Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-03
CLAIM IT ILLEGAL
Proceeding to Restrain Placing
IF Pro hihition Proposition
on the Ballot.
TO BE FILED WITH CITY CLERK
Position Taken That eo4 Signatures
Are Fauity-Opening of
Action at Law.

The local option petition under
which the local prohibition campaign
is being conducted in Rock Island is
TO be challenged. Steps are to be
taken TO attack it as illegal, and the
oventuality may be the intervention of
prohibition of law TO prevent prohibi-
ton by law.
J. l.. Haas of Haas & Weld, who is
attorney for the AUTHORIZATION
league, has been carefully going over
the local option petition in Rock Is
land. Will it is expected, this
afternoon with City Clerk
Rudgren an instrument demanding
that the prohibition proposition be not
placed on the ballot at the forthcOm
ing election. on the ground that it is
rot representative. and hence Illegal
The document is signed by a dozen
or~more citizens and business men,
and it speaks for itself:
The Restraining Petition.
To Martin Rudgren, City Clerk of
the City of Rock Island, Ill.-The I'M
Gersigned citizens and duly registered
legal voters of the City of Rock Island
H., respectfully SHOW that the petition
submitted to you ON the 9Th day of
February last, requesting you, that you
cause to be submitted to the voters
of the City of Rock Island at, the next
election the proposition, shall this
city become antlsaloon territory is
of in, in, mi
ance with the legal requirements in
this:
/. The said petition IS not signed
by the required number of legal voters
OF said city as required by law.
2. A number of the pretended legal
voters whose signatures appear on the
said petition have signed said petit
ton twice.
3. A number of the said pretended
legal voters have rot signed the said
Petition in their own proper person
as required by law.
4. a number of said pretended legal
voters have not written opposite their
respective signatures, their addresses
respectively. as required by law.
o., number of said pretended legal
voters whose signatures appear on
said petition are not legal voters in
said City of Rock Island. as cOntem-
plated and required by law.
G. The total number of signatures
improperly OIL said petition as above
shown is eignt hundred and four (SOD
thus leaving only six hundred and fifty
nine (G59) proper signatures on said
petition. and not sufficient to warrant
and justify you to act as requested
by said petition.
7. The said petition is defective il
law in this: That the statement APP
pearing at the bottom of each an(
every sheet of said petition is defec
tive, insufficient and not in compliance
with the requirement of the law il
this respect.
The undersigned therefore protes
against the recognition and considera
ton by you of said petition and of thu
prayer of said petition addressed I,
you and,
We request and demand o
you, that you deny the prayer of SAT-
petition and that you refrain from sui
hitting to the legal voters of said Cit
OF Rock Island at the next election
to be held in this city. the propos
ton "shall this city become anti-saloo
territory" as requested in and by sal
petition.
Means n Test ut Law.
The filing of the document with tn
city clerk is of course preliminary t
a proceeding at law. This is newt;
BILE Should the city clerk respect tn
demand of the petition, the Local o.