Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1908 — COUNTY OPTION ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY OPTION ELECTIONS.

Local option elections were held yesterday in Wabash and Lawrence counties. While under ordinary circumstances it is thought Wabash county would vote dry by 80 per cent on a state wide prohibition law, the opinion seemed general that owing to the bitterness engendered by the activity of the Anti-Saloon League in the recent campaign the county would vote wet. The republican county chairman who almost shed tears over the possibility of defeat of the republican state ticket because of the rfap it would give that great reforgj law, the Hanly county option measure, is said to be openly working to make the county wet, as are other leaders of the party there. In Lawrence county opinion is divided as to the probable result. Pike county will vote oh the proposition to-morrow..