Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 217, Hammond, Lake County, 4 March 1912 — Page 8

THE TIMES.

Mondaw March 4, 1912.

GARY REIT BY NEW WRANGLE

Statements by the Principals in Latest Gary Teapot Squall. If. ti. HAY. JR. i "I most emphatically dear that I did at any time bribe, or attempt, to brllK' Councilman Hanku or any other cotIman to votr for a high license or nay other ordinance." s Mr. Hay .also . Invites Knotts, Alderman Castleman or Clarence Rrrtark to prefer charters asnin.it him that will substantiate -the rpwardly insinuation they make.' ' Hay If Knotts In sincere he would have preferred charge before the era ml Jury long (. "X 'MBRSCR I1RKTM I1: In statement Issued today he nays he dorita't. like it because- Hay haw dragged nlm lato the squall hut lore he la in he says aome hot things. Dec I pre he In no silk atoeklns man and declares Hay wanted high license no steel company wonld not have to pay aneh high licenses. M A I OR K NOTTS) .Says If Hay's statements In answer to Cattleman's bribery acasatlon are on par with other recent statement of his that It will require something more convincing than his mere denial tt prove that he Is guiltless of the charges made aainxt him in the common ronncli. In a new statement issued today Knotts aayst "It Is a positive fact that this man Hy paid I)ean FI.."iOO for doing the dirty work In Gary with which the public Is now familiar.''

Three weeks ago when Alderman M N. Castleman accused H. G. Hay, jr. of buying- a vote to secure the passage of the $500 liquor license ordinance which has since been repealed he did not know what a muss he was stirring up. Mayor Knotts on Friday worked his . stenographers overtime grinding out reasons why he signed the repeal hill which restores low licenses and wherein 4he says some uncomplimentary things about Hay. Saturday Hay responded with a typewriter charge of grapeshot and Attorney Clarence

Bretsch, counsel for the labor unions, having been hit In the neck by aome of the stray shot today created a. sensa

tion when he out-Roosevelted the immortal Theodore himself when ho

turned a battery of stenographers on Mr. Hay In general. The result of hiH arduous labor was a fearful philliplc I which araigns Mr. Hay and the steel trust in no gentle terms. In speaking of the Dean case Mayor Knotts said today: "When the arrests in the so-called heating franchise cases were made. Mr. Hay voluntarily came to me and solemnly disavowed that he had anything to do with the case.' He made a similar disavowment at the Commercial club in the presence of a large number of my friends. He was par

ticular, nay . anxious, that- the public should know that he was in no wise connected with the prosecution. Tet

.at 'the same time, he was the active agent of the ' forces engaged . In the - framing up and carrying on the plt to Indict and convict certain city offi

cials of bribery. It is a positive fact

that this man Hay paid Dean $l,5u0

for doing the dirty work in Gary with

which the public is now familiar. Tt is a fact, which can be easily proved, that Mr. Hay went to Valparaiso during the trial of City Knglneer Willi - . ton and that he paid the , men . who were brought from Kentucky to swear that Thomas B. Dean was a man of good reputation. Hay was their paymaster, and Hay alio was the , friend of Dean, even going so far as to" take that moral pervert into his , house and introduce him to his famllv."

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The Times is in receipt of the following signed statement 1 In the Hay-Knotts-Hretsch controversy and as U already has presented the other phases

of the case, it has no other recourse

than to let the people know Mr. Hretseh's defense. To the Kditor: I trust that your usual fairness will prevail, and that you wil give me space in your valuable paper to reply to the brain storm article of H. G. Hay, junior, in your issue of the second

inst., in which he invited Mayo.

Knotts. Councilman Castleman and

your humble servant to prefer charges i against him. I Sorry Hay Involved Him.

Considering th fact that I never charged Mr. Hay with bribery, or at

tempted bribery, his using my nam- in connection with hli article was malicious, unjustified, and tinea lied for, and was, no doubt, used with some motive i best known to Mr. Hay himself. Councilman Castleman is not .now. ' nor never has been a cline of mine:

was not my candidate and I did not

vote for him. I am not his adviser, ' and Ay not stand sponsor for him. 1

have always found him loyal to his constituents, the common-, people, an.l to the best interests of Gary, and against corporate rule and greed. I have placed confidence In his statements as to whether or not Mr. Hay bribed, or attempted to bribe former Councilman Baukus. Personally I d" not know as I wa not present at the time of their meeting in Mr. Baukus saloon, and have only Mr. Baukus' word and. statements made to me and J. Glenn Harris when we were his attorneys on his return the first time, as well as the word of others who were present both in the room and on the outside. Iters Us Council Incident. However, it is a matter of public record that the minutes of the council show that, at a special meeting held March 7th,- 1911, that Councilman Feuer introduced the Five Hundred Dollar Ordinance; that Councilman Walsh made a motion to amend sama by striking out the words, 'Five Hundred Dolars," and inserting the words, "Two Hundred-fifty Dollars." That M. Baukus was the first one to vote "yes" on that amendment, which was carried.

Thereafter at the regular meeting of the council held on March 13, 1911, it was moved by Mr. Rowley (a Steel

Company employe, and their servant

in the council) to amend said ordi

nance so as to again read "Five Hun

dred Dollars". Thereupon Mr. Bowser

(another Steef Company employe) voted "no," and Mr. Baukus voted "no,"

and the motion was lost. One wee't

later, March 20th, 1911, at the regular meeting of the council, It was again moved by Mr. Rowley1 (the Steel Com

pany employe) that the ordinance be j amended to read "Five Hundred Dol-i

lars," which motion was seconded by Mr. Bowser (the Pteel Company employe); that Mr. Bowser and Mr. Baukus both voted "yes," thus changing their prior votes, and the motion was carried Saya May Does Not Deny. The public will remember that Mr. Hay does not deny that between the meeting of March 13th, and ' March 20th, he met Mr. Baukus, but Mr. Hafy does say that it. was at the request of Mayor Knotts (which statement the mayor denies). That he did meet him.

however, is certain, but it matters not at whose request, and here the publishould consider the fact that 51 r. Baukus, in changing his vote and voting for the Five Hundred Dollar Ordi

nance, voted Three Hundred Dollar. out of his own, pocket and out of the

pocket of each friend and relative in

the saloon business; that he changed

his vote at a time when he was finan

cially embarrased ana did not even

know where he was to get the money for the low license. At a time when as the records of the Lake Circuit Court will show, there were pendins against Mr. Baukus, eight cases which had only been filed forty days prior to that time, and involving hundreds of dollars. Certainly, his change of heart and voting against his own interest i against human nature, and all practi

cal experience inlife. I personally do not know, as before stated, whether I! G. Hay jr., influenced Mr. Baukus in any manner. It Is for the public t analyze the facts and draw their own conclusions.

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who, no doubt, was acting at all times ' to break up organized labor for the under, and receiving his orders f rom ; reason that the American Sheet & Tin the greedy, grasping, monopolistic Plate Company " were about to start Steel Corporation; ! operating " in ' Gary," and at that tim"? 'Ask. "rtlnent- Question. had a strike on at their Elwood, Indi

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start the fight on- the unions here so

that they could not organize the Tin

riate mill when they started here, and

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pany, who were becoming

nan. sain-i(me monopolistic greed or himself big enougfi'for the nfMln,v

the corporation. ' and Roosevelt's intrusion into the I have not contributed fifteen him- fl.id la k-v, i,i.

dred dollars, and will not do tfo, or any whose candidacy he " originally adother sum, in an attempt to send vanced. neighbors of mine to the penitentiary 3. That one administering of the because some one has filed charges of Roosevelt policies is about all the bribery. I have no desire to file country can stand "even though his charges against anyone, as I am not n diagnosis of the countries Ills was corprosecutor nor a persocutor, but a de-irect and his treatment for the disease fender of men. 1 have never said that; specific. I had any charge to file against Mr. j The composite view as reflected by Hay. and If I had, instead of submit.; the observations of Thb Times corps ting them to a grand Jury as requested of reporters In all parts of Lake couoby Mr. Hay, I would, no doubt, do as ty is that the Roosevelt boom has fall-

.inn nays rnena uean did, simply file en flat. The lack of snontaneitv with

I do. not claim any public righteous-

nes, and am not masking under false colors, as Mr. Hay desires the public'

1 1. Vi i y- snil T thank ( nil that I rn I

not belong to the silk stocking gang. ! f at the nn employes of th

w 1 rieei company, wno were oecomin

restless and dissatisfied with their conditions, could not point to the honest

As for his statement that he is doing-

his full duty as a citizen, 1 challenge j him to nnint nut n sincle art of bis

that has tended to upbuild the city ot . "J"' Paid to organized labor outsidj

ot me piam, anu ny so uoing vump-ji men to labor from ten to sixteen hours

Gary. I am informed that he has never built a house or any building In Gary, and that the Steel Company, built his present home. Where has he ever tried to help create better condi

tions for the workingman or Gary, or

per day for a bare subsistence, thus compelling them to smoke the cheapest tobacco and cigars, eat the cheapest meat, wear the cheapest clothes, and

an affidavit.

Yours truly, CLARENCE BRETSCH.

to give them better wages so that thev '"" p.v- iu. m!ght create pleasanter and happier electricity and water, supplied by the homes for their wives , and daughters, j corporation, while you and the greedy, and give the men and their sons a bet- , monopolistic corporations which you ter oportunity in the struggle of life, j represent, live in splendor, off the Has he ever extended his protest Product of the labor of others, against the grasping, overcharging ; Refuse o. ?l.KOO Denl. Gary Heat, Light & Water Company? I stake rny reputation against Has he ever entered his protest against, that of yours, Mr. Hay, in the city of the Steel Corporation exacting oni Gary among the men who toil, and as dollar, illegally and unlawfully, from for the plutocrats. Silk Stocking Club, a poor unfortunate whose wages had and the Steel Corporation, I care not been garnlsheed before they would re- what they say or think of me. I stand lease his hard earned money? lias lie ready and willing at all times to give ever entered his protest against the , freely of my time and money to betSteel Company charging the poor ter the wages and conditions of the

working man twenty-five cents for a laboring men.. Can you truthfully say

ost brass check that does not cost, t- the same, Mr. Hay and if my Mfe is

exceed, one dollar per hundred? Is It spared I shall continue fighting for not a fact. Mr. Hay, that you attempted justice, equality, arid brotherhood of

Rev. G. W. M'Donald, Evangelist.

TAFT HELPED IN . LAKE COUNTY (Continued from Pare L) struck at his sudden emergence from retirement. The occasion was one demanding serious thought and careful reflection. Then open hostility . developed i all sides among republicans.

There are three Roosevelt spots In

Lake county Whiting, Gary and Lowell

but no special enthusiasm is shown for him like they once did. Tou don't find people getting 'out on the housetops and hurrahing for Teddy like they once did

IT MADE THEM THINK. It was ore of those unaccountably

tricks of the public mind. The half serious "contemplation of such a thin as another term of Roosevelt did not seem to concern the people generally.

To be actually' confronted with h's

candidacy was another matter.

And that the opposition to Roose

velt is more than a public whim became apparent when the public was

found to basing its apparent change of mind on some very good reasons. These may be summarised as follows: 1. That his candidacy is a moral if not a technical violation of that generally accepted American principle that no American is big enough to rule the people of this county for more than two terms whether these terms be consecutive, fragmentary or at Intervals. TAFT IS BIG ENOUGH.

The aristocracy of Miller and the entire surrounding sand dunes as far as Chrlsman gathered at the town hall in Miller Saturday night to attend the social affair given by the volunteer tire department. Frmn ; accounts at hand the function, which wss attend cl by the ladies, wss a -three-edged affair. It opened up -with an oyster supper, a boxing match came in between, and dancing until four o'clock marked the close of the. affair. As it was the- secon lap ' was the boxing contests with a newspaper, reporter as referee. The event took immensely with- the- ladles - present and despite the fact that Judge William Westergren was rendered hors lu

combat as far-as dancing was concerned when he received a black eye and George Westfall had to seek out a ' pump when the judge's glove gave him a bloody nose the best of spirits was maintained oil around. The oyster supper boxing- carnival'dance Is said to have netted the fire department J200.' "Helmets 'fire "axes, lanterns, bugles -and a fire bell will probably be purchased with the proceeds. V

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Watch-Dog: of Steel Trust. Mr. Hay states he had no interest in the passage of the high license ordinance other-Jhan that of a citizen, but it must be remembered that he,' as president of the Steel Company's Rank, is their watch-dog:, star-eyed goddess and hireling. It is claimed that the Steel Company, Its subsidiaries and

railroads pay ninety-seven percent of the tuxes of the city of Gary, and if it increased the revenue to the city thirty-thousand dollars, then the Steel Company, etc., would save ninety-sev en percent of that rjm each year, and would place that additional sum on th struggling saloon keepers where it does not belong, which would mean a saving of thousands of dollars to the Steel ' Company and its subsidiaries, at the sme time driving some poor fellowwho had Invested his savings in the saloon, to quit and lose all, thus Increasing the business of the capitalistic corporation saloons in the first subdivision and better the monoply oi the business. - This is certainly significant, and throws some light on'the matter. And it is absurd and .contrary to the facta for Mr. Hay ,to sny that he had no interest in the high license except aa a citizen. This great, good, and righteous man, Mr. Hay, it must be remem

bered, was the agitator and leader of the fight against orsanized labor, and

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which It was received can lead to no

other conclusion. ROOM IS COLUPSED. Lake county does not want Roosevelt. Tt Is doubtful, if another presidential primary were to be held, if the Roosevelt vote would be as large; with the point in his favor that he is now an . avowed candidate while then he was merely an embryonic candidate, as it was two months ago. The very assurance with which he faces the country and asks for ths third term is taken as conclusive evidence of his abnormal ego and probab

ly accounts for the collapse of what sentiment there was in his. favor. ' And by that token President Taft looms up bigger than ever. His mis takes have been forgotten In the people's belief In his irftegrity of purpose. Lake county is unquestionably for Taft.

EAST GHIGAGOANS LEAVE j CAPITAL Quite- a distinguished party, of public officials and expublic officials left East Chicago last night for Indianapolis to appear before the state board of publics accountants to. show cause why they should not' come across with checks carylns in amounts from $ to $6,000, to reimburse the city for sums which, according to the state board, have been illegally spent or withheld by these officials. Some time ago they received word from the state board of accountants to the effect that various sums were due from them to the city on different accounts. Checks covering the amounts of the alleged discrepencies were re- -quested, and on failure to remit they were asked to appear before the ex -

I aminers to show cause why they did j not comply. March 4 was the day set for the hearing, and it Is to attend I this hearing that the party left for the I state capital last night.

Many of the claims are not taken -very seriously, but others are, and it is understood that several of the men who are to be placed on the carpet are feeling anything but happy over the situation. Since the officials received the notices to pay or appear, a number of meetings have been held, to discuss methods of defense before ' the state board of examiners. The party that left for Indianapolis was composed of Mayor A. G. Schlieker. ex-Mayor Edward DeBrlae, City Clerk Walter Spencer, City Treasurer A. G.

Slocomb, ex-City Attorney J. D. Kennedy, ex-Chiefs of Police Ed. Hlgglns and Albert Lewis, City Engineer C. K. Wallace, Alderman Thomas Buckley, ex-treet Commissioner Bruno Schrelber. John R. Farovld, J. G. Allen, the former president -and the latter member of the library board, Drs. Frederick Sauer and Raleigh Hale of the state board of health. The, appearance of the officials before the state board of examiners grew out of the recent Investigation . made by state auditors, who reported the results of their investigation to the board.

FORMER INDIANA

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Are you keeping your bowels, liver and stomach clean, pure and fresh with Cascarets, or merely forcing a passageway through these alimentary or drainage organs every , few days with Salts, Cathartic pills, Castor Oil or Purgative Wat-rg. - : . StoD having a bowel wash-day. Let

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I McClelland, 82 years old, a resident of Valparaiso for .sixty years, died at Chicago yesterday, where he had made his home for two years with his son. He was prominent iln Masonic circles and had been a master mason for fiftyeight years. He was for twenty-five years cashier of the First National bank of this city, a republican, att1 served two years In tre Jr.Iana legislature In the eighties. He was private secreary to the late Vice President Schuyler Colfax when the latter was a member of the forty-second congress. The funeral will be held here. Wednes-

2. That President Taft has proven day.

gases, take tn excess bile irom tnn liver and carry out of the system .all the decomposed waste matter and poisons. In the intestines and bowels. A Cascaret tonight will make you feel great by morning. They work while you sleep never gripe, sicken or cause any inconvenience, and cost only 10 cents a box from your druggist. Millions of men and women take a Cascaret now and then and never have Headache, , Biliousness, coated tongue. Indigestion, Sour Stomach, or Constipat. ed Bowels. Cascarets belong in every household. Children Just love to take them.

Evangelist Rev. G. W. McDonald who is at the First Methodist church in revival meetings, is a young man of fine presence and forcible in speech. His work elsewhere as an evangelist has marked him as a coming man in hi3 profession. The building up of a church in Zion City in a few months where he had to meet a mixture of confusion and opposition proved the mettle of "the man. His time partly given to evangelistic work has been so. sucessful that he will probably exchange the pastorate for that work entirely. Men are moved by his earnest , appeals. His kindness of spirit enables him to be that much braver in utterance. The people of Hamond should hear this main's whole message. Associated with the evangelist as singer' is Frof. p.ert Rice who stands in the first rank as a gospel singer and chorus leader. Meetings every night of this wck at 7;45 o'cloclc- - ,

Items For The Newspapers OEPORTERS: aim to write only the facts. But in the daily hurry for news they must depend "largely upon the telephone. Sometimes they get wrong information. With a telephone iri your home Uhey may call you personally and . get correct notes -either about1 the party you have given, or the names of your, guests.

This'i is one of the many uses of the telephone in the home. - Every Bell Telephone U a Long Distance Station CHICAGO TELEPHONE bCOM PANY