Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — WILL CAUSE A HUBBUB. [ARTICLE]
WILL CAUSE A HUBBUB.
Governor-Elect Lewelllng in Favor of the State Agency Plan Topeka, Kan. r special: In an interview in a local paper Rev. J. D, Botkin, late Prohibition candidate for Governor, •aid that Governor-eleot Lewelllng was a pronounced Prohibitionist and that he would favor the State agency plan in his forthcoming message. Botkin said: “I am in favor of fee State agency plan, and recently had a long talk with Gov. Lewelllng c* this subject and
, * , '• . he Is heartily In favor of it also. He said to me that he believed it would forever settle the whisky question W this State, as it would abolish the drug store saloon and take the element of profit out of the sale, so the jointists would have to go out of business." The announcement of Governor Lewelling’s views on this subject will cause a great hubbuU-among the and the liquor element generally, who supported him, hoping that in return for their votes Mr. jewelling would prove lenient to violators of the prohibitory law, or even encourage its repeal.
