The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-05-23
After the Thirteen Scheduled
To Be Pulled of Are His
tory, There win Still Be
Nineteen Left.
ELEVEN OF NUMBER
HAVE LARGE CITIES
Eight Of the Remaining Thir-
teen Are Already Ory-Hav-
ing a Warm Contest Up in
Madison County.

Madison County.
Indianapolis. May ce-After the
thirteen counties thet are to hold
county option elections between now
and June 3 get through voting there
will still be IS counties In which cleo
tions may or may not be held. Elev.
en- Of these counties are the ones con.
tanning the largest cities Of the state.
They are Marion. St. Joseph. Lake. VI
90. Knox. vanderburg. Allen. Dear.
born. Warrick. Perry and Dubois. II
Is an open question just what the re-
suit will be In these counties II elec-
tions are held. No elections have
been called In any of them, though
1t Is said the Temperance people viii
not stop until there has been IN elec.
tion In every county In the state. The
eleven counties named above are all
Wet counties. They are the only re-
naming wet counties In the state In
which elections have not been called.
Eight Are Dry Ones.
The other eight Of the nineteen
counties are all dry. They are Brown.
Dekalb. johnson. Scott, Steubeu. Un.
Ion. Warren and Wells. In these coun.
ties 1t Ia believed that the drys viii
win II elections are held.
This will narrow down the field Of
activities under the county option law
to . small territory and there may be
expected to be q relief from tha tur.
MOL over the liquor traffic that he's
torn the state from end to end ana
crosswise during the past year. This
agitation has split communities. hrok.
On friendships. caused dissensions.
SET nei9hbor as1inst ne1ghbor ana
caused more trouble than anything
tnat mas happened In Indiana In many
years. and 1t is safe to say that when
the end comes and there are NO more
counties for either side to conquer for
two years the people Of the state WIN
be glad to sit down and take q long
breath and feel that relief from the
strain has come ut last.
VIII bs Gxel1smenN
But between now and June there
will be enough excitement to satisfy
the most exacting citisen. Thirteen
counties are to hold elections. The
schedule is a. follows:
Tuesday, May Is. Monroe county:
wednesday. May Is. Madison. owen
and Crawford counties; Thursday.
May -. Laporte, Floyd and Harrison
counties; Saturday. May -. Ripley
county: Tuesday, June 1. Boone coun-
"; Thursday. June 3. Porter county:
Tuesday. June 8. Lagrange county:
wednesday. June >. Clark county.
The excitement just now seems 10
De centered In Madison county. where
there 10 . bitter fight on hand. Both
sides are working their heads Off TO
win and each side IL claiming q VIC
tory. Today 1t Elwood the ants-saloon
people made . big demonstr,tion
which was the biggest event Of the
entire campaign. Two thousand chil-
dren took part. along with a many
hundreds Of grown persons.
Next 70 Delaware.
Madison county il situated next %
Delaware county, which surprised ev-
erybody few weeks ago BY ebang dry
by the largest majority given h any
county In the state. and the drys claim
the result in Delaware county Win b
reflected In the returns from laAl.
son. But there IL Q different situation
In Anderson from the one ths4 exfss.
ed In Muncie. In Muncie most oe the
larger manufacturers were lined up
for the drys and they got oat aad
worked tooth and toe nail to drive oat
the saloons. In Anderson. however.
the citizens. especially the bustness
men. have been making . great effort
to locate some new Industries IN The
city. and they have already succesded
In landing several factories. Thee
men are nearly an wosiking for the
vets In Andersoo. becanse they Ae-
clare that II the saloooS are forced
out Of the city no more factories win
come In. Whether this b Q eood ar-
gument o. not 10. q course, q eues-
ton. but II seems to b effective. for
the situation in Nadison county n SIN
in . very much muddled cuoditsoa-
LApoFte county ls another IN which
the fight II warm. Two eDod sized
cities. MIchigna CITY ana LAposta. ne
In that county ana 81 boeh pancee
the liquor forces are struaG @ Shat
LApoFte county nay vote wee.
ID RECORD FLIGHT
Boay. France. Nay 2lHerbost
Latham, the French aesUaauf. made 1
record flight in . monoplane he1e t.
Gay. He stayed in the mir for 81 Uin-