Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1908 — VOTERS CLOSE MANY SALOONS [ARTICLE]

VOTERS CLOSE MANY SALOONS

Local Option Forces Make Gains in Illinois Ruj ral Districts. I MOST OF LARCER CITIES “WET" Republicans Win a Sweeping Victory in the Aldermanic Election in Chicago. ELECTION RESULTS ELSEWHERE I Darid S. Rom Chosen Mayor of MU» wankn for Fifth Tl«ne— Kansas City Goes Democratio —ln Nebraska. j Between 1,200 and 1,500 saloons prill be closed In the state of Illinois for two, years as a result of tbs ,vote on local option In 1,150 of the a,205 townships of the state, according to returns. The local option forces made gains In all of the rural (districts throughout the state, with Evo or three exceptions. Madison. I Clair, and Kankakee counties ere not affected by the crusade, i In all, thirty five counties will be -without saloons. Most of the larger cities out In the state voted wet by large majorities. IThe anti-saloon forces won In Decatur, closing <53 saloons; Rockford, GO saloons; Bqlvldere, 18 saloons; TaylorNine, H, and Mount Carroll, 7. Dwight, the home of the Keeley Cure, was the only former dry town In Livingston county that went wet The prohibition forces lost by 58 votes.

Mayor of Mattoon Keatgna. Mattoon was voted dry. Lewis L. Lehman, mayor of tlie city, resigned Ills office when he was Informed that the drys had won. He Is president of the First National bank and trustee of the University of Illinois. Sterling Kent wet by one majority. The halts were locked up In the vault of the Eit National bunk to prevent tailing with them. A contest will lie le In the courts and a recount Bought by the local option leaders. Danville, Bloomington, Joliet, Spring field, Pekin, Freeport, Kewauee, Aurora, Elgin, and Woodstock remain iwet Aurora was carried by the wets by a majority of 1.000, and Joliet went wet by nearly 3,000. The saloon forces won Elgin by nearly 1,400 rotes. The local option forces were •nowed under in Springfield, the majority for the saloon reaching 1,800. In the eighty-four counties in which • vote was taken on the local option question about two-tliirds of the conn ties are either wholly or nearly dry. Lyons, In t’ook county, was carried by the drys by a majority of 300. The majority for the wets In Danville Is 2,500. Larger Cities That Went Dry. Among the larger cities that ltave been carried by the Prohibition forces, and the numlier of saloons as- , feeted, are the following: Batavia 10, Belvldere 18, Charleston 13, Decatur 63, DeKalk 20, Dixon 10, Qalesmound 4, Mattoon 22, Moreland 2, Newport 2, Paris 21. St. Charles 8, Kockford 60, Sycamore 12, York villa 8, Walnut 3.

Among the cities which are safely ■wet are the following: Aurora. Bloomington. Klgin, Galesburg, Joliet Amboy. Kankakee. Oregon. Rock Island. Wprlngfleld, Sterling, Waukegan, Proviso, Galena, Ivewanee, Gray’s Lake. Moline, Antioch, Freeport. Wear Deerfield. Maine, Rock Falls, Tlskllwa, Sublette, Geneseo, Danville, Morris. Mlnooka, Seneca, Marseilles, Worth, Thornton, Naperville, Murphysboro. Pekin, Ohio, Troy Grove, Compton. Mendota, Newton. Chicago Aldermanic Election. A sweeping Republican victory gave Mayor Busse’s administration complete and undisputed possession ...of the city hall. The day’s victories t converted a Democratic majority of two In the council Into a Republican majority of eighteen. Twenty-four Republican and eleven Democratic aldermen were elected. Of the twenty-one Democratic council seats in dispute that party retained only ten, and added one from the Republican side of the chamber. The Republicans. besides h( ldlng thirteen out of the fourteen of their council seats that were in the balance, captured eleven from the enemy. The $3,000,000 bond Issue for the erection of a new county infirmary gras carried by more than two to one.

ELECTION IN WISCONSIN Ram Elected Mayor of Milwaukee—- - Oeafat Over Saloons, Roane, Democratic candidate, was elected mayor of Milwaukee for the Sfth time. He had a plurality ol 8(000 aver Shall Seidel, Social Democrat, who led Thomas J. Pringlet BeW- cm

publican, by 1,000. Returns shdw that- United States Senator LaFollette defeated Secretary Taft in every district of the state In the conteet for delegates to the national convention. Delegates-at-large, all LaFollette men, known to be elected are: United States Senator Isaac Stephenson, Marinette; Repr* tentative Henry A. Cooper, Racine; William C. Brumder, Milwaukee; Atley I’eterson, Soldiers’ Grove. License won In a majority of the towns and cities in the state In which there was a oontest over the saloon question. In Kenosha, Matheas J. Sclioley, Democrat, agent for a brewing company, defeated Edward S. Al teman by 505 votes. The following places voted no license: Sparta. Vlroqua, Leferge, Richland Center Iteedstown, Dodgevllle. At Madisoa Mayor J. C. Schubert, Democrat, won by 1,205, over W. J. McKey, who favored Sunday closin. Republicans elected mayors at Appleton and Superior, while the Democrats elected the heads of city tickets In Madison, Kenosha, Jefferson, Darlington, Fond du Lac, Menomonle, Durand, Fort Atkinson, Superior and Elkhorn. Wausau went Democratic. In Manitowoc, where socialism was the Issue, the Socialists were whipped In every ward. John Barnes, of Rhinelander, has been elected over Robert M. Bashford. of Madison, as justice of the supreme, court.

Kansas City Democratic. Following the bitterest campaign in the history of Kansas City the Democrats elected their entire city ticket by majorities ranging from 1,500 to 3,000 In addition to probably ten aldermen and a majority of the upper house. St. Joseph, normally Republican by 000, elected a Democratic mayor by 272, the council being about evenly divided. At Springfield, where the Democrats ran a brewery agent for mayor, Ernst, Republican, was elected by 400. Carthage and Sedalla both elected almost solidly Republican tickets from mayor down. At Jefferson City, the state capital, honors were even and the council is a tie Dry* Defeated in NebraskaProhibition was defeated in the Nebraska election, a majority of 200 being given for the retention of the saloons tinder a SI,OOO license fee and an all-daylight schedule. The result Is a great disappointment to the temperance elemeut, which confidently counted on a sweeping victory. Outside of Lincoln Interest centered in the result at Bentrice and Hastings. Beatrice voted for saloons by a majority of seventy-three. At Hastings the contest Is close. lowa Elections. At Dubuque, la., the city elections resulted In the election of Mayor 11. A. Schunk by about 100 plurality. The entire Democratic ticket, with the exception of city attorney, was elected by a small margin. At Keokuk the Democrats carried the city election, John R. Dimond being elected assessor by a majority of 100. Tlu* Democrats will have a majority of one in the council.