South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-24
DE HAVEN SPEAKS
BEFORE CROWD OF
MAYORS HACKERS
Flaws Attitude of Local News.
paper and Methods Used
by Eli +. Seebirt.

Using as food for talk the con-
I tents OF an article appearing in sat
urday's Tribune. which was sup
/ posed TO have been a report Of the
political meetings conducted by Eli
/ Seebirt. republican mayoralty candi-
date. Friday night, John DeHaven,
member Of the board Of public
works and active worker for the
nomination OF Mayor Franklin r.
Carson. told a packed Carson gath
ering Saturday night that never in
/ the history OF South Bend has facts
regarding the administration Of the
( citys business ben so misrepresent-
ed as they were in this Particular
story.
Mr.. DeHaven spent more than an
hour convincing his audience that
each paragraph OF the article was
an absolute miSstatement of facts
and invited them 10 investigate the
records at the city hall, provided
they We're dubious concerning the
/ information he was giving them.
In this article Mr.. Seebirt. De-
/ Haven said, was attempting 10 i'm
press upon the people of the city
/ that the members Of the board Of
public works were lavishly spend
/ ing the peoples money without ev
\ ing the peoples money without
even seeking to determine the atti-
tude OF the particular tax payers af-
fected by the various Improvements
\ that have been made during the
past three years and four months.
City's Morale.
He declared that in the case OF
every improvement, with two excep-
tons. accomplished by the Carson
administration that it was not the
members of the board acting mad
vertently in ordering the improve
ment, but that each and every inn
provement made came as a result
! OF the pressure brough 10 bear on
/ the members Of the board by the
people directly affected by the i'm
provements. TO bear out this state
ment he offered TO produce the rec
ords made in each individual case.
In referring 10 the attacks being
made on the present moral condi-
tons Of the city, Mr.. DeHaven de-
clared that the city of South Bend
/ is in no worse a moral status than
any Of the other cities Of its size in
the country.
As proof that Mayor Carson has
attempted to correct moral condi-
tons. in regard to prostitution,
gambling and bootlegging, DeHaven
cited the number Of arrests made
on these various charges by the Kel-
Ter administration and by the Carson
administration.
/ He laid emphatic stress on the point
that Mayor Carson has only two
means Of getting his answers to See
I birt's charges before the people. One
! he said was through the paid news
pa per advertisement medium, and
other 10 them individually at pOlit-
| ical meetings. He said that the
South Bend Tribune. instead Of act
/ ing as a real republican newspaper
should and showing no partially 10
any particular candidate before the
primaries, was actually fOndling Mr..
seebirt and doing the utmost TO
have him receive the nomination.
Candidates Introduced.
He also told his hearers that It
was none other than the Carson at-
ministration that had succeeded in
getting negotiation under way for
/ the removal of the Grand Trunk
/ railway tracks from Division ST., and
ultimate elevation Of both the New
York Central and the Grand Trunk
tracks in this city.
He answered Seebirts charges re-
garding the huge expenditures OF
money by the Carson administration
by declaring that Mayor Carson fav-
ored the expansion Of South Bend,
and TO take care of this expansion it
naturally cost the city money. He
declared, however, that if the people
of South Bend wanted TO see this
city remain in a rut, Mayor Carson
/ could very easily see this ituation
ard halt these essential improve
ments.
To prove that at least part OF the
candidates seeking the republican
nomination were actually working in
/ harmony. Mr.. DeHaven introduced
William Burch. Chester DuComb,
and a. Hosinski. all candidates for
CITY Judge on the republican ticket.
Other republican candidates intro
duced were John Doran. for city
clerk. Walter, for councilman AT
large. Frank Hudak. for councilman
a > large, and Sid Thornton for coun.
Gilman Of the Fourth ward.