The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-04-27

These men hold that the governor
should have made q stronger fight for
his plan than he did make. It is point
ed out that If 1t fails. and there does
not seem to be a ghost of a chance for
it to go through, they say it will be
because the governor started the thing
and then let 1T take is own course and
take care of itself. 1t is said that IL
he had used his power to enforce the
plan. which he holds is right, he could
have won out easily. But he did not
do this. and this is declared by many
to be a sign of weakness on his part.
Whether the governor will weaken
and accept the Taggart substitute for
hts proposition will be known some
trme today, but no one seems to know
what he will do.
Under any circumstances the dem
ocrats are torn to pieces over the SEN
atorship question and some of the
leaders fear that so many sores have
been opened that they will not be
which ought to make the republicans
feel good.
LIQUOR QUESTION WORRIES.
Another thing that is worrying the
democrats is the platform declaration
on the liquor question. No less than
twenty different planks have been
proposed. but until the members of the
resolutions committee are chosen this
afternoon no one will be able to make
anything like a reliable forecast of the
liquor plank. 1t seems, however. that
it has simmered down TO one of two
propositions:
/. A recommendation for a city and
town local option law. which shall not
allow saloons in any township which
does not contain an Incorporated town
or city. Strict regulation of the sa-
loon business i'll be another feature of
this plank IL 1t is adopted
2. No mention whatever of the
liquor question.
1t was stated by a man who ought
to know as much as anyone else about
what the platform may contain that
these two propositions are the ones
which are receiving serious consider
alton. large number OF democratic
editors from all oven the state are in
favor of leaving out all mention of the
| liquor business. They insist that the
party cannot gain anything by insert
ing liquor plank in its platform,
while 1t might gain many votes by talk
| ing the position that the liquor ques-
| ton is settled and that it has been
taken out of politics.
URGE THEM TO IGNORE IT.
Several of the workers of the Anti
| Saloon league have been mixing
among the delegates urging them to
favor the idea of ignoring the liquor
question. On the other hand, Joseph
| E. Bell. of this city. attorney for
Crawfords Fairbanks. owner of the
Terre Haute Brewing company, has al
ready been chosen as the Seventh dis
trict's member of the platform com
mittee and it is said that Bell will
favor a straight out plank declaring
for the repeal of the county option
law. Therefore, 1t looks like there
will be a hard fight over this question,
no matter what else happens The
platform committee will meet tonight
| to frame up the platform. Samuel n.
Ralston. of lebanon, is the man who
is engineering the platform, and he is
preparing the tentative draft of the
| various planks. He will probably be
the chairman of that committee.
| 1t is said that the platform will de-
| nounce republican extravaganza In
both the state and the nation will
Marshall: declare in favor of Govern
nation for president; declare in ia
vor of an employers liability law: de-
| clare in favor of better child labor
laws; declare in favor of better high =
way laws declare against trusts and
monopolies and in favor of tariff for
| revenue only.