Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1911 — LOOKS FUNNY, DOESN’T IT? [ARTICLE]

LOOKS FUNNY, DOESN’T IT?

Up at Ft. Wayne the saloon keepers are going to contest the new liquor regulation law. which Senator Halleck voted against. They don’t like it a little bit. The Lake County Times (republican ' says the new law will greatly reduce the number of saloons in that county and elsewhere, yet some of our republican editors are rending their linen in trying to array —for political purposes only—the temperance people against the measure. The republican spoilsmen say the law was just what the liquor interests wanted, yet the brewersenator. Steve Fleming, of Ft. Wayne voted against it—and Abe Halleck voted with him—and now the saloon keepers are going to contest the constitutionality of the law. thus giving the lie to all the republican press has said against it! At this rate it will not be long before the republicans will be trying to claim the credit for the passage of the regulation law.'