Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1911 — THREATENS THIRD PARTY [ARTICLE]

THREATENS THIRD PARTY

Hanly Defies Indiana G. O. Pl Unless it “Gets Right” on Liquor Issue. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. o.— I Hurling defiance at the republi-1 can state organization and at his; critics, predicting overwhelming defeat for the party in 1912 un-| less it "gets right" on the liquor question, and boldly announcing the intention to form a separate partv which shall propcVly reflect .the views of dry republicans, in event that the republican leaders shall evade the liquor issue, for-j mer Governor J. Frank Hanlyi closed the Tomlinson Hall "<nnnipcirtisan" temperance gather-' ing/ tonight with a fervent oration of the type for which he is' noted. j The general position taken by, Hanly was dhat the democratic • organization had surrendered' bodily to the brewery and saloon forces, and that nothing could be expected from that party in advancing the Cause of temperance. Several hundred delegates attended the “omnipartisan” convention. All parties were represented. but there was an absence of democratic ami republican leaders. ’Die convention was called by Superintendent Shumaker of the Anti-Saloon League to outline the, plans of the temperance forces in the next campaign. but it was regarded as a method of bringing the republican party to time so that it will not dare to go back of the county unit platform. Former Lieutenant Governor Hugh Th. Miller of Columbus was the presiding officer. Miler is a candidate for the republican normnatipn for governor. Among the afternoon speakers, were Senator Tilden, Greencastle, and W. A. Pierson. New Albany. democrats; Warren R. Voorhis, Kokomo, James Bingham. Indianapolis, republicans ; Colonel Eli Ritter. Indianapolis, prohibitionist, and Mrs. Cullia Vayhinger, state president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.