The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-05-20
Saloon Keepers in Various
Parts of the State Are A.
fected in Various Ways by
Temperance Act.
SOME SCARED GOOD;
OTHERS SCARED BAD
Logansport SaIoonists Are
Said to Be Disregarding
Their Election Promises, to
Reform Businesses.
Especial correspondent.)

i Especial Correspondent
Indianapolis, Ind, May 2O.-Fear Of
the effects of the county local option
law is working both ways with saloon
keepers in various parts of the state
Some OF them are being scared into be-
ing good and obeying the laws. 9th
ers are afraid the law Is going to put
them out OF business anyway, and they
are paying no attention to the anti
liquor laws but are going ahead doing
as they please.
Before the local option election was
held in Cass county the saloon men Of
Logansport made great promises OF
how good they would be if the people
would only vote to allow them to re-
main in business. Logansport has
long been saloon ridden town, and
there was a widespread feeling there
that the saloons should be put out for
good.
Promises Were Made.
But these promises were made and
the people took them at their word and
voted the county wet. 1t is charged
that now, the saloons are firmly
| rooted for at least another two years,
the saloon keepers are just as bold as
ever and just as reckless about their
disregard of the law. 1t is said that
conditions at Logansport are about
| what they were before the local option
election was held. This makes good
many people wonder whether the sa-
looms and the breweries that control
| most of them throughout the state will
ever be good, and many persons are
more firmly convinced than ever that
they will not. no matter what favors
are shown them.
Lafayette presented an entirely diff
ferent condition when Tippecanoe
county undertook to vote on the ques-
ton of driving out the saloons. La
fayette saloons have not been trouble
| makers. They were conducted on a
plane higher than the average saloon,
and the result was that when the wet
and dry campaign opened the anti-sa-
loon people had to face the saloons, the
breweries, the business people of La
fayette and a prettyewell defined pub
lie opinion in favor of the continuance
of the saloons. And Tippecanoe coun-
ty went wet. Now the announcement
comes from Lafayette that the women
of that county have organized a Wo-
mans Civic League, the first of its
kind, in the state. which proposes to
see to it that the promises made by
the vets before the election shall be
kept These women have elected Miss
Carolyn Shoemaker. an Instructor at
Purdue, chairman of the committee to
draft a constitution and bylaws. Other
members of the committee are Mrs.
George Dexter, Mrs. J. G. Smalley, and
George A. Jamison.
The Women's League.
The women's league will work in
connection with the Civic League of
Lafayette, which is composed of bust
ness and professional men. They ex-
pect to WELD considerable influence in
making the liquor dealers keep their
promises and be as good in the future
as they have been in the past. 1t is
believed. too. that the Women's Civic
League will be an example for women
of other cities and that other organi-
cations OF the same kind will be form
ed in other places.
Not only have the women of Lafay-
cite taken this stand, but the Tippeca-
noe county taxpayers league. which
conducted the wet campaign in the re-
cent county option election, has sent
to the Lafayette city council commu-
nication stating that the league made
certain promises to the people before
the election that it proposes to fulfill
The league asked the city government
to require a stricter observance of the
saloon closing laws. to order saloon
keepers to keep out of their establish
ments all women, to keep all chronic
loafers. minors and questionable char
acters out of their saloons, to not sell
to minors or drunken men. and to as
sist in a general cleaning up OF condi-
lions surrounding the saloon business.
Another communication to the Mayor
of Lafayette from the same organiza-
ton expresses approval of his attitude
in law enforcement and requests him
to revoke the licenses Of all saloon
men who violate the law.
Sentiment Here Same.
In Richmond the saloon business has
been conducted on what might be call
ed respectable basis, and'it was this
fact that was largely responsible for
the county of Wayne going wet at the
election Since the election the report
is that the saloons are going ahead as
they always did and that public senti-
ment is with them about as much as
ever.
In Logansport the saloon men were
scared before the election by the pros
pect that Cass county would go dry.
That was why they made their promise
that they would be good if allowed to
remain in business.
In Delaware county the saloon men
were scared over the prospect that they
| would be voted out of business. They
made all kinds Of promises to be good
and obey the law. but the people Of
Huncie hed been fooled enough b.