East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-06
F|GHTiTO MAKE
STATE e DRY"
IN EIGHTEEN
COUNTIES IN JUNE
Anti-Saloon Workers Say This Is Only
Preliminary Skirmlsh-Plan to
Vote Oregon Dry In 1910-Battle
Royal VIII BE Waged in That Year
Only Five Counties Without Pro-
hibition Territory Now.

Local option elections for county
prohibition will be held in is of the
33 counties in oregon next month,
Eight of the other 10 counties are
"dry," and in four of these the Ques-
ton OF saloons or no saloons is to be
resubmitted at the June election on
petition of the liquor men. There
are only five counties in the state In
which there is no dry" territory. and
the local optionitsts have called for a
county election in each one of these
counties next month. This extensive
campaign to invade further the terri
tory now held by the saloon interests
is only a preliminary step to an elec-
tion on state prohibition, which is
planned by the cold water people for
1910. The Anti-Saloon Leaguers
and the prohibitionists have made up
their minds to cooperate in a cam
paign that is expected to add Oregon
to the list of prohibition states two
years hence.
In the meantime both organizations
are doing effective work in spreading
an influence positively opposed to the
saloon. State prohibition two years
hence, declare the temperance work.
ers, will more surely be brought about
by adding to the dry" territory in
the coming election. With this OBJ
ject in view elections on the subject
of county prohibition will be held in
the following is counties this year:
Clackamas, Columbia, Coos, Crook
Douglas, Grant, Harvey, Jackson,
Josephine, klamath, Lake, Marion,
Morrow, Polk, Umatilla, Union, Was
co and Washington.
Included in this list are the five
only counties in the state in which
there is no "dry" territory, as fol-
lows; Grant, Harney, Klamath, Lake
and Polk. On the petition of the IL
quor men the question of county pro-
hibition will be resubmitted in June
in the following counties: Linn,
Lane, Sherman and Wasco.
The local optionists have also filed
petitions for precinct and subdivision
precinct elections in nine counties, in
cluding Multnomah, in which 13 of
these petitions have been filed. A
majority of these petitions have
have been attacked on legal grounds
and the question of deciding in which
precincts the election will be held
will be determined some time this
week. This list of counties also in
cludes Clackamas, Wasco, Umatilla
Grant Lake, Josephine, Douglas and
Marion.
With the exception of Marion coun-
ty, all of these counties will also vote
on county prohibition, but the anti
saloon people have decided to take
up the crusade from two positions ar
guing that should the county as a
whole go wet" 1t is possible that
some of the precincts may oust the
saloon and add more territory to that
already gained
For four months the Anti-Saloon
League workers have been laboring
assiduously and successfully to organ
lie the state or such counties in the
state as were desired for voting on
the local option question at the gen.
eral election June L." said James R.
Knodell, superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League of Oregon, yesterday.
Eighteen counties have filed petit
tlons with their respective county
courts for an election. In addition,
about 2S precincts and combinations
of precincts have done the same.
Forty-one separate opportunities will
be given the people of the state to
say whether or not they want the sa-
loon. ,
mot one OF these would have been