The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-01
Only One County in the State
Where Every Township Re-
tains Its Saloons, Shumak-
er Shows.
EIGHTEEN COUNTIES
GO "DRY" IN ONE YEAR.
Fifteen Cities and TWenty-one
County Seats Drive Saloons
From Them-BIanket Re.
monstrance Effective.

indianapolis. Dec. THAT Indiana
was going dry" rapidly under the
Moore remonstrance act and without
county local option law was appar-
ent in statement made by Superin-
tendent Schumacher, of the Anti-Saloon
league. who said that 7SS saloons
have been driven out of business In
the state during the last II months.
Vanderburg. with the city of Evans
vile, is now the only county in Indi-
ana in which every township is wet"
In all of the counties with large cities.
like Indianapolis, Terre Haute. South
Bend. FIT Wayne. Muncie, Anderson.
Lafayette and Logansport, over two
thirds of the townships are without
saloons. Three fourths of the coun-
ties now held in the wet" column
have but one township each in which
liquor is sold at regularly licensed sa-
looms.
During the past year 10 cities. Is
counties and u county seat towns
were made dry" by the blanket re-
monstrance plan. Over 100000 more
people are now living in dry" terri
tory than year ago.
Superintendent Schumacher said
that the total number Of people resid.
ing in dry" localities is 1.640, 900.
The total in the wet" territory Is
81 ,000, 600
Majority of Townships "Dry..
There are now s39 dry" townships
out of a total Of 1.0l6 townships in
the state. The anti-saloon crusade
has been more vigorous and. more sue
cessful in Indiana than In any preced-
ing year. Superintendent Schumacher
predicted that unless the county local
option law is repealed by the legisla-
ture large majority of the counties
will be added to the dry" column
nexH year.
There are now 81 counties dry" an
follows: Steuben. Lagrange. DeKalb.
Kosciusko, Fulton, Pulaski. Boone.
Henry. Sullivan, Morgan. Union.
Washington, Monroe. Crawford. War
rem. White, Wells, Blackford. Clinton.
Upton. Clay. owen. johnson. Scott.
Brown, Orange and Pike.
The dry" county seats, In addition
to those included in theabove LIST OF
| counties follow: Albion, Rensselaer,.
Kentland. Valparaiso, Fowler. Browns
| town. Princeton, Shoals, Corydon,
Bloomfield, Rockville, Newport. DAN
vile. Portland, Winchester, Knox and
Greenfield.
The counties having only one wet
township follow: Jasper. Jefferson.
Knox. Lawrence, Martin. Monroe.
Parke, Porter, Putnam, Randolph.
Rush, Ohio, Tippecanoe. Delaware.
Cass. Switzerland. Vermillion. BSaaon
Carroll, Hendricks. Greene. Hancock.
Harrison, Daviess and Howard
The counties with two wet" town.
ships follow: Huntington. Jaokson.
Wabash, Jennings. Marshall. Mont
gomery. Newton. Shelby. Warrick.
Wayne and Whiteley.
The counties with three wet" town.
ships are Starke, Noble. Jay and Pss.
ry.
Many Towns WET"
Most Of Lake County, including the
cities of Hammond, Whiting. East Chi
cago. Crownpoint Indiana Harbor and
Gary, is wet" Garry is the only
dry town in Lake county. Grant
county, with the city OF Marion and
Madison county, with the cities Of An
derson. Elwood. Alexandra, Summit-
vile, Pendleton and Frankton, havs
many saloons. South Bend has 3
large number of saloons, but the
league is preparing to hold a county
local option election there. Adams
county has saloons at Decatur. but has
| driven them out elsewhere. Vigo
county, with Terre Haute and several
mining camps. and Allen county, with
FIT. Wayne as the central point, have .
large number of saloons and liberal
minded population. but the Anu-Sa-
| loon league is preparing to hold local
1 option elections there unless the Law
is repealed.
| A local option election will be held
next month in whitley county. the
home Of Governor-elect Marshall. Su-
perintendenr Schumacher said that
\ Marshall VIII have an opportunity to
show his colors on the local option
question before he takes office.
/ The league is perfecting an organzar
| ton in Wabash. Lawrence and other
counties preparatory to holding cleo
tions newt month. Superintendent
Schumacher declared that the local op.
| tion law will not be repealed unless
the republican state organization tAkea