Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 229, Hammond, Lake County, 18 March 1912 — Page 8

THE TIMEO. Mondav, March 18, 1912.

INTERURBAW SERVICE AROUSES INDIGNATION

REAL NERVE REQUIRED TO BE SUFFRACET MARTYR IN ENGLAND NOW; 7 YEARS IN PRISON POSSIBLE UNDER GOVERNMENT CHARGE

Enough indignant citizens gathered at Englehart's hall, Ridge road and Broadway, in Clary, Sunday morning to start a small-sized revolution. The occasion was to denounce the traction service afforded, or rather not afforded, by the aary & Southern Traction company. It appears that this line, which .was promoted by llalleck W. Seaman, starts to operate Its cars just after the men have gone to work and quits operating them just before,they come home from the mills. Because of this unusual procedure Ridge road employes of the steel mills have to walk to and from Calumet bridge, where they" catch the Gary & Interurban cars, which run to the steel mills. It is because of this service that the RUIge roaders are kicking, and It Is why they held an indignation meeting Saturday night. Want a Mekel Fare. Attorney R. E. Hourpn presided over the meeting of citizens, who have banded themselves into an organization known as tho South Side Improvement association. Denunciations of Seaman's "tactics and a demand for a straight five-cent fare from the IUdge to the mills was

made. Originally It was promised that the two lines would accept each other's transfers, but so far they refuse to do so and as a result a ten-cent fare prevails. Plan Gt-Toifetli' Meet. At the Saturday night meeting It was

arranged to invite representatives of) both traction companies and members j of the city council to confer with the J Ridgerg at the city hall courtroom. An ! effort will be made to get both lines j together on a nickel fare, universal j transfers, etc. Seaman will also be I r..!' fn n-l - ( . 1 . '

schedule. Now in case neither line comes to terms the association will then ask the city council to grant a new franchise to members of the association. The tentative route Is down Washington street, from Fourth to Forty-fifth avenues, thence east to Broadway. From this point the county commissioners will be asked to grant another one to Merrlllville and possibly to Crown Point. In fact, not long ago some Turkey Creek farmers asked a similar franchise of the commissioners and their request is still pending.

KNOTTS GOT PART OF THE VICTORY (Continued from Paga i-

Tjpecanoe county nothing for endorsing Mayor Purgan. Mr. Knotts did not mention his own candidacy, but it was brought before the convention by John Dorman of Ross township a few minutes later when he said ths.t the 'Ross and Hobart township dele gates had been instructed for Mayo. Knotts at the Friday night conventions. Attorney Johfi B. Peterson of Crown Point, democratic candidate for congressman two years ago Is also aid to be a candidate for national delegate from the Tenth district. Secret Ballot Helps Insurgents.

Despite the strong, insurgent strength that John Dorman, Knotts candidate developed in the race for the county chairmanship, the convention as a 'whole was harmonious and left no sore spots. Of course, Gary got a trouncing, at the hands of the old organization but it did not whimper. That It opposed Becker's endorsement was to be expected when it had a candidate of its own. Hammond applied a little salve for the sore spot of delegate apportionment when it sugested through John Rohde, that In view of the fact that Eagle Creek and Winfleld townships had failed to send a delegate ti

the convention, that the extra delegate to which these townships are entitled be given to Gary, thus giving thaj city four instead of three delegates to the sto convention. Dorman 1 Ice Chairman. Gary won the first point in the contest for county chairman when it secured the secret ballot for the nomination of temporary secretary and county chairman. The first test of strength was made on the appointment of ;t temporary secretary. Jacob Friedman, of Cast Chicago, former city sealer of Hammond was put forward by the Gavit forces for secretary, while Louis

Mekatlnski of Gary was nominated byt

the Dorman forces. The result was 61 votes for Friedman and 38 for Mekatinskl. A similar vote was taken on the names of John Gavit and John Dorman, Gavit receiving 6Hi and Doman 41'i. It is figured that the secret ballot got Dorman six or eight votes that he might not have received otherwise. Mayor Beaumont Parks of , Whiting presided as chairman of the first convention and John Gavit, as chairman of the second convention at which the delegates to the state convention were named. I'pon the motion of Mayor Knotts M. Gavit's nomination was made unanimous, and the convention then unanimously elected John Dorman vice chairman. The names of Walter Haw-

. mond of Hammond: Judge George "V.

Fred J. J. D. J.

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INTERESTED 111 CASE

Interest la England in the suffrage cause centers In" the j disposition this tveelc of the government cases against Mrs. Emeline Pankhurst, i-'ra. Frederick Lawrence, and other leaders of the militant suffragettes who are in Jail, charged with conspiracy . to incite malicious damage to property. Conviction under the new law will mean imprisonment of from three to seven years. Mrs. Pankhurst has collapsed several times In her cell.

People in Lake county are greatly interested in the conviction of Senator LaForrest R. Andrews of Ohio on dictograph evidence. He is the fourth member of the legislature to be convicted on -dictograph evidence furnished by the Burns detective agency. The crime for which Senator Laforrest R. Andrews of Ironton, representing the eighth senatorial district, was convticed was the receiving of a bribe of $200 from Frank Smiley Harrison, a detective. The indictment alleged that on April IS, -191,1, Andrews went to room 317, of the Chittenden hotel, of Columbus, where Harrison was posing as an insurance man interested In the passage of a certain measure known as the Ce-

lone-w nmemore diu, wnicn tavored a certain class of mutual insurers.

Jones of Whiting were submitted to the convention for treasurer, and Juge Jones was elected by a vote of fifty to Hammond's forty-eight. Chairman Gavit was given the privilege to select his own secretary. . .

The following names were put for

ward and accepted by. the convention as the delegates and ' alternates to the state convention: . -

Hammond.

Alternates.

Delegates. John Cuneo.

Jacob Schroeter.

John Pascaly. Lawrence Becker. John A Gavit. John D. Smalley. Ed Simon. Geo. B. Sheerer. S. E. Swalm.

Carter. F.at Sullivan. Berry.

H. C. Rutledge. D. L. Glazebrook.

Thil Smith. Cornelius Burns. Oscar Plageman. William Wolter. O. H. Duelke. P. J. Lyons. J. L. Rohde. Robert Werley. John Sturm. F. J." O'Rourke.

Chicago. ' D. George Orf. P. A. Parks. Matt Sternberg. Dr. Robt. Spear.

"' Gary. Knotts.A. P. Melton. Martin Gill.

Wm. N. White. Joseph Morris, to

the take place of Kagle Creek and Wlnfield township's r delegate. Waiting. John Donnegan. Beaumont Parks. Kd Grady. George W. Jones. Calumet Torrnnhla. Wm. Hamilton. .. Ed Behnke. Hobart Township. Wm. Kostbade. W. J. Killigrew.

Thomas E.

W. A. Cain. T. W. Englehart. Harvey Curtis.

Center Township. J. B. Peterson. Henry Aulwurm.

Wm. Steeb. Al Courtwright. St. John Township. Adolph Scherer. Louts Hartman. Frank Berwanger. 'oseph Suter.

Hanover Township. Schillo. Charles Buettner. Rosa Township. Dorman. Nicholas Fagen.

Xorta Township. E. J. Schreiber. " Andrew Welter. Cedar and West Creek Townships. Albert Hull. Nicholas Minninger.

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DEDICATE THEIR NEW QUARTERS CContlnued from Page L

dedication service. At the banquet which followed. Mose

Silverman was toast master and among

those who responded to toasts were D.

C. Atkinson, exalted ruler of the Hammond lodge, Clyde Hunter, exalted

ruler of the Gary lodge. Judge V. S.

Reiter of Hammond, Mayor A. G.

Schlieker. City Attoney Abe Otten helmer, Dr. E. M. Shanklin of Ham

mond. President W. J, McAleer of the

Northern Indiana Baseball Association, and an attorney when time will permit.

F. Hitchcock of Hammond. The latter gave the 11 o'clock toast, a new one

and one of the best ever heard In East

Chicago. . Music' was furnished during the ban

quet by Thomas Phillips at the piano. Albert Lewis with vocal selections, and John Kamradt with coon songs. Mr. Kamradt" came in coaiume with his banjo as the special representative of Sophie Tucker who wired her regrets.

There, it is alleged, he accepted four $50 bills in consideration of a promise to. vote for the reporting of the bill to the senate with a favorable recommendation from the committee on Insurance, of which he was a member. Concealed in an adjoining room was Official Stenographer Walcutt, who, by means of a sounding machine, recorded the conversation which took place between Andrews and Harrison.

Dlrgle Caught la Trap.

This incident preceded a similar visit !

on the part of Sergeant-at-Arms Rod

ney J. Diegle, convicted last year of being an accessory to the bribery. It was Diegle, it is said, who arranged for the visit of Senator Andrews, being conversant with the prospective crimi

nal transaction.

The trap was set through the efforts

of. the Ohio Manufacturers association.

the officers of which had reason to believe that ' systematic corruption was

flourishing In the general assembly

in connection with legislation in which It was 'nere8ted. Three detectives, of whom ,(Harrison or Smiley was one, were sent to Columbus and succeeded with the use of the sounding machine in entrapping Diegle, Andrews, and, it is charged, other members of both branches of the assembly. At his trial Diegle did not take the witness stand. Andrews appeared as a witness in that case -and told the same story as

in his own, viz., that he had called on Smiley in a perfectly legitimate way, expecting to receive some Information concerning the insurance measure, 'a tld did not receive any bribe. ." The principal fight of the defense was to attack the credibility of Smiley as, a witness and the reliability of the sounding machine as an. Instrument for transmitting speech. In the Diegle case, which was carried to the supremo court, counsel for defense attacked the legality of the entrapment proceedings as the chief error. ' , Senator Andrews ha for years been a leading attorney and one of the political leaders of southeastern Ohio. He is possessed of considerable wealth, and many prominent persons, includ- , ing judges, bankers, attorneys and

ministers, appeared to give testimony regarding the unsullied reputation f the senator previous to the alleged

bribery denouement.

At the time of going to press It was understood that most of those who attended, even the out of towners, had

reached their homes.

The East Chicago Elks were the re

cipients ef a great many compliments on their new rooms, the excellent taste displayed in the appointments of the

same and the perfection of the lodge

members as hosts. v

Policy of Kntrapment. So far as is known Judge Dillon's comment upon the policy of "entrapment" as a means of detecting public officials in the crime of bribery, goes further than any formal legal utterances upon the question made by Oh)y courts. Judga Ferneding of the circuit court ruled that the evidence in the Diegle case did not show entrapment, but did not say whether, if It had been shown, it would have been a valjd

case. - Judge Dillon's charge of 2,400 words, already heralded as a model for others to follow, has this to say on the sub"In considering the law with reference to "right of the state to ferret out and detect crime the law makes a distinction as a matter of public policy between measures for the detection and punishment of some corrupt private

purpose on me one nand and an arti

fice used to detect public officials sus

pected of being engaged in the solicita

tion or acceptance of bribes which vitally affect the public welfare.

"A prosecuting attorney, whose at

tention has been called to any alleged criminal practices, is not acting outside the pale of hie law or of his duty

in rendering assistance In the discovery of such alleged criminal practices." ' V Conrt Praised by Attorneys. , j Attorney General Hogan and Prosecutor Turner said that Judge Dillon's liberal treatment of the defense and his policy of sustaining most of their contentions without argument has resulted in a record unusually free from cay error upon which appeal might be taken to the higher courts. The defense noted very few exceptions to the rulings of the court, and for this reason It is anticipated that Senator Andrews may soon be sentenced.

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