Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-09
SALOON ATTORNEY ALLEGES RE-
VOCATION INSUFFICIENT FOR
NUMBER OF REASONS.
SAYS NON VOTERS AND
DUPLICATES CUT TOTAL
saIoonists Want to Open Bars to "iee
Perishable Stocks" Temperance
People Will Not Disclose Hand
Acres Finds New Proposition Affect
ing Saloons Muict Petition.

Alleging that the petition of revoca-
ton Is insufficient for any number of
claimed reasons; with saloon owners
alleging persecution and clamorlng to
open, even IL for nothing more than to
"ice their perishable stocks" and with
saloon attorney seeking with 'feelers
to ascertain what the county attorney is
going to do, the indications were today
that the saloon question will como to a
crisis within short time.
T. F. Bradford said this morning
that, after the first check Of the peti-
ton. that counting those who did not
vote at the general election, but who
signed, and those who duplicated their
signatures-some Of them as many as
four times-that there was not major
ity on the petition. These. he said, did
not include the sixty Withdrawals, for
ty-seven who signed and are now dead.
and 100 who signed and have moved
away.
Set Up Persecution Cry.
Alleging a willingness to be the OBJ
ject OF legitimate prosecution but
claiming that the revocation procedure
is persecution, the offer was made this
morning to furnish County Attorney j.
III. Egermayer with the facts regarding
the petition.
Bradford offered to furnish the
county attorney with a copy Of his
finding, showing the exact status OF the
petition. This would show the number
of the signers dead, the number that
had moved from the city, and tho
number Of duplicates which would re-
duce the total on the petition far below
the required majority.
He would furnish this, he said. SO
that the county attorney could inform
himself as to the true condition OF the
status Of the petition. On the alleged
|insuficiency of the petition Is based
the claim OF persecution.
Claiming that they wanted to open
up that they might ice their perish
able stocks" the county attorney was
sounded this morning regarding the
result If the saloonists should do so.
The county attorney replied that ar
rests would probably be made.
Procedure Not Known Yet.
| An effort was made by saloon at
| torneyS this morning to learn from
the county attorney and E. r. Acres
representing the temperance people
who is still in the city. what method
might be employed to test the validity
OF the petition. The saloonists' at
torneys want to test the petition by
criminal procedure.
Mr.. Acres and the county attorney
would not say for publication what
course the anti-saloon forces or the
state would pursue They decline tc
show their hand until the saloons make
| the first move.
! Mr. Acres has discovered a new pro-
position that enters into the question
and may seriously affect the mulet Pc
tition under which the saloons have
been operating. He has found that
since the mulct petition was circulated
| much additional territory has beer
taken into the city, and that the people
| of this territory have never had a
chance to give or refuse their consent
| to the saloon. He says that the ques-
ton has never been decided by the
courts, but that it is n grave and un-
settled question insofar as the saloons
are concerned.