Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1909 — KNOX COUNTY TO RETAIN SALOONS [ARTICLE]

KNOX COUNTY TO RETAIN SALOONS

City of Vincennes Gives a Majority to the Wets. THIRTEENTH LOSS FOR DRYS Election Leaves the Balance Sheet Showing Sixty-Two Counties Against the Liquor Traffic by Option and Eight Without Cases by Operation of Remonstrance Law—Election fltill to Be Held In Nine—Women Aid the Cause of Prohibition. Vincennes, Ind., Oct. 1. —Knox county has voted wet in her local option election. The forty-three precincts of the county show a majority of 761 in favor of the saloons. Vincennes gave the wets a majority of 1,709. Knox is the thirte nth of the ninetytw’O counties in Indiana to vote wet. Sixty-two counties have voted dry and eight are dry through the operation of the remonstrance law. Nine counties remain in which no action has been taken. Slight disturbances occurred where the wets attempted to vote foreigners. The temperance workers produced certified court records giving the names of all foreigners naturalized here within the last five years. No further attempt was made to vote th® men. Women in carriages assisted in getting out the dry vote and served free lunch. Hourly prayer meetings were held in the churches and at the homes of temperance workers. The drys caused the sensation of the day by announcing that they would demand that precinct B, second ward, Vincennes, be thrown out because the polling place is not more than fifty feet from a saloon as the law requires. A measurement showed the voting place within the prescribed limit, thought it has been used for years as a polling place. This precinct has 310 votes and is heavily wet. The wets will contest (tid (Browing out of the precinct