Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-07
| BIG lNROAD MADE IN SALOONS
CONSENT IN FIRST DAYS
! ATTACK.
PETITIONS MAJORITY is
CUT DOWN TO sEVENTY-Slx
One Hundred Twenty Names
Stricken OFF During Tuesdays Hear
ins-continue Making Legal objec-
tions Today-1oard's Revised Cou~+
Gives Total of 1873 Names.


/ Removed by "drys". ......... 141
Majority left to date. ......... rs
From an original majority of PIT,
when the board of supervisors began
to canvass the petition Of consent Mon
day afternoon. TO a majority Of but
seventy-six at noon today, marks the
! inroads made on the saloons right to
do business after July l by the at
torneys representing the Marshall
! County Citizens Association in ap-
proximately thirty-six hours.
! With abundant ammunition left for
additional attacks on the petition the
dry attorneys began to be Of the
opinion at noon that it might not be
necessary to submit Withdrawals TO the
board They expressed confidence that
they would be able to beat the petition
solely by legal objections.
Revise Count Of Petition.
BY rechecking of the count Of the
names on the petition, which was made
g, .ha Supervisors and County Auditor
A H Welker it was found an error Of
twenty-seven names had been made.
which favored the ''drys, and was
| againsr the saloons. The original count
was LAY, to which was added nine
more claimed by the saloonists' at
torneys, making a total Of 1876. the
revised count gave total OF liza TO
which was added the nine claimed by
the "wets,' making the corrected total
1883 instead of 1855 The error was
discovered when the county auditor
checked his totals of the 263 sections as
ne had added them on the adding ma
chine. 4. transposiJion Of figures was
found that made the difference Of TWEEN
ty-seven.
Many Taken Of.
Up to the time the board adjourned
Tuesday evening the dry attorneys
| had begun to make large holes in the
| petition. During the day 124 names
had been stricken from the petition by
the supervisors on objections made by
| the contestants. The saloon attorneys
made no contest on great many OF
! these names, admitting that they
| should go off the petition. This fore
Moons session resulted in seventeen
more names being stricken off because
Of legal objections. Slower progress
was made this morning, as much time
| was consumed in argument, wranging
! y
| cisions to the supervisors.
/ Ninety Five Implications.
| Beginning with the claim that there
we're many Implications, and starting
with the list on which there were nine
| ty-eight that were claimed to be such,
| by the time the list had been gone thru
with the supervisors had stricken off
Of the petition ninety-hve Of them.
| Three We're passed as being in doubt
| The "wets" admitted that great
many Of these names should come Oft
and raised no contest to their removal
Other Names Removed.
| The next attack of the ''drys" was
under what they have called their ex-
hibit b" it being a list Of names al
( legged not to be on the poll books In
most Of the instances the correspond
ing identical name that was on the
petition could not be found in the ward
poll book where the petition alleged
the sisner voted. In some cases the
registry number Of the signer was
found to be the registry number OF a
voter who had not signed. In suc>
cases the name was stricken off. In
other instances the name on the petit
ton and the poll list was not identi-
cal, and they were stricken off. For
ditional names were removed.
Nineteen More Stricken Off.
Finishing the attack under exhibit
%" the drys opened under exhibi,
"C'' late Tuesday afternoon. The latter
is a long list of names alleged TO not
be identical with the names on the poll
list Two Of these names were re-
moved before adjournment in the eve
ming and seventeen more were stricken
eff during the hearing this morning.
The contest over this class Of names
was with especial regard to differences
in the given name and middle initial
Long arguments on this point took VI
much time this morning, but the SUI
pervisors ruled that where, for instance
a name appeared as William H. on the
petition and was signed W. H. on the
poll book the name should be stricken
off. The decision being that there was
no means Of telling whether the W
Fl. Of the poll list meant William H. o,
the petition Or some other given name
Thsi ruling affected a dozen or more
names The board ruled that where
the given name and initial were used
or just the initials were signed, they
must be identical on both the petition
and the poll book
Bring Up Forgery Case.
The first case Of alleged forgery ir
the signing of name on the petition
was developed by the dry" lawyers
shortly before the hearing adjourned
for lunch. T. H. Meickley was brought
before the board and asked If he signed
the petition. He denied that he did. H.
was asked if John J. Pink, whose sig.
nature was opposite Meickley's on the
! petition as the witness. had ever talk.
ed with him about the signing Of thu
| petition. He said he never had and
knew nothing as to who might hay,
put his name there.
L Bradford announced that he woult
l produce witnesses when the prope
/ time arrived to prove that Meickle5
signed the petition. The board ad
/ ; tourned without passing on the name
Auditors Books to Govern.
III A controversy, which developed
| Tuesday afternoon, was brought III