The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-16
FIFTH WARD MADE
INTO A RESIDENCE
SECTION OF CITY.
Long Fight in the Council Be-
tween the Liquor and Anti
liquor Elements, Is at Last
Won by the Latter.
VOTE OF THE MEMBERS : ]
STOOD SIX TO FOUR
Addresses Made by Prosecut-
or Jessup and Attorney
Henry U. Johnson Contained
Many Charges and DeniaIs.

Council Monday evening by vote
of to declared the Fifth ward
residence portion of the city. The
council chamber was well filled by
residents of the south half OF the Fifth
ward, who supported almost unani-
mously the passage of the ordinance,
and temperance people from other sec
tions of the city, headed by Timothy
Nicholson and the Rev. Conrad Huber.
When the ordinance was declared
adopted there were loud cheers.
There was long and heated dis
cussion before the vote was taken on
the ordinance. but none Of the council
men took any part in the debate.
Wilfred Jessup, attorney for $40 odd
voters out of the LOOP voters I'm the
ward, who i'm 1906 signed successful
blanket remonstrance and presented
IL to the board of county commission
ers, who under the law were compelled
to declare the ward dry by refusing
to grant liquor licenses to Henry
Leonard and Dick Hassard. who oper-
ated saloons i'm the north half OF the
ward. spoke to the councilmen and
urged the passage of the ordinance
johnson Answers Jessup.
Prior to the discussion. Councilman
Leftwich presented a petition signed
by 164 names, asking that the council
go on record as favoring the sale ot
intoxicating liquors in the ward. At.
torney Henry ". Johnson represented
these petitioners and he made long
address in answer to Attorney Jessup.
Mr.. Jessup stated that the petition
which had just been presented to-
council was fraudulent in thatsit con-
tanned names of those who were not
residents of the ward and he stated
the petition also contained the names
of several known to be saloon loafers
and bad citizens. He also stated that
this petition had been drawn up and
secretly circulated by Henry Leonard
This petition would have. never come
to life until presented tofcouncif had
1t not been for reformed drunkard.
Mr.. Jessup. stated, who had been asked
to sign IL and had refused last Satur-
day night, after which he informed the
friends of the ordinance. Mr. Jessup
stated this man was in the council
chamber and would speak II called up
or. He loudly applauded Mr.. .Jessup
and later caused much amusement by
applauding the utterances of Mr.. John
son.
Called Deep Laid Plot.
Mr.. Jessup also stated that this pc.
tition was a deep laid plot to re-es-
lfcI in ha rd
He stated that under the law the
blanket remonstrance would expire
April of next year and that the saloon,
men thought that II this ordinance,
were killed the liquor question in tho.
ward would become a dead issue and,
that after next April they could reop-,
en- saloons in that part of the ward
north of the railroad. Mr.. Jessup.
pointed to the fact that nearly 700 OF
the 1000 voters in the ward had in
1906 gone on record as favoring the
ward as a residence portion OF the
city and that these people were OF the
same opinion today. He also quoted
several employers of labor in the ward
as favoring the ordinance. He said
that the blanket remonstrance had
driven out Of the ward two of the
worst dives in the city and that it
would be a crime to allow them to be
established. Mr.. Jessup quoted Ser
geant McManus as stating that the
north hall. of the ward had become an
orderly residence portion OF the city
since the saloons had been driven out
and not twenty per cent of the ar
rests were now made i'm that section
3f the city as had been made prior to
April, 1906.
johnson Makes Denial.
Henry Z. Johnson denied that the
charge that some of the signatures
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