The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-05-10

impossible for Bryan to come here and
take part in This campaign. No one
here believes that he would campaign
against saloon and brewery domination
| In Nebraska and then come into In
diana and advise the people of this
state to put in power the party that
is right now under the control of the
breweries.
Satisfied With Kern.
Crawford Fairbanks, the Terre Haute
brewer. gave out an interview here,
yesterday, in which he said that the
brewers were pretty we'll satisfied with
the nomination of Kern for senator.
Il don't think there is a division of
opinion on that score" he said
I'm the light of Mr.. Kern's interview
last December in which he charged that
the brewers bought votes to defeat
him in 1909 and in the light of his
recent speech at Kokomo, will the
brewers give him active support?" Mr..
Fairbanks was asked
The brewers cannot afford to change
their politics for a little thing like
that" he answered. Mr.. Kern
charges probably will be investigated
hope they will be. For my part I
am willing to tell all I know"
This means that the brewers are be-
hind Kern, whether Kern wishes them
to be there or not. The brewers can
not afford to hange their politics." says
Mr.. Fairbanks. No stronger proof is
needed.
| But further proof is added by the
fact that Tom Taggart announced after
the state convention that he had favor
ed Kern as the candidate for senator all
himself only in Kern's interest. He "let
on" to be tickled half to death over
/ Kern's nomination. Everybody knows
| that Taggart is the representative of
! the brewers in Indiana politics and
that he reflects their sentiments when
he makes such a statement as that.
| Still further proof is added by the
fact that Steve Fleming, the Fort
delegation away from Edward G..
Hoffman, the Allen county candidate
for United States senator. on the third
! ballot in the state invention and cast
the county's vote for Kern. If he had
not been satisfied with Kerns nomina-
ton he could as well have given Allen
county's vote to some other candidate
but he did not.
| When all of these things are taken
! into consideration it makes a situation
that cannot possibly serve as an at
| traction to bring Bryan into Indiana
as campaign orator this year. Bryan
thinks well of Kern. They were run
ming mates on the democratic presiden-
| tial ticket in 1908 They have been
close personal friends for years Bryan
would be as glad to help Kern as to
! help any other man in the United
States. But Bryan has always stuck
everlastingly for what he regarded as a
principle and has never allowed per-
sonal friendships to swerve him from
what he believed to be right. There
fore, 1t is pointed out, it seems i'm
possible to think that he would come
here now and urge the election of a
ticket that was chosen by brewery in
fluences.
May Name Him For President
The fact is that Bryan has developed
his prohibition ideas so strongly that
there has been talk about the prohi-
bition party nominating him for presi-
dent This talk became so common a
few weeks ago that it became neces-
sary for Bryan to issue a statement to
the effect that he was not to be con-
sidered in that onenction. He stands
high in the estimation of the Anti
Saloon League. and frequent efforts
are said to have been made to get him
to enlist in its work
There has been so much talk about
Bryan as campaign orator in Indiana
this year tina tmany democrats have
already begun to look forward to the
day when they may hear him again
and II it shall turn out that he does
not come 1t will be a sore disappoint-
ment to them.
IT looks like the democrats will be