Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — FOR TEMPERANCE PEOPLE [ARTICLE]

FOR TEMPERANCE PEOPLE

Where the, Liquor Men Stand _ In this Campaign, uThe following circular letter is being sent to saloon keepers and other liquor dealers in this state. We believe that every saloonkeeper in Rensselaer has received a copy of the circular, and know that some of them have. The circular is in print but the signiture of the firm is in hand-writing, and there is no question of its genuiness. The parties sending out the circular are Thieme & Wagner, well known brewers of Lafayette. The following is the matter in the circular: ( Thieme & Wagner. BREWERS. Lafayette, October, 20,1888. Dear sir: We enclose herewith a copy of a document which is being circulated by the Republican managers among the Prohibition Fanatics to show that Gen. Harrison, is in secret sympathy with them in their attack on personal freedom. We also enlose a copy of a legal opinion of nine Republican lawyers, two of whom ( W. H. H. Miller and John B. Elam) are the law partners of Gen. Harrison, which is being circulated among Prohibitionists to show that the local option law, to which the Republican party pledged itself in its'.State platform, is constitutional. It is qertain that if the Republicans carry Indiana this law will be passed. You know what that means. It is prohibition whereever the majority of the people of a county wish it. It means a hard fight and great expense for a liquor seller to get a license to carry on bis business. , We enclose also extracts of the liquor law which the Republican House of Representatives passed: at the hi st legislature. It will , show just how much Trotible it will be to get your license if they succeed in this election. We hope you will not be de-

ceived by Republican professions of friendship after you consider this evidence. Your business ihterests andours are at stake. The party that is advocating local option is our enemy h is you want to protect your interests go to tfie polls on election day and do all yo& cahTd defeat them. " - Respectfully - ThIEMR & WAffNERs The “document”’ referred to in the first paragraph of the circular is a sheet containing from a speech delivere4 by Gen. Harrison at Danville, Inff., Nov. 27, in which his high, consistent end eminently practical views upthe temperance question and the necessity of the overthrow of the liquor league, are set forth in his usual dear and forcible manner. Tho document referred to in the second paragraph, namely the opinion of eminent lawyers as to the constitutionality of local optiqn in this state, is given elsewhere in this paper, in full.