Show AT THE HEAD OF THE DEMO C RATS Four years ago when Tom Taggarts Taggart's friends were trying to make him chair chair- man of the national Democratic committee com corn the charge was published that he was waa simply a big gambler that his establishment at French Lick Springs In Indiana was a sort of Monte fonte Carlo without any mr of or the beauty of that remarkable remarkable re ro- re- re resort I IThe The state authorities made a raid and for a time the place was closed dosed up It seems to be open again A recent dispatch from French Lick contains the following Gambling is being carried on with all the time old recklessness at French Lick and Vest West Baden just as if noth noth- In had fiver p. been heen done dana to ston iL it The The g games mes tire are just as as big big and d just st as open as they es' es ever r were sere and as many people are pla playing ing At A Al AI Browns Brown's gambling place here just across the road from Tom Taggarts Taggart's s 's hotel Charley Chancy Gates of New York son of John W. W Yo Gates one of the greatest plungers in the country made things hum for several weeks while he was wasa a guest at Taggarts Taggart's hotel He played e everything he could get at both at Browns Brown's and at the Colonial at West Baden and he made the dealers gasp at times at the size of his stakes Hundred dollar plays were common with him and many rany times he cleaned the house of or large larg sums As an Instance of his luck lucIe he ho stopped el at t t the P pool Q room where the races were being played Gates looked at the board and read tho the name of a horse that seemed to strike him just right rIght rIght-a a 3 to 1 shot He lIe drew a n hun hun- dred dollar bill from his pocket Ill rn take a hundred dollars dollars' worth on that horse he said as he handed the greenback to the bookmaker Just send the money to me b by m mall mail Gates went awa away that day Sure enough the horse selected b by him won and the was mailed to him G Gates tes took a whirl at roulette and about everything else that was run run- ning Although gambling at both French Lick and West Baden is open and notorious notorious no no- there Is la not as far as can be beH H learned arned an any effort on the part of the tho prosecuting attorney or the judge of the court to stop it ft Tom Taggart has always been strong enough in Indiana to prevent t serious trouble by br officers of ot the law The games have enriched him and he has protected the gamblers He manages manage t to make the intervals between raids spry long and the raids themselves es were simple little jestings that annoyed annoyed an an- noyed but for a time And this man Is at the head of at the Democratic party part of ot the he nation He manager managed the Parker campaign and Is headed to lead In the present yea year Certainly the good men and women of the Democratic party part are not very proud of their party commander |