The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-06
RESULT Of ELECTION IS
VERY ANX|OUSLY AWAITED
If Cass and Blackboard Coun ties Vote Wet odav II r.
Reasonable to Suppose That Lake County
Also Would in Event of an Election

vote In Blackford county than in any
oeher county that has yet voted at a
local option election, and this also is
| counted on by the vets to helm them
to win. They say that Hartford City
and Montpelier will go wet by such a
| large majority that the country dis
tricts cannot overcome it. Thousands
OF dollars have been wagered on the
result of the election. Even money is
the best that anyone can get, and last
night there was $500 on one of the
boards at Hartford City offered at even
money that the county would go wet.
There were no takers.
The fight in Cass county which cul-
inmates today in the local option cleo
ton, has been the bitterest fought of
any yet held in the state Business
In Logansport has been demoraIized;
the town has been split into factions;
enmlties have been engendered that
Will last for years; quarrels have been
numerous on the streets and in bust
ness places; there have been fist fights
over the subject of wet or dry Both
sides have organized to the limit and
It was the intention this morning to see
TO 1t that every man in the county that
Is able to vote shall vote before the
polls close 1t is a ferocious battle.
bogansport has many saIoons-in
TACT more than are usually found in a
city of its size, and there has never
Deen time when a thirsty man could
not get drink there day or night. Sun
day included. Logansport has had
many murders traceable to liquor, and
this is one of the reasons why the peo-
PIE OF Cass county are stirred up over
the question. But there are more yot-
ers in Logansport than there are in the
entire county outside of the CITY. and
1t is conceded by everybody that the
city will go wet by a large majority
The voters of Logansport outnumber
those of the out-townships by 9S1. The
vets insist that this fact alone will as
sure them a safe majority at todav's
election, but the drys are claiming that
the out-townships will give such large
dry majorities that they will overcome
the west lead in the city.
Logansport is a great railroad center
and large manufacturing city. en-
ploying many men, and it has always
been counted as one of the most liberal
and wide open towns in the state. It
has not been so bad in the last few
years as it used to be, but it is stf1la
liberal stronghold
Politics has entered largely into the
situation in Cass county. The demo-
cratic leaders are charging that the
calling Of the election was a shrewd
republican trick. The republicans have
gone right ahead with their prepare
lions for the election, and they have
with them many democrats who have
worked to root out the saloons.
These two elections ought to Just
about show what may be expected in
the rest of the liberal towns of the state
when 1t comes to a showdown at a local
option election. If the vets carry Cass
and Blackford counties, then such conn
ties as St Joseph. Lake. Allen. Della
ware, Madison and Vigo NAV also he
counted reasonably in the wet column
Dol II these TWO counties vote them
selves dry today, then the vets in those
other counties may well have causa m
iear the result when it comes their
turn.