Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1908 — SOME PREACHERS WERE TOO SMART. [ARTICLE]

SOME PREACHERS WERE TOO SMART.

Tbe Democrat Is more than pleased with the election of the Hon. Thomas R. Marshall Governor of Indiana. Notwithstanding the many unpleasant, even slanderous, things that wete said about him during the campaign and bitter, almost .hysterical opposition to him on the part of many conscientious but prejudiced people. His friends and those who kpow him best and most intimately have the most implicit confidence In his honesty and integrity and are satisfied that he has the moral stamina and force of* character to do the right as he sees It without fear or favor; and the bogy of "brewery domination” can now be dismissed as the merest campaign claptrap, as it was known to be by those-who originated it. The county option law may fail to accomplish the results that its sponsors have claimed -for it, or it may be declared void by the courts; but the Democratic party will not repeal it until it shall- be tried and proven unsatisfactory to a majority of the people.

| As before stated the unXrupulous methods resorted to to work .the Anti-Saloon League as an adjunct to the Republican machine | has alienated the sympathy of many i heretofore earnest Anti-Saloon workers, and it will be many moons before that harmonious action can be restored which existed before the organisation was unnecessarily drawh into partisan politics; and in this connection the Democrat wants to commend the action of the pastors of the > Monticello churches in refusing to become parties to the scheme. There were many preachers in Indiana who refused to become cats-paws for Mr. Watson and his machine, under his arrangement with Messrs Shumaker, MJnton, Hicks and other self-consti-tuted guardians of the people’s conscience, and their refusal was right. The sooner these holier-than-thou hypocrites sever their connection with the Anti-Saloon League the sooner that organization can again become an effective agent in the moral uplift of the State. —White County Democrat.