Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1914 — LITTLE CHANCE OF CHICAGO GOING DRY [ARTICLE]

LITTLE CHANCE OF CHICAGO GOING DRY

Anti-Saloon League, Looking For- ' ward to State Prohibition, Gives Up Election.

Chicago* Feb. s.—Opponents, of saloons in Chicago tonight abandoned a plan to procure a vote at the spring election on the closing of bar-rooms. Leaders in the antisaloon league bad previously announced that a petition to have the question of ousting ' saloons placed on the ballot had been signed, by a sufficient number of voters. At a meeting of the league tonight it was discovered that the legal requirements had not been met by the apposition. It also developed that some of the leaders of the movement to oust saloons thought it inadvisable to put the question to a vote now. Option elections will be held in many cities and towns In the spring and it was said that with the women voting Chicago and all the rest of Illinois could be made prohibition territory. Opponents of the prohibitionists say that they have statistics to show that the female vote will have no effect on saloons. See and hear the Regimental