The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-26

| through the influence of his brother
Bernard Korbly, who is the seventh
district members of the democratic
state committee. Bernard Korbly is a
leader of the brewery attorneys in the
city of Indianapolis.
Cyrus Cline, nominated for congress
from the twelfth district, owes his sue
cess in the convention almost wholly
to the labor in his behalf done among
the democrats of that district by Ste
phen B. Fleming, one of the principal
factors of the brewery combine, him
self candidate for state senator from
Allen and Adams counties, he having
been chosen for that office that he
might lead the fight in the legislature
against county option and all forms
of temperance legislation.
Lincoln Dixon, democratic candidate
for congress in the fourth district, is
the brewery alliance He was op-
posed for the nomination this year by
Joseph NJ. Cravens of Madison, a demo-
crat who is credited with a strong in
clination toward advanced temperance
laws The brewers backed by Mr..
Taggart. and being in full control of
the organization, threw the whole
weight of their political power against
Mr.. Cravens and for Mr. Dixon. and
this was such factor in the demo-
cratic party of the fourth district that
Mr.. Cravens had to retire from the
race. No man stands higher in profess
sional and political circles in southern
Indiana than Mr.. Cravens, and accord
ing to his own published statement in
withdrawing from the race he was
obliged to take that course on account
of the concerted action against him
by the brewery combine acting through
and with the democratic organization
A significant feature of Mr.. Cravens's
published statement was the solemn
warning he gave the party to detach
itself from the sinister coalition of
selfish special interests represented by
the liquor alliance. He likewise coun-
seled the state convention that the
good of the party and the state re-
quired that the democrats should be
responsive to the demands of the peo-
pie for a local option law with the
county as the unit.
William A. Cullop, the democratic
candidate for congress in the second
district, is and has been for twelve or
fifteen years the attorney at his home
town of Vincennes for Crawford Fair
banks's Terre Haute Brewing company
The democratic chairman in the fifth
congressional district is Peter Foley.
a brewery lawyer and a close personal
and political friend of Crawford Fair
banks.
Edward Hoffman, member of the
state committee for the twelfth dis
trict, was put into that place by Steve
Fleming, the Fort Wayne brewery
magnate.
SO it is seen that these brewery ma
nipulations of democratic politics rami-
fly the entire state. Manifestly it will
be impossible for the officers elected
by the democratic party to shake off
the hold the brewery combine has on
them. They cannot be elected with
out the active aid, financially and
otherwise. of the men who form the
brewery combine. Voters who are dis
posed to regard the suggestions that
there really is danger of the DONNA
ton of Indiana politics by the brew
ers as simply a campaign cry to
alarm the people without sufficient
justification for it, will do well to
consider carefully the personnel of
campaign.