The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-08-26
HICKEY SAYS
WORK IS NEEDED
Candidate For Lieutenant Governor
Goodwine Makes a Hit With His
Auditors and Party Workers Say
They Received a Good Deal of
Encouragement.

The republican party held conse-
Grafton meeting in the headquarters
over the Commercial bank last evening
and as such it was one of the most
earnest and enthusiastic political gath
erings that has ever been held in Ham
mond.
The meeting was presided over by
Judge Virgil S. Reiter, who introduced
they arious speakers with exceedingly
appropriate remarks. Those who spoke
were District Chairman A. ]. Hickey,
candidate for lieutenant governor, Fre-
mont Goodwine, and Wade Emerson.
A. ]. Hickey talked on organization
and explained the system which has
been adopted by the state organization.
1t provides for close party organiza-
tion and the details of the plan indi
cate that the state central committee
will spare nothing to again win the
state over for the republican party.
$1,000 Fail to Vote.
Mr.. Hickey said that at the last
election there were approximately S0,-
600 voters who stayed away from the
polls. OF that number $4,000 were re-
publicans and in some districts demo-
cratic candidates were elected by the
stay home republicans.
In the case of Ed Simon of this city,
Mr. Hickey said in Lake county there
was an average Of twenty-seven repub-
licans to a precinct who stayed away
from the polls, and If the party work
ers in a single precinct had brought
out all of the vote, Ed Simon would not
have been elected, as his majority was
only 44
With this illustration and many 9TH
ers, the district chairman showed the
Importance of close organization and of
hard work by the party leaders. Fre-
mont Goodwine, who never addresses a
meeting without winning the admira-
tion of the entire audience. was the
same big-hearted man that he is re-
puted to be- and made a friend of every
politician present.
GOOdwine Makes Hit.
Mr.. Goodwine also talked of party or
ganization and advised the adoption
of a system by which the party would
have a complete record of every voter
in the city. To give an idea of how
complete those records should be, Mr.
Goodwine said that it ought to show
that a certain young voter sits UP
nights with his best girl in order that
she may possibly be induced to help
in the good work of making him a re-
publican
Wade Emerson of Vincennes was in
troduced by Judge Virgil S. Reiter as
the man who has, in a large measure
been responsible for the fact that while
the southern part of the state was once
democratic. it is now safely republi-
can.
After Mr.. Emerson had completed his
talk his hearers did not doubt that
such oratory and such clear r-headedness
as he showed should greatly aid in
the conversion of the entire southern
part of the state to the parry of Lincoln
and Roosevelt.
Dare Not Look Back.
Speaking OF Bryan and the demo
cratic party. Mr.. Emerson said: They
dare not look back. They are con-
tinually saying, Let bygones be by
cones They cannot look back on q
single party leader. until they get away
back to Jackson and Jefferson, to whom
they can point with pride, and Jack
son issued $50 900 600 of government
bonds which he offered to the world
at y per cent interest and the worId
would have none of them
I'm the last fifty years." said Mr.
been in power just two measley years
1t is true that Cleveland had two ad-
ministratfons, but part of the time the
senate and the house were republican
was in power they brought the coun.
try to panic that was so long drawn.
out and so distressing that 1t tool
years to recover from it."
Mr.. Emerson told several interesting
stories and his talk was worthy of al
audience of 5000 people instead of tn,
little group of party workers who
gathered together to catch the fnspira
lion of the coming campaign and carr,
il into the activities of their every day
life.