Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1908 — Marshall Stands for the Saloon. [ARTICLE]

Marshall Stands for the Saloon.

Following is a letter from Crawfordsville to the Indianapolis Star: Bloomington, the seat of Indiana university, is a dry town. Greencastle, the seat of DePapw university, is making a hard fight to become a dry town. Franklin, tne seat of Franklin college, is a dry town. Crawfordsville, the se it of the Wabash college, is partially a‘ dry town, and would be entirely dry were it not for one ward. Tais ward remains wet because of the ward and townsnip feature of tne remonstrance laws. This ward remain wet under a ward and township local option law. Tom Marshall is traveling over IndTahatrying to induce people to foist ward and township local option on the state. What do the friends of Wabash college think of Tom Marshall, a former student of Wabash? What do the parents that send tneir sons t© Wabash think of Tom Marshall, the valiant warrior for ward and township local option, the trustee of Wabash college? The following clipping from the Crawfordsville Journal will let Tom Marshall know what a vast 'majority of the friends of Wabash think of the campaign he is making. "We do not blame Tom Marshall for not wanting to come to Crawfordsville to defend his indefensible position on the temperance question. Confronted wi<h the demand for county local option from every trustee, every member of the faculty and every friend of the college, it would TfidSetT be embarrassing for htai to explain why he is fighting the special session of the legislature. Come to think about it, what could be more surprising than to see a trustee of Wabash college and all the saloon keepers of Crawfo.d-.viUe working with all their might to defeat the only temperance b 11 that is indorsed by the anti-saloon league of the state, and the only kind of a law that will remote si*loons from the shadow of the college."