Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1908 — TEMPERANCE ISSUE DEAD. [ARTICLE]

TEMPERANCE ISSUE DEAD.

Civic League Workers at Columbus Say Election is Useless. Columbus, Ind., November 6. Temperance is a dead issue in Bartholomew county. At least that is what officials of the Civic League say, and the civic League is the chief temperance organisation here. A mouth or so before the election the league suddenly announced that it had quit and the saloons couM do as they pleased. Officials announced that no affidavits would be filed and the league was quiet for a while. When the county option bill was pained it was agreed that a petition would be circulated for the purpose of having a special election on the question of wet or dry as soon as the election was over. But today the officials of the league say that the vote in this count/ shows that the people would not support county option, and that they would be foolish to go to the expense of bringing on an election. Consequently, no effort whatever will be made to call a special election unless some persons other than members of the Civic League circulate a petition. >