The Montgomery tribune., 1908-04-17
VETS LOSE IN
828 TOWNS
LIQUOR INTERESTS ESCAPE UT.
TER RoUT BY CARRYING THE
LARGER ILLINOIS CITIES.
1900 DRAMsHoPs TO CLOSE
Eighteen Counties Go Wholly Dry"
Only Two Entirely wet
Surprises In
Egypt"

81. LOulS-Nearly OnendI VI the
5000 saloons which fought for ex-
istence at the polls in 81 counties In
Illinois Tuesday lost the battle. Addi-
tional returns Wednesday show that
although the Anti-Saloon League failed
to drive what they call Demon Rum"
entirely out of the state, they gave him
an awful drubbing.
The latest figures show that between
1,200 and 1,500 saloons will be closed
for two years. The local option forces
made gains in all of the rural districts
throughout the state, with two or three
exceptions. Madison, st. Clair and
Kankakee counties were not affected
by the crusade.
The returns by townships form an
impressive exhibit from the temper
ance point of view. In S2S Of the 1,150
townships in which the liquor issue
was drawn the saloons were voted out
of existence. Thus the Anti-Saloon
League wrested practically three
fourths of the contested territory
away from the saloon interests.
Prohibitionists JubiIant.
The prohibition leaders are iubilant.
They claim sweeping victory, be-
cause wherever they won it was clear
gain. The saloon interests, on the 9th
er hand, won nothing excepting what
they had before the election, and wher-
ever they were defeatd it was clear
loss.
James X. Shields of the Anti-Saloon
League said: 1.-The anti-saloon forces
won notable victory in Illinois Tues
day, a victory that puts them in splen-
did fighting trim for the battles still to
be fought--for we are only In the be-
ginning of this great conflict.
ut would have been modern mir
acle if we had carried Joliet, Aurora,
Elgin, Springfield, Moline and Rock
Island, where the power of the saloon
had been entrenched so long that moth
ing short of a moral earthquake could
have destroyed it at this time"
The liquor interests savec them
selves from complete rout only by car
rying the larger cities. With practi-
cally no exceptions they lost the rural
districts. In many Of the cities where
they won, the victory had been con-
ceded to them before the election by
the Anti-Saloon League, which realized
that wherever the saloon is an conom.
ic asset in municipal government
liquor is hard to depose. 1t was at
these points that the saloon interests
took the offensive in the battle and
made their stand to keep the state
from being swept into the prohibition
column.
Some Dry Cities.
Among the cities and towns which
voted saloons out are Anna, Assump-
ton, Altoona, Ashton, Arcola, Antioch,
Bradley, Batavia, Belvidere, Bradford,
Carbondale, Colona, Carmi, Carthage,
Clay City, Champaign, Charleston, Cor
nell, Clinton, Decatur, DeKalb, Della
van, Des PLANES, Dixon, Edinburg. Ell
Paso, Equality, Eureka, Fairbury,
Farmer City, Fulton, Griggsville, &C.
neva, Galena, Galesburg, Gridley,
Greenville, Hammond, Harlem, Har-
mon, Harrisburg, Harvard, Harvey,
Hinedale, Hillsboro, Hoopeston, Knox
vile, Lyons, Lexington, Lockport,
Louisville, Macomb, Mason City, Mar
shall, Mattoon, Mascoutah, Melrose
Park, Mendoza, Momence, Monticello,
Moweaqua. Mount Carroll, Mount Au-
burn, Mount Vernon. Mount Sterling,
Muncie, Mineral. Moreland, Mclean,
Morrison, Marissa, Naperville, New.
port, Nauvoo, North Litchfield, New.
ton, New Haven, Oregon, Oakland,
Orien, Oneida, Olney. Odell, Paris,
Pittsfield, Plainfeld. Pawpaw, Plano,
Plymouth, Pontiac, Princeton, Quincy
River Forest, Riverside, Rochelle,
Roodhouse, Rockford. Rochester
Rome, Rushville, Salem, st. Charles
Shawneetown, Sand Ridge, Shelbyville
Spring Valley, Stonington, Stockton
Sterator, st. Elmo. Sycamore, Tampico
Toledo, Toluca, Taylorville, Tuscola
Urbana. Versailles, vandalia, Vermil.
lion, Warren, Watseka, Walnut, Wau.
kegan, Wheaton, Wilmington, Warren.
Woodstock, Winona, Yorkville, Yates
CITY