The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
TON MARSHALL FOR ME-"
A Democratic Write Up of the Poht-
ical Situation.

1Cal SltuatlOn.
LOUIS Ludlow, a we'll known Dem
ocratic newspaper correspondent,
writing from New Albany, Indiana
says:
If you ask the average citizen down
TINS way to point out the distinctive
feature OF the campaign in the Third
District he will answer in this fashion:
Look how the brewers, the distil~
lers, the brewery agents and the sa-
loon keepers are humping themselves
for Tom Marshallp
1t is surprising how much activity
the hosts of ''libera1ity" and PERSONAL
license can put into campaign when
they try. In New Albany, Jefferson
VILE and other Ohio river towns the
saloon forces are working like bees
in seething hive of political indus
try Nothing like their present ac-
tivity ever has been seen here before.
Every liberal is trying to get a half
Nelson hold on every near liberal in
order to throw HIM over the fence
into the Tom Marshall camp.
The brewery bosses, the whisky
dealers, the saloon loungers and the
varied and variegated devotees of the
liquor business believe Mr.. Marshall
would attach his signature to a meas
ure repeating the county local option
law with the same sort OF thrill that
young man experiences when he
takes his pen in hand to write to his
best girl And they think they know
Mr. Marshall pretty we'll, too.
Because they believe Mr. Marshall
will be a good, tractable Governor
viewed from the brewery outlook. and
will never give they the anxious
rights and wearisome days of worry
they have spent since Governor Hanly
has been manipulating the helm OF
state, the liquor forces in this section
are putting UP the Stiffest kind OF a
fight for Marshall .and there isn't
bit of part;sanship fn It,
And the amazing feature OF it is
that they are not beating around the
bush to do it. If anybody has the
slightest doubt that the Democratic
campaign has been captured by the
liquor interests, which hope, through
tle Democratic party, to secure con-
troll OF the state government, lei him
come down here and be convinced.
Probably he might conclude that
there is something significant in the
fact that Mr. Marshall's attractive
face, beaming from Autographs sent
out by the state Democratic commit
tee, has been the chief adornment OF
nearly all OF the saloons in New Al
bany and Jeffersonville during the
campaign that may be one straw
showing which way the wind is blow
ing.
The chairman of the Democratic
county committee of Floyd county is
a saloon keeper named John J. Lyons.
He is good enough sort of chap
personally, but he stands for the
frothy, foamy idea in politics and
stands for it hard. AS far as is known
the Democrats here have gone a step
further than any OF their brethren
elsewhere even in communities on the
most advanced thought along liberal
lines, in ins falling saloon keeper to
preside over their organization.
Mr. Lyons's wet goods emporium is
at 7o4 West Main street, New Al
bany. 1t is a sort of Democrats
headquarters for the neighborhood
Every man who walks up to the bar
to wet his whistle faces photograph
of Mr. Marshall
To be brief about it, the Demo
cratic party in tbs section has been
captured, horse, foot and artillery, by
Gen. Lieber's army of invasion, com.
pared with whioh John Morgan's raid
during the civil war was but trif1ing
circumstance. Every saloon keeper
and hangeron is echo:ng the sentiment
inscribed on the Democratic campaign
button:
L
| tom Marshall for Me"