The Washington times., 1920-08-02
AAN[Y KILLED
|NAUTOCRASH
Hosts Of Dry Leader Also Slain
When Freight Hits
.. Automobile.

DENNISoN, Ohio. Aug. 2.-Former
Governor ]. Frank Hanly of Indiana.
and last candidate of the Prohibit
tionists for President. was one OF an
auto party killed near here yesterday
when their car was struck by Penn
sylvania freight engine. DR.. and
Mrs. c.. NJ. Baker. OF Kilgoe. Ohio.
were the other occupnts of the i'll
fated machine.
All three suffered fractured skulls
and crushed bodies, and none recov-
cred consciousness after being
brought TO a local hospital.
DR.. and Mrs. Baker had met Hanly
in Dennison yesterday and were driv-
ing him TO their home in Kilgore,
twenty miles from here.
The automobile drove across the
Pennsylvania tracks back OF one
freight train and directly in front OF
another. The automobile was struck
squarely.
Hanl ywas en- route to Carrollton.
where he was to have delivered an ad-
dress today. He had intended spend
ing the day with the Bakers at their
home in Kilgore.
The chief of police here has notified
relatives of Mr.. Hanly In Indianapolis
and II is expected the body will be
shipped there.
BORN IN LOG CABIN.
Former Governor Hanly was born
April 4, 1858, in a log cabin in Cham
paign county, III. He secured his
education by working his way
through the Eastern Illinois Normal
School at Danville. Ill. He taught
school for several years following his
graduation. and studied law during
his spare time.
In 1893 he was admitted to the War
rem county Undiana) bar and began
the practice of law at Williamsport,
Ind. A year later he was no minated
and elected to the Indiana State SEN
ate, where he at once took front
rank as debater and forceful !egis-
lstor. In 1894 he was nominated by
: the Republicans OF the Ninth Indiana
district for Congress and was elected
by a majority OF more than 5000. In
the fall of 1896 he moved to Lafay'
cite, Ind, where he formed a partner
ship in the practice of law with state
Senator VIII r. Wood. A year later
he was a candidate for United States
Senator on the Republican ticket
against Senator Albert Beveridge. but
lost the nomination in the Repub-
lican caucus by few votes.
In August. 1908, Hanly decided to
become a candidate for the Repuo-
lican nomination for governor. When
the convention met he was nominatei
unanimously on the second ballot. He
was elected in 1904 by almost 80 600
- plurality, the largest ever given a
cubernatorial candidate by either
party in Indiana.
FORMED FLYING SQUADRON.
When his term of governor expired
, in 1909, he became an active worker
in the prohibition cause and for the
following five years toured the coun-
try at the head of body of prohibit
ton lecturers known as the "fying
squadron" In June. 1915, the Fly
ing Squadron Foundation" was in
corporated with Hanly at its head
and through it he has since directed
the prohibition fight.
In 1915 he was the unsuccessful
candidate of the Prohibition party for
President. He was active in the pro-
hibition fight in Ohio and in various
parts of the country where attempts
were made to have the present prohi-
bition law declared unconstitutional.
He was the publisher of two papers
in indianapolis, the National Inquirer,
a weekly paper which he founded in
1918. and the indianapolis Com
mercial a daily paper.
He represented the dry5 before the
United States Supreme Court in the
Ohio cases in which the constitu-
tionality of the national prohibition
amendment was sustained as well as
the validity of the Nolstead act for
it's enforcement.