The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-21

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Nixon of New York, former chief of
Tammany Hall; Senator Gore, of Okla
homa, and many other notable visitors
Mr. Parker was in the midst of his
speech notifying Governor Marshall
and had just made an attack on Roose-
welt in (which he charged that the trou-
BILE in this country today Is in the fact
that the trust have grown so rapidly,
and that in the seven and one half
years that he was President Roosevelt
made no effort to curb the trusts. Just
as he finished this statement the crash
came. The entire grand stand, people
and all went down in heap
For a moment there wild con-
fusion, but the crowd soon recovered
its steadfness and everybody went to
work rescuing the injured. In a few
minutes about seventy injured persons
had been taken out of the wreckase.
some of them badly hurt. It is believed
that fully fifty more were injured who
made their own way home without as
sistance. In fact. few of the three
hundred people in the stand escaped
some kind of injury.
But. an accident is something that
cannot be foreseen or counted against,
and no one will hold it up against the
Democrats. They would not have had
1t happen for anything. But 1t marred
the days proceedings.
Up to that hour Tom Taggart had
been in his glory and Governor Mar
shall also had been soaring in thin air.
1t was a great day for both of them.
1t was great for Taggart because 1t
gave the big Democrats over the eoun
RI nd
themselves Just what a tight grip he
has on the Hoosier Democracy and how
he makes the Democrats perform. 1t
was a great day for Marshall for 1t
would be a great day for any man to
be notified of his nomination for
high an office vice president. even If
the nomination did come through the
goodness of Taggart.
There was another political meeting
in town, yesterday, but it was not as
big an affair the Democratic meet
ing 1t was the meeting of the Bull
Moose editors over the state for the
purpose Of forming press association
The Bull Moosers have claimed that
they had sixty papers in the state that
would support their ticket but only
about twenty-fiv were represented at
the meeting, which developed into
something Oh frost TOT lHdl TedSOll.
The following officers were elected:
! President. B. r. Inman. Morristown
Sun: Vice President, r. H. Rerick. La
grandge Standard; Treasurer. A. A.
Mayerstein, Lafayette Courier. Secre
tary, II. M. Smith, Indianapolis Sun
The president will appoint the mem
/ bers of the executive committee.
Bull Moose state chairman Lee made
! a speech at the meeting and some who
| heard 1t thought he backed up cosider
ably from the demand he made a few
days ago that county tickets must be
nominated in al counties in the state.
He told the editors that the state COM
mitee did not want to be a dictator,
and that he wanted the editors to ex-
press their views on the subject. None
/ of the editors said a word.
| The fact that Lee unbended far
enough to admit that the state commit
| tee did not want to dictate and was
| ready to receive suggestions was taken
| as an indication that the edict for
county tickets had not taken very well
| and that they were willing to back up.
1t is fact that many counties have re-
fused to make third party nominations
| and the Bull Moose state committee
will not be able to make them come
iacross.