Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1909 — The Need of An Election In Jasper County, [ARTICLE]

The Need of An Election In Jasper County,

Certain misguided and misinformed individuals in an effort to discredit and oppose the local option election, are making the assertion that there is no need of an election on account of the fact that Jasper county is already. “dry by remonstrance.” It is true that there are no saloons in the county at present but it is also true that only three townships in the county are fully protected by remonstrances. There are no remonstrances on file to prevent the opening of saloons within the next sixty days in the townships of Carpenter, Jordan, Milroy, Hanging Grove, Gillam, Barkley, Newton and Kankakee and the second and third wards of the City of Rensselaer. The laws of Indiana provide a way in which every voter has an opportunity to express his preference for or against the licensed saloon and the cost of deciding the matter is dlstributed among all the tax pavers instead of being imposed upon a few in each ward or township. It is safe to assume that the person who argues against the election on the ground that the county might be made dry by remonstrance, never had any experience in circulating a remonstrance and has no idea of the time and labor that is required to procure the necessary signatures. "Knockers” of the election will usually be found to have been “dodgers” when they had an opportunity to remonstrate.