Mexico Missouri message., 1908-04-16
VETS LOSE IN
1923 TOWNS
LIQUOR INTERESTS ESCAPE UT.
TER RouT nv CARRYING THE
LARGER ILLINOIS CITIES.
1900 DRAMSHOPS TO CLOSE
Elahtssn Counties co Wholly Dry"
Only Two Entirely "Wet'--
Surprises In
Egypt"

~ 49,
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
200 and 1900 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 l,150
townships In which the liquor issue
was drawn the saloons were voted out
OF existence. Thus the Anti,saioon
League wrested practically three
fourths of the contested territory
away from the saloon interests.
Prohihltlonlsts Jubllant.
The prohibition leaders are jubilant,
They claim a sweeping victory, be.
cause wherever they won II was clear
gain. The saloon interests. on the 9TH
en- hand. won nothing excepting what
they had before the election. and wher-
ever they were defeatd 1t was clear
loss.
James X. Shields OF the Anti.Saloon
League said: THE anti.saloon forces
won n 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 a modern mir.
acle II 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 moral earthquake could
have destroyed II at this time"
The liquor interests saved 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. II 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.
Sons Dry cities.
Among the cities and towns which
voted saloons out are Anna. Assump-
ton. Altoona, Ashton. Arcola. Antioch,
Bradley. Batavia, Belvidere. Bradford,
Carbonate. Colona, Carmi, Carthage,
Clay City. Champaign. Charleston, Cor
neil, Clinton. Decatur. DeKalb, Della
van. Des PLANES, Dixon, EdInburg. FL
Paso, Equality. Eureka, Fairbury.
Farmer City. Fulton, Grlggsville. Ge-
neva. Galena, Galesburg, Gr1dley.
Greenville. Hammond. Harlem, Har-
mon, Harrisburg. Harvard. Harvey,
Hinedale, Hillsboro. Hoopeston. Knox
vile. Lyons, Lexington, Lockport.
Louisville, Macomb. Mason City, Mar
shall, NATION, Mascoutah, Melrose
Park, Mendoza, Momence, Monticello.
Moweaqua. Mount Carroll. Mount An.
burn. Mount Vernon, Mount Sterling,
Muncie. Mineral. Moreland. Mclean,
Morrison. Marissa, NaperviIIe, New.
port, Nauvoo. North LItchfield. New
ton. New Haven, Oregon, Oakland.
orien, Oneida. olney. odell, Paris.
Pittsfeld, PiainHeld. Pawpaw, Plano,
Plymouth. Pontiac. Princeton. Quincy,
River Forest. Riverside. Rochelle,
Roodhouse. Rockford. Rochester,
Rome. Rushyille. Salem. st. Charles,
shawneetown, Sand Ridge. shelbyvllle.
Spring Valley. stonington, Stockton,
sterator, st. Elmo. Sycamore, Tampico.
Toledo. Toluca, Taylorville, TuscoIa.
Urbana. Versailles. vandaIia, vermii-
lion. Warren, Watsska, Walnut, wau-
kegan, Wheaton. Wilmington. Warren,
Woodstock. Winona, Yorkville, Yates
City.