The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-10-15
GOOD NEWS
On |LL.IANA
PROJECT
Brown Tells Political Meeting
Congress Will Act
FavOrabIy
az rHE PoL1TIcAt REPoRTER

By THE POLITICAL REPORTER
The Dan Brown forces closed a siren
uous week last night with an exciting
meeting at the Riverside school The
speakers were Mayor Dan Brown
Joseph Conroy. H E. Granger. Alberi
E. Griniths and Councilman L. G
smith -. --~y
Mayor Brown and ice Conroy discuss
ed the waterworks project and Illiana
harpor. The Little Giant" INDUCED II
no personalities He glorihed Oar
Brown as the master mind and cred
ted him with originating the plan to
convert Wolf Lake into the greatest in
and harbor in the world Mayor Brown
he said had gained the support of Gov
McCray, Gen. Black. OF the war depart
ment- three United States senators and
Two United States con gressmen
If the people of Hammond fail to
return Dan Brown to office they viii
repudiate their governor. their senators
The war department and Senator Nc
'ormick, OF Illinois" declared Attorney
'onroy If we give Dan Brown vote
,f confidence AND make him our mayor
or four years more We will make pos
sible the greatest accomplishment il
he history Of the great Calumet dis
trict.
You VIII have an inland harbor such
IS there IS no place in the world,
-onroy ontinued. That proposition
vas thought out and carried forward b.
simple. innocent Dan Brown. II Ed
simon Is elected it means that you've
;ot to repudiate everything that ha
oeen done Mi Simon IS an honest man.
ed 70 throw aside every constructi1e
measure that Dan Brown has begun.
SIMON PLEDGED
"If Ed Simon does not intend 70 dis
continue the great vaterworlIs and har-
,or protects that Dan Brown has start
d let him on the next public occasion
withdraw his objections and openly ap
rove of the MAYORS action. Simon Is
Z superb. superflne. elegant, beautiiiec
,oAucan, but he "a honorable and he is
ledged TO rrpudiate Browns projects
Imon is q Jacksonian democrat
Dan Brown has the waterworks ane
arbor projects in his mind to the tines
.etail He beg a study Of the water
orks when he came into office four
years ago and his first act was TO ap-
zeal TO the public service commission
or equitable water rates to stop some
Industries from getting water free
While others paid various rates Be
ore Brown became mayor the water
works was a football
If you do not elect Brown you viii
lot have any relief from the wstel
}hortage Tho waterworks will be IN
the control of a clique that viii dis
turb the financial standing OF the city
of Hammond Elect Simon and you
-epudiate Dan Browns project for ex-
ension and rehabilitation of the water
works
Immediately after the armistice the
mayor. city engineer and city attorney
vent 20 Washington. .. c. 10 get the
government to widen and clean the
rand Calumet river. 1t was there that
Dan Brown unfolded the plan for g grea
inland harbor at Wolf lake with the
alumet river as the liner circle con-
Meeting with the big canal at Grasselli.
Ny God. that can be the greatest
harbor in the world said General
Slack OF the war department, study
ng the map.
Mayor Brown has won the support
of the senator's ard congressman from
Indiana and Sera tor Mccormick. OF
Illinois. The Illisna harhor will become
a fact II will bring vessels from the
ports OF the world TO Hammond It will
make this city a pearl without a peer
# all industrial districts of the world.
Dan Brown did It.
GREATEST TERMINAL
Hammond VIII be the greatest rail
road and water terminal IN the world
II will be from Iliisna harbor that
freight VIII be distributed to the rail
roads for every state in the union. The
scope of this project is too great that
it taxes the Imagination We have no
conception Of the great future Of this
city-the greatest city in Indiana
Every acre Of the hundreds of acres an
nexed from Hessville viii be built up
solid with residential districts"
Mayor Brown III his speech stated
that he had Just received s. message
from Washington stating that the Ill-
ana harbor project would be UP before
congress for action this term and the
necessary appropriations made