The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-10-02

4. Every supporter to work zeal
ously and conscientiously.
5. The support of all for the entire
ticket; favoritism for himself or
self seeking on the part of any other
candidates on the ticket;
8. Financial support for the Iegiti-
mate expenses of the campaign.
Before calling for responses the
speaker said in further explanation,
If l should accept the nomination and
be elected mayor, l would expect to
devote all the time necessary to the
| conduct of the affairs of the office. l
have done night work in my office for
| fifteen or eighteen years, and my time
for the taxpayer will be limited only by
my endurance.
The salary that is connected with
| these various offices is all that we
would expect to get out of them. You
can put 1t down in your pipes and
smoke IT that one thing that would
have TO be said about us, if we were
elected. is that we had given Hammond
an honest administration" A volley of
applause went up with the last re-
mark.
Finishing this portion OF his address.
Mr.. Crumpacker sat back in his chair
|
TO say, insisting on an expression from
nearly every one. as to what he could
do for the cause in the way of support,
particularly in the way of work.
Among those who responded were
Judge Reiter. DR.. Sharrer, w. ]. Nc
| Aleer, w. F. Bridge, DIR. Graham.
Charley" Heimbach. George Elder.
bill" Timm, Bert Fischer. Ben Bell.
H. E. Granger. William Herkner. Will
liam Newman. Tom Swanton, and J.
Apoll.
Had time permitted. many more
would have spoken like they. praising
Mr.. Crumpacker for his public spirit,
his Willingness to curtan a lucrative
legal practice, assuring him of their
personal esteem and their Willingness
: to everything in their power.
The short talk by william Herkner
who is a candidate for councilman at
large, brought the session to climax
In broken English. this sturdy German
assured Mr. Crumpacker that he like
Crumpacker was a candidate against
his wishes. Il have made my mind up
Mr.. Crumpacker," he said. to stick
if you do. And I think If we all to-
gether stick we can win"
III Mr. Crumpacker was visibly affected
by the frank and wholehearted state
ment from Herkner. He rose from his
| chair and shook hands with his Ger
| man friends and addressing the aud
| fence again he said:
When such men like my good frient
| Tom Swanton, DIR. Sharrer, Charlie,
| Heimbach. Ben Bell and my old FRIEND
| | Herkner here and the others who spoke
| speak the way they did. feel that the,
1 mean it and that means much to me
| When 1 gave Billy my hand, l mad
1 up my mind to accept and l hereby d.
/ I accept"
The last words were drowned in tn
applause that followed. After this ha,
subsidized Mr. Crumpacker continued
his talk. He stated the position of tn
| republican party with reference 10 tn
| progressives and the democrats.
Il have always been a progressive
| republican. Last year a difference o
opinion arose as TO how we could purg
the historic republican party of un
| desirable bosses. 1 agreed with tn
| progressives that 1t needed no bosses
/ but 1 had faith in the old party tina
it would find a way out to get rid o
them. They did not desert the repub
1 lican party without cause. The end o
/ the bull moose may have justified tn
| means, but my own opinion is that tn
= party at this time Is a forlorn hop
and one voting for it will probabl
!. waste his vote.
I'VE have no fault to find with tn
| rank and file Of the democratic part,
| The rank and file is for good, homes
| and intelligent government, but tn
| machine has gotten control of every
| thing that is loose and some thing
| that are nailed down. The party
| controlled by lot of fellows who US
| the voters to pull their chestnuts OF
! of the fire, and they can do this throug
| the powerful machine OF the police dc
| partment and the fire department. an