The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-05
Indiana Men Go to Cincinnati,
Telling Their Tale
Of Woe.
LIQUOR FORCES DIVIDED.
WHISKY MEN SAY BREWERS
HAVE BROUGHT ON THE SITUA-
TIoN IN INDIANA AND REFUSE
TO AID THE DEMOCRATS.

three INDIANAPOLIS wholesale liquor
dealers. have returned from Cincinnati
where they went to solicit advice and
aid from Cincinnati liquor dealers in
the fight which the liquor interests
are making in Indiana. Mr.. Lieber
said last night that not all of the Gin
cinnati wholesalers and manufactur-
ers are interested in the Indiana sit
uation, as not all Of them deal with
Indiana concerns. However, the COM
mittse was successful in getting data
and advice from the Cincinnati men
for use in fighting local option cleo
lions in this state. The Cincinnati
dealers will assist the Indiana men
to certain extent in fighting the
movement here.
Along with the action of this COM
mittee in going to Cincinnati comes
tho story that the whisky interests,
which these men represent, have with
drawn from the fight that the liquor
interests of Indiana in general have
been making for the election of the
democratic state ticket. Even Craw-
ford Fairbanks, SO the story goes, Is
advocating that the liquor interests
conserve their efforts now toward pre-
pairing for the county local option cleo
tions, which they know are coming.
Albert Lieber, president of the In
dianapolis Brewing company, is said
to be the only leader who wishes to
continue the fight up to the November
election in the hope Of electing twelve
senators and enough members of the
house to bring about the repeal of the
county local option bill at the next
regular session.
Richard Lieber admitted last night
that the whisky men and the brewers
are at daggers' points. The whisky
men blame the brewers for their
troubles and will line up with them to
fight the common enemy-the temper
ance forces-only where mutual inter-
ests are involved.
Have Ceased Contributions.
Whisky men have ceased making
contributions to the democratic cam
paign fund and have turned their at
tention to the work Of organizing to
win, II possible, county local option
elections which they expect to come
during the latter part of the winter.
The wholesale liquor dealers will
begin within the next few days a care
full investigation of their outstanding
accounts, the purpose being to rate all
of their customers and to make all
collections possible of outstanding &C
counts now SO as to prevent loss in
case the temperance people should
carry the county local option elections.
The position of the wholesale liquor
interests in Indiana now is entirely
that of the Observation-Disclosures not
only against the temperance forces,
but defensive against the customers
who owe them money.
There are some 800 manufacturers
wholesalers and jobbers, in the Queen
City, and majority of these do con.
siderable business with the Indiana
retailers. While in Cincinnati the In.
Annapolis men conferred not only
with large number of the liquor men
themselves, but with the officers OF
the National Wholesale Liquor Deal
ers' association. The conference with
the latter was held on the floor of the
Cincinnati Stock Exchange, where the
Indianapolis men explained fully the
situation in this state.
That the national organization will
assist In fighting local option cleo
tons In Indiana Is the word thai
comes from Cincinnati Mr. Liebel
said last night that the Kentucky dis
tillers also would assist the Indiana
men in carrying counties. If possible
at The local option elections.
The work of the Model Licens,
League, the national organization o
the liquor interests for fighting prohi
bition, came up for quite a discussion
at the Cincinnati conference and /
developed that there is a division
among the liquor men as to whethe
the league rs really bringing results
Methods employed by the license lea
que in the Ohio local option election
recently were condemned In some in
stances by the Cincinnati dealers.
Say Situation Is Bad,
The Indianapolis men while in Cir
cinnati admitted to the Cincinnati
dealers that the situation In indians
Is very bad.
Many of the Cincinnati whisk
men," said Richard Lieber last nigh,