Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1908 — Democracy's Bluff. [ARTICLE]

Democracy's Bluff.

The Democrats of Indiana this year, for the first time in the history of the party, have indicated approval of the temperance sentiment, but it is s scant and forced approbation. The declaration is for local option In ’’City wards and townships." That is just exactly what we have now. Many hundreds of city wards and townships In the state already have exercised the privilege given to tbsm under this Republican local option law. The Democratic party said in the Indians platform tbs least that could be said In approval of temperance legislation, and gay anything. But the Democratic convention's straddling proclamation will not be likely to deceive any one. The convention was dominated by Thomas Taggart and the brewery Interests, and the weak and evasive temperance plank was Inserted only after It had been sanctioned by agents of the breweries who kept a close watcb on the resolutions committee. The Democratic party of the stats of Indiana Is In the same hands that controlled the Democratic members of the ast legislature and defeated the measure providing for a high saloon license.—Washington HeraJß. '