The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-02


the past week and half has witness
ed a sort of whirlwind effect in this
line in Richmond. Beverage. Bar
nard, Taft, Watson, Bryan and Kuhn
have all dashed madly into this city.
II you awakened yesterday morning
with a headache don't blame it to any
thing but a kind of morning-after ef-
feet of too much electionitis, painful
but not harmless disease INDUCED In
by most American citizens.
Rest assured. however, that now,
inasmuch as all the candidates have
returned to their various domiciles to
await the sad or happy news, they
will wear the headaches until Tues
day night and after that will wear still
more headaches, either figuring on
how to distribute patronage or where
to get the best paying chautauqua
dates, the choice depending on who
was favored by the peoples election
lightning.
In Indiana we rather expect that a
third element will also join the head
ache club until Tuesday night and, in
all probability. thereafter, too. We
refer to the vendors of free-drinks.for-
your-vote people. the saloons and
brewers. And their headaches will not
come so much from imbibing too
deeply from their own products. as
from wondering whether or not the
people are going to endorse the great
and moral principle of the republican
party in this state. which gives to the
people of any county the club to sue
cessfully combat the lawless saloon
and brewery politics.
AS to the necessity for such a club,
well, if you have any doubts on that
subject, just drop around to the Pal
.adium Office and talk to one of the
printers here. He is a union man and,
although a lifelong republican, was
at outs with the party because he be-
lieved Watson was not a friend to
labor. He may not have changed his
mind with regard to Watson's labor
record, but he has changed his mind
in regard to voting against him, and Is
going to vote for him. And here is
his reason.
This union printer Is a man OF fam.
lily and one Of his young boys-a lad
IA years old-passes one of the out-of-
town papers in this city. One Of his
customers is saloon here, and when
the young boy went there to collect
for the paper week ago last Satur-
day, the bartender said to him.
Sonny, you'd better just take a glass
OF beer in settlement for the paper"
The boy refused and, taking the money
the bartender owed him, went home
and told his father what had occurred
| In Stunning up what he thought Of such
dastardly tactics, the printer said to
: u.s. I want my boy to grow up to be
a sober man and I'll be hanged if I
| will vote for any man whose campaign
is being run by just such fellows as the
one who put temptation before my
| son. My vote goes for Watson and
not for Marshall
The tactics Of this bartender in Of
fering this young boy a drink recalls
an article that appeared in Golfers"
, the great national weekly, several
months ago. The article was one Of a
series dealing with the great wave of
anti-saloon sentiment sweeping the
country and gave some particulars re-
garding brewery methods. In the
article it was stated that one of the of
ficers of great liquor combine had
advised his great army Of statesmen to
do all in it's power to create more and
more users of intoxicanrs. IN order not
only to increase the consumption OF
beer and other drinks, but also be.
cause every new consumer created was
one more vote added to perpetuate the
traffic.
Is 1t not probable that that was one
Of the reasons that bartender offered
the little newsboy a glass of beer in
payment for the paper? And if it is
are you, you voters VINO have chill
dren Of your own, going to vote fol
Marshall? Answer with your ballots
L.