Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1907 — Witnessed the Wind-Up. [ARTICLE]

Witnessed the Wind-Up.

Walter Lee, of the Geo E. Murray Company, was visiting friends over in Winamae several days last week and while witnessed the wind up of the great and successful fight against the saloons in that town and township. It was a mighty battle, and one of the greatest of its kind ever waged in Indiana in a place of the size of Winamac. The saloons were much stronger entrenched there than they ever were here, and moreover as Winamae is not a city but only an incorporated town, the saloons could not be crushed out by degrees, ward by ward, as they were here, but it had to be a clean sweep of the whole township, or nothing. The result was a victory for the anti-saloons by a majority of fully 100. One of the great features of the fight was the work and speeches against the saloons by Rev. Thomas Cox, a very eloquent Catholic priest from Chicago.