Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1909 — MISUNDERSTOOD SENATOR BLAND [ARTICLE]

MISUNDERSTOOD SENATOR BLAND

Brotherhood Thought That Be Was “Wet” Man.

CANCELED AM ENGAGEMENT

He Wired: “Future Developments Will Show You Have Made a Mistake” and Then Hie Vote Wat the First Registered in Favor of Striking the Enacting Clause From the Bill Repealing Local Option.

Crawfordsville, Ind., March s.—Senator Ezra Mattingly of Washington, representing Daviess and Pike counties in the legislature, will make an address Sunday evening, at the meeting of the Brotherhood of the First Methodist Episcopal church of this city. He will speak on “Gbod Citizenship.” Senator Oscar Bland of Linton, had been engaged to make the address, but several days ago, when it seemed as if Senator Bland was favorable to the TomTinson-Proctor bill to repeal the county local option law, the Brotherhood wrote him, canceling the engagement and stating the reason. To the letter Senator Bland simply telegraphed in reply: “Future developments will show you have made a mistake.” When the question of killing the Tomlinson-Proctor bill came up for final vote in the Senate, Senator Bland was the first senator to vote to strike the enacting clause from the measure.