Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-03-06
HOUSE TO HOUSE CANVASS
SHOWS MAJORITY OF VOTERS
WOULD NOT SIGN PETITION.
BELIEVED LESS THAN ONE.
FOURTH FAVOR SALOONS
While Figures From Committees in
Twenty Four Districts Are incom.
pIete, Enough Are at Hand to Spell
Failure for SaIoonists on This Years
Election

If a saloon consent petition is ever
started in Mershalltown this year i.
viii meet the severest frost that ever
bNghted AT enterprise of the kind be-
fore. a house to house canvass was
made sunday morning by a force Of 200
ti-saloon workers who called upon
the voters in every block in town and
inquired as to who would sign a saloon
petition. who would sign a remon-
STRANGE and who would sign neither
one. The results have not all been
turned in 70 the committee. but from
the returns already made it is evident
that the saloons would have great diff
Guilty in obtaining half the signatures
necessary to give them consent to run.
For instance. in the Electric addition
district, OF forty-nine voters canvassed
only four would sign for saloons On
the other hand the district south Of the
railroad tracks. and east Of Third
avenue, where the largest foreign born
population resides. returned only one
majority for saloons out of sixtv-one
votes canvassed. This is Offset BIZ an
other Second ward district extending
north If Main street. between Third
and Sixth streets. and including the
Highview neighborhood where only
thirteen would ;sgn for saloons. 1o7
would sign against. thirty-fiva would
not sign either, and twen.y-eight re-
fused 10 tell where theiy stood
being classed as possibly favor
able 10 saloons but not strong
enough 10 sign saloon petition
Even IN the packing house neigh Dor
hood. out Of sixty ght voters seen.
only tWentT-three would sign a saloon
pesit.on. while fortyhve would either
sign against saloons or would no. sign
either way Another district in the ex-
treme eastern part Of the Fourth ward
returned only ten who would sign for
saloons. While thirteen would actually
sign against and nineteen promised .be
committees that they would never sign
either way. A Third ward district
showed only seventeen who would sign
Tor saloons. eighteen who might. ana
eish'E-th-ee who promised the commit
tees that they would either sign aRains.
o. would never sign either way
The entire city had been divided into
'weheE-tour districts, with a captain
over eacn district who directed The
Work OF from six TO twenty men. Fully
2eo men were at work A repor> in
writing. upon every voter canyassed
VIII b. made 10 the HEADQUARTERS Of +ba
Marshall County Citizens Association
where a complete record of how tba
voters stand on this saloon question
viii BE- kept. If a saloon petition is
ever circulated the committee will
know whom 20 call upon to get out and
Work against il. and also when mol,
BOOKS are made UP al the elections the
clerks OF the association will check
them over TO know whether saloon
petition could succeed upon that par
ticular poll list
Cards were circulated in all the
churches Of the city upon which was
gathered the same information .as TO
men who might be missed by the can
Sassers in the residence districts.
Inc saloons are doomed in Marsha,1.
town July l mex. unless the minds of
a missing third Of the electorate can
De charged, Cor the house to house cen.
sus taken yesterday would indicate less
than one-fourtn Of the voters willing 70
actually sign for saloons and even some
OF these might change their minds az
ter their wives had talked to them.