 Lunn nevertheless attempted to speak, reading from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address and wound up as one of four people arrested on charges of "inciting to riot"—charges later dropped when the tension of the situation lessened.Lunn's first term ran from 1911 to 1913 and he was returned to office for a second two-year term in 1915, again on the ticket of the Socialist Party.During his second term of office, Lunn was approached by officials of the Democratic Party and invited to switch parties for a run for United States Congress.