The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-30
ASK WHAT THE
OUT CONE WILL Be
Charles Frederich's Old Scheme in
Dividing Lake County Into Two
Different Parts May Be Solution of
Vexed Question Unless Another Is
Soon Presented.

Ine republicans of Lake county are
exceedingly concerned over the fact
that the state platform of the party
islands for making the county as well
as the township the unit I'm the matter
of securing remOnstrance against
saloons.
Heretofore should a majority of the
voters of ward or township decide
In favor of prohibition, they need only
to secure the signatures of a number
OF voters equal to a majority of the
votes cast at the last election to max e
such ward or township dry.
County May Go Dry.
Should the law, which is approved by
the republicans in state convention. be
placed on the statute books the county
ir addition to the other political divi-
sions mentioned heretofore will be the
unit and should the "drys" of Lake
county be able to secure more than
half as many signatures to a remon-
strace as there were votes cast in the
last election, the county would go dry
Different From other Place.
The law is very peculiar as affecting
Lake county. In most of the counties
CT the state the county as a whole is
either rural community dotted here
and there with small towns which are
suburban rather than urban in char
acter and in some cases are not much
larger than good sized cross roads
settlements.
In others there are large cities To-
Gated very nearly in the center Of the
county which are large enough to DOM
mate the rest of the county politically
and in such matters as prohibition.
Hold Liberia. Views.
In Lake county, however, the metro
politan spirit rules the northern por-
tion along the lake. The community is
industrial and the people demand an
open town and a liberal attitude to-
wards the saloon. In the southern part
the reverse is the rule. The quiet res
idents of its sleepy agricultural com
munities frown on the capers of their
northern neighbors in spite of the fact
that these neighbors build their court
houses and pave their country roads
What VIII Hammond Bes
Republican leaders are asking them
selves what will be the probable out
come of an effort to make Lake county
dry if the county is made the unit.
Would it not be possible for the voters
III southern part of the county together
with the few which could be gathered
in the northern part of the county to
secure a majority of the votes at the
last county election and in this man
ner close up every saloon in Hammond.
Whiting. East Chicago, Indiana Harbor
and Gary?
The population in the northern part
of the county is growing so fast that
in the near future the northern cities
will dominate the county just as the
larger cities do in other counties but
1t is the interum that the leaders fear. |
Fredericks Has Scheme.
1t is even possible that 1T might be
necessary to adopt Charley Frederick's !
idea of dividing the county of Lake |
into two counties, Calumet county and
Lake county
These are matters which are giving
the republican leaders a great deal of |
concern and it is an assured fact that |
the democrats are going to use these |
arguments in the coming election to /
win or keep the saloon element on |
the side of the Peerless Leader"
Law May Be Changed.
The republicans will reply, however.
that republican plank does not nee |
essarily mean a republican law and /
that the chances are that if the county |
is made the unite the law will be writ
ten to exclude counties containing ci-
ties of over 10000 inhabitants !
The indications are that prohibition
will enter. into the coming campaign TO
a greater degree than ever before. The
1e emocrats viii be allied with the saloon
and the republicans with the
IT is possible that the
result may be either a democratic state
Administration or Indiana placed in
he rapidly growing list of dry states
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