Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1915 — Tells the Causes of Wet Victory in Knox, Starke County. [ARTICLE]

Tells the Causes of Wet Victory in Knox, Starke County.

Francesville Tribune. The town of Knox held a locAl option election last Thursday and voted “wet” by 85 majority. Four saloonkeepers are jubilant over the results while the “drys” are somewhat depressed. Some of the Knox business men were not far sighted enough to take advantage of the opportunity to get some of the $40,000 spent there annually on drink, took a gambler’s chance and voted wet. Many fit the taxpayers were panic stricken and voted wet because the ready license money of $2,500 looked bigger to them than the subsequent reduction of taxes that usually follow in dry towns. The politicians straddled the neutral fence, fearing results in the future political prospective. .And the newspapers in the local option contest championed the comparison of the “dog that bays at the moon but does not possess the courage to scratch its own flees.” All this happened in “spineless” town, Starke county, last Thursday.