Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-05
LISTS BEING PREPARED FOR AC-
TIVE CAMPAIGN AGAINST Pc.
TITION.
DENIES
STORIES IN CIRCULATION
Declares Canvass Shows Statement
Made That Merchants Were Willing
to Sign is Untrue - Nails Another
FaIsehood Regarding Waterloo Fight
Supervisors Asked to Call Meeting.

Prepare tons which the Marshall
County Citizens Associa ton have
! been making to begin their active tisrt
to prevent the saloons from success
fully circulating their petition of con-
sent are rapidly nearing completion
| Within a day or two the campaign
against the petition and the saloons
will be launched in earnest
Some time has been spent in the last
twenty-four hours running down what
prominent members of the association
say are lies told by some OF those most
interested in getting the required num-
per Of signatures.
Poll Lists About Completed.
In a day or two the lists being drawn
from the poll books for the use of the
association will be completed and will
be ready for use. In the meantime the
saloon forces have clerks at work in
the county auditors office rechecking
the lists they drew of 10 correct err
rors in spelling and other mistakes. AS
soon as the citizens association has
its lists completed its campaign, which
is expected to be active and persistent
as long az il is required, Will be begun.
Run Down False Statements.
What are declared TO have been false
and untruthfuI statements are said to
have been made by Giro ulaJorS OF the
rnulct petitions. The citizens assoc
citation has made canvass of the bus
mess men, and especially the retailers,
and it is declared that Manager Han
sens statement that he has found bus
mess men so willing to sign" is not
true, but that the canvass shows that
very few, and far less than major
ity of them, have signed or intend TO
sign The association expects to show
the retailers soon why it is to their
interest not to sign, and why the sa-
Don is detrimental to their business.
from a standpoint of dollars and cents.
Nail Waterloo FaIsehood.
The association also denies as abso-
lutely false the statement OF saloon
men, who are circulating petitions, that
members Of the Marshall County Citl-
zens' Association have signed the petit
ton. The story has been used that in
the Waterloo campaign a proIn-
nent business man Of Waterloo had
subscribed 5000 to the Business Mems
Association of that city and had after
wards signed. over the telephone this
morning President Litchfield, of the
said thes tory was absolutely false
and that he is willing and able to prove
that it is. The opposite. he said, was
the truth; that a number, after sign
ing the petition, had then subscribed
20 the Business Mems Association to
fight the petition. Mr.. Litchfeld was
confident that the Waterloo petition
would be beaten in the supreme court
where the anti-saloon people have
carried 1t.
Still Another Denied.
The statement has been made that a
prominent dry goods merchant has
signed the petition. a special canvass
Of this branch OF the retail trade was
made Tuesday and today, and this
story, told by petition circuators, IS
denied as equally untrue with the
others.
Want Supervisors to Meet.
George F. Kirby, president Of the FL
deity Savings Bank. who owns or is
part owner Of property that is leased
by saloons. called on the board of sup
ervisors this morning and requested
that they call a meeting of the board
| for soon after April IS to canvass the
saloon petition. Mr.. Kirby said that
the petition was to De filed by April 10,
ana ne sought 70 nave arrangements
made by which the board would can
vass 1t soon after that time.
The board members made him no
promises, and have taken the position
| that they will make arrangements to
meet to canvass the petition when the
| time comes. and not until the petition is
actually on file.
Declare This Move a "BIuff."
| When this effort TO secure arrange
nents for a meeting of the board Of
| supervisors was carried to the Mar
shall County Citizens Association,
members declared that its sole purpose
was a bluff" pure and simple, made
/ solely for the effect it might have on
a certain number who would probably
| sign the petition if they knew that it
would be successful. They say that
there is probably no truth in the state
| ment that the petition will be filed on
April 10 or any time soon after that
| date, and that undoubtedly the saloon
| interests will take the limit. thirty
days from April l. Many uf the Cit
zen's Association members believe the
saloon petition Will be so woefully
I! lacking in names that no attempt will
be made to file at all.
When the present meeting Of the
supervisors is ended the board will
| probably adjourn at the call Of the
to reconvene should the necessity
arise.