Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1908 — STANDS BY THE BREWERS. [ARTICLE]

STANDS BY THE BREWERS.

MV- Marshall does not approve of the Republican platform, and especially obnoxious to him is that plank in it declaring f ol* a county local option law. That is natural in the Democratic candidate for governor. Many Democrats in Indiana think as that plank declares. Some of them have served in the legislature and may serve there again. But if Mr. Marshall were governor and the general assembly passed a county local option law, he would veto it promptly. Mr. Watson has asked him to tell the people if he would or would not. He evades the question, but his friends know that he would not sign such a law, nor any measure that might hurt the beer-makers who are working so hard for his election. It hurts Tom Marshall to think that if elected he will owe his election to the organized liquor Interests of the state. It is not a pleasant thought of good Democrats that their party is bossed by the brewers and its fortunes financed by them this year. The facts being so, Marshall would be loyal to his political bedfellows if given the opportunity. He, too, believes that one good turn deserves another. It is the plain duty of the plain, honest, goodliving voters of Indiana to save him from hating himself for standing by his brewery supporters. They can do that by electing Jim Watson to the place the Republican party knows he will fill well.