Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Xionuceiio Herald. It is announced that Steve Fleming and his crowd already have a plan on foot to extract the teeth of, the Moore remonstrance law. To be sure the democratic state platform declared against the repeal or modification of the present remonstrance laws, but Steve says Iherejs. one thing that has to be fixed, N *ftnd that is allowing the Moore remonstrance law to operate in territory that has been voted “wet” under the Proctor law. And very likely he will get it fixed. He says the Moore law r will not be touched, but the people will have bp, choose one plan or the other for excluding saloons and stick to it. The idea of winning territory for the “wets” under the Proctor law and then losing it under the Moore law, as in Honey Creek township, this county, for instance, is very repugnant to Steve, and he is going to give the democratic legislature a chance to show their hands. If this scheme should succeed it will be seen how easy it is to keep a platform promise in the letter and yet smash it all to pieces in the spirit. It would be possible, as Senator Fleming suggests, to let the Moore law r absolutely alone and yet nullify it by. an amendment tp the Proctor law'. This,; it appears is, the way the Fleming crowd propose to do it, and we shall soon see how the legislature looks upon such a barefaced violation of faith.