The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-10-30
TO THE BUSINESS MEN.

There better time than the present to place be-
fore the people of Hammond especially the business and
professional the needs of the hour It is of vital IN
Hammond if it go ahead instead of stand
ing still during the next four years to elect man for
mayor who will make it go ahead instead of letting it
stand still.
What has Mayor Becker done for Hammond that
any seventeen year old boy could not have done? The
taxpayers of Hammond deserve the credit not Becker
Beckers chief claim for is that he has paid off lot
of debts and screwed down the tax levy. Bosh Becker
has had the handling Of million dollars OF money
while he has been mayor There has been lot of sensees
prattle about this debt business
What earthly credit does he deserve for paying debts
when he has money galore pay them with As far the
tax levy concerned there two years of his admin
straton when the tax levy higher than it has
been before Does Becker deserve any credit for that
What has he done to make Hammond go forward? What
has he done to make Hammond wideawake city?
The business should consider thing above all
others that Becker has spent the bulk of his time playing
politics from the time he disannexed the big slice of the
Fourth Ward because it contained republican voters up
to the time when he went to Indianapolis ignored the
court fight in which Hammond concerned with
geance refused help Representative Ed Simon and got
bill through enabling him to run again for mayor and
give himself thirteen years of Office in Hammond. The
business should remember that they overlook
ing the best interests of this city OF ours by rejecting
man to office who dreams of nothing else but building
political machines and playing peanut politics.
The business should remember that Becker has
proved he for Becker first and Hammond any old
time after that suits his selfish convenience What
sort of a platform is Becker running on? Who knOws2
Where is his platform? What definite object has he
view for Hammond if he elected? Absolutely
1t is plain business proposition Mr. Business Man. If
you put in charge of your business for years.
would you not to have hlm make 1t grow bring
customers etc? Would you have him running around
the country boosting HIS business? Would you keep
deadwood in your store?
Do you think factories, people and enter
prises have been brought to HamOnd Is that the kind
of management you would want for your business2
Who heard of Mayor Becker going anywhere on
mission to boost Hammond to advertise the city? You
have heard of his going several places missions to
boost Lawrence Becker haven't you?
4 Honestly, Mr. Business Man, tell us what Becker
has done to advertise and boost Hammond? Hammond
have with vitality, snap, energy, enterprise
aggresiveness ginger and business for It's mayor
for four years is Beckers misfortune possess
of these qualities.
It is these qualities which going to bring
terprises Hammond We can't wait until some Of these
good things get lost and wander into Hammond by acct
dent and then grab and locate them We must go and
look for them, Mr. Business Man. just you go after
business and prove them that Hammond the best
ever and its people anxious to welcome newcomers
It is the mayor who to be at the head Of enterprise
of this kind
It is high time that the business and taxpayers
, of Hammond put live wire at the head Of a movement
of this kind It is high time that peanut politics.
chine building obindng nest featherng, interested
tering and deagogy be eliminated from the adminstra
ton of civic affairs in Hammond gentlemen that's all
there to it. Becker is tied hand and foot to that sort
of policy, he has proved it in hundred ways. His is
administration for the pampered fewnot for the
whole people If Hammond is to take its place among
the cities of the country necessary first go out and
: beat Beckerism to a fragile, next Tuesday.