The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-01-06
REPEAL OF OPTION
LAW IS DESIRED
Wayne County Jefferson Club
Passes Resolution Last
Evening.
HONESTY AND HOME RULE
THESE ARE REASONS ADVANCED
BY ORGANIZATION FOR ITS Ac.
TloN-oFFIcERS FOR THE EN-.
SUING YEAR ELECTED.

At meeting of the Wayne County
Jefferson club last evening, resolutions
were adopted which ask the repeal of
the county local option law. Common
honesty and home rule are .alluded to
by the democrats as the MASON why
such law should be stricken from the
statute books. C. B. Beck was appoint
ed as delegate to the federation of
democratic clubs, which will be held at
Lafayette. The meeting was fairly well
attended.
The election Of officers resulted as
follows:
President. Pettis A. Reid First Vice
President, A. W. Blickwedel; Second
Vice President. c. w. Merrill; Record
ing Secretary, Jos. M. Waterman;
Financial Secretary, Hans Kohl; Treas
urer. o. F.. Mckee; Marshal. Henry
Farwig; Sergeant at Arms. VIM. F.
Klopp; Directors. B. b. Johnson, Har-
~ Watt, E. r. Slower. r. O. Allen, H.
r. Marlatt, George Staubach, c.. B.
Beck. Richard Schillinger, Henry Wal
terman.
The complete resolutions are:
Whereas, The democratic party of
Indiana. did in March. 1908. in state
convention assembled. unanimously
approve a resolution declaring in IA
vor of the passage OF a ward and
township local option law in this state,
and
Whereas. In April, 1905. the repub-
lican party of Indiana did in like man.
ner declare in favor of county local
option law, and
Whereas. The Issue so joined was
by common consent to be threshed
out and decided by the sovereign vo-
tiers of Indiana at the following No
vember election. and legislation in
harmony with that decision was to
be enacted by the incoming legisla-
ture of the state. and
Haniy Trickster.
Whereas. The governor of Indiana,
in the face of these facts and for the
apparent purpose of forestalling an
honest and candid expression of the
majority of the voters of the state in
the temperance question, and of pre-
venting such expression from being
coined into law by a legislature elect
ed on that issue, and under the
cloak of an entirely different purpose.
did call an extra session of the Indi-
ana legislature in July, 1908. body
not elected or instructed on the tenn
perance question. and
Whereas. Said special session of the
legislature under the whip and spur
pass county local ,option law. as en-.
dorsed by the republican state con-
ventiOn, and
Whereas. At the following Novem
her election, the sovereign voters OF
Indiana did resent and repudiate this
attempted fraud upon their right OF
passing Judgment on this or any 9th
or public question. by electing the
democratic candidate for governor
and . substantial majority of demo.
cratic members of the incoming legis
latnre, therefore be it
Resolved, BY the democrats Of
Wayne county. as represented by
their only county organization, the
Wayne County Jefferson club, tina,
every consideration OF consistency
honor, common honesty and home
rule. demand the repeal of the sait
county local option law as endorsed
by tho democratic state convention
and we earnestly appeal to the demo
cratic members Of the incoming legis
fteir party throughout the state b,