The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-11-05
THEATRES
CROWDED
WITH VOTERS
Brown Parade Out Does Any
thing Ever Attempted In
That Line Before Here


Hammond republicans did things Up
| Brown last night
With two theaters packed 20 the
! doors and enough wild enthusiasts 70
I'll another theater cavorting about the
town IN automobiles. il was Hammond 5
biggest political demonstration
The parade, which it was known in
advance would eclipse anything before
attempted. was late in getting started
The machines continued to arrive at
the designated starting places long ar
| ter the appointed hour The leaders
started the caravans moving. The late
arrivals started parades of their own
There were machines with red fire and
horns on dozen streets at once
The result is that every estimator
Of the size Of the parade gives dif-
ferent figure today. Some of the fig
ures are ridiculous, running as high
as 1900 There is NJ means Of deter
mining the correct figure. but the re-
/ publicans had assurances from over
+ oH0 car owners several days before the
parade was staged.
The theaters were packed long before
The hour of the program to start and
the speakers were late in getting start
ed, but the crowd stuck and heard il
out to the last
Attorney Fred Crumpacker made his
first appearance on the platform last
night and, true TO form. put up one of
the best speerhes Of the entire lam
Faign. Being attorney for the street
car company he was able 10 deal with
the utility question from first hand in
formation and his hearers knew he
spoke the truth
Crumpacker digressed at the opening
of his address to take up the matter
which had aroused a storm Of indigna-
ton in the ranks of republicans and
democrats alike, the vile article which
appeared yesterday afternoon in a Chi
cago newspaper under a Hammond date
line and purporting to be an analysis
Of the political situation in Hammond
The speakers voice vibrated with
emotion as he characterized the story
as "a SANDER on the fair name Of Ham
mond." He said that hitherts the mud
singing and the little animosties that
had crept into the campaign had been
just among US" but now great daily
had been induced in some manner to
give publicity to slanderous statements
which would besmirch the name OF Ham
mond in the eyes of the people of the
country's second largest CITY (Nfr
Crumpacker did not know that already
thousands of copies of the newspaper
had been brought to Hammond and were
being distributed free on the streets)
Taking UP the utility issue he forever
silenced the allegations of the opposi
ton that Mayor Brown had not put up
fights against the utilities. He show
ed how Brown had forced improvements
in street car service early in 1918; how
he had blocked the first attempt of the
company to get fare increase. how
he, with Attorney G. 3. Tinkham had
attempted to throw the company into
the hands of a receiver which brought
about compromise when the next
petition for a fare raise was made He
declared that Hammond was represen-
ted at every hearing and put up such
resistance as it was able 70 with the
limited funds which the council placed
at the mayors command.
THE granting of the eight cent fare.
the increases in the gas and telephone
rates were the work of the Public SER
vice Commission of Indiana and Dan
Brown had nothing to do with them.
sieclared Crumpscker. furthermore,
Ed. Simon as mayor would have no
control over those rates as long as the
law provides the utility commission to
handle such matters"
1T is nothing more or less than
smoke screen, a fog. a funk to becloud
tie real issues of this campaign. They
are simply trying to throw pepper in
the eyes Of the voters to blind them to
the motives which are back of them
1 think that dirty story in the Chicago
newspaper brings the whole matter out
clearly To me it becomes the one
clear issue of the campaign dwarfing
ali others. 1t is UP to the voters Of
Hammond to decide whether they will
support people who -yould sanction
such a slander on the town in whict
we hope to live and rear our children
Or whether they will vote 10 return
llavor whom even the opposition admits
IS honest"
lie then took UP the statements which
have been made regarding the weak
ness" of Dan Brown and soon knocked
hese arguments into a cooked hat.
While the crowd roared approval
Mayor Brown made brief speech
n which he summed up the campaign
arguments and asked for the support OF
he people If they felt that the present
administration had rendered a faithful
Brown was greeted with
cheering.
u s. Commissioner Charles Surprise
another stingcr Of an address
n reply to the speeches which the
democrats have persisted in making
egarding the moral conditions in Ham
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