The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-02

| DENNISON, Ohio, Aug. 2.-J. Frank
Hanly, former governor of Indiana and
| candidate for president on the prohibit
tion ticket in 1916, and DR.. and Mrs. G.
NJ. Baker, of kilgore, Ohio, We're killed
six miles from here early Sunday,
when a Pennsylvania freight train
| struck an automobile in which the
party was driving to Kilgore.
All three suffered fractured skulls
and crushed bodies and none recover
ed consciousness after being brought
to local hospital. Mr.. Hanly died at
g a. m, Mrs. Baker at 11:3O and her
husband at $3.50.
DR.. and Mrs. Baker had met Mr..
Hanly in Dennison at 6:45 o'clock this
morning and were driving him to their
home in kilgore, 20 miles from here.
| The Baker automobile was driven
across the Pennsylvania tracks back
of one freight train and directly in
struck squarely.
Mr.. Hanly was en- route to Carroll
ton, where he was to have delivered an
address Monday. He had intended to
pass the day with the Bakers at their
home in Kilgore
J. Frank Hanly was born in St
Joseph's, ILL.,, April 4, 1868. He was
/ educated in the common schools of
! Champaign county. For eight years,
| from 1881 to 1889, he taught in public
/ schools, but in the meantime studying
law. When he was ready for examina-
! tien for admission to the bar, he aban-
doned the school room and in 1889 re-
ceived license to practice law in In
diana.
Mr. Hanly opened his office in Will
| Transport where he remained for
seven years, removing to Lafayette,
| Ind, in 1896 where he maintained his
law office until 1905.
His first political office was obtain
ed in 1890, when he was elected to be
member of the Indiana senate. In
| 1894 he was elected to be a member of
| congress.
After his retirement from the house
of representatives he resumed the
practice of law in Lafayette. Two
years later he was an unsuccessful
candidate for the office of United
! States senator. He was Governor OF
J Indiana from 1905 to 1909.
Was on Lecture Platform.
In 1916 Mr.. Hanly was the candi-
date of the Prohibition party for the
office Of president. After this cam
paign, which brought him still further
into national prominence, Mr.. Hanly
devoted himself chiefly to the lecture
platform, in which he achieved wider
reputation than his previous activities
had earned for him.
| Soon after the 1906 campaign Mr.
Hanly became associated with Oliver
w. Stewart, of Illinois, in the publica-
tion of the National PrOhibitionist, the
national organ of the prohibition
party, MI Hanly being editor-in-chief
of the publication.
Three years ago he became one of
the organizers and a member of the
Flying Squadron. an aggregation of
ProhibitiOnsts who made a whirlwind
campaign in the United States in an
effort to arouse sentiment against the
liquor traffic Mr.. Stewart also was
associated with him in this campaign
as was DR.. Ira Landrith, of Tennessee
After this campaign Mr. Hanly de
voted himself to the lecture platform
and it was when engaged in this work
that the accident occurred which cost
him his life.
Mr.. Hanly's homo was in Indianapo
lis, at 20S2 North Meridian street. In
1881, Mr. Hanly married Miss Eva A
Simmer, Of Williamsport, Ind, who
survives him.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-The Prohibition
party lost one of its greatest leaders
in the death Sunday at Dennison, O.
Of J. Frank Hanly, former governor Of
Indiana, Virgil G. Hinshaw, chairman
of the Prohibition national committee
said when informed by the Associated
Press of the fatal accident.