The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-03-28
Will the Governor Try to
Placate or Further HUI
initiate Tenth District?
WANTS TO KNOW WHY
VIII the Sick Man Of indianapolis
Consult Local Wishes Before
Making Appointments.

The discussion regarding the gov
ernor's probable action in making the
appointments to fill the vacancies in
the metropolitan police board has now
gone so far that the question has been
raised as to what his attitude will be
regarding the appointment of judge
of the continuous court here in Ham
mond.
The Tenth district has been an eye
sore to Hanly ever since he and Con-
gresham Crumpacker fought so bit
terly for the nomination for congress-
Crumpacker won out and this has al
ways been a bitter pill for Hanly to
swallow. When he found out that he
could not attract to himself constit-
uency in this section, he moved to La
fayette and there secured the nomina-
ton and election to the governorshtp.
He did not forget his first bitter poll
tical disappointment, however, and he
has held this against the people of the
Tenth district ever since. When the
bitter feeling that Hanly already had
against the people of this district was
increased by the strong opposition here
to his application of the metropolitan
police law, it was the last straw, and
some persons believe that the
governor now intends to fight it out
with the people of the Tenth district
to the very end.
As long as the governors attitude
regarding the police commissioners
and the judgeship remains a puzzle,
these thing will have to be taken into
consideration in determining what he
is likely to do in the future.
Those who have studied the situa-
tion believe that there are two possible
attitudes that the governor might take
against his avowed enemies in the
northwestern portion of Indiana.
May Heap Goals of Fire.
If he is wise, they say, he will de-
eide to let well enough alone. He will
realize that although he has been up
held in his championing of the metro
politan police law. it will be wise to
let the matter drop now. He will heap
Goals of fire on the heads of his op
ponents in this end Of the state by
making appointments that will be at
least a compromise between what he
desires and what the party leaders in
this district want
He will pour oil on the troubled
waters and at least be magnanimous.
Then it is possible the people OF this
section might forgive, even if they
could not forget and If in the future
the governor profits by his experiences
in the past and permits his constitu-
ents in this to have the measure Of
home rule that is necessary to meet
the peculiar conditions here, the people
might even forget the past.
on the other hand. those who are
ernor, say that it will not be his
ernor, say that it will not be his pre-
disposition to compromise. They say
he loves to WELD the big stick too
we'll They tell us that he is a vim
dictfye fellow and that from now on
his one aim regarding this district will
be TO punish those who have done so
much TO discredit his administration.
He believes, they say. that the Tenth
district will never cooperate with him
anyway. and that now that the die is
cast there will be no concessions.
PIacafion or Humiliation.
If this is to be The attitude. what
then are the representatives of the
republican party in Hammond TO ex-