootfall just as it does rainfall. In the cities of the Calumet region it is problem which falls most snow, rain or soot. NOW if the ladies could get through Lent without playing any bridge or gossiping how much better they would feel when Easter comes around. RUBBER shoes going down in price i3 said to be destined to help the high cost of living. Great mackerel, who can eat rubber shoes? COLONEL Bryan says the money probe will be a farce. If they try to find bow much money Colonel Bryan has, it will be.

AND when you iook at it from another angle this Roosevelt boom seems to require an awful lot of pumping up.

YES, L., we believe that the way a girl won't let a fellow kiss her is Just the way she wants him to kiss her. SOME people were so cock-sure spring had come that they actually cleaned the windows. THE laboring man is not going to be bunked with any spread-eagle orations this year. BLUFF is a good thing in politics if it isn't called and it isn't called otten enough. WHY doesn't Mr. Boehne use a pulmoter on his gubernatorial boom? LIFE In Gary is just one Castlemanic mess after another. DO you chloroform or kill your oysters before eating them? MORSE is going to Germany. Well, none of us will repine. THE squudgers are happy thia evening. ARD BY U B E NOW whoinell was it that said "Gentle spring." TO be added to the Ananias club the weather man who caused to be printed in yesterday morning's papers that the day would be '"fair and somewhat colder." WE have a dampened suspicion that some of the mothers of our carrier boys are using their paperbags for clothes pin holders. TO show how they ir.terprete the classics at Valpo university we might state that at a, mythological party that the taking- off of Helen of Troy was represented by a fat student wheeling her away in a wheelbarrow. Shades of Socrates! COME to think about It this ! Is Georgre's birthday. . ' , fovr more: answers received. there anything; that feIa more comfortable at the brraltfaM ta. tile than m well wuxhed faerT) DEAR RUBE There is. and you know that there is.What ia It? MAT L D3AR RUBE it must be a eort of female free masonry. My wife won't tell- C. B. DEAR RUBE If The Timks were a morning; paper and you could read.lt instead of some of the Chicago rags. A. C. H. DEAR RUBE Having her pouring the coffee without getting: her kimona sleeves Into the cream pitcher. CM. MATRIMONY is nothing more than a finishing school, declares a Bohemian count. A lot of husbands who were finished in it will stand by the count. LIFE now days is nothing; more than a motion picture series of graft, briber;-, affinities, politics, rebates and high butter prices. IT Isn't our fault that all of these spring- styles have been running- In the paper. "We told the make-up man two weeks ago to be careful from which box he took the plate fillers. WE read in neighborhood exchange that "Guy Herring and family visited Sunday with Mrs. Herring's folks In Jasper county." Wonder if this should come under the head of "'Doings of the Small Fry?" OTHERWISE, HE'S A MOIJEL ! HI SBAXD. Frm the Vulpo Vldrtle. 'The complaint allegres that the man is guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment, that he called the plaintiff many vile names and at one time pointed a revolver at her. flourished a knife above her head, knocked her down and threatened her life." REMEMBER the good old wintry days when you thought the height of happiness was to bring your lunch wtth you to school? "Paid In FulH" the New York play, was shown at the Crown Point Opera House the other night. Meyer Himmelblau wasn't the loading man. An advertiser in The Times seeks a "girl for light office work." Probably, for the gas and electric light office. Up and Down in INDIANA DOWDY HEMES ASSAVLT. Orbert Dowdy, of Terre Haute roadhouse proprietor, who was shot Sunday by John Lathrop, who had charge of a roulette wheel in the placo is still alive, but In a hopeless condition. In sn ante-mortem statement he denied he assaulted Lathrop, but refused to tell about the quarrel, said to have been due to reports Mrs. Dowdy made to Dowdy. Lathrop says the revolver used was one Dowd gave him for use In maintaining order at the place. Women and men who were in the place Sunday were before the prosecuting attorney yesterday. This affair and a free-for-all fight in another saloon Sunday caused Superintendent of Police Fasig to issue orders

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V "Jr for genuine enforcement of the law on Sunday hereafter. It is possible sentiment will compel the closing of the public gambling houses now running almost wide open. SOSG BIRDS ARRIVE EARLY. A flock of meadow larks and robins and many grackles have already made their appearance at Cambridge City This Is said by students of bird lore to be unusual In this latitude so early in the season, especially after a severe winter. CHILD INHERITS 930,000. The Shelbyvllle Trust Company of Shelbyvllle has been appointed guard tan of Mary Elizabeth Conger, the little daughter of Sidney Conger and Carrie Conger, both of whose deaths occurred in the last two months. The estate Is valued at $50,000. Considerable controversy arose be fore the appointment was made, re liglous difference forming the chief bone of contention. Several years ago Miss Myrtle Conger, daughter of Sidney Conger by his first wife, was sent to , Oldenburg academy, a Catholic institution, to finish her education. When she was graduated she was a believer in the Catholic religion. Miss Conger wished to be guardian v. iic iiau-sisiri a KlLilirs, DU mis was objected to through fear Miss Conger would convert the child into the Catho lie religion, to which the mother ob jected. WEEKLY" BATH DEMANDED. The city board of health at Lawr enceburg has the epidemic of scarlet fever and diphtheria under control, but the smallpox is beyond control. Sev eral new cases are reported daily, and a trict quarantine is observed. All school children have been vaccinated. The board of health has Issued circulars advising every citizen to be vac cinated at once. The quarantining of tne city is considered. The city health board insists that all persons bathe at least once each week, and that bedclothlng be aired every day. AXGRY BECAISE OP RAID. Angry because. It is believed, a squad of police last Sunday visited the clubrooms of two prominent lodges at Muncle where it was suspected liquor was being aold, Alfred Davis, president of the board of police commissioners, a Democrat, and the Republican member. Charles Emerson, tendered their resignations to Mayor Edward Tuhey yesterday. Both Davis and Emerson admitted they resigned, but would not ay, for publication, why they had done so. Mayor Tuhey said hla relations with the members had always been pleasant, but he would not make public the reason of their resignation. LAD DRIVES WHOJIC HORSE. Ernest Levering, son of Mrs. George K. Levering, of Indianapolis, waa the innocent cause of considerable commotion In police circles there Wednesday when, through the mistake of a liveryman, he went driving with Alva O. Reser's horse and buggy Instead of his grandfather's, for which he asked. Mr. Reser, who later asked for hla horse, was told that a young man had driven It away. Mr. Reser hurried to police headquarters and telegrams and telephone messages were flying In all direction. While the commotion was at Its hight young Levering ended hla drive and returned to the barn. - Explanations followed and the flurry subsided. DARNS HOSE IX CAR. Mrs. Eva Wells, whose home Is said to be In Ft. Wayne, astonished the crew and passengers of a Gas City tractiori" car en route to Marion yesterday when she entered the front vestibule, seated herself on a tool chest and began to darn the stockings she wore. She informed the motorman she was a sister of "the lost Charley Ross."

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rin. J ' The woman was questioned by Marlon officers and her answers Indicated her mind was not clear, though ishe showed unmistakable signa ef intelligence and refinement. Ft. Wayne authorities have been notified to find the woman's relatives and apprise them of her condition. Meantime she la detained in the woman's department of the county Jail. CLIZVGS TO BOARD IS SAVED. When Eugene Hopping, age twe. found himself In a cistern containing1 nix feet of water, he waa net. at all nuzziea as to what to do under the clr- j cumstances. He grasped a board and held on, giving a lusty cry for aid. The child's mother, Mrs. Harl Hopping, of Muncle. ran to the home of a neighbor for aid. Eugene In the meantime clung to the board and screamed. A passerby lowered himself into the cistern and rescued the baby, who did not seem greatly concerned about the adventure. IN POLITICS Connersvllle The Fayette county Republican convention for the nomination of a county ticket will be held March 5. The smallpox epidemic prevented the fixing of a certain date. Liberty The 4 Democratic central committee of Union county has organized by making A. T. Serring chairman, Jesse Stevens secretary, and George Stevens treasurer. The Republican primary election for coutny officers will be held February 29. Lawrenceburg John J. Tittel, Democratic county chairman, has Issued a call to the precinct ommltteemen and township chairman to meet In mass convention on Saturday for the purpose of selecting delegates and alternates to go to the mate convention. Rensselaer The Republicans of Jasper county will hold their convention In Rensselaer March IS. There are three candidates for recorder, two for sheriff and two for commissioner of the Third district.. .The Democrat have organized by electing N. Idttlefield chairman. Their convention wl'l be held the last of March. Evansvilie Several local progressive Republican leaders have begun campaigning In the counties of the Firsi district outside of Vanderburg couuty in an attempt to capture the two delegates to the national Rpublican convention at Chicago In June. Among the local leaders here are William Bohannon, Harlan McCoy and Dr. C, A. Gartley. Terre Haute Maurice Walsh, of th firm of Walsh A Cleary, hotel proprietors, and vice-president of the Terre Haute Coal and Oil Company,' has been elected county commissioner . to succeed Thomas Ryan, who died a few days ago. The two Democrats of the board united on Mm. He hag been a leader In the anti-Lamb faction since before the days when there was a Crawford Falrbanks-Donn Roberts faction. Lafayette W. O. Thomas. Republican chairman of the Tenth congressional district has Issued a call for the congressional district, has Issued a call for the congressional convention to be held March 28 at Hammond. At this convention a candidate for congres will be nominated, two delegates and the alternates will be selected for the Republican national convention, and an elector and a contingent elector will be named. The meeting will be held at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. As . yet. there has been no candidate announced to oppose the renomlnation of Edgar A. Crumpacker, of Valparaiso. THERE'S A CHANCE THAT TOO OVGHT ,OT TO POSTPOXE THAT "SHOPPING" AST LONGER. READ THE TIMES' ADS AND SEE IF THIS IS AOT SO.