Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — CORKSCREW and MALLET. [ARTICLE]

CORKSCREW and MALLET.

Dr Hattery Opens His Congressional Canvass With a Beer Matinee at Crown Point. [From the Logansport Journal.] It can be truthfully said that the Democratic campaign in this district was opened up with a cork screw and mallet., Dr. Hattery made his appearance in Crown Point early in the morning and went straightway to a low saloon which is the recognized rendezvous for all the bums and toughs of Lake county, and here lie established his headquarters and remained late in the afternoon.. Free liquor flowed like water all day long. , It was Hattery’s “opening ’ ana everybody that drank, drank with Hattery. The bums and bar *- flies were in their element, the the proprietor of the den was in. clover, Hattery scattered his cards right and left, and to all appearances everybody was happy. When a new comer would enter the saloon the candidate would take him by the shoulder, pull him up to the bar, and with a “Take this with Hattery, the next congressman from the Tenth congressional district,” order another round. It was a disgraceful and disgusting affair from beginning to endj and the result of the “opening” could be seen on the streets of Crown Point during the entire afternoon. A /gentleman in that city yesterday stated that in weeks he has not a drunken man on the street, but yesterday they jolt- _ ed along the sidewalk and every one howled tor Hattery. The affair created the greatest political sensation Crown Point has known in years and nothing elsb was talked about up there yesterday. Dr. Hattery made the greatest blunder of his fife in opening his canvass for a seat in, the national congress. For the last two weeks he has stated that he had . a dead pure thing on an election because he knew how to circulate among the people and make friends —because he knew how to treat the voters of the district in order to win them over. If he has not missed his calculation on the people of Lake county, and the district, then many people will miss their guess. Lake county does not live in saloons. Lake county is not one great beer garden. Mr. Hattery’s boast that being able to talk German and drink beer he would at once establish him self in the* hearts of the voters in the northern part of the district will be found to be vain and the insulted intelligence and manhood of that part of the district wifi register its indignation early in November.