Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1903 — SALOON MEN VICTORIOUS. [ARTICLE]

SALOON MEN VICTORIOUS.

Commlasionera Reverse Themselves and Hold Withdrawls are Legal. The county commissioners returned from Pulaski county late Friday night and it was expected that a decision in the Rensselaer saloon cases tvould be rendered on the convening of the board Saturday morning. However, at that time it was announced that a decision would not be given out until 2 p. m., and when that hour arrived the board decided that the notices of withdrawal or revocation of power of attorney filed with the auditor were good, and licenses would be granted, to issue Sept. 17. No appeal will be taken by the remonstrators, we understand. The decision of the commissioners does not bear out the former reasoning of the board, that the revocation of the power of attorney must be made in person and direct, but the withholding of the decision from Wednesday to Friday and then again postponing the matter Saturday morning was ominous, and the result was not altogether unexpected. The temperance people do not seem to be disheartened over the matter, but say that the responsibility for their failure must rest on those temperance people who “do not like to interfere with another man’s business” and those remonstrators who were afflicted with curvatnre of the spine. It is rnmored that the temperance people of the whole city will unite on making themselves felt at the city election next spring. In the meantime the anti-saloon work will be kept up here and in other parts of the county, where spinal weakness is not so pronounced, and they hope, we are told, to ultimately wipe every saloon out of the county.