Sullivan Union Subscription Rates Decline
The Sullivan Union lists subscription rates at one dollar twenty five cents, published by Dibrelle Chaney and Robert P. White.
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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1908
Page
7
The Sullivan Union lists subscription rates at one dollar twenty five cents, published by Dibrelle Chaney and Robert P. White.
Marion F. Walters announces candidacy for the sheriff nomination and asks voters and delegates for their support. He pledges to discharge duties honorably if nominated and elected.
The Republicans of Sullivan county will meet in a delegate convention at the courthouse in Sullivan on Saturday, August 22, 1908, at 2 p.m. to nominate candidates for county offices including Treasurer, Auditor, Sheriff, Coroner, and two county commissioners. William H. Lucas serves as chairman with R. P. White as secretary.
The Daily Times defends temperance against claims of danger from an alliance with a broad set of so called ills including soup houses broken banks shin plaster currency idle factories and declining prices. It asserts banks are sound warns only dishonest bankers appear and cites strong prices and full employment nationwide while denying any link to the temperance issue.
The Times argues that Indiana saloonkeepers and brewery owners largely align with Democrats and opposed temperance measures last session. It asserts the temperance cause won’t rise with Tom Marshall and will prosper with Watson, depending on voters’ choices in Indiana elections.
The Times argues that if the Democrats fail to present a better report than Republicans, it would be righteous to defeat the party at the polls. It urges temperance supporters to back Watson over Marshall, claiming Marshall would let breweries control Indiana politics and restore saloon influence.
Summary of Representative Chaney’s work for the Second District including pension bills for soldiers and widows, rural free delivery expansion, labor and rate law support, patent and copyright efforts, anti Wall Street stance, seed distributions, agricultural funding, and public building appropriations. He promoted canal study and insular claims, distributed documents, and secured new and planned post office and public building expenditures.
A political note denounces the saloon and brewery influence in state campaigns. It lists Albert Leiber Crawford Fairbanks Tom Taggart and Steve Fleming backing Tom Marshall's effort and calls to defeat Leiber Fairbanks Taggart and Marshall.
The piece mocks the halo editor of the Times for defining Union political stance and accuses the Times publisher of bias. It argues Taggart controls Indiana Democrats to aid brewery interests represented by Lieber, Fairbanks and Fleming, calling Taggart a political manager. The author urges reprinting a past Taggart editorial.
The Times argues Indiana Republicans have passed all liquor regulation measures, citing the Nicholson Bill the Blind Tiger Act and the Moore bill as proof. The piece contends the editor faced campaign attacks during a period lacking active campaigning.
The article argues that brewery interests support county local option in Indiana because it concentrates influence in a single county rather than across the entire county. It notes Democrats advocate a township local option and explains the strategic advantage for breweries in Hamilton township versus a broader county vote.
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