Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1911 — Effort to Make Chicago A Real “Spotless Town” Starts. [ARTICLE]

Effort to Make Chicago A Real “Spotless Town” Starts.

Chicago’s anti-saloon campaign for 1911 was opened formally Sunday with thundering denunciations of the dramshop from scores of pulpits,' special meetings in the churches in the afternoon, and conferences of organization workers in various parts of the city. At every meeting place and in every sermon the voters present were urged to sign the petitions now in circulation to get the question of making Chicago dry territory on the tickets at the coming municipal election. The names of 73,000 voters must be in the hands of the election commissioners by February 3rd. E. J. Davis, manager of the campaign committee of the Anti-Saloon league, has said that more that 2,000 petition carriers were in the field with lists of voters taken from the precinct poll books. Voters will be solicited for their signatures at their residence* in order to prevent duplications o? signatures. “We not only expect to get the number of signatures required to get the questions on the ballot,” said Mr. Davis, “but we believe we can carry the city against the saloons.”