Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1909 — ORDER OF COURT HALTS ELECTION [ARTICLE]

ORDER OF COURT HALTS ELECTION

Judge Wasson Grants Injunction In White County. SALOON MEN TO PUSH FIGHT Make Allegations Which They Hope Will Lead to a Permanent Writ of Restraint.—The Case Will Come Up for Hearing on the Granting of a Permanent In- / junction To-morrow. Monttcello, Ind., April 19.—The board of commissioners of White County, election commissioners and inspectors were this afternoon temporarily restrained by Judge James P. Wasson, sitting in the case at Delphi, from holding a local option election next Monday in this county. The final hearing was set for Thursday morning. The action was begun in the name of the state of Indiana on relation to Albert Ellis, who is one of the two saloon keepers In White County, and who resides at Wolcott. Several questions in this case nave not been raised in any other county. The firm of Reynolds & Sill and M. B. Beard are appearing for the relator, 4 and J. R. McClellan, L. B. Carey and Palmer & Carr are counsel for the defendant. Thursday morning the court will hear applications for a permanent injunction. The allegations in the petition for the restraining order were: That legal notice had not been given of the election; that two members of the White County Board of Commissioners were parties to the proceedings by having signed ttys petition for the election; that no appropriation has -been made by the County Council for defraying the expenses of this election; that the wording of the ballots, as provided by law, would be meaningless and to no effect; the unconstitutionality of the act; that the act is in conflict with the Moore remonstrance act, in so much as the majbrity of the petitioners were remonstrators, said ; names being erased from the petition.