Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1909 — RALSTON AGAINST REPEAL. [ARTICLE]

RALSTON AGAINST REPEAL.

Samuel M. Ralston, another leading democrat,. who has been repeatedly charged by the opposition party and its cohort, the Anti-Saloon League, as a brewery and saloon sympathizer, is against the repeal of the county option law until it has been thoroughly tested, 'and The Democrat predicts that if this law is repealed by the present legislature, before it has been tested, it will be the republicans who do it. The following dispatch from Lebanon states Mr. Ralston’s position: “Samuel M. Ralston, who was defeated for the Democratic nomination for Governor by Thomas R. Marshall, and who in his campaign for the nomination was an advocate of township and ward option, now speaks a word of caution about repeal of the county option law. Speaking of the work of the Legislature, he said: “I would not want to predict the consequences if the people are not afforded an opportunity to give the county option law a fair trial. I have not changed my opinion that from a governmental viewpoint, the city or the township should be the unit, but since the people now have a law making the county the unit they should be allowed ample time to test it. I hope the Democratic legislators will not blunder on this question.”