The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-11-01

BY THE POLITICAL REPORTER
Ihe J. K. Reppa campaign in the
Twin Cities is spent. Its resources
ana resourcefulness are about exhaust
eo- All that remains is the rage and
fury Of defeat.
Reppa. the banker. is the wiser for
the experience but it cost him dear
Thirty thousand dollars is a conserva-
tive estimate Of the expenditures Of
his campaign in the primary and eiec.
tlon only by the spoils system could
he regain that money for himself and
his supporters if elected
"COPPER"" BETS.
The Reppa crowd has ceased throw
ing good money after bad. They are
no longer betting on the election or
their candidate but many of his most
tervent supporters are showing an in
clination to copper the bets made
earlier in the campaign.
The tide was turned by the disclos-
ure of Reppa's attempt TO promote an
all-foreign born ticket In the repubii-
can primaries of 1917. There has been
no answer made to the affidavits of re-
putable citizens who established the
fact that after native Americans were
excluded from Columbia hall at the
Reppa meeting in February. 1917. J.
K. Reppa addressed the convention in
hungarian, urging the support of a
republican ticket composed exclusively
OF foreign born candidates.
THE IssUE-AMERICANI
j. X Reppa has never made an aft
davit denying that he made the speech
Andrew Mermac has never made an af-
fdavit denying that no put the motion
to the audience to exclude the native
Americans. The Reppa forces have
sought TO bury this issue-American-
snl-in mud.
The Reppa party has beaten itself
Frank Callahan, running for mayor on
the Independent ticket has declined
to get down in the gutter to fight. He
has remained on a hign plane and let
them lick themselves.
Frank Callahan will win 70 1 and
nothing can change it. The Callahan
meeting in the Auditorium theatre at
Indiana Harbor and on the street in
front of that place. Saturday night.
was the greatest political demonstra-
tion East Chicago has ever known.
The Reppaites declare that Reppa
spoke TO 5000 cheering supporters"
at the Indiana Harbor headquarters
Saturday night and that there were
only 500 voters In the Callahan meet
ing at the Auditorium theater, the rest
being hoodluns. un-naturalized people
and children.
COULDN'T BE DONE.
By their own figures the seating ca
pacity Of the Reppa headquarters is
SEQ and the seats take up all the avail
able space except the narrow aisles
and clearing in the rear Of the hall
in which 200 people might stand. 1t
would be impossible for people on the
street to hear 6 speaker in the Reppa
headquarters. How then could 1900
persons have heard Reppa?
In all probability no moro than 1000
people could be crowded into their
headquarters and there were many va
cant seats Saturday night. even after
hundreds of persons had been turned
away from the Callahan rally and
wandered into the Reppa meeting to
hear the vaudeville show which is a
part OF the republican campaign in
East Chicago. Their candidates need
a good deal OF music and some coined
ians to keep their spirits up.
On the other hand there has been no
attempt TO enlarge upon the success
Of the Callahan meetings. The Audi
torium theater will accommodate 100
people with all standing room taken
1t is impossible to estimate the size Of
the OVERT flow crowd in the streets, but
it is safe TO say that as many people
were turned away were admitted
and that there were no more than 500
people at the Reppa meeting, including
Callahan supporters who could not get
into their own meeting.
THE TICKET STEAL.
The ticket steal by which the Reppa
majority of the election board took the
name and emblem of the Citizens
party away from Callahan and gave 1t
to Ed Wickey was not successful. 1t
swung several hundred votes to Gala
han Now. to overcome the reaction
j. X. Reppa comes out with letter
attacking Wickey to make 1t appear
that he was not in on the deal with
Wickey- Ottenh elmer Richarcs ct al.
There is proof of the fact that it
was inspired and executed by Reppa.
One of Mr.. Csllahan's campaign
leaders went to Attorney Ottenheimer
just previous TO the action of the cleo
tion board of which Mr.. Ottenheimer
is a republican member.
oTTENHEIMER's STAND.
I'VE expect you to give US square
deal in this wsckey matter" often
heimer was told