The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-10-21
MARSHALL TALKS At
THE COUNTY SEAT
Candidate Is Greeted BY
Crowd of Five Hun
dred People.

Tom Marshall the much tauted
democratic nominee for governor,
speaking to a crowd of 500 democrats.
republicans and horse buyers from Ilii-
nois, from the veranda OF the Com
mercial hotel here yesterday, failed
completely to make the hit his dem
ocratic followers supposed he would.
Instead, the republicans who heard him
were jubiliant over the result of the
entire days proceedings. but doubly
so from the effects of Marshalfs
speech, which, from the aninosity 1T
has stirred up among the old soldiers
who heard him. the saloonkeepers who
wanted light on his position. and the
manufacturer and his workmen who
saw all the artful schemes used to ar
ray class against class. will prove to
be one of the strongest arguments
that the republicans have against the
democratic nominee, and like Bryan.
tseX-nave now the goods to show that
Marshall will be one of the most I'M
safe men, from many standpoints that
ever sought to control the destiny Of
the state. Marshall delivered nearly
word for word, with a few additions,
the same speech he made in Hammond,
but 1t is the additions that were re-
sponsible for the great wave that was
stirred up against the speaker yester-
day that will probably sound his
death knell. as an aspirant for the
governors office. The first fatal blow
Mr.. Marshall struck against himself
and his followers was when he COM
pared the Lincoln republican with the
present day Bryan democrat. stating
that an Abraham Lincoln republican
ought to be a Bryan democrat. Tom
Marshall reckoned without his host
when he made that statement, for the
old G. A. R. boys who fought for the
union. remember well and to their sor-
row, how the democratic party of that
time were against every act that Lin
coin was trying TO bring about for the
successful close of the war, and as one
old boy in blue was heard to say yes
terday, why don't they go to their
own party for a man to lean against
without bring the revered name OF
Lincoln into present day politics?'
Every G. A R. man that heard the
speech yesterday is up in arms against
what was said and If their influence
counts for aught Marshall will ge
few votes here.
His demogogic TRADE against th'
trusts ana corporations was next OF
his political bill of fare, and the wa!
manufacturers were scored in his eff
forts 10 array class against class ant
labor against capital. will certainly b.
the means of losing Marshall man!
votes. A Chicago horse-buyer. wh'
did not know what kind of a speecl
was being made, was of the opinion
that Crown Point had bee invaded b.
a red-hot disciple of socialism. s.
bitter was Marshalrs efforts to sti
up animosity between the wage-earne
and the moneyed man. Marshalrs pre-
diction of an awful calamity that is t
sweep the country. If no remedy /
found for the present situation, was ap
palling, II 1t had been taken seriously
but those utterances coming from
man like Marshall who rides aroun
in automobiles and has a reputation TO
being an aristocrat, only provok
amusement. and his audience yester
day were not the kind to take up hi
fire brand of socialism. and work hi
deadly offices while Mr.. Marshall sit
around in an automobile.
Pontius PLATE and Moses were her
brought into the speakers range of al
gument, but what he tried to brin