Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-02

| DENNISON. Ohio. August (hy the
| Associated Press).-J. Frank Hanly,
| former Governor of Indiana and can
didate for President on the prohlbl-
ton ticket in 1916, and DIR. and Mrs.
c. n. Baker of Kilgore. Ohio. were
killed six miles from here early Sun
| day. when a Pennsylvania freight
train struck the automobile in which
| the party were driving to kilgore.
All three suffered fractured skulls
and crushed bodies and neither recov-
! cred consciousness after being
brought to a local hospital. Mr.. Han
ly died at 9 am; Mrs. Baker at 1850
and her husband at $50 pm.
DR.. and Mrs. Baker had met Mr..
| Hanly in DenniSon at 6:45 O'Clock yes
| terday morning and were driving him to
| their home in kilgore, twenty miles
| from here.
| The Baker automobile drove across
the Pennsylvania tracks back of one
freight train and directly in front of
| another. The automobile was struck
| squarely.
Mr.. Han1y was en- route to Carroll
ton, where he was to have delivered
an address tomorrow. He had intend
ed spending the day with the Bakers
| at their home in kilgore.
| The body of Mr.. Hanly was taken to
Indianapolis early today by Z. Harry
Miller of Indianapolis, friend of the
| family, who arrived here last mid
night.
Hanly Born in Log Cabin.
| INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, August g
Former Gov. j. Frank Hanly of In
diana, who was killed in an automo-
bile accident near Dennison. Ohio,
Twas born April 4, 1863, in a log cabin
in Champaign county, Ill. He secured
his education by working his way
i Through the Eastern Illinois Normal
I School a DanVjl1e
school for several years following his
| graduation from the Illinois Normal
School and studied law during his
/ spare time.
] In 1889 he was admitted to the War
rem county, Ind, bar. and began the
practice of law at Williamsport. Ind
A year later he was nominated and
elected to the Indiana state senate
where he at once took a front rank as
a debater and forceful legislator. In
1894 he was nominated by the repub-
licans of the ninth Indiana district
for Congress, and was elected by a
majority of more than 5000.
II In the fall of 1896 he moved to La
fayette. Ind. where he formed a part
nership in the practice of law with
State Senator Will r. Wood. A year
later he was candidate for United
States senator on the republican tick
ct against Senator Albert Beveridge,
but lost the nomination in the repub-
i liean caucus by a few votes.
/ In August 1903, Mr.. Hanly de-
| cided to become a candidate for the
| republican nomination for governor.
| When the convention met he was
nominated unanimously on the second
| ballot.-~He was elected in 1904 by al
most $4,000 plurality, the largest ever
given a gubernatorial candidate by
either party in Indiana.
/ Headed Flying 'Dry" Squadron.
! When his term as governor ex-
pired in 1909 he became an active
worker in the prohibition cause and
the country at the head of a body of
prohibition lecturers known as the
Flying Squadron" In June. 1915.
the Flying Squadron Foundation"
was incorporated with Mr.. Hanly at
it's head, and through it he has since
directed the prohibition fight.
| In 1916 he was the unsuccessful can
i didate of the prohibition party for
President. He was active in the pro-
hibition fight in Ohio and in various
were made to have the present pro-
hibition law declared unconstitu-
Il tiona1.
He was the publisher of two papers
in indianapolis, the National Enquir-
i er, a weekly paper. which he found
| ed in 1915. and and tho Indianapolis
| Commercial a daily paper.
i He represented the dryS before the
United States Supreme Court in the
! Ohio cases. in which the consttu-
tionality of the national prohibition
amendment was sustained. as well as
I the validity of the Volstead act, for
i it's enforcement.
/ AS the president of the Flying
I Squadron Foundation he was prepar-
II ing to launch a nationwide fight for
! the election of dry congressman to
! maintain the law, a campaign to be
i continued as planned by him.
i Defeated Marshall for Governor.
CHICAGO, August 2-rhe prohibition
party lost one of it's greatest leaders in
!, the death at Dennison. Ohio, of ]. Frank
Hanly, Virgil G. Hinshaw, chairman of
the prohibition national committee, said
when informed Of the fatal accident.
Mr. Hanly made his first big fight
for prohibition sixteen years ago, when
he was elected Governor of Indiana. on
a county option platform in opposition
to Thomas r Marshall, now Vice
President" said Mr.. Hinshaw. Mr.
Marshall was understood to be opposed
to prohibition in that campaign and
Hanly's victory marked one of prohibi-
tion's first great triumphs."