The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-03-11
Anti-saIoon League viii Take
No Chances of Having the
County Local Option Law
Repealed.
STORMING OF MARION
COUNTY is PROBABLE
And the B0IdneSS of the Leaq-
uers Further Shown by
Plans Made to Wage Fight
On Fort Wayne.
Special Correspondent.

Special Correspondent.
indianapolis, Ind, March 11.-S Since
| the legislature adjourned without do
ing anything with the county local op-
ton law or enacting any other liquor
legislation. it is interesting to note the
efforts that are being made to make
Indiana a dry state before the next leg
| lslafure can have an opportunity to
| take whack at the law. There are
many, in fact most of the people, seem
| to have the idea pretty we'll fixed in
their minds that the county option law
| Is on the statute books to stay and that
neither the next nor any other legis-
lature will repeal it.
e. S. Shumaker. state superintendent
OF the anti-Saloon League. has prepar-
ed for reference, a map in which all
OF the counties Of the state which have
voted dry under the county local OPP
ton law are shown in red.
That is to make them stand out"
says Shumaker.
Wet Territory Scarce.
The map, as hung on the wall. shows
that straight line may be drawn from
the southwest corner of Sullivan coun-
ty to the northeast corner of the state
without crossing wet territory. A Sec
ond line might be drawn from the Wa
bash river at the northeast corner of
Sullivan county straight through to the
Ohio river at Crawford county without
leaving dry territory. A similar line
might be drawn from the south line of
Benton county to the north line of
Greene county without crossing any ex-
cept dry territory.
A trio of counties now OCCUPYING the
attention of the league. is composed OF
Blackford. Delaware and Madison. An
election will be held in Blackford
| county April 6. A campaign will be
opened in Delaware county as soon as
Billy Sunday can be procured to begin
| series of meetings In Muncie, when
the league forces expect to be able to
vote the county dry, and then move to
Madison county. The trio is causing
the league more concern than any 9TH
er counties in the state, because they
form the only large area of wet terri
tory in this section of the state. With
these counties dry. the league figures
that the early skirmishing of the big
battle to make Marion county dry will
have been won. However, the league
does not contemplate an early assault
on Marion county.
Election Dates Set.
| The following counties will hold To-
cal option elections this month: Miami.
March 16, expected to go dry; Benton,
March D, counted as certain by the
league; Greene, March %, also counted
certain; Montgomery, March %; rea-
sonably certain to go dry: Ohio, March
"a, certain to go dry; Elkhart, March
%, certain to go dry: Bartholomew,
March 80. hard fight expected: Jen-
nings, March 80, expected to go dry:
vermillion, March 80, hard fight ex-
pected on account of the foreign popu-
lation in Clinton; Henry county. March
81. already dry by remonstrance. Three
hundred and four saloons are con-
cerned in the outcome of these cleo
lions.
Lafayette to Vote.
| At Lafayette, a meeting of the Cen
trail Committee of the Civic League,
was held the other night and a special
committee of nine was named to con-
suit the committees from various 9TH
er organizations OF the city and the
county concerning county option
election. The committee will repre-
sent the Civic league and the questions
to be considered are whether an cleo
ton should be held and il 50. when.
The committee will have general
charge Of the election IL one is held.
/ County attorney John w. Morgan.
OF Columbus. has handed down an
opinion by which he holds that three
saloon men who sought to demonstrate
against the county commissioners hold
/ ing a special county option election.
have no appeal fro mthe county COM
missioners to the circuit court of Bar
tholomew county. The drys in that
county are making an active campaign
for the election which is to be held the
last Of this month.
A Fl. Wayne Surprise.
One Of the surprises Of the week Is
the news from Fort Wayne that the
1 Anti-Saloon League is considering the
question whether q county local option
/ election shall be held in Allen county.
The matter has been left with n. c.
Shirley. superintendent OF the league
for that part OF the state There ara
go saloons in the county with a large
following that greatly increased Sena-
tor Fleming's majority in the last cleo