The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-10-20

esday, October 20, 1908.
e out of doors, so that it is likely that
e will not be in the best of condition
Attorney Bretsch. however. will be in
Inc form and if he meets with as much
uccess in Hobart as he has in other
tiles in which he has spoken, he will
10 doubt prove a great attraction. 1t
vas expected that several other repuB-
leans of Gary would attend the meet
ng, which is scheduled to be the big
rest of the campaign in Hobart
New York. Oct ia check for
10000. the contribution of the Tam
many society to the democratic ma
ional campaign fund, was received by
herman Rider, treasurer of the ma
ional democratic committee, Saturday
This is the largest single contribution
ret received by the national committee.
Vice President Fairbanks will speak
1t Lagrange on the afternoon of
Thursday, October 20. This is the only
place that has been definitely settled
TOR his tour of the state, but VIII H.
Hays, chief of the republican speakers
bureau. said he would have the others
ready for announcement the first of the
week.
Leslie NJ. Shaw, former secretary OF
the treasury, will make two speeches in
Indiana. He will be at Shelbyvi1le Oc-
tober 10 and at Mishawaka October 20
Danville-Tomorrow will be Watson
day in Danville and Hendricks county,
and the largest political meeting of the
is expected. James E. Wat
son and Senator Edward E. Hendee of
Anderson are to be the speakers Dele
cations from every township in the
county are expected.
rsonville-Benjamin F. Shively,
of South Bend spoke in this city to an
audience of 1000 democrats on Satur-
day night. He was introduced by the
Hon. George H. voigt as the next
United States senator from Indiana, a
sentiment also expressed in a prelim-
mary speech by former State senator
James w. Fortune and enthusiastically
cheered by the audience.
parties are surprised at the fine musical
talent here. The Elwood Glee club,
with Phil Hamm as musical director,
and twelve voices, furnishes the music
for all democratic speakings Benja-
min b. Jones is leader of the Columbia
club singers, fourteen in number. The
socialist singers are known as wattle.s
quartet, and they number fifteen voices.
Richmond-State Auditor Billheimer.
state Senator Mattingly and Bob"
Brown made short addresses in Rich
mond Saturday night in the presence
of fairly large audience. They made
defense of the republican state ad-
ministration, which has been attacked
by the democratic speakers, and ap-
pealed to voters, regardless of party.
who desired to see the brewery stamped
out of politics, to support James E.
Watson for governor
Muneie-When Chain and Watkins,
the prohibition party's candidates for
president and vice president, respec-
lively. come to Muncie, Thursday, they
will be greeted by practically the en-
tire membership of the Woman Chris
tian Temperance Union of this city, and
the w T. c. L. will try TO make the
visit of the candidates pleasant. The
union unanimously decided to do all 1t
can to make the Chain meeting sue
cessful.
| The brewers and distillers of Indiana
| have put up their big colored by 10
foot posters in Crown Point, which they
are doing over the entire state, fol
lowing ahead of Watson's speaking
dates about two days. The glazing red
bills attempt to show the evils of pro-
hibition.'' They show numerous empty
saloon buildings, caused by the local
option law, give figures of the drop in
rents in grand total besides showing
the great amount of grain used in the
manufacture of whisky and beer They
warn the farmers that to cut out the
breweries and distilleries that the price
| of grain Will drop to almost nothing,
| and in fact this great United States
will be ruined and bankrupted by
county local option. What nerve!
The bill did not prove large enough
| to get the other side OF the argument
| on. They fail to say that the poor
houses and jails are filled with people
annually account of whisky and
/ beer; that statistics show that eight
tenths of crime is caused by liquor;
| that heavy ak is paid by he farmer in
maintaining courts to try criminal
cases caused through drink; that thou
sands die annually from the effects of
this very stuff. and children and moth
ers go hungry on this account; that
happy families are broken up by the
agency of strong drink, etc. etc.
1t will be well for every voter to
figure what real good saloons ever did.
Then fathom the harm they have done.
and subtract the good from the bad.
The answer will knock out the argu-
ment of those large bills ten to one.
Lake County Star.
Archibald Mcneil of Bridgeport
Conn, who was among the vice presi-
Dental possibilities before the Denver
: convention, is now mentioned for a
cabinet position in the event of Mr.
Bryan's election.
Eugene v. Debs, socialist party can
didate for president. believes he will
receive over a million votes at the
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