The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-11-08
bOYV|LLE
ELECTION IN
GARY FARCE

The convention of the Hikers one of
the political parties in Gary's Boy
Vile" degenerated into a farce last
evening and Judge Willis Brown of Salt
Lake City the hacker of the movement
was much amazed when he saw slug
ging, intimidation and the same crook
edness that prevans in most Indiana
conventions take place. So many COM
plants have been heard from parents
are isgusted with the bad
examples their sons learned that many
of them are demanding another cleo
ton or the abolition of .Boyville' al
together. They are however willing to
agree to another election if it is under
the eye of School superintendent Writ
in whom every one has the explicit con
idence. However,, Judge Brown was
u~nprepared for the s~chenling that fol-
lowed and it is doubtful whether he
still appreciates what happened.
High school Boys Are Rowdy.
The chief rioters were boys from the
high school and today a number of
them will be put on the carpet as sew
eral were detected in ballot stuf1ng and
threatening to punch the heads of some
of the smaller lads.
Outside politics was injected into the
convention by reason of the fact that
the sons of Gary's two rival democratic
leaders Mayor Knots and w. c. Crolius
were the rival contestants for the nomi-
nation. Eugene Knots, a third year
student was put forth by the high
schol while Huntley Crolius of the sixth
grade was backed by the grammar
schools Of the city.
Big Boys Are Tricky.
Nomination were then in order and
r-1I:,- -4oo;yod 40 .yator and
young Knots got rs. However. it was
found that there were two more ballots
than voters so another election was
called"
Then the high school boys got busy
and threats of beatings were made and
Judge Brown detected one of the larger
boys stufing the ballots while others
were seen substituting the ballots. A
second ballot resulted in young Knots
getting 80 and his rival 10.
Whatever complaints are made
about this will be referred to Judge
Brown said superintendent Writ this
morning. Il believe that he will make
the necessary investigation and do what
is right"
May Call New Convention.
A school official said this morning:
Its up to Judge Brown to decide
whether he shall teach the boys a
lesson. From what 1 can hear there
was some strange work done and the
boys seemed to have injected into their
election some of the methods used by
their elders.
TT seems that many of the smaller
Boys could not spell young Crolius'
name correctly and the older boys vol
unteered to write them for the younger
ones. They wrote 1t but strange to say
they spelled Crolius -K-n-o-t-t-s
whether the boys wanted it or not
Whether Judge Brown will invalidate
the election l do not know but there
are a lot of complaints about it,"
Boys Bring Charges.
In a few days the Campers party will
hold its election but the quietus may
be put on "Boyville" in Gary as the
situation got beyond Judge Brown.
Young Knots last night asked that he
be not blamed for the crookedness of
his hackers and that he did not
c-ountenance it. Harold Haskell and the
son of Rev. Smith and others say that
the proceedings were questionable.
Judge Brown makes a business of
forming "Boyvilles' throughout the
county and the movement is being made
as an experiment here. It is said that
Judge Brown was much shocked by last
nights proceedings and will probably
order another nominating convention In
order to clear up the charges made