South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-05
Forced Stunning" Expedi-
ton by NeWS-TimeS Editor
Reveals Awful Condition
of Public Blindness.
NICELY AND ACKERMANN
ENJOYS CALL SHOWDOWN
Keller Lid" Proves to Have
Been Lost and Various Re-
sorts Are Found to be Do
ing Good Business.

THE1'VE called our hand. They
have shown theirs. We are
= placed under the disagreeable
necessity of unconditional surrender.
south Bend il scarcely more a
CLOSED town" today. so far as gam
bling. prostitution, and the ability TO
get liquor ON Sunday = concerned.
than IL was i'm its palmiest "Open-
town days. The difference Is main
~ one of public blindness.
This l. speaking authOratively.
with hut one reservation; that of be-
ing unable To speak authOrativcIy.
from personal observation. of those
asserted ''palmicst days"
The writer's residence i'm south
Bend dates from February. 1912. It
gives him two years. or nearly so.
under the GOetz administration. and
the .'palmiest" days of south Bends
'.opcnness'' are said To precede even.
that-in keeping with the sentiment
at former times. slightly improved
upon under the GOctz regime.
The marked change. on supposed
~ marked change. and which prob
ably was a marked change temper
ariIy. took place with the induction
Of Mayor Fred ". Keller into office.
i'm January. 1911. The writer took
some little part i'm bringing that
about Never mind how mnch.
Neither Is this any apology for that
part. Since becoming editor OF The
News-Times il has given Mayor KEEL
Ter reasonable support ON this score.
Il al
J. no apology for that. The cNplana-
1iOn i that on sunday afternoon
TWO men. one claiming TO he rep
rcScntatiVC of Rudolph ACkeTmann.
candidate for the democratic nOmi-
nation for mayor. the other a rep
rcsentatiVe OF Claude r.. Nicely. re-
publican. called AT this Office and
challenged our integrity. our sin
ccrity. and our Intelligence. i'm our
dcfen~cs Of Mayor kellcr's sO-Callcd
law enforcement and insistcnCc up
ON it, continuation. and offered Co
furnish IA the proof that the lid"
was of. demanding that we invcsti-
gate. and then put up or "shut
mp"
To be more explicit. they put it
this way:
BY Implication at least. YOU arc
demanding of the candidates for
mayor law-cnfOrCcmcnt policy,
continuing the keller results. and
we want Co know il YOU know what
that policy and those results are,
and IL YOU really mean IL? 4. G..
Manning. one OF the republican cam
didates. prominent member OF the
Keller administration. and evident
IN knowing what IL j. doing. i
promising to. continue that policy
with Mayor Keller back Of him. and
has received the Endorsement of the
church brotherhoOd~ i'm that course.
We put it MP TO You Co advise the
public OF what. =. the like of the
Keller Iaw-cnfo. emcnt policy. ia
fact. Is being demanded OF Us. and
what IL = that Mr. Manning IL
promising To continue.
What was left for anything hut a
willing hypoCritc Co do?
The result il that the editor Of
The Ncws-Times has been what So
biologists call stunning" visiting
"a number OF places between ycster-
day and toeIay-that are not on his
regular visiting list, thank YOU.
John QuilhOt has nothing on him.
except thar he needed a guide. and
there were no inSidiOus, ill-Ciis-
.ui~ed Inducements offered To any
one To- 10 anything other than what
they we're apparently perfectly will
ing To do. and voluntarily offered to
do upon seeing :he color OF the coin.
Furthermore. there were no Vio-
Iations of the law on the part OF the
Investigators. though approaching
the edge OF Ia with sufficient near
nc~S to obtain assurance that it
might have been violated with COM
paratiyely impunity lad ttiey been
- inclined The purpose was TO So
cure evidence sufficiently convincing
for newspaper purposes rather than
to entertain grand juric>. Ii was mo-
-us.h Investigation a was INDUCED
Ina here couple of years ago by a
coterie OF clergymen who visited