Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1911 — COUNTY OPTION SLIPFING; SENATE PASSED REPEAL. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY OPTION SLIPFING; SENATE PASSED REPEAL.

By Vote of 29 to 21 the County Option Law Was Repealed by the Senate And New Law Passed.

Twenty-eight democrats and one republican voted to repeal the county local option law and substitute in its place a law providing for township and city option Tuesday. The repeal was opposed by nineteen republicans and two democrats.

The house will probably pass the repeal bill Thursday and an emergency is to be declared and it is probable that a number of saloon applications will t e pending wherever there is a chance about the next day. This will mean that Rensselaer will have to hold another election to keep out the saloons. All townships where saloons might be conducted will have to do the same thing. If temperance people are caught napping, saloons will be reinstated in many places. Eve?y time the democratic party pledges in its platform to do something real mean it Keeps its pledge. Governor Marshall lined up with the brewers and encouraged the doubtful ones to believe that they had pledged it and were bound by their pledge. He told them that the voice of the people had spoken and they wanted to get saloons back again. He will probably find out that there were a lot of democrats who voted the democratic ticket for other reasons and that many of them were ’opposed to a repeal of county local option. When you are called upon to cast your next vote against the saloons in Rensselaer you will realize that the brewers and distilleries are really behind the scheme, and you will wonder how Tom Marshal ever came to travel with such a gang. -

Rensselaer needs no saloons. And we believe that there will be a great majority against them when the time comes to show what Rensselaer thinks on the question.