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


travagance of the state administers
ton He referred repeatedly to the sal.
aries that are being received by the
state office holders
He spoke on the tariff question and
spoke of the protection that was gtver
10 the tin plant industry. He said this
served to build up the tin plate indus.
try in the United States, but that the
Standard OIL company had secured the
right to bring tin plate into this coun.
try free of tariff and make IL into tin
cans. In which its. oil was placed. pros
viding those tin cans We're intended I'd
be shipped to foreign countries.
Makes Prophesy.
He then tried a little real fire and
birthstone gospel when he said that il
these abuses did not cease there would
be some mighty champion of vested
interests who would rise in his power
and crush the laboring man and Their
the people would arise in their might
and smite the aristocrat and we would
all go down in terrible revolution.
AS result he claimed that the hands
on the clock of progress would be SET
back couple of centuries.
He said that Bryan ought to be
elected even If the people did starve."
he said that If we must starve we had
better begin doing IL now" Mr.. Marsh
airs speech was filled with epigrams.
out there was very little continuity Of
reasoning. 1t was rather a socialistio
espousal of democratic issues.
Mum on Rum.
AFTER the meeting was over. the DEM
ocrats seemed surprised that he had
said nothing on the local option. They
heard James E. Watson at Hammond.
Crown Point and East Chicago fear
lessly say that he stood squarely ON
his platform in this matter, but from
Mr.. MaTshall there was not a word.
Except for hearsay the people of Ham
mond do not know how Mr. Marshall
stands on this issue. Even he was
asked by voice in the crowd how
stood, he refused to make an explana.
ton.
Thomas r. Marshall came into HAM
mond from Valparaiso at 4:36 o. m.
He took dinner with Joseph Ibach in
his beautiful Homewood residence on
the south side. He was accompanied
by Mr.. Marshall. who remained at the
Ibach residence while he went down
town and was shaved at Louis Roth's
barber shop.
Mr.. Marshall was accompanied by ].
Kirby Risk, the democratic state
chairman. and several other prominent
democratic politicians. After the meet
ing he was taken in the automobile
owned by John E. Fitzgerald to Indi-
ana Harbor, where he was scheduled
to make a speech
He was then brought back to the
Ibach residence, where he spent the
night. In the morning he met Will
liam ]. Bryan at the Monon train in
this city. He was then scheduled to
meet the democrats at Whiting. to
speak at Crown Point and after the
days speaking he will be again en-
tertained at the residence of Mr.. ].
G. Ibach. From here he goes to Mo-
rocco, Ind.
After the speaking was over Judge
Darroch of Kentland made a five-min-
ute speech. The democrats thought
that the judge would take that op-
portunity to state what he would do in
the event of his election But instead
of defining his attitude on the ques-
tons Of the day the judge simply said
that he realized that there were a
great many friends of Judge E. d.
Crumpacker in the audience and that
all he asked was that the democrats
vote for him and give him a chance.
The great question of harbor facilities
was not even mentioned.
The largest part of the crowd had
left when Mr.. Marshall finished speak
Ing and by the time Mayor Lawrence
Becker was introduced there was only
small circle of listeners in the CEN
ter of the tent
Mr.. Becker did all he could to atone
for the disappointment of Mr.. Mar
shalrs speech. He talked for an hour
and made the burden of his remarks
on the question of the repeal of the
metropolitan police bill
While Mr.. Marshall. the democratic
candidate for governor, would not adj
NIT that the law ought to be repealed.
but instead said that under the present
law he would make the appointments +
on the police board only with the sane
ton of the mayor and council of the
cities. Mr.. Becker went a step far
Their and said he thought the law ought
to be repealed and that the appoint
ments ought to be directly made by
the mayor that he could control the
appointing of the police
Through 1t all it could be seen that
Mr.. Becker's one idea was that the
police ought to be appointed by men
he could control, so that ne could
build up a political machine.
Mr.. Becker dwelt so long on this
subject of police control that the other
issues of the campaign were over
Swallowed 1t appeared to be almost
a monomania with him. 1t was plain
ly apparent to those present that
Mr. Becker's support of Ed Simons
is with the one object in view of hav-
ing the metropolitan police bill
knocked out. After the mayor had ex-
hausted his subject the crowd was dis
missed