The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-11-01
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Democratic city ticket. Tom Taggart
will be the chairman of the meeting
and will make a speech. But the big
Eoise will be Kern. He kept out of It
until a few days ago and refused to
listen to the appeals of the crowd that
defeated him for Senator In 1909. He
gave his excuse that he could not
get away from Washington just at this
time. when much important legisla-
tion is pending and so many of the
Democratic senators attempting to
jump over the races. But some thing
happened last Friday to change his
mind and induce him to come Just
what this something was no one seems
to know
| 1t will be an embarrassing perform
ance for Kern, for he Will be compelled
to speak In behalf Of the gang that
knitted him and gave him the double
cross when he was first a candidate for
senator. Already the Republicans are
pulling on him his famous interview
after his defeat In which he denounced
the mysterious eight members OF the
legislature who administered the dou-
bic cross to him. He charged openly
that he had a sufficient number of
! pledges from Democratic members of
the legislature in 1909 to elect him, but
that the brewers took eight of them
away from him and gave them to Ben
jamin f. Shively. thus electing Shively.
The same crowd that defeated Kern
then is behind the Democratic ticket
In this city this year, as we'll as behind
the Democratic tickets in South Bend,
Fort Wayne and everywhere else in
the state, and yet Kern comes down
from his lofty perch and proposes to
az ha nd hvY "A m n
a speech for it. 1t is not expected that
he will make any reference in his
speech to the mysterious eight al
though it would be interesting to hear
him explain why he has so soon forgot
| ten about his attack on that bunch and
the 1vev they treated him.
| Joseph f. Bell, the Democratic cam
didate for mayor of this city, was for
years the personal attorney for Craw-
ford Fairbanks. the Terre Haute brew
er. who is the real power behind the
Democratic campaign in this city. Fair
| banks the boss of the brewery
crowd the year the mysterious eight
got in it's work on Kern. The same
Fairbanks crowd that is trying to elect
Bell is also trying to elect Pat Joyce
mayor of South Bend, and Bill Hosey
mayor of Fort Wayne. 1t Is the same
ELECTIONS in Huntington and all Of the
iother cities, as can readily be seen by
the nominations made and the manner
in which the fight is being carried on
1t is admitted that this machine is pow
lerful. but was not regarded as pow
erfui enough to humble Senator Kern
until he finally consented to come here
and make a speech.
In most of the cities where the pro-
gresives have city ticket in the field
they are saying that they are conduct
ing a partisan campaign and that
there are thinking more of the good
results that may be obtained than of
the success of their party. But It is
noticeable that the progressive state
organization is conducting the cam
paigns, and practically everybody con-
nected with the progressive non
partisan campaigns is progressive
politician. This fact is pointed out as
showing the hypocrisy of the claim OF
nom partisanism. This claim is put
forth by the progressives. 1t is said. In
order to attarct support away from
citizens tickets, the progressives thus
hoping to prevent any new movement
from interfering with their plans. II
is even said that in some places, where
the citizens ticket has a good chance
of winning progressives are even go
ing so far as to throw their support to
one or the other of the old party par
! tisan tickets, thus exposing he faIlacy
of their claims to non -partisanism in
the campaign.
In a number of cities the citizens
tickets are reported to have gathered
great strength and they will likely win
over the party ring tickets. 1t is ad-
mitted that If the progressives and
others who profess to favor a smash
ing of old party machines would give
their support to the citizens tickets ir
these cities there would be ques-
tion about their success at the polls