Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1906 — STILL THEY COME [ARTICLE]

STILL THEY COME

Francesville, Wolcott an<J Goodland Go “Dry.” ■“ i ALL TO CLIMB ON WATER WA6ON And Remington Reiterated Its “Dry” Say-So by an Even One Hundred Majority I The list of “dry” townß in our neighboring counties has received quite an impetuous by remonstrances filed this week, The Democrat is informed, and Goodland, Wolcott and Francesville climb on the “water wagon” by good safe majorities. Goodland, it is reported, has 56 majority on its remonstrance, and Wolcott 60. No particulars have been received from Francesville, but it is reported that the "antis” have secured a safe majority to their remonstrance. Medaryville, also in Pulaski county, has been without saloons for some time, and now that Francesville has joined ' the “drys,” the matter will likely be taken up by other towns in that county. Wednesday Mr. J. M. Ott, president of the Remington anti-saloon league, was here, and filed a blanket remonstrance, containing the names of 327 voters of Remington and Carpenter township—a clear majority of an even 100. Remington has now been without saloons for over three years, and the rumor that was started in other towns, by the friends of a saloon, that the people there were Borry they had knocked them out, and that another remonstrance could not be got, is proven absolutely false. The first remonstrance circulated in Remington was signed by few of the business men, Mr. Ott says, for the reason that they bad been told it would “kill the town,” but enough signers were secured to defeat license, anyhow. When it came time to remonstrate again—the town still being on the map—the business men signed quite generally, and this time, after three years’ trial, they signed almost to a man to keep the Baloons out. He says that it was very easy to secure the large majority to their present remonstrance, and that many more could have been secured if they had went after them. Some parts of the township were not canvassed much of ady, because they had so many names us it was. Regardless of what may be doing to do away with the liquor traffic in other parts of the state, it would seem that the saloon is doomed in the agricultural counties. Benton has only one licensed saloon in the entire county —at Freeland—when four or five years ago there were nearly two score. Monticello, Brookston, and now Wolcott, and other towns in White county; Brook, Morocco and Goodland in Newton county; Remington, Rensselaer, Parr and Fair Oaks in Jasper county; ■ Medaryville, Francesville and some other smaller towns in Pulaski county, have all decided to do away with the licensed saloon. In our own county, Kersey, Demotte, Wheatfield, Tefft and Kniman are still “ wet,” but it is said to be only a question or a short time until those towns also decide to get along without a saloon, and all that is necessary to end them is for some of the people there, who are opposed to them, to start out with a remonstrance.