The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-17
POINTED REPLY
TO SALOONIST
WHO THREATENS
First Evidence of Campaign
Against Merchants, Be-
cause of Their Support of
Option, Disclosed.
DEMOCRATIC SUPPORTERS
WAGING BITTER FIGHT.
SaIoonists Are Determined on
EIecting Thos. R. Marshall
Political Notes of Interest
To Voters.
BY HARPER.)
go to hell and knock"

go TO hell ana KNOCK.
This was the pointed message sent a
Main street saloon keeper by Main
street business man. Why? Because
the saloonist asked the merchants s
brother-in-law to find how the mer-
chant stood on the county local option
matter. The merchant lost no time in
declaring he favors county option.
W ord that the saloon men would pro-
ceed to knock the merchants business
and then the merchant returned the
answer quoted.
IF my business depends upon the
saloons and those fellows want to
knock me, why let them go ahead and
Knock" the merchant stated after.
ward. There is nothing in my store
that the saloon man is likely to want,
and If favor county option l am 60
ing to keep on favoring it.
The episode throws further light on
the methods adopted by the brewery
and saloon interests in this campaign.
about the election of Democratic gov
ernor.
The aggressiveness that is being dis
played by the saloonists and brewers
in this campaign has not been under
stood thoroughly by some voters. They
did not believe the liquor men were SO
actively interested. The announcement
t., ~; c<,y, In,
struction is being conducted at some
of the saloons and that sample ballots
prepared to show how to vote for the
brewery candidates on the Democratic
ticket and for other candidates on the
Republican ticket, proved an effective
surprise.
One of the amusing incidents in con.
nection with the march of the Demo
cratic bugle corps last evening was the
fact little colored boy carried the
banner announcing the Williams meet
ing at the coliseum. Williams is from
Mississippi the state in which negroes
are regarded as chattels and blood
hounds are used to pursue then
through canebrakes, the state where
lynch law is pleasing diversion fol
the courts.
At the closing session of the United
Presbyterian synod at Rushville
Thursday afternoon. the ministers O
five states expressed their approval o
the county local option measures IL
Ohio and Indiana. The ministers at
tending the synod came from fiy'
states, and all Joined in commendin,
Governor Harris of Ohio. and Governo
Hanly of Indiana, for their work in be
half of temperance. The effectiv
work OF the Anti-Saloon Leagues in tn
two states was endorsed.
A poll of the fifty-two veterans in al
tendance at the reunion of the Fiftl
Indiana cavalry at Rushville last weel
returned fifty-two votes for Taft an
Watson. Does not look as If the Dem
ocrats are meeting with much success
in their effort to induce the old soldier
TO oppose these two.
New Castle is arranging for a grea
expects to have the biggest Republica
rally held there for many years A
immense parade will be one of tn
leading features. More than 100 me
have been appointed on the variou
committees
Wherever the subject has been di!
cussed by the far seeing members {
the Indiana Labor Federation, regre
is shown because the organizatio
went on record at Vincennes, recentl
and surrendered to the domination c
the liquor. interests. Remorse
shown, and the men who are laborin
for the welfare of their fellow men
the organization, believe only harI
will come to them as the resul
President Van Horn said of such a.
tion: 1T can do us no good-it will
us lots of harm" The bartenders Cal
tured the convention and the fact no
is being regretted. One delegate d.
clared he would lose his job in a glas
factory at Terre Haute. unless he vo
ed for the resolutions. The clever
miners delegates in the conventio
stood firm and none wavered in th
least bit, as they maintained any a
tion favorable to the liquor eleme1
would be hurting the organization an
the miners.
Another warning Is being sounde
by republican newspapers Of tt
state as reason why republican legi
NOon11nued On Esgs EtEhtl