Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1911 — A REPUBLICAN VIEW. [ARTICLE]

A REPUBLICAN VIEW.

Concerning the amendment of the county option law the Indianapolis Star, the republican state organ, says editorially: “* * * It was a mistake and a wrong to make the control of saloons in Indiana a party issue. Such course was not, indeed, dio tated by the Anti-Saloon League or the liquor interests, but was purely the work of Governor Hanley and his associates, who forced the issue for political ends, with a disastrous efftct’lhat was fully deserved, though the consequences fell most heavily on those who were least to blame. It is the hope of The Star, as it believes it is the hope of sincere and thoughtful citizenship generally, that the effort to make all Republcans "dry” and all Democrats “wet” may now be abandoned and that personal liberty on the one hand and the tears of widows and orphans on the other may cease to furnish forth the campaign arsenals of spread-eagle orators and ambitious candidates for office.”

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