The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-04-26
GERMANY
OUTLAW
AMONG
NATIONS
Famous Evangelist Before 5000
People at Hammond Tears
Hide off the Kaiser.

Billy Sunday, the famous evan
gelist, before a crowd of 5000 mad
ly enthusiastic Hun-haters in Ham
mond's great Liberty Hall this
morning literally walloped the ev-
erlasting daylight out of the kaiser.
He skinned the Germans alive and
flayed Prussiaism as only Sunday
can. His excoriation was a master
piece.
Yankee soldiers with their ging-
er, pep, tabasco and Jazz will make
that God-forsaken, good-for-noth-
ing skunk. the kaiser. and the hot
dog, sauerkraut. pretzel crowd
sorry they turned the German
eagle into a puking buzzard and
made the real He'll look like a side
show.
USHERS IN CELEBRATION.
That is a composite sentence Of IN
vectives by the inimitable Rev William
A. Sunday, who ushered in Lake Coun-
TVS Liberty Day celebration at Ham
mond with a violent denunciation of the
war lord Of Germany. speaking to more
than 5000 people in Liberty Hall at ten
o'clock.
Hundreds who sought to see and hear
Billy Sunday were turned away after
9:45 when the tabernacle was filed to
every nook and Granny with more than
thousand standing packed in the aisles
and along the walls.
THE AUDIENCE READY FOR HIM
II was an audience waiting to laugh
cheer and get hot under the collar with
the famous evangelist who came TO
Hammond to give the Kaiser Hell. Billy.
appearing tired and worn from his
strenuous Chicago campaign, threw
aside fatigue and plunged into his talk.
announcing the text as taken from a
message Of President Wilson to con
gress. as follows: There was but one
choice and we have made it."
\ sea of upturned eager faces greet
ed Sunday. Mill workers from East
Chicago and Gary. farmers and their
wives from Lowell and Crown Poinf.
men and women Sof many religious
faiths and various nationalities were
there, all anxious to hear the widely ad-
vertised Kaiser-hater and his oral artil-
lery bombardment of Germany.
INTRODUCED BY sHARRER.
Rodeheaver, the trombonist and
chorus leader. had concluded playing
Dixie and Yankee Doodle and teaching
the crowd to sing the Brighten The
Corner Where You Are" chorus. Brews-
IL
ed the volume of music II is possible to
get from the instrument on which he is
so proficient, and DR.. H. L. Sharrer.
Hammond Liberty Loan chairman, had
made a brief introduction.
Outside the crowds swirled about the
great tabernacle, filling the streets ana
encircling the great tank that stood by
the courthouse ready to crush over the
streets in the monster parade. A corps
Of rife men fired a salute. The Jackies
band and drill corps were on their way
to the temple
BILLY HITS HOT CLIP
And Billy Sunday launched with that
appealing personality of his and
dynamic power into a TRADE of the
worlds greatest enemy and the devils
rival. He spoke for one hour and it
seemed ten minutes to the rapt audi
tors The words fell from his lips at
the rate of 200 minute. Al times ne
became almost inarticulate-as if the
adjectives had become jammed in his
throat
Compared. however. to the emotional
paroxysms he attains on, revivals Sun
day was reserved.
Billy and Ma Sunday had reached the
hall Just before ten o'clock in a limou-
sine sent to get them. 1t was their first
visit TO Hammond in nineteen years
when Sunday held revival meeting in
the Holman Opera House. Both Billy
and Ma told the crowd about the former
visit and Rodeheaver asked all those in
the hall who had attended the meeting
so many years ago to hold up their
hands. More than hundred people re
sponded.
After the evangelist had concluded his
address. Ma Sunday was called upon by
DR.. Sharrer for few words She seid
I like YOU I like the way YOU come
out on rainy morning. / like the way
you built this hall and went over the
top in the Liberty Lean the second
time. When 1 was here nineteen years
ago I had my little boy with me. He *
now Lieut. Geo. Sunday of the United
states army"
With the Jackies band playing i'm
front Of the hen and preparing 10 enter.
Billy. Ma, Rody, Brewster and tho other
members Of the Sunday party waved
goodbye amid cheers and re-entered the
big Limousine.