Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1910 — Democratic Candidate for State Representative For County Option. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Candidate for State Representative For County Option.

Representative Guthrie, of Monticello, has addressed an open letter to E. P. Honan, of Rensselaer, who was the chairman of the recent democratic representative convention, in which he accepts the nomination for state representative, provided the party wishes to accept his declaration in favor of county option. In all other respects he rests wholly on the state platform. Mr. Guthrie writes at considerable length and employs a number of maxims traditional to the party setting forth the things that he will stand for if elected. He assigns as his reason for favoring county option, that both Jasper and White counties have shown by their votes that a good majority of the people favor the restricted sale or prohibition of the sale of liquor and he believes it to be his duty to see that the law is maintained and he pledges himself to see that it is kept on the statute books if elected. So does John Brown, who helped to make White county dry and who, in addition to being in favor of the majority control, is in favor of the temperance cause and whose policy is endorsed by resolutions passed by the convention that nominated him.