Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1915 — Bell Asks Brewers For Help In Plan to Eliminate Saloons. [ARTICLE]

Bell Asks Brewers For Help In Plan to Eliminate Saloons.

Indianapolis, Oct. 26.—Mayor Joseph E. Bell today sent letters to all Indianapolis breweries and brewery agencies asking co-operation in a plan of his to put from 50 to 100 local saloons out of business. There are more than 600 saloons in the city and the mayor says that the bars are so numerous that competition is too keen. Saloonkeepers arrested for violating the closing and gambling laws, the mayor says, declare that there is so much competition that they have to violate the law in order to make any money. The mayor proposes that the brewers refuse to sell liquor to some 50 or 100 of the saloon men.