Joseph D. Martin
JOSEPH D. MARTIN
Present County Commissioner from the Third District, Announces His Candidacy for Re - Election as COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Joseph D. Martin, farmer near Lowell, Lake County Commissioner from the Third District, today announced his candidacy for renomination for that office on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Martin has served the county honestly and faithfully since his first election as County Commissioner. His friends throughout the county insist that his action and conduct as a member of the Board of County Commissioners merit his renomination for re-election to this important position, and Mr. Martin is willing to rest his case with the Democratic voters for renomination upon the record which he has made in the past as a citizen and as a member of the Board of Commissioners.The law provided that a man, to be a candidate for Commissioner of the county, must actually be a bona fide resident and reside in the District from which he is pretending to be a candidate. Mr. Martin is an actual resident of the Third District, and has been for the last twenty-eight years.
Mr. Martin was born and reared in on a farm in Cedar Creek township, Lake County, Ind., and when quite a young man obtained work in Hammond as a street railway motorman, and later as a conductor. During the time he was working for the Street Railway Company, the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America was organized and Mr. Martin became a member of such organization in Lodge No. 264 of Chicago, Ill., and has remained in good standing in said organization ever since. After working for some time for the Street Railway Company at Hammond, he was appointed a member of the police force of the City of Hammond, and upon the election of Thomas Knotts as the first Mayor of Gary, Ind., Mr. Martin was appointed Chief of Police of the City of Gary which position he occupied for a number of years with credit, not only to himself, but to the City of Gary, which he was serving. Upon his retirement from the police department of Gary he again returned to Cedar Creek township where he owns and operates a farm and has since made farming his occupation, with the exception of two years when he was Chief Deputy Sheriff under that late Roy F. Holley.
While acting as a Member of the Board of County Commissioners,, Mr. Martin has always carefully looked after the interests of the taxpayers in an effort to see that they obtained value for money expended and has thus been instrumental in aiding in keeping down the tax rate in Lake County.
Mr. Martin's family consists of himself and wife, two boys and one daughter, all of them residing in Cedar Creek township. All of the family are members of the Methodist church of Lowell, Ind. Mr. Martin, himself, is also a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Shrine of that organization. He also is a member of the Fraternal Order of Elks, holding membership in the lodge at Gary, Ind., and a member of the K. of P. lodge, located at Lowell, and a member of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Mr. Martin's friends throughout the county insist that his quiet, calm and judicious temperament are needed in the service of the county as a Member of the Board of Commissioners.
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