Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1909 — TWO VOTE "DRY,” ONE “WET” [ARTICLE]

TWO VOTE "DRY,” ONE “WET”

In Tuesday's County Option Elections—Clay and Pulaski Dry, Spencer Wet, In xuesday’s county option elections Clay" and Pulaski went dry: and Spencer wet. Brazil, a city of | 11,000 population and the county [ seat of Clay county, gave a dry ma- [ jorit» of 322, while the entire county rolled up a majority of 2,203, only „tw£> of the forty-nine voting precincts in the county giving a wet majority. The county was already dry by remonstrance. Pulaski county, already dry by remonstrance, gave a majority of 398 against saloons. Many 6t the so-called wet sympathizers did not vote at all, while practically every dry vote was out. The dry majority in Starke, Pulaski’s sister county, which voted last week, was but 91. Spencer county upset the expectations of the drys, who confidently expected to carry it by several hundred. It gave a wet majority of 43. Spencer has 22 saloons. Posey county, which voted yesterday, was expected to gjye a wet majority of several hundred. . Dates have been set for further elections as follow’s: Franklin County—May 22. Monroe County—May 25. Madison Count—May 26. Crawford County—May 26. Owen County—May 26. Floyd County—May 27. Ripley Count—May 29. Boone County-—June 1.

A petition has been filed for an election in Porter, but the county is without funds, and' the matter ■will be put up to the county council, which meets May 14. If an appropriation is made it will be necessary to issue bonds to procure the money to pay the expense of the election, it is said, so hard up has years of republican rule made that county. Fulton voted dry Thursday. Fol-' lowing is the line-up to date; •WET" COUNTIES. Counties and Dates Saloons of Elections. Majority. Affected Wayne. February 5 60 . 50 Cass. April 6............ jos 6 7 Blackford. April 6 134 13 Tippecanoe, April 6 793 103 Spencer, May 4......... 60 22 "DRY” COUNTIES. Wabash. December 29.. 889 22 ! Lawrence. December 29. 1505 21 Pike, December 31 884 Hamilton. January 26... 2461 18 Putnam,. January 26.... 1552 8 Decatur? January 26.... 1708 99 Tipton, January 26 1581 4 Noble, January 29....... 692 25 Randolph. January 29... 2470 Parke. February 2 2060 14 Huntington. February 2. 1600 19 Switzerland, February 2. 900 3 Clinton, February 9 2084 39 Daviess, February Grant, February 23...•2183 57 Howard, February 23.. T 1433 27 Newton, February 23.... 432 2 Adams. February 23.... 1044 18 Morgan, February 24... 1055 Hendricks. February 25. 777 ’3 Fountain, February 25.. 2005 32 Fayette, February 25... 851 18 Carroll, February 26 1942 7 Gibson, February 26.... 1074 9 Rush. February 27 2016 16 Sullivan, March 3 1841 Jay, March 3..... 2809 21 Marshall, March 4 1164 13 Whitley. March 5 1150 13 Hanoock. March 5....... 1302 12 Shelby, March 6 745 Miami, March 16 j.. 1066 43 Benton. March 23.. f:.. 'BB2 Montgomery. March 23.. 2803 5 Greene, March 23 2647 29 Ohio, March 24 33 4 Elkhart, March 25 .. 879 43 Orange. March 25 745 Bartholomew. March 30. 783 19 Jennings. March 30 520 13 Vermillion. March .30.... 285 43 Henry, -March 31 2588 Jackson. April 26 362 25 White, April 26.. 1435 Delaware. April 27 2956 82 Kosciusko, April 29 2333 Starke. Apstl 29... 84 17 Washington, April 30... 1296 Jefferson. April 30 106 36 Martin, April 30 399 8 Jasper. May 1 590 Clay, May 4. 2203 Pulaski April 4 400 Fulton, May 6 1627 ’’DRY” BY REMONSTRANCE. Brown. Johnson. Scott. 7, ay - - Lagrange. Steuben. Monroe. Union. Dekalb. Owen. Warren. Boone.