The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-22
THE BATTLE
OF THE DAYS
DOZEN COUNTIES TO
WAGE WAR FOR COUN-
TY OPTION.
Anti-Saloon League Has Diff
cult Problems to Overcome in
Tippecanoe and Delaware.


ana Anti-Saloon league little op
portunity to answer the invita-
ton of the spring days and leav,
their work for a few hours recre
alton now and then. With tn,
twelve elections confronting hin
the officials are compelled to b,
on the jump from one to anothe
OF the counties concerned, will
scarcely a breathing spell be
tween jumps. The entire force
will go to Clay county to-mor
row in preparation for perfect
ing the organization, in tina
county for the election May 4
The twelve elections are as fol
lows:
April 26.-Jackson and White
counties.
April 27.-Delaware county.
April 29.-Kosciusko and
Starke counties.
April 30.-Martin, Jefferson
and Tippecanoe counties.
May 4.-Spencer, Clay and
Pulaski counties.
May 5.-Fulton county.
Tippecanoe and Delaware.
The chief concern of the
league forces centers in Tippe-
canoe and Delaware counties.
Though the officials are reason
ably certain of being able to vote
Ilppecanoe county dry the
Delaware situation presents a
more serious aspect. The force OF
Purdue university is counted up
on by the league as being sufi-
cient to carry TippecanoA over
the tide of wet sentiment en-
gendered by an association of
business men in Lafayette. Word
has been received at league head
quarters to the effect that Presi-
dent Stone, of Purdue, has been
told by citizens from counties
adjoining Tippecanoe that if
Iippecanoe county is to kept
wet they will exert every
means at their command to have
the appropriation for the univer-
sity cut down in the next session
OF the general assembly.
The chief source of concern in
Delaware county is the great
union labor vote in Muncie. The
league forces have not yet learn
ed OF any definite attempt to
brighten the union labor voters
into lining up with the wet" but
preparations are being made in
expectation of such an attempt.
The league learned a valuable
lesson in the Cass county fight,
when the Democrats of the
county were lined UP against the
"dryS' at the last minute by a
personal appeal from the demo-
cratic county chairman, who rep
resented that the fight had been
brought solely for the purpose OF
further disrupting the party in
that county. The condition came
so late in the campaign that the
league forces were unable to
meet it, and it is to this fact that
the league attributes its loss in
that county.
May Try to Repeat Cass Coup.
1t is feared that in Delaware
county some such an appeal will
be made to the union labor forces
when it is too late for the league
to meet the condition, unless
preparations are made at once to
prevent such a turn of affairs.
One of the hardest problems
the league has been compelled
to meet in 1ippecanoe county, il
is understood, is the Hanly ques-
ton. The republicans of the
county have been divided ino
Hanly and the anti-Hanly fac
tons for a long time, and the
league has found difficulty in
making the anti-Hanly republi-
cans believe the question was not
raised in that county merely for
the purpose of obtaining vic
DRY for the Hanly forces. With
many of the anti-Hanly voters
the mere fact that the county OPP
ton law is a Hanly measure has
been sufficient to cause them to
line up with the "wets."
After an examination into the
evidence submitted from Brazil
Clay county, concerning the adj
vertising matter issued by the
Terre Haute Brewing company
in which Brazil residents were
told how to receive liquor in a
dry territory, without evadine
the law, Carl Minton, attorney
for the league, has sent word to
the Brazil compliments that the
brewing company is clearly with
in the law, and that as long as
the material is ordered from the
company's home office in Terre
Haute and paid for by a remit
lance accompanying the order,
there exists no ground for action
against the company.
Brewing Company's Plans.
Brazil and Clay county arc
DIR" y remonstrance ana the
brewing company proposed to
supply thirsty Brazil citizens
with beer, ordered from Terre
Haute, paid for in advance and
shipped to the customer in care
of some delivery agent in Brazil.
Such q condition doac not +rO,,