The Detroit times., 1910-04-04
FATE OF sAL00h1
Be DECIDED I0D1
IN IS COUNTESS
Both Vets and Drys Claim n
That Fell Monday Morning Favor
Their Side-Result Nay Be
Closer Than Expected
Two Hundred Business Men Pres>1
Petition in Flint for Resubmis~
sion of Local Option Question.

There was great difference Of opi1
ion Monday morning as to Just WIS
effect the rain that was genero<3
through eastern Michigan MondoV
morning would have on the result ca
the local option election In the coul
ties where the moisture was prectvQ
tated.
| 1T is our rain,' said the VETS" TIL
farmers will not take the trouble ca
hitch up their horses and travel ovQ(
the muddy reads to the voting place.
| This is wet weather, sure enough
Il am inclined to think that Il fv|
our rain after ALL" commented AttoG
ney Pliny w. Marsh, who was t
charge of the Anti-Saloon league heo1
quarters Monday morning. III
spring is SO far advanced that ma11X<
of the farmers might work II II wetQ|
not for the rain. Now, they canuot'
work and SO they will be more Likely
to vote"
The rain is not considered to have
been a very serious element In any,
event. II did not affect the westerns
counties. Both sides are still as con-
| fdent as ever and all that an outsid9'
observer can gather is that both are
|
the result rather closer than either
side will admit.
! A striking event OF election day wao
the presentation OF a petition signed:
by 200 Genesee county businessmen "a;
the county officers at Flint asking for
re-submission of the local option.
question year from today. Geneseo'
went dry year ago and that Is the,
opening gun of new local option
campaign there which will endure dur
ing the year.
! George w. Morrow, superintendesAt.
of the Anti-Saloon league, got into
Detroit shortly after noon Monday
from western Michigan and reports
that all is bright for the dry side
there.
Attorney Marsh makes some predic-s
tons as to results from the flguroo'
that have come In during the past day
or two. He claims that Kent county
will go dry by 500 to 1000 votes:A
Mackinac by 800 to 500: st. Clair by
500 to 1000; Lenawee by $500; Ing,
ham by 5000; Oakland by 1000; Mid.
land by 800 TO 400 and Van Buren, by
$500.
Lenawee went wet by vote OF
nearly two to one last time and Oak
land was carried dry by only small
majority two years ago.
The vets are as hopeful as ever,
conceding the possibility of defeat In
only four TO seven of the 36 counties
in which the question is TO be sub
mitted.
A complaint was received at Anti
Saloon league headquarters early Mon
day morning that Supervisor Bailey,
of Port Huron, had refused to allow
dry challenger In one election booth.
Attorney Marsh advised that an APP
peal be made at once TO the circuit
court.
Dry workers in the Fourth ward OF
Owosso Monday charged that OF the
$50 registered names so are illegal
and deputy sheriff was sent to in
vestigate
A heavy vote is reported ON the
local option question there, in Corun-
ma, and all OF Shiawassee county
where a hot campaign 10 kill the sa-
Icons has been waged.
The drys closed their campaign By
holding 1000 meetings In churches aud
other places Sunday. Their most pow
erful speakers and debaters were
mustered In the counties where tho
result may be close. The vets also
held meetings. Mayor Rose. Of Mil
waukee. addressed a big gathering In
Grand Rapids, where the struggle has
waged fiercely other meetings were
Aeld In the lower peninsula and QUO
at Pressure Isle. The vets did not wind
UP their campaign IL such whirlwind
manner as the drys. They ended the
struggle IN many sections Saturday
night confident that they would win.
Sixty-five men and women from
Flint, including twelve members OF
the Women's Christian Temperance
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