Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1908 — What Marshall Has Expressed [ARTICLE]

What Marshall Has Expressed

Thomas Riley Marshall, of Columbia City, whose party nominated him for the governorship, has not been talking since he placed John Worth Kern in nomination at the Denver convention, but it is interesting to recall some of. the thoughts he has expressed on his own hook. One remembers that he said, and he is a learned lawyer, that if a township and city ward option law, as proposed by the brewery bosses of the Democratic party, were passed the remonstrance law now on the statute books, of the state would no longer be of any use. He said that in Richmond, and all home-loving voters should keep remembering the depressing words. Speaking in Evansville, Mr. Marshal declared himself opposed to the metropolitan police law and pledged himself if elected to urge its repeal. He even promised that he would virtually | nullify .the lwa by permitting the city authorities in all cities affected by the law to name the police commis-' sioners. That is another fact no voter should forget Many heard it gladly. You know that Mr. Marshall, ! as an orthodox devotee of the older 1 Democracy, thinks the less govern- j ment state, county or city has the better. In several cities where saloons are many and brewers are in politics that sort of talk Is applauded. Mr. Marshall was in Evansville, was seeking votes and playing for friends on election day. For such towns as are affected by it the metropolitan police law is entirely good and necessary for the general good. Were Tom Marshall in the Governor’s chair saloonmen who desire to break the laws that bind their business would do 80. Many men who have already b en Republicans will vote for Marshall this year on this one promise of Li;?. They are in the saloon business directly or remotely. The saloon as an institution lias practically as many brothers-in-law as the church. Many good temperance Democrats will vote against Marshall this year because of his frank bending to the wishes of the men behind him, Lieber, Fleming, Fairbanks, et al —and of course Taggart and Kern—and hig desiie to give them their money's worth. In the dozen counties of the state having the larger cities party lines will be obliterated largely on thla paramount temperance issue. It behooves the good men of the smaller communities and the rural districts to give James Eli Watson, our candidate, the biggest majority possible so that the booze and boodle vote of the cities may be offset. Of course, a strong temperance Watson vote will be polled In the cities, but this is a year when the country vote will count for much. And don’t you forget it