Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1915 — MINNEAPOLIS TO RETAIN SALOONS [ARTICLE]

MINNEAPOLIS TO RETAIN SALOONS

Wets Win in Local Option Election By From Eight to Nine Thousand— Illegal Voting Charged. Minneapolis, Oct. 4.—Hennepin county, of which. Minneapolis is the county seat, Voted to retain its 433 saloons in a .county option election today, according to returns available Tate tonight. Rev. George B. Safford, head of the dry organization, in commenting on the vote, said: “It now appears that the wets have earned the election, but we do not yet Concede it. If it had not been for the grossest frauds and illegal voting there would have been no doubt about the result.” Of the 433 saloons in the county, 399 are in Minneapolis proper. One hundred and thirty precincts out of 193 gave the wets 35,262; drys 27,174. Frank E. Aid, he.ad of the wet forces, estimated date tonight that the wets had carried the county by from .8,000 to 9,000.