Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1908 — OUR ADMIRABLE RECORD. [ARTICLE]

OUR ADMIRABLE RECORD.

"For many years ths Republican party of Indiana has Identified Itself repeatedly with prohibition methode. It was the Republican party which gave to the state In 1871 the Baxter law, afterward repealed by a Democratic legislature; It wae the Republican party that In 1881 paeeed a prohibition amendment to the constitution of the state, which failed to paea a second time in a Democratic legislature. It was a Republioam legislature that passed the Nicholson law, which has produced more strife, contention and hypocrisy than haa ever been produced by any law. Another Republics legislature gave ua the Moore law over the emphatic protect of this organization. At present the governor and the attorney general of the state belong to the moot fanatloal supporters of prohibition methods.” From resolutions adopted by the Alliaaoe of German Societies of Indiana. The city of Marlon has forty-eae saloons Last year It received from the ealoons >II.OOO for llooncoo. but the city paid W Itb.OM lor its polios foras alMa Wsmtioon Is a great eon-