The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-02-10
TURNS LOOSE WIT
ON THE PASTORS
Mayor Shank of Indianapolis
Talked on Liquor Ques-
ton Last Night.
HANLY WAS ALSO SPEAKER
SHANK MODESTLY CONFESSES
HE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY
BREWERY MONEY, BUT THEY
WERE PAINFULLY NICE"

indianapolis, Feb. 10-Like knights
of ye good old English days, when
lances We're tilted in friendly combat,
when wits were matched in duels Of
peace and good humor, when repartee
was not a lost art, former Governor
Hanly, Mayor Shank and Judge J. w.
Thompson met last night in an ex-
change of cOurtesies at the First Bap-
fist church which marked the law en-
fOrcement rally under the auspices of
Christian workers, as one OF the most
spicy and interesting sessions ever
held in indianapolis in the name of re-
form.
Flashes of Wit, sparkling reparte
and cleEerly turned sentences charac
terized the closing speech of the meet
ing, which was delivered by Mayor
Shank. His address was the distinc-
tive feature of the meeting and every
member of the mems section of the
Marion County Sunday School Asso-
citation Joined in enthusiastic applause
as the mayor told of his work of re-
form and his attitude on the liquor
question.
In oh, Bad" Club.
II noticed by the papers on my re
turn from st. LOUIS said Mayor
Shank, that the ministers thought
had dropped into bad company in St
Louis and | suppose that tomorrow
the saloon keepers will say that | got
into worse company with all you Sun
day school fellows 1t is pretty hard
10 Mo oil
When | was in st. Louis l had nearly
as mean a place on the program as
have here tonight. l was the last
one.
There we're five preachers and sew
eral lawyers and every time one of
them got up to speak he was the best
yet 1t has been the same here. Now
when l was in St Louis at that con-
vention everybody was for a certain
kind of license. The preachers were
for it, then the lawyers got up and
they were for it and I got up and
was for it. I don't believe we will
ever entirely regulate the saloon until
we get rid of them. but at that, I be-
lieve | am for the licensed saloon run
according to law more than | am for
prohibition with blind tigers.
Goes Back at Hanly.
"YOu see by that with due regard
for Governor Hanly here, that all
great minds do not run in the same
channel Mayor Shank made this OBJ
servation out of Difference for former
Governor Hanly, who had spoke
strongly for the abolition of the sa-
loon as a menace. ct is one thing to
talk about thinks," said the mayor,
resuming, "and another thing to do
them. 1t took my friend, the COVER
nor here, nearly four years to get rid
of one poolroom down here at French
Lick. If it took him four years to get
rid of one place, how long do you
think it will take Lew Shank to get
rid Of $50 saloons?
"Anyhcw." the mayor resumed
crossing his less and putting his ell
bow on the pulpit, ''as long as | am
mayor, and I don't know how long
that will be, since I get letters every
Gay or SO saying that I am going to
get shot. I am going to keep those sa,
looms closed on Sunday if it takes 200
members of this congregation to help
me do it.
L like to tell the truth. | try to-
at least. l want to say to you that it
was pretty hard shedding in the last
campaign. I came near nibblng al
the bait of the brewers, and | expect
If it had not been for my friends !
would have taken hold of the bait. 1t
makes me feel good to be able to say
that not dollar of brewery money
was used by me or any of my brewery
friends. However. they treated me
pretty nice. Before Christmas I got
three dozen bottles of mineral water
and after Christmas | got four Tozer
| bottles of something my wife Sara;
calls 'spizzley' water. We had a time
getting the cork out Of one OF those
bottles. When it did come out it hi,
the ceiling and the fizz ran out We
drank some of it and found out it was
champagne. However. everybody al
our house, I think. was sober, eNcep
the man that ran the furnace. He
got most of the good of the four dozer
| bottles
Willing to Give Hearings.
Il am glad you folk like my Law
enforcement, and am going to keen i
up. | want to say that if any of tht
preachers or any organization of tht
city thinks / am going the wrong wa,
about, that I will be glad to give then
one hour, two hours or three hour:
any afternoon if they will call at m,
office and talk it over with me befor,
they begin to censure. | am in favo
Of a law-abiding saloon. but on tn,
other hand I do not believe we will
ever have peace with the liquor traf
fic until we do away with it
J. w. Thompson expressed the opin
ion that the mayor had the brewer