Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1911 — CIRCULATING PETITION FOR CITY OPTION ELECTION. [ARTICLE]

CIRCULATING PETITION FOR CITY OPTION ELECTION.

Temperance People Begin Movement To Keep Rensselaer on the List Of “Dry” Cities. A petition is being circulated in Rensselaer asking that an election be held to determine what shall be done with reference to saloons. The Proctor bill that will become a law with the governor’s signature, throws the burden of keeing “dry” territory “dry,” and this necessitates an election in Rensselaer, to be held before May Ist, on which date Jasper county will become legally “wet” by the provisions of the law Governor Marshall and the brewers haye passed. It is gratifying to know that the saloon question is to be free from politics in the proposed election, and the petition asking for the election is being circulated by John Bruner, a lifelong republican, and Nehemiah Littlefield, the chairman of the democratic county committee. On May 1, 1909, Jasper county gave a “dry” majority of 590 ■ and Marion township voted “dry” by a majority of 198, each of the four precincts giving a “dry” majority. This time the election will be- confined to the city, and persons in the township outside of Rensselaer will not get to vote.