Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1911 — Big Towns In Dry Counties Plan Reinstating Saloons. [ARTICLE]

Big Towns In Dry Counties Plan Reinstating Saloons.

A dispatch from Whbash~ states that that city will be one of the first to undertake the reinstatement of saloons. Wabash county was the first in the state to vote dry under the county option law. The city gave a wet majority of -300, but the county went dry. The repeal of the county local option law was with the ho »e from the brewery interests that saloons would be again installed in cases of this kind.

There were nineteen saloons in Wabash prior to the election. This many will probably be required to keep Wabash oiled up afte. a few months, when men who had quit drinking get back*to the old habit again. backward step on the part of Indiana is a shame and it should prove a lasting disgrace to the democratic party, and to Tom Marshall, the governor who helped the thing along in every way he could. Marshall has certainly disappointed many people who thought he was at heart a temperance man, but it seems that his ambition for political advancement has caused him to prostitute his office to the brewery and saloon interests and we feel certain that many temperance democrats will regret that he has been instrumental in repealing a law that made much territory “dry” and in putting it in the “wet” column.