Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-04-08
DAY FOR
SALOON MEN
IN ILLINOIS
VOTERS WIPE Fifteen
HUNDRED OFF THE MAP
Rural Communities Generally
Vote Against License Cities
Wet Election Results in|
Many States,

! Chicago. April 1.-Botween LEGO
and $500 saloons were voted out of
business in the local option elections
! held by 1850 townships ia cighty-fou'
counties of Illinois today. Twenty-Five
counties voted to become absolutely
Ianti-saloon territory, IN addition To tho
nine counties which abolished saloons
last November thus thirty-6nc Of tho
l02 counties in the state are now en-
tirely dry.
In todays election most Of the Iarg-
er cities of the state declared in favor
OF the saloons, while the towns and
rural communities generally voted 10
put them out OF business.
one OF the big disappointment oil
the day TO the Anti-Saloon league rs
was the result in Bloomington AM
especially ardent campaign had been
waged there against the saloons, yet
the majority in favor of the liquor H.
terests was over 1900.
The large cities voting for the 50
loon are Springfield, Freeport Au-
rora, Elgm, Sterling, Kankckee, Lin |
coin, Monmouth, Bloomington, Dan
vile, Joliet, MurphNsboro and Rock |
Island
Those voting to abolish the saloon
We're: Rockford, Decatur, Dixon, |
Hoopestown, Georgetown, Pontiac, !
Carbondale and Cham- |
pagne.
The following counties ats now ab- !
solutcly anti-saloon territory so Great |
ed by the voters today in addition to |
the six which voted last November to I
abolish the dram shop Boone Mnu- T
trie, Fayette, Hamilton Edgar, CLARKE, T
Brown, Saline Gallatin, Douglas, Ma 7
con, Cumberland, Piatt shelby Cole. +
White Wayne and Richland
In Chicago the election was purely /
and followed closely party
lines. One half of the membership +
of the city council of seventy was
elected Although the question of sun
lay closing Of saloons was barred I
from the ballot by court action, the
United Societies for Local Self govern
meat CANNED a ViCtOry inasmuch as
but twenty-three of the seventy alder-
men who will compose the new conu-
ell, they declared are opposed to the
suciety's platform, favoring personal
liberty. The independence league made
4 strong fight IN several Of the wards
and polled a vote of good proportions
for some of its nominees, but the total
'ote OF the party was less than that
" the socialists The prohibitionsits
devoted much Of their energy to the
election in the tWcntE-ScVenth ward
where they believed they had good
.hance of electing their candidates /,
The result gave them more than twice
he democratic vote but less than half I
hat Of the republican candidate who &
vas elected. The socialist vote was
also strong in that ward, exceeding
he democratic vote by more than 600. /
'he ward is in the northwestern por- \
ion of the city and has a large popu- j
alton. The new council will adhere t
o the rule Of organizing on non par
isan lines c
OF the townships in Cook county !
where the saloon question was an Is /
ue, Hanover, Maine Plivosi. Worth +
nd Thornton voted in favor OF the q
aloon and license and Riverside voted $
eainst saloons
The total vote in the city of Chicago il
vas: Y
Republican 1o7G4G; democratic, d
2l28; socialist, tG,7t5; independence t
eague, l490S; prohibitionist 9,93T;I S
catering Independent, 1850.
The vote on a proposition to issue t
: 100000 of county bonds to build a i
ew infirmary was overwhelmingly in \
he affirmative. t.