The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-17

LHIuS dlsO. Oue Was the di1AVst AAaHl-
nous sentiment among the Legislators |
In favor of repeating the metropolitan |
police law. 1t may not be a repeal. !
exactly. but it will at least be bill !
that will so change the metropolitan
police law that that even its Gown ia
Their would not recognize ii IL he were
to meet 1t on the broad highway in
broad daylight after the legislature
gets through with it. The plan now
is to so amend it as to take away
everything that the supporters of the
law have always believed in. The bill
that will be introduced by Senator Nc
Cullough of Madison county to make
over the metropolitan police law will
provide that the police boards of the
various cities shall be apo lted by the
mayor and be approved ey the COM
mon council of the city. This will take
away from the governor all supervision
over the police department of any city.
This will take the very heart out of
the present law, leaving the police or
ganization of the cities practically as
it was before the metropolitan system
was inaugurated.
Marshall Does Not Care.
ernor- Elect Marshall some time ago
made the statement that If the metro
politan police law is not repealed and
he has to make appointments of po-
lice commissioners he will allow the
mayors and city councils to recommend
the men for the places. But there is
little doubt that the legislature will
relieve him of all this responsibility.
One of the interesting developments
of the meeting, however, that did not
crop out till after all the legislators
had departed for home was the fact
that eight democratic representatives
held a little quiet conference of their
own and decided to oppose any attempt
TO repeal the county option law 1t is
said that Representative Maish of Clin-
ton county is the leader of the movement
to oppose the repeal, but the names
of the others could not be learned
1t was not on the program for them
to hold this conference, and it is said
that it was only plan to count noses
and see just how many democrats in
the house can be counted on to vote
against the repeal of the law. 1t is
even limited today that there may be
others who will do the same. but only
eight got together on it yesterday.
1t is not believed. however, that even
this movement will be sufficient to
save he law from repeal, because the
democrats have a majority of sixteen
in the house and there are known to
be several republicans who will vote
with the body of democrats to repeal
it.
Job Hunters Busy.
The hungry horde of office-seekers
and Job hunters in Marion county have
at last put on their lighting harness
| and propose TO land some of the jobs
that Governor Marshall will have to
| hand out or know the reason why.
Ever since the election office-seekers
| have sprung up all over the state. Ma
| rion county has furnished its share,
| there being one or more applicant for
nearly every job that the governor will
| have at his disposal.
| The enormous number of applicants
| in Marion county caused some of the
| outside counties to complain. Demo
| Gratis out in the state charged that
Marion county was trying to hog ev-
erything in sight. They said Marion
county was trying to get its feet in
| the trough and crowd out everybody
else so 1t could monopolize the whole
business. They charged that Marion
county always does this very thing
and said it was about time to put q
crimp in Marion county and show il
where it belongs.
This complaint became so general an6
so loud that the Marion county demo
| Gratis have taken up the challenge
| They say they are entitled to all they
can get.
One Mans Reasons.
Marion county is not asking too
much" said one man here. "Thes,
outside counties must remember tina
| Marion county is a congressional dis
| trict of itself and that it is entitled
to as much patronage as any othe
district. They must remember also tina
Marion county gave Marshall a plurali
ty of nearly 5000, which was one-thir,
of all the plurality he received in tn
entire state They remember tina
Maion county has no candidates TO
any of the positions in the legislature
| although it has eleven democratic mem
abers. 1t is understood that Joe Rel
ley. secretary of the democratic stat
committee, is to be appointed state OF
Inspector, and some of the outside coun
ties are pointing to this as a Mariol
county appointment. The fact is tina
Kelley does not live in Marion count,
at all. His home is at North Yer
non and he votes there, as he has al
ways done. In fact, Indianapolis an
Marion county is not asking for much
and We ought to have what we want.
And they are going to try to ge
what they want, too. Marion count
has two or three candidates for stat
tax commissioner; two for railroa
commissioner; one for fish and gam
commissioner; three for custodian 0
the state house and about 10000, 90
others for all the other jobs. There 1
not a place within the gift of the gov
ernor that Marion county is not aft
er. But the local statesmen say ever
other district in the state is also in tn
field with a full line of candidate
for the jobs. and they cannot under
stand why Marion county should nc
get in the game along with all the res
ELLIS SEARLES.
LAKE SUPERIOR COURT