The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-02
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ing fine chickens. He has fun charge
of the magnificent country place of
Lieber near this city.
Walls says he was present at a con-
ference at Lieber's country home one
night last August when Thomas Tag
garth Crawford Fairbanks. the Terre
Haute brewer. and Joseph K. Bell of
this city, attorney for Fairbanks came
out there in an automobile and held a
conference with Lieber at which time
plans were laid for brewery activity
in the indianapolis city campaign. He
says also that he was present when
Steve Fleming. the Fort Wayne brew
er, and Joseph Schaf, another Indi-
annapolis brewer. were out there one
night early in the season, and that he
heard these tow men with Lieber talk
over the plan for capturing the control
of the next legislature.
Agree to .sGet Busy"
Walls says that Fleming, Lieber and
Schaf ate dinner together that evening,
and that during the dinner there was
a general discussion of the political sit
uation and that the three men agreed
that the brewers of the state should
get busy and elect a legislature that
would repeal the local option law and
open the way for saloons in all of the
counties. He said they remained at
Leber's house until late at night. He
said it was agreed between them that
huge sums of money should be used
by the brewers in order to carry out
their political plans.
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and Bell held their conference with
Lieber. said Walls. 1t had more to do
with the Indianapolis city campaign.
because, they say. If they could car
ry Indianapolis at the city election it
would put them in good shape to carry
1t at the state election next fall and
elect twelve members of the Legislature.
He says the plan as agreed upon by the
/ four men that night was that they
should furnish large sums of money
/ to the democrats to elect Charles A.
| Gauss as mayor of indianapolis. They
were not to say anything oor do any
! thing openly until late in the campaign,
however. 1t was arranged that Tag
| CART should go to French Lick Springs
! and stay there until a short time be-
fore the city election, and then he was
to come here and jump into the cam
paign and boom things for Gauss The
brewers were to furnish the money for
this work.
Taggart's Power Feared
1t is well known that Taggart is q
power in politics in this city He can
do more in a local campaign by the use
of money properly spent than any 9TH
er man in the city. and everybody
knows it and fears him. How well the
plan laid by this brewers worked out
Is shown by the fact that Taggart die
go TO French Lick and stay there until
about ten days ago. when he came t
Indianapolis and got busy Immediate.
~ the democratic campaign began t
hum. and the money began to flow. Tn,
democratic city headquarters took oil
an air of prosperity that it had not hat
before his arrival. Taggart called il
all of his old-time lieutenants, many
of whom had been lying extremely an,
suspiciously quiet and doing nothing il
the campaign. They. too. got busy an,
they have been busy ever since. TIL
result has been that where a week ag,
the republicans were offering bets o
to 1 that Lew Shank. their candidat
for mayor would be elected the bettfnl
has changed until now it is even mon
ey, with the chances favoring tn
election of Gauss The brewers ar
about to win. The campaign is work
ing out just as Walls say the brewer
conference planned It that night a
the Lieber country home.
Part of Big Scheme.
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