Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1905 — TO INCLUDE ALL THE WARDS. [ARTICLE]

TO INCLUDE ALL THE WARDS.

Remonstrance to Include Entire City To be Filed Next Month. The anti-saloon movement in Rensselaer is now to include the whole city, The Democrat is informed, and the remonstrance that has been circulated in the First ward will not be filed with the county auditor to-day, but will go over to the September term of commissioners’ court, when it is the intention to have blanket remonstrances against the saloon business in the Second and Third wards ready to file. There are four saloons here at present, all located in the First ward, the other wards having successfully remonstrated against every applicant for the past ten years. In the First ward the efforts of the anti-saloon people have been only partially successful heretofore, closing the saloons two years ago for a few months only. Now. under the Moore law, which makes a remonstrance once filed containing the names of a majority of the voters of a city ward or township, as the case may be, and remonstrating against the business instead of against the individual, effective for two years, they hope to win out by a safe majority, it is said. Of the 4 saloons here, Kellner’s Schultz’s and Hildebrand’s licenses expire next month,while Strickfaden’s expires Dec. 14. Those having the remonstrances in hand a re working the matter quietly

and the public is generally kept in ignorance of who has signed and who has not, also the number of names secured.