The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-01-31
Think Such Procedure win
Show People That the Party
Has Broken Loose From the
Brewery Control.
REBELS ARE RESPONSIBLE
THEIR DEMAND THAT COUNTY
UNIT be PRESERVED. WHICH
PROBABLY MEANS DROP IN ALL
BREWERY STOCK.
Palladium Bureau.
indianapolis. Jan. 30


That there will not be any liquor
legislation of any kind at this session
Of the legislature seems to be the ac-
cepted fact and on all sides. excep.
among the liquor people. there Is 4
feeling of relief at this situation. A
large number OF democrats express
the opinion that this session of the
legislature will be the making OF their
party, because the failure to enacs anv
loose laws on the liquor question will
mean that the democratic party has
broken away from brewery control
and proposes to paddle its own canoe
in the future.
That the democratic party has been
dominated in the past by the brewers
everybody knows. 1t has been MOTOR
ious. 1t was not because the party
itself wished II to be so. but 1t was
simply because the brewers took
charge and kept themselves in con.
troll of the party machinery. But 10
begins to look like the brewers lost
their hold last fall, because they fall
ed to elect a sufficient number of their
men to the legislature to insure the
repeal of the present county local OPP
tion law. This was their hope and it
failed. @erss-
Brewers Have Majority.
1t is true that the brewers have .
majority of the democrats in the leg
islature on their side OF the question.
but there are enough of them on tho
other side to defeat any attempt they
may make to loosen up the saloon
laws. Therefore. the brewers are up
against the real thing for once and un-
less they are mighty careful there will
be an awful slump in the value OF
brewery stock in this state inside OF
| the next two years. With counties II
| all parts of the state voting themsel
yes dry and saloons being put out OF
business right and left there will soon
be q very. narrow market for beer in
Indiana.
| That, there will be no legislation on
| the liquor question at this session was
made more evident today when the
temperance democrats of the house
made known their position. They an
nounced that they would not support
any bill unless it added township and
ward local option o the county option
law as a separate section without in
any manner affecting the county OPP
tion feature of the law. The bin must
also declare in plain words that is
does not repeal or affect the Moore
remonstrance law or the Nicholson
law 1t must also provide. they say.
that hereafter no local option election
shall be held in other than vet terri
tory.
/ Would Never Agree.
Everybody knows that the brewery
crowd would never agree to such =
bill in a thousand years. II would
make the present law stronger than
ever and that is not what the bre W
ers want. Now IL the temperance
people will not accept any other
change in the present Law and the lib
erals will not accept what the temper
ance crowds provisions. how in the
name of common sense are they goins
to do anything at all? That's Just the
situation. They will not do thing
unless one side or the other gives in.
1t is said that Senator Mccullough
Il
the senate on Monday-the one that
is to be regarded as official. II would
repeal the county option law first OF
all. The rest Of the bill will be pat
termed after the Massachusetts, Law.
1t will provide for license of 100
a year. $500 of which shall go to the
municipality issuing the license and
the rest to the school fund. The num-
Der of saloons is TO be restricted to
one for each 1000 population and
severe penalties are added for viola
tons of the Law. The saloon man
must give a surety company bond ara
not q personal bond. thus shutting out
the possibility of a brewery going On
the bond of a saloon keeper The
saloons are to be located in the busi-
ness district OF q city and the COM
mon council shall designate tine busi-
ness district But there are said to
III be five democratic senators who will
III oppose the repeal Of the county option