Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1909 — Consider the Objections To Be Very Trivial. [ARTICLE]

Consider the Objections To Be Very Trivial.

The Monticello Journal has the fob lowing comment to make on the effort that ths option election opponents are making in that county: , Those who have seen the complaint state that the points of the same are very trival, and in most Instances have been tried out in other courts and found to no weight. Sills is quoted as having said some of them are entirely new, and his opponents are cruel enough to state they were too petty to have ever even attracted the attention of a competent attorney.

It is looked upon as drowning' men catching at straws. Ellis and his conferes are afraid of the results of the election, and are trying by every hpok and crook to thwart the will and desire of the people and hinder them from voicing their convictions. It means that shores of people with “dry” convictions who would not have gone to the polls next Monday, will go and will vote most emphatically against the saloon. - The attorneys for the saloon keeper very adroitly brought the action in the name of the state ex rel Albert Ellis, the Wolcott saloon keeper against the auditor, sheriff, the election commissioners, township trustees and precinct inspectors, the object being, of course, to make the state bear the expense of the prosecution.