The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-24
REJECTS ONE BECAUSE
He NEGLECTS FAMILY
Another One VIII Be Disappointed
Because Wife Begs Governor to
Send Her Husband Home to Her,
But He Will Never Know Why He
He Was Turned Down.
TIMES BUREAU
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.

Al THE STATE CAPITAL.
Governor Marshall has decided that
he is being bored to death by the lob
hunters. It is hungry horde that
las been storming his office ever since
he became governor, especially since
the legislature adjourned Every day
the Office is thronged with applicants
or friends of applicants, political root
ers, many of them, who seek to have
the governor make an appointment be-
cause they carry around ward or
county in their vest pocket.
Governor Marshall does not believe
in this kind of politics, neither does
he believe in that kind of an effort
to land jobs. He is looking for men Of
merit and worth for the places to fill
and the fact that a man can or cannot
control a county or a township makes
no difference with Governor Marshall
That is why it bores him to have these
applicants and their delegations
swarming in on him.
Persistent Applicants Injure own Cause
Mark Thistlewaite, secretary of the
governor, said yesterday, that these
persistent applicants who haunt the
state house and the governors office
do themselves more harm than good
and If some of them do not land it
Will be because they have deviled the
life out of the governor.
Governor Marshall has his own way
of doing things and making selections
for places. A story is told Of a man
who went to Columbia City to see him
about job just few days after the
election and long before Marshall came
to Indianapolis to be inaugurated. The
man had made application by mail and
Marshall started to investigate him.
A few days later the man called at
Columbia City and renewed his appli-
cation.
Il don't think I can do anything for
you." Marshall told him
why" said the man, Il am a good
party worker and have been for years.
wanted him at home, she said, and
to something"
Yes" replied Marshall, you work
for your party but you do not work
for your family. I am told that you
DO not support your family and that
you neglect your wife and children"
The man half admitted this to be
true.
Il will not appoint any man to an
office who does not take care Of his
family" said Marshall. you need not
expect anything from me for you will
not get IT."
That man went home without an ap-
pointment and will not get one.
Wife Sends Letter to Governor.
Another man made application for
a place that would require him to be
away from home much Of the time and
Marshall was about in the notion of
giving him the job. But one day he
received a letter from the mans wife
imploring him not to give the appoint
ment to her husband. The wife said
she did not want her husband away
from home so much of the time She
wanted hi mat home, she said. and
she hoped the governor would respect
her wish. She asked him to keep her
letter confidential and not allow her
husband to know she had written him
That man viii not get the job, either
but he will never know why. But it
is expected that the governor will
make several appointments within the
next few days, or at least by the first
of April. It is said that he is about
done with a list Of appointments that
he intends to make and that when
the list is given out for publication
there will be some surprises