The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-22
GIaring Posters Showing "Hor-
rors" of Prohibition Do Not
Long Remain Visible to the
Public.
NO EXCITEMENT CAUSED
BY ADVENT OF POSTERS
Had No Effect Other Than to
Influence Voters Against
Democrats and Brewers
Supporting That Party.
BY Harper.

BY Harper.
Gone are the brewery posters off the
bill boards. The evils of county local
option from the brewers standpoint |
do not stare the voters in the face any |
more. Obliterated are they from view. |
1t may have been the irony of fate or
it may have been some other cause |
that led the bill posters to plaster over |
the prohibition bills" the large pos
ters advertising the coming of William |
II. Taft to this city. The advertising
matter sent out in the interest of the
Democrats by the brewers to influence
the voters against the Republicans and
the county local option law remained
on the boards only two or three days.
The advent of the posters in this
city had practically no effect other than
to influence people against the brewers
who are backing the Democratic party.
The public had been warned in advance
that the posters were distributed by the
brewery interests and this took from
ed on their superficial appearance. In
this city the posters were placed about
on the principal boards, but they Great
ed almost no comment from the voters.
And now they are gone. A trip about
the city yesterday failed to reveal a
single one that had escaped being COW
cred over. The man who posted them
said all had been covered up. Where
the evils of the county local option bill
were set forth as encroaching on the
personal liberty of man, now appears
the larger posters advertising the fact
the Republican presidential candidate
will be in Richmond Saturday morning.
"A many cities where the brewery
posters were displayed they created a
sentiment directly in opposition to that
| which was intended. 1t was a bold
statement and hundreds of voters were
led to see for the first time that the
brewers really are large factor in the
campaign and in their own interests,
are boosting the Democratic party.
Announcement has been made at
| Newcastle that work on the Toledo, In
dianapolis Traction line will be resum-
ed following the election of William H.
Taft. Charles Hernlen, promoter of
the road, who makes the announce
ment says at present the money market
is tight and unless Taft is elected 1t
will not loosen up. He claims there is
little probability the road will be built
if Bryan be elected.
The good citizen who, whatever his
politics, would sign remonstrance or
vote dry" under county local option,
should not hesitate one moment to vote
for Watson. The brewers are rounding
up every vote possible for Marshall for
| the avowed purpose of repeating the
county local option law. No man who
favors temperance reform can con-
scientiously vote as the brewers want
him to.-Newcastle Courier
Rensselaer, is one of the Indiana
towns from which all the saloons have
been driven. Now the people Of that
place speak with pride of their town
and it's great prosperity. 1t is said that
every store room vacanted by a saloon
was filled by another business within
| three months, that merchants reported
a 80 per cent increase in their business
and that men who had for years borne
the reputation of dead beats were now
paying for everything and had the best
of credit. Such statement as this
proves the fallacy of the arguments
that the brewers are spreading broad
cast by the seven-sheet poster method.
I-Rushville Republican.
Daniel ]. Keefe. of Detroit, mem
Der of the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor. and
president of the international Long
shoremen, Marine and Transport
Workers association says:
:" shall support and vote for Mr..
Taft, who was admitted to membership
in the International Brotherhood of
Steam Shovel and Dredge Men on &C.
count of his strong advocacy of the
enforcement of the eight hour law on
all government work coming under the
jurisdiction of the war department; and
If the eight hour day did not become
an established fact in connection with
the dredge work. it was the fault of the
workmen and not the fault of the sec.
! retary of war.
81 might add further that Mr.. Taft
as secretary of war. has done more to
enforce the laws in favor Of organized
labor than all his predecessors"
The Winchester Herald says the rea
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