Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1914 — Brewers Getting Bolder; Propose Roberts for Governor. [ARTICLE]

Brewers Getting Bolder; Propose Roberts for Governor.

The multiplication of parties is the liquor interests’ opportunity, and the signs of the times are so encouraging in this respect that Bonn Roberts, of Terre Haute; has been trotted out by the Crawford Fairbanks brewery' machine as the next democratic candidate for governor. Roberts is the man who was recently tried in Vigo county tor election frauds, and whose acquittal was followed by a jamboree of all the saloon and brewery interests and their sympathizers. The announcement of Bonn’s candidacy was made at Evansville during the recent meeting of the Democratic Editorial Association, at which Crawford Fairbanks was present. According to reports, some of the editors were mad enough at the activity of Roberts and Fairbanks to “bite nails in two.”