Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-08
PAPER TRUST. RESOLUTIONS ARE
AOOPIEDBY HOUSE AS PRESENTED
RECENTLY BY SPEAKER CANNON

ti0ual campaign ever WdSeu Ill AuToTd,
the voters decided that they would do
away with. saloons. The vote was
4.2O1 for the saloons and 2,65O against
them.
The forces of the saloon and local
option elements battled desperately
during the entire day in an effort to
get out every vote. Before o'clock
in the morning-before the women
who fought for local option had begun
to tug at &he church bell ropes to
sound call to the voters-long lines
of men were waiting at the election
booths for opportunity to register their
verdict.
The enthusiastic. feminine adherents
of local option could not restrain their
desire to put in word for their cause
and button-holed voters by the dozen.
!, While hundreds of women were put
ting forth all their physical efforts in
carriages, at the bell ropes. and at the
polls, hundreds of others were on
hended knees in the churches in an
appeal that the forces of liquor be de-
feated.r
If the telepathic thought wave had
influence many voters were engulfed
by it yesterday, for thousands of wo-
men staid at home and concentrated
thoughts which would speed out and
clutch the minds Of the men with an
irresistible and compelling force.
| Atoms, Prayers Unanswered.
Alton. ILL.,, April S.-Local option
was defeated in Madison county. The
campaign against saloons was waged
lin IL of the % townships. At Alton
the women held an all day. meeting to
pray that local option might win.
Every saloon in Alton was closed
with much ceremony. Mayor Bealrs
statement that the finances of the city
would be seriously impaired, consider
ling the heavy obligations on special
Improvement bonds, should the reve
nue. be reduced by the closing of sa
looms, had the greatest influence
against local option.
Four hundred foreigners, who pre-
4 sented affidavits of citizenship, but M
naturalization papers, voted in Woo
River township adjoining Alton ans
tcarried the day for the saloons The,
live in settlement with 81 unlicens
led saloons around the Standard -Oi
|refinery.
Joliet Wet by 2,474.
u Joliet, ILL.,, April S.-Joliet has gon,
, wet by majority of 2,474. The tota
vote in the township was more thai
$4,000, the largest ever cast in the his
tory of the township.
The managers of the anti-saloon cam
paign claim that over 1000 illega
, votes were cast at the election, bu
concede their defeat The vote stood
Wet, 5,576; dry, 3.1O2; not voting, 544
i Every saloon in Joliet was closed
and each of the LA saloon keepers
turned out with his batenders AM
employees to work at the polls.
The entire city administration work
, ed hard also for the wet side to saw,
the revenue to the city.
/. The "drys" are not at all discour
aged, and they have already arranget
: for q mass meeting for tonight t
: start the campaign for two years from
now.
, The anti-saloon men will start an i'm
!, mediate fight for the enforcement @
= the laws against keeping the saloon
open on Sunday and after IL o'cloc
: at night. Neither of these laws ha
!. been observed for the last 20 years i
Joliet
DanviIle Wet by 1000.
: Danville. H., April sS-The wet
carried the day in Danville by m,
jority of 1000 votes. The "a saloon
whose licenses were imperiled by th
dry" agitation win keep their door
open. Georgetown township, with
saloons. went dry by small majorit
The campaign was the fiercest eve
twaged in DanviIle.
Notwithstanding the fact that. RAJ
set in at IL a. m. and continued Il
: the polls closed, workers on both sid,
: remained at their posts till the la
= man had voted. The result was Il
largest vote ever polled in the tow
ship.
u Freeport Remains Wet.
= Freeport, H., April S.-The tow
p ship Of Freeport, with A saloon
Z went wet by 714 majority. The tot
= vote was: For license, 1886: no
= cense, 1,622. From six to a doz'
= women were at each polling place, b
= did little active csnvassing.
The town of Harlem, with one i
loon, went dry by Is majority. r.
Z dott, with two saloons. is wet by /
majority
OF the IS townships in Stephens
IN county II voted under the local opti
g. law, and IA of them went dry. OF
sr. saloons III the county seven we
". voted out.
re- Vets wis In ElGfn.
Is. Elgin. ILL.,, April S.-Elgin townst
10 went wet upon the hardest fout
at, ELECTION ever held In Kane coun
nd The total vote in EIgin was $685.