Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1915 — SALOONKEEPERS ASK U. S. COURT TO CURB MAYOR [ARTICLE]

SALOONKEEPERS ASK U. S. COURT TO CURB MAYOR

Chicago Proprietors Appeal For Injunction Against Sunday Closing Law —Charge Discrimination. Chicago, Nov. 8. —Ten saloonkeepers today sought an injunction in the U. S. district court to restrain Mayor Thompson and the city police from preventing them from selling tobacco and non-intoxicating liquors on Sunday and to prevent the revocation of saloon licenses for such sales. Discrimination against the saloonkeepers and in favor of druggists and other store keepers is alleged in the complaint which sets forth that under the present ruling of the city authorities, saloonkeepers are denied their rights as retail dealers to sell cigars, tobacco, buttermilk, mineral waters and similar non-intoxicants. The court is also petitioned to hold the Illinois anti-tippling statute which directs that saloons be closed on Sunday, void and unconstitutional. •