The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-11
Popular Congressman Re
gales Large Audience
With Good Advice.
THE DEADLY PARALLEL
Uses This to Advance His Theory
That It's Best to Let Well
Enough Alone.

stand pat" said Charley Lands last
light in his address at Towles opera
house That is not what ne called IT,
but nevertheless It was the burden Of
his speech.
The reception that was given the
congressman from the Ninth district
was distinctly cordial as Charley is
among his friends Ia Hammond The
house was comfortably hlled.
The past ten years Of the Republi-
can administration bore heavily on Mr..
Lands mind and in his stand pat" ar
guments he recounted the gigantic
deeds of congress during that period.
After praising the work Of congress in
general. he dwelt more particularly
on the Panama canal question OF which
it had disposed, on the pure food bin,
and the railway legislation. The last
r. cd as the most important en-
actment since the Dingley law was
passed. lie augmented the pride of
his hearers by saying that the Repub-
lican party had been in power for forty
years and that it is known as the
party Of achievements" Swinging on
to the pure food legislation, he said
that the stuff that the public had stow
ed away in the past years, under the
misnomer of food. could not be pro-
nonneed by a fit name, but that condi-
tlons had now changed. That this had
not been done sooner he excused on the
ground that we had been going too fast
and that legislation could not keep pace
with the mighty strides of the country
Due to Ignoring Bryan.
He referred to Bryan when the lat
ter made his sixteen to one campaign
and also in the second one when he
made Imperialism the issue. He claim
ed that our prosperity was due 10 the
fact that we had not followed Bryan's
advice on the money standard. He said
that where Bryan feared imperialism
on account of the annexation of the
Philippine and the Sandwich islands
peace reigned. while on the other hand
where his advice had been followed,
as in Cuba and the island had been Civ
en- protection for independence, there
was now revolution. Continuing, how
ever. he laid the present trouble at
the feet of the tobacco and sugar trusts
saying, Down deep in my heart l think
that behind it all are the emissaries
Of the tobacco and sugar trusts
Although he had ridiculed Bryan's S
stand on imperialism lie got into the
same boat with the Democratic leader
to the extent of maintaining that de-
spite the mistake that had been made
lin intrusting Cuba with the jewel of
liberty" she should help maintain her
| liberty.
Using the past ten years again in
comparison with foregoing Democratic
administration he found logical argu-
ments to stand pat on the protective
tariff
Audience Non-Partisan.
IN the audience We're people Of all
! classes, women and children. Demo
Gratis as well as Republicans. Lands
/ is a recognized speaker and brought out
] his powers TO good advantage. He
was introduced by Attorney w. j. Nc
4 Aleer Of this city and from first to last
/ he held the attention OF his hearers
| Ills personality is striking and inter
estng His appearance as politica
speaker is deceptive He looks like
tall man on the platform, when ir
| reality he is barely above the average
height An incident regarding his ap.
1 pearance was witnessed last night al
ne stepped OF the train. when Arthur
4 Findley. one OF TIRE LAKE COUNT
TINES newsboys stepped UP holding
paper toward him. saying: Buy one
Mr. Lands, it has your picture and
writeup of you. The urchin had rec
ognized the politician from the pictur,
in the paper and made proftable use o
his knowledge as Mr. Lands bough