The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-16
Posters Being Sent Out Over
State Grossly Misrep-
resent, He Says.
NEGATIVES ARE CHANGED.
SITUATION IN KANSAS CITY NOT
AS BREWERS WOULD SHOW
ANOTHER URGENT APPEAL FOR
WATSON.

Indianapolis. Ind, Oct. 16.-Stare-
ments made in the large posters
placed on billboards throughout the
state by the Terre Haute Brewing
Company setting forth the evils OF
county local option" are disputed in q
statement issued by Z. S. Shumaker,
superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Sa-
loon League, who charges that the re-
suits of prohibition in Kansas City,
Kas., are grossly misrepresented on
the posters. Mr.. Shumacker charges
that the photographs published on the
posters have been altered so that they
misrepresent the situation. The Anti
Saloon League statement says also
that Philip Rappaport, secretary OF the
German Alliance of Indiana. and other
officers of the alliance are working
hard TO line up solid German vote
against Watson, as well as bringing
all of the bottle men and other classes
of people in the state. to the support
of Marshall. Ii is pointed out by the
league that the temperance people of
Indiana are face to face with a crisis
and they are urged to rally to the sup
port of James K. Watson. Republican
nominee for Governor. The statement
issued by the Anti-Saloon League is
as follows:
| 1t is said that when Crawford Fair
banks, the millionaire brewer OF Terre
Haute, returned from Indianapolis to
| Terre Haute after the passage of the
county local option law. that he
stopped at Greencastle. While there
he stated that people who thought tho
temperance question settled would find
themselves sadly mistaken. He
boasted that the brewers had hardly
| begun to fight yet. and from that time
onward they would be in the battle
with a vigor never known before. He
is said to have declared that Watson
would be defeated for Governor by
10000 majority.
"LIars Will Figure"
AS evidence of their continued ac-
tivity, they have in the last week sent
huge posters all over the state. which
they have had posted on billboards.
and on which are the declarations that
county option means prohibition.
1, They declare that prohibition means
bankruptcy. They once more trot out
that series of pictures concerning the
1OS so-called empty business rooms in
Kansas City, Kas., since the closing OF
the unlawful saloons there. Then
they state significantly that the cam.
era won't lie. It has been truly said
that figures won't lie, but that liars
will figure. The camera won't lie. but
they have actually altered the mega
tives of many pictures which they
took in Kansas City, effacing from
them grocery signs and grocery bask-
cts that were found in their windows.
, OF the los so-called empty business
, rooms, sixty belong to another city al
together, and of the forty-eight remain
ing ones, nearly all were filled with
, reputable business establishments. and
the few that are actually empty are
unfit for any business whatever. How
ever, the brewers of the state are do
ing their best to educate the poor.
J misguided public as to the direful re-
suits of county local option.
The saloon keepers of the state are
/ banded together as never before 70
: elect a Legislature and a Governor
) who will repeal our county local OPP
) tion law. OF fifty saloon keepers in
: Marion, Gas City and Jonesboro who
5 were interviewed by reporter OF the
Marion Chronicle. every one OF them
, declared that they were for Marshall
? for Governor. In this number were
twenty Republicans. These saloon
keepers boast that there is not one OF
| their number in Marion but that IL
supporting Marshall for Governor.
; Each saloon keeper in the city is sup
| posed to control at least five votes
and they are all working like beavers
to defeat Watson and elect Legisla-
ture that will take away from the peo-
pie the right to rule on the liquor
question. Emissaries OF Thomas Tag
,, CART and the brewers have been work
: ing among the colored saloon keepers
|. bartenders and porters for saloons in
all the large cities of the state and
!, have represented to them that in the
event of the election OF Watson tney
: will at once have to go out or busi'
ness. thus deceiving them into the be-
lief that ii is the election OF Watson
and not the successful issue OF a
!, county option election that viii close
: ND the saloons They have also rep
: : resented to the coIored voters that
: their personal liberty to obtain a
drink of LIQUOR will be taken away.
Lieber's Brother-in-Lsw.
The German Alliances of the state.
1. led by such men as Joseph Keller, who
heads the personal liberty element;
/ Phil Rappaport, who discourses on the
y evils of prohibition. and Fritz Francke.
brother-in-law Of Albert Ieber. are
doing their utmost to line up the Ger
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