Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1909 — Tippecanoe County Went “Wet” By Majority of 768. [ARTICLE]

Tippecanoe County Went “Wet” By Majority of 768.

The saloons won a signal victory it the county option fight in Lafayette, and as a result the saloons in that city will continue to operate for the next two years. Under the name of the Taxpayers League the saloonkeepers, brewers and all others whom they could influence into thinking that the city would go to the dogs if the saloons were knocked out, carried on the campaign' for the wets and they evidently put it all over the temperance people in a political way, for the city of Lafayette went overwhelmingly "wet,’’ every precinct in the city returning a saloon majority. Business men, all or most all climbed into the beer wagon and helped keep the city filled with bar rooms "for business reasons’’ The result was very disappointing for many reasons and especially because of the effort that President Stone of Purdue University made to frele the city of saloons because of the injury that the saloons are to the students. Many of the students voted and the against their legal right to vote were made under direction of special detective William Winehart, who was under the pay of the saloon organization. The votes were sworn in by President Stone and members of the faculty. West Lafayette returned a "dry" majority of 831, Lafayette city gave a "wet” majority of 2,504, and almost every precinct and township gave a "dry” majority, but it was not enough to cut down the huge lead that the policy business men had influenced and the sale of boots will go merrily on for the next two years. Cottage cheese, cream and sUm I milk for sale by M. J. Thornton, dairyman.