Bisbee daily review., 1909-09-24
\ LOCAL OPTION PETITION SOON
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The outcome of the preliminary test between the "wets" and the "drys" in Maricopa county is being watched with considerable interest in Co ehise county, as it may be the Wsans of settling some of the controversies that are likely to arise when the peti- ton asking for local opetioa election in the county is filed when the Board of Supervisors meets on the ath of next month. The residents ot Tempe petitioned the Board of Supervisors to call for a local election in the City of Tempe and wished to exclude the balance of the Tempe judicial pre- cinct, the Board of Supervisors, act ing on the advice of the district attor- ney, refused to seggregate as the law provides the city from the balance Of the precinct. This was done for the purpose of making a test case of the segregation law. before the election is held here in the spring. The Royal Arch, through its attorneys. will man- damus the Board and the matter will be taken to the district court at once. The election will be called on the dis posal of this question.
 The Anti-SsIoon League in Cochise county has its petition about com pleted and will present ii to the Board of Supervisors on the first Mon day in October, when the Board meets. The petition will have some thing over 400 names signed to it. which is coRserably over the number required by law, which states that where the election is called for the county the petition must contain at least $50 names. The petition will call for an election for the entire county.
 The presentation of the petition promises to bring up number of interesting contentious, in the first place the law regarding the calling of local option election provides that the election must be called with in not less than fifteen nor more than thirty days after the order has been made by the Board. The recent law passed by the legislature re- garding the qualifications provides that, Prior to any general or special election hereafter to be held, the Board of Supervisors of any county, shall by order, require a re-registra- ton of the voters of such county, which order shall be published in at least one newspaper published iu such county, or if none be published, one having a general circulation therein, for not less than thirty days preced- ing the next ensuing election" The two laws conflict in that the election cannot be called by the Board with out a registration and that requires longer than thirty days as the notice alone has to be published that length of time. while the law in the local option election states that the Board must call the election within thirty days The usual time taken in the registration of the voters in Cochise county is from June until the middle of October or twenty days before the general election It will take that amount of time to make re-registra- tion of the voters in Cochise county, which now number close to eight thou sand.
 It was the intention of the Anti Saloon League, in the event that the county voted dry, to attack the seg- gregation law so that no city or pre-, cinct that voted wet would be al lowed to remain wet. Now that the question has been raised in Maricopa county, perhaps it will establish a precedent in the territory. and save the expense of suits being brought in this county.