The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-11-02
BROUGHT
BACK BY
CITY JOB
Went Over to Ranks of Demo
Gratis In Peeve at
Defeat

,Bf TIE POLITICAL. REFDRTE-r,,
one OF The most interesting phases OF
the East Chicago campaign is the re-
pudlation Of the repu blican candidate
Tor mayor by his party
An inqWsi1ive reader wants a I;,t7e
more light on the subject He states
that he can well understand why MIR.
heppa could not be endorsed by devout
republicans after the expose Of his st
tempt 70 put over an all foreign-born
ticket in war times
But The Times has said that Renns
was in bad with the republican marry
and its county organization before III
paper exposed his war record" the read
er states How do you explain that?r
To answer the question it becomes
necessary to wash some party linen.
PLEDGED TO DEmoCRATs
John h. Reppa. William Fuzzy. DR..
Johns and Leo Mccormack were csndt-
dates for the mayoralty nomination I'm
the city primaries Of 1917, and Mr.. Nc
Cormack was successful Instead of ac-
cepting his defeat in good grace, Reppa
ooited the party and pledged himself 20
William Murray, the democratic candi.
date for mayor
70 get him back into the repuhi.
can Told IN a critical campaign. Nc
1ormack promised Reppa the oh of city
controller. which he was duly given.
The republican party was stirred up
over Reppa's desertion and he was
marked then and there as a dangerous
man For three years and two months
ne accepted the party's patronage and
then resigning as controller began a
campaign for mayor against Mccormack
in uThi ef1 ba
about his benefator. He charged Nc
Cormack with corruption
Now, that isn't all of Mr.. Repps's
duplicity. When he saw that he could
not be defeated in the primary he chang
ed about face and in order to get the
support of the Mccormack faction in
the race against callshan. said that in
the event of McCormack,s nomination he
would give him his support He well
knew Mccormack could not be no1nina-
ted
How the republican party in
Lake county sanction politician of that
tyne
How can the voters OF East Chicago
expect any better government from
man who denouncing Mccormack said
II he was nominated he would support
hiIn7
BIG CALLAHAN RALLIES
All that remains of the camaign in |
East Chicago are the Callahan rallies at
the Masonic Temple Friday night, and |
the Auditorium theater at the other end |
Of the city. Saturday night
The Reppa campaign is debacle |
Supporters are deserving Reppa daily
and admitting his defeat
The auditorium of the Riley school !
was filled to capacity and crowd stood |
IN the corridor last night to hear Frank |
Callahan. Allen Twyman and other /
speakers for the independent ticket.
TO BUr wArERwoRKs
Mr. Callahan, candidate for mayor |
explained why it would be possible for |
the city TO buy the waterworks this /
time whereas it was impossible when /
he was mayor eight years ago. He said |
that the city's bonding power had been
Increased to $4,000. 900 and that it was
now ample for the city to raise the mo-
ney.
Il did not promise to buy the wa
terworks eight years ago because 81
could not be done. I made no promise
which I could not fulfill and I fulfilled /
all promises that I made Mr.. Callahan
stated This time I am promising that
the city snail buy the WaterworkS be-
cause 1 know that the promise can be
fulfilled if the Independent ticket is
elected.
The people of Hammond own their
own waterworks and they pay about
fourth for water that we pay don't
believe the people of Hammond would
entertain for one minute any PROPOSE
tion to sell their waterworks"
Attorney James Brissey chairman OF
the Independent ticket. presided at the
meeting