Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1909 — OPTION ELECTION WILL COST $700 [ARTICLE]

OPTION ELECTION WILL COST $700

County Council to Meet April 6 to Appropriate Funds. The county council has been called to meet in special session on Tuesday, April 6, to appropriate funds for holding the county option •election. It will probably cost S6OO to S7OO to pay the expense of this election. Many people are complaining about the needless expense, as they call It. They say “the county is now dry and can be kept dry by the same inexpensive means that made it dry.” This may be, and perhaps may not he. If the remonstrance filed In Keener.tp., last October should be no good, and it is very doubtful if it is, the probability of getting enougn remonstrators there to keep saloons out, based on the vote of the November election, is said to be extremely doubtful. Then, too, it has been impossible to remonstrate the saloon out of Tefft, heretofore, and the last applicant was defeated for “cause.” The proposed election will come at a time when the farmers will likely be very busy with their spring work, and the probability is that hot more than naif a full vote will be gotten out. If, aB the An-ti-Saloon League claims, their greatest strength lies in the farming community, under the conditions that are likely to prevail at the time the election will be held, the result is not a foregone conclusion, by any means. Tbe farmer who will leave his field the latter part of April to go to town to vote on a proposition which he is usually very inactive about, Is not thought to be very numerous. However, time will demonstrate the truth or falsity of the claims made by both sides of the proposi- . tlon.