Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1906 — “GRAVES HELPED” [ARTICLE]

“GRAVES HELPED”

To Hake the Big Majority Against Saloons, SAYS A REMINGTON GENTLEMAN. Majority of Ninety Now, With More to Follow.—Prosecutor’s Action Aroused the People There. The Democrat is in receipt of the following letter from a Remington gentleman : Remington, Ini>„ Nov. 21, 1906. Friend Babcock— We have our remonstrance ready to file against the whiskey business here lhat will make them lay still for two years, and Graves helped to make it 90 majority. We have 317 names now and will get more. Say a good word for us. Respectfully, The above letter shows what the anti-saloon league of Remington has done In only a week’s time, and demonstrates very clearly the sentiment of the people of that town and of Carpenter township on the saloon question. Only 227 names are required there to defeat a license, yet it is probable nearly double that number will be secured. The writer says that “Graves helped to make it ninety majority/’ which, it is inferred, means that the people over there resent the imputation cast upon them by the late grand jury report, that they are a set of blank liars. This is a greater majority than they had on their old remonstrance, and it is a foregone conclusion that the second largest town in the county will remain on the “water wagon” for at least two years more, it already having been without a saloon for three years. It would seem from this that the citizens over there are pretty well pleased with the experience they have had as a “dry” town, even though Prosecutor Graves did sort’er give them the cold shoulder, as they allege. Having such a large majority all the other voters over there ought to climb on the band (water) wagon and make it unanimous.