Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1911 — Democrats Propose Further “Restrictive” Liquor Legislation. [ARTICLE]

Democrats Propose Further “Restrictive” Liquor Legislation.

The democrats are still seeking to “restrict” the sale of liquor in Indiana, but they insist In “restricting" it “upward.” If all the propositions the various members have, could be incorporated into law we would have saloons at every cross roads in the state. It certainly is wonderful the nerve that the brewers have displayed since, the election and it is more remarkable that they have been able to make the legislators believe that the result of the election was the voice of the people in favor of the reinstatement of saloons. We know there are many democrats in Jasper county who are ardent temperance men and who held the temperance matter second to some other issues in the campaign. In jthis they made a mistake, for the brewers were behind the democratic declaration to reinstate saloons and that was”, really the predominating feature of the platform. That Governor Marshall.should have been fooled by it sufficiently to have adopted the brewers’ measure is a pity, and many who have heretofore had confidence in him will now doubt not only his judgment, but his honesty.