Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1911 — Anti-Saloon League Superintendent Pays Visit to Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

Anti-Saloon League Superintendent Pays Visit to Rensselaer.

E. S. Shumaker, state superintendent of the anti-saloon league, arrived in Rensselaer Thursday evening and remained until Fnday noon. Tie was heVe on business relating to the league. Mr. Shumaker hopes to see republicans readopt a county option plank in the state party platform next year and says that the temperance people are now alive to the fact that they must desert party alliances to save the state for the cause of temperance. He states that Proctor is already boasting that he will do all in his power to get the democratic platform to pledge Itself to repeal the Moore remonstrance law and that if that should be done saloons will be reinstated in almost every township in the state. Mr. Shumaker impresses one with his sincerity and be is alive to the cause of temperance reform. He related that Logansport, Vincennes and Hartford City, and the counties that they are in represent a total population of 85,000 people, and that all were “wet” during the past year, and that within that time there were three more arrests in those three counties for drunkenness than there were in fifty counties that were “dry” and in which the population totaled more than a million people. This, he says, refutes the claim that there is more drunkenness in “dry” territofy. Mr. Shumaker conferred with the ministers while here.