The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-11-02
To ENFORCE
LIQUOR LAWS.
Indiana Anti Saloon League
Will Attempt to "Dry"
the State.
CANDIDATES QUIzzED
Humphrey Seeks Information Re-
garding Prospective Legislators
Attitude-Question an Issue.
Especial to LIKE County Times.)

Especial to Lake County Tfmes)
Indianapolis, Nov. 2.-The Indiana
Anti Saloon league. through .. G.
Humphrey, its secretary, is taking an
increasingly greater part in the present
state campaign, especially with refer
ence to the legislative tickets.
superintendent Humphrey announced
today that he had sent out letters to all
OF the legislative candidates asking
them for a declaration of their position
on the general question of law enforce
ment, and asking, further, their atti
tude, definitely, on certain prospective
liquor legislation that the league is go
ing to fight for.
Upon the answers to these questions
the league will push it's fight. The
candidates who answer squarely and
satisfactorily are to be supported re-
gardless of politics, and the ones who
either refuse to answer or give an
equivocal answer are to be fought, ac-
cording to Mr.. Humphrey Where
neither candidate gives a satisfactory
answer in any legislative district the
better man is to be supported-the bet
ter man as shown by the answers.
In the questions sent out the superin-
tendent has made it clear that they
involve, in brief, an endorsement of the
governor. both as to his past policies
and his prospective one with reference
to liquor legislation. He seems to have
some assurance that the governor will
stand by any reasonable liquor legisla
sion, and is willing TO make Hanly the
issue in this matter.
Some replies have been received. For
the most part the republicans are an
swering squarely that they will support
the administration in any liquor legis-
1ation that it may propose; some are
refusing to answer at all. and some
are evading the definite questions in
their replies. In Marion county the
candidates punched together and re-
turned a joint answer favoring law en-
forcement in a general way. The dem
ocratic candidates did not reply at all,
and Humphrey has written to nomin-
ees on both tickets again to see if he
cannot get more satisfactory answers
Some democratic nominees have writ
ten in the pledge to support the COVER
nor, and they will be supported by the
Anti Saloon league. A notable case of
this kind involves the nominees for the
house in the Monroe and Brown county
district, the democratic nominee there
declaring that he will support the gov
ernor. and the republican nominee de-
claring that he will be for law en-
forcement" in a general way. Here the
influence is being caste for the demo-
crat.
Superintendent Humphrey announced
today, also, the law that was to be pro-
posed at the next Legislature. 1t will
be an extension Of the present Moore
law, so as to include city or a county
as a whole At present remonstrance
touches only single wards in a city or
townships in county, and the extern
sion will make considerable difference,
according to Mr., Humphrey.
AT present" he said there are only
three dry counties, though 661 OF the
townships are dry; 355 townships are
wet There are sixty-three counties
in which the majority of the townships
are dry, sixteen counties whore there
are saloons only in one place, and thir-
teen counties where there are saloons
only in two places.
IF the larger unit was used-ehe city
or the county-many of those counties
which contain n majority of dry town
ships Will become dry" continued Mr..
Humphrey Within thirty days after
such a law was passed 1 would guaran-
tee thirty dry counties in the state, and
by the first of the year the law and the
people would put 527 saloons out OF
business
Indiana is behind in liquor legisla-
tIon." continued the speaker. we have
only three dry counties. Even old
Bourbon Kentucky has ninety dry
countless West Virginia, thirty three,
Tennessee, eighty five; Texas, 16T; Ar
kansas. fifty-eight, and Mississippi
twenty-eight. We need further legis-
lation and then we can dry up the
State"