Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1908 — THE REPUBLICAN LEOPARD AND ITS LIQUOR SPOTS. [ARTICLE]

THE REPUBLICAN LEOPARD AND ITS LIQUOR SPOTS.

The Frankfort News (Republican) admits that Thomas R. Marshall is a good, clean man. It says that he is "a man of high excellence, morally and politically,” and that “his most aggressive political 'fogs can say naught against him personally.” After saying all this, the Frankfort News goes on and says the following: “While Mr. Marshall Is saying nothing about the question, his most ardent supporters are telling us that this state under his rule, in the event of his election, will go back to the primitive liquor conditions when the saloon and brewery votes were able to control every political office fn the state.” Mr. Marshall has repeatedly said that he stands squarely on the Democratic Btate platform, which expresses not only the Democratic temperance sentiment, but the real temperance sentiment of the state. No supporter of Mr. Marshall, “ardent” or otheEwlse, has ever said anything to the contrary. And as for “primitive liquor conditions when the saloon and brewery votes were able to control every political office In the state,” let uu look about us a little. One of the first things we see Is the statement made by Roger R. ("Rhody”) Shiel, a prominent Republican of Indianapolis, who was once his party’s candidate

for state treasurer. In an interview at Cincinnati on July 28 of thiß year, Mr. Shiel said that in previous campaigns “twenty-seven breweries ifut up for the Republicans.” And he said this: “At the last election we had the active support of the brewing interests.” What has happened in this state during the past many years when the “twenty-seven breweries put up for the Republicans”? And what happened at the last election, when, as admitted by Mr. Shiel, the Republicans “had the active support of the brewing interests”? Why, just this: Republicans were elected to “every political office” in the state house. They are tfiere yet. Most of them are on the Republican state ticket now as candidates for re-election. Are these the “primitive liquor conditions" that the Frankfort News talks about? And has the Republican leopard changed its liquor spots?