The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-16
HAS THE VOTER PUZZLED
Sleeps With His Head i'm One State and Ills Feet
in Another, and Doesn't Know
Where He is.

| Pat Gleason of Hammond, is in a
/ quandary. Here is the situation:
/ He is an American citizen-he knows
that.
| He is a voter-he knows that.
| He wants to vote-and he knows
that
+! But
He sleeps every night with his head
| in Illinois and his feet in Indiana.
| He goes to bed up fight of stairs
| in Indiana, crosses over into Illinois
while passing through the hall and
| enters through a door in Illinois,
room that is half in one state and
| half in the other.
1t Is just the most natural thing in
the world that he undresses standing
on the line and that when he turns
into he'd he just about evenly distrib-
utes his citizenship between the two
great commonwealth.
But that does not disturb his SUM
bers. He sleeps just as though he did
not have a state line resting on his
abdomen, and arising in the morning
he lodges in and out of two states in
getting into his clothes.
He goes down to breakfast in Indiana
and goes to work 10 Illinois. where he
is a. fireman on the Chicago Junction
Railroad.
Now where does he vote?
He probably is guessing, but for fear
of the complications that might arise
IL he began to question he is content
ing himself by preparing to vote in
Cook County, Illinois, where he thinks
his vote is needed more than in Lake
County, Indiana. And, too, his brain
the real voting power-sleeps there.
OF course a mans residence IS estao-
lished by the place where he has his
washing done-that is as old state
ment of crude election law as one can
find. But does it fit this case? Per
haps it would, but Gleason sometimes
has his washing done in one state ana
sometimes in another.
AS a matter of fact, here seems to
be one man who ought to have two
votes to go around and do justice to
election day
Gleason is a peculiar citizen of IN
diana-or Illinois-a star boarder at
the State Line House in Hammond
And the state Line House. hotel. IS
lust about as peculiar as its star
boarder, and even more complicated
IT stands in Plummer street. Plum
mers street is a straight crooked street
that is to say, it runs croSsways OF
the city plat, following some railroad
tracks that run in a northwesterly dl-
rection All this has considerable TO
do with the case, for by 1t, II VIII De
seen, the State Line House does not
stand as it should-facing The north
star, and the state line does not run
north and south. Some years ago MI
and Mrs. Robert Werley built a three
story boarding house building on the
last piece of property on the east sac
of the Indiana Illinois line. Business
increased so that they had TO spread
out and develop into full-hedged hotel
keepers This they did by adding TO
the west side Of the house. Thus they
straddled the line with their house
and the line ran diagonally through it.
Ono of their hotel entrances was in
Indiana. one in Illinois. and the office
as we'll as the barroom was divided be-
tween the TWO Slates- MS was a.
likely TO lead to complications rs put
ting a jail on a state line
To illustrate: Illinois assumed a
very hostile attitude to slot machines;
Indiana was Iukewarm on the PROPOSE
least there and at Hammond,
where the liberal spirit is predomi-
nant. But the time came when both