Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1908 — DEMOCRATS, BE ON YOUR GUARD. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS, BE ON YOUR GUARD.

I Prom the Marlon Leader.! On last Monday evening the Chronicle of this city printed alleged interviews with about fifty saloon keepers of Marion and Grant county, In which It made these bald liquor dealers say in substance that they were all opposed to the election of “Jim" Watson for governor, as it wpuld mean the ruination of their business. They were also made to say that they favored the election of Tom Marshall for governor, aa it meant the salvation of their business.

On Tuesday the Leader called upon these saloon keepers and in every Instance the interviews in the Chronicle were pronounced as forgeries. Not one liquor dealer In Marion could be found who had uttered one word to that paper or any other paper on the subject of state polities. The object of the Chronicle in printing these 41 bogus interviews with liquor dealers is very plain. It is expected that temperance Democrats of the state can be reached by such deception. Seventy-five per cent of the saloon keepers misquoted are Republicans and are loud In their denunciation of such dirty politics. On Tuesday of this week this same Chronicle had printed 25,000 copies of their issue of last Monday containing the bogus interviews. These were shipped to the Republican state headquarters at Indianapolis for distribution over the state of Indiana. Not satisfied by trying tb betray their own’ party workers in Grant county, the Chronicle, with the assistance of the state Republican organization, now desires to fool the people of Indiana. Democrats everywhere in the state sfiould be on their guard. Watch for the Marion Chronicle of last Monday with the bogus interviews from saloon keepers. Crush this deception wherever it shows itself.