Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-03
PRELIMINARY CANVASS eY At.
ToRNEY SHOWS MANY NAMES
DUPLICATED.
WITHDRAWALS NOW
BEING VOLUNTEERED
Ninety Eight Duplicates and Checking
Not Completed Yet-Others Will Be
Discovered Twenty-Three Who
Signed Did Not Vote-Some Names
Not Bona Eide Signatures.

! That the saloon petition OF consent
win fail to prove sufficient when fin
ally canvassed by the board of super
GERS of the Marshall County Citizens
/; Association and its attorneys.
! The "drys" are more confident than
ever of the insulTiciency Of the petition,
: following Very hasty and preliminary
checking which Will require many days
Yet to complete.
What will be found in the next few
weeks. or before the Withdrawals must
be filed on May %, ii is expected will
prove beyond the question of a doubt
that the petition lacks many names of
being up TO the total OF 1856. required
as a majority based on the vote of the
i last city election.
Has 1,77o Names.
According to NJ. Egermayer in
charge Of the work of checking. the Pc
tition bears a total OF no names. but
this figure represents every signature,
including the known duplicates and
names of those who signed but who
did not vote.
Known Duplicates Einety-Eight.
Instead of there being few dupli-
Gates, as given out by Manager Living
ston on the day following the fling Of
the petition. a total Of ninety eight
duplicates have already been found
with the work only begun. There are
also the signatures Of twenty three
who are now known not to have voted
at the election. as required by law to
be counted on a petition OF consent
The petition further shows three
erasures or urintelligible rames. One
of the latter. If it proves Ineligible and
is counted. will be a duplicate Of a
name properly signed.
With a total Of 121 names already
known that will come of, and only EOS
names shown as a gross margin, a ma
jority OF eightyfour is all that now re-
mains without taking any account Of
many signatures which will be found
to have been enormously signed which
class alone were enough to invalidate
the petition Of remonstrarce. Besides
this the "drys" are confident that they
will be able to secure much larger
number of Withdrawals than the pres
ent ma iority represents. The saloon
people themselves had figured so they
said. that they had counted on at least
100 Withdrawals. This many would
now prove the petition insufficient. The
never admitted to be as high as has
been found and. of course they Will
have to stand shrink for ell erroneous
signatures that will not be counted on
the petition
Withdrawals Being Volunteered.
Athn active work in the systematic
campaign OF securing Withdrawals has
not yet been begun, Withdrawals are
being volunteered to members Of the
citizens association. One that has been
offered is a good illustration. 1t is the
case of a man who had signed and
later had requested the workers at sa
loon headquarters to remove his name.
The man was promised that his name
would be taken off, but when the petit
ton was filed it was found that the
name had been left on. This naturally
incensed the signer, and he declares
that not only will he sign off but he
knows of ten others who will take their
names off and he is going to secure the
Withdrawals himself.
Under a more careful scrutiny of the
petition other duplicates will be found
that were not apparent at a first
glance, and it is believed that the du-
plicates alone will far exceed the 100
mark.
Meeting Tonight.
Attorneys Carney, Van Law and
Egermayer will address a meeting at
tho Church of Christ this evening ex-
planning to several hundred workers
how to obtain Withdrawals in a legal
and valid way.