The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-25
HAD ALREADY
PROMISED HASTINGS
Antl-SalOOn League People and Pro-
hiibtiOnists Have Begun to Scrap
Over the Matter of Calling Local
Option Election In Marion County
Town.
TIMES BUREAU
AT STATE CAPITOL

indianapolis. Ind, March 25.-Audf-
tor OF State John C. BilIheimer saws
the statement that W J. Hastings Of
hammond, is promised a Job in his Of
nee is not correct He saws that 10
mas not made any promise to anvona
ana that Hastings is merely an annli-
cant for place in the Office and tba+
ne mas the same chance as anv ~ tbe
others of the applicants for Jobs. This
IS entirely different from the renorts
put out before Billheimer rat,1rna,.
from Detroit. yesterday morning III
10 that time it was said that Hastings
mad the promise of Job. and HASTINGS
SAID SO himself. He came to town for
the purpose of taking a job. so it was
understood.
What He said.
BiIiheimer does not say that Hast
ings will not get the Job he is loo1r-
ing for. He merely says that no pror,-
lsess ssaaEe been made. Piglhefma, ala,
refuses to tell anything about the ~
organization of the force In his aflce
he says that Harvey G. Cheney. Of ~
Iayette, who came into the office the
other day and took William II. OuicL,s
oesk as settlement clerk is there to
40 some special work but he does NOT
tel now long Cheney will stay. And
ne does not tell what has become of
Qulck. or whether he will return or
not In fact, there is an air of Sc
creacy about the whole business.
PrOhi's On GriddIe.
some of the antf-saloon people are
saying that the prohibitionists are
trying to put them in hole in the
matter OF calling local option cleo
tlon IN Marion county and incidentally
IN the work of the league In the en-
tire state. It has always been known
that the anti-saloon people and tho
prohlbitionists have not pulled to-
gether in the effort to wipe out the
hquor traffic. and frequently this con-
trariness of opinion shows Itself. The
ahu-saloon people are trying to get
rld Of the liquor traffic by eliminating
saloons The prohibitionists are not
sausned with this plan. They believe
mat the manufacture and sale Of in
toXlcating liquors should be prohibited
aooslutely. and that there should be
no temporizing with the traffic. Tbe,-
say that any law that recognizes the
liquor traffic in any manner is wrong
ana that IS why they have always on
posed local option. They contend thar
II IS wrong to allow people of county
TO have saloons even though they want
them
What They say
The prohibitionists say now. how
ever' that since the local option law IL,
IN the statute books it should be made
Use Of to drive out saloons because
when nearly all the saloons in the
'tate have been wiped out it will then
oe easy TO enact absolute prohibition
For that reason they are contending
nat now is the time to hold an eIac-
ION IN Marion county. They say there
mould be no further delay. But they
ay they fear that the Anti-Saloon
league is not able to handle such
zig affair They fear that the league
viii fail, though they say that a thor
ughly competent organization courd
ucceed.
But the anti-saloon people are Of the
opinion that the prohibitionists are
rying to force them into an election
Marion county when they know
hat the result would be extremely
oubtful. and that the vote would prob-
bly, carry the county in that wav
he league would get a black eye. tbev
ay' and the prohibitionists would have
good laugh But the anti-saloon
eople say they will not be caught in
hat trap, and that they will not try to
ring on an election in Marion county
ntil they feel sure they can win.
Ihis is not new aatagonism be-
"een the anti-saloon people and the
rohibltionists. II has been on for
ears-in fact. ever since the league
as organized