Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1913 — The Class of People Who Wanted Saloons Returned. [ARTICLE]

The Class of People Who Wanted Saloons Returned.

* Crawfordsville had a local option election about ten days ago and went dry by a large majority, reports the Logansport Times. This is a big step for the temperance people when you stop to realize that the local option election was petitioned for by 930 wets, of whom 487 do not pay one cent of tax In Crawfordsville, not even poll tax; 325 of the rest of them pay no more than $5 tax. Then there are 171 of these petitioners who have had a police record in the last three and a half years, also 40 of these people in the last two years have received aid from the township poor relief fund, and this is the bunch that desired to help the fair city of Crawfordsville by bringing back the saloons, but praise God they couldn’t do it and Crawfordsville continues elean.