The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-10-11
LOCAL OPTION BATTLE
TO Be WAGED IN DOZEN &
COUNTIES IN Spring
Anti-Saloon League Lines Up
Forces for Fight Petition
Must Be Filed This Week.
PLNY MARSH ON THE JOB.
National and State Legislation
To Be Sought in War
on Liquor.
PLINY MARSH ON THE JOB.

IN PREPARATION for the battle Of bal.
lots between the wet and dry
forces OF Michigan. to be held on the
hrst Monday OF next April. Snpt q.
w. Morrow OF the Michigan Anti-Sa-
loon league, 10 mapping out an exten-
sive campaign, TO keep intact the 81
out OF 68 counties in the lower pen
insula, which are In the dry column.
and to win over the six wet coun-
ties In which local option VIII be sub
mitted.
The battle will wage In Leelanau,
Grand Traverse, Wexford. Lake. Me-
costa and RoscommoE counties, from
which the Anti i-Saloon league will try
70 drive the saloon. and In Lapeer,
Antrim. st. Joseph. Missaukee, Kali
kaska. Altoona. and. possibly. Isabella.
which the liquor interests viii try 70
make wet
All petitions for an election must
be filed during the present week.
while thS county boards OF snperyis
ors are meeting. and Attorney Piiny
w. Marsh. OF the Anti-HRloon league,
10 at present touring the state, TO fur
ther the efforts toward getting dry
petitions through, and TO block, II pos
sible, the efforts OF the .'wets, in case
they do not strictly live up to the
technical requirements Of the law, ot
which there are many None but z
qualified voter is permitted 70 circp-
late petitions. and no one may sign,
except IN the precinct OF which he ~
q resident. Petitions must be signed
by one-third Of the registered voters.
Another technicality which viii pc
closely watched by Mr.. Marsh m
provision that three petitions are -
be posted In prominent places IN eaoh
township where vote ID desired.
One feature OF the LIQUOR Law wnlch
will be used TO every advantage ~
the Anti-Saloon league. Is secelvn
which allows village and toWhsnip
boards TO arbitrarily reject any hnp
all bonds and applications lot hcsnss.
Under that section, the ~drys
ready control 80 villages ana town,
ships In "wet territory. Il they can
elect ofIicers for the township Of VII
! lace boards who are opposed 70 the
| sale of liquor. and who VIII turn down
All applications, they can swing SUCH
Iantricts into the ~dry' column. even
though the county be IN the -wey'
column.
The Anfi-Saloon league Is also max
ing every effort to elect ofIicials who
are IN sympathy with their cause. IN
each county. They have issued thou
sands OF hand bills. printed In large
type: AFTER you have voted the
county dry, don't vote the court house
wet"
Next Sunday, the anti-saloon forces
VIII invade Genesee county, now in
the wet column, and which will
have no vote on the question next
spring. Their speakers will occupy
nearly every pulpit In the county,
where 28 "feld day. services Will be
held. The following Sunday, Kaiar
maxoo county will be invaded, and SO
meetings will be held there.
Next December, from the 1lth 70
the 18th, the Anti-Saloon league o.
America win hold big convention.
when Il will begin a campaign TOR
one OF its biggest strategic moves
an Amendment to the Interstate Com
merce law. forbidding the shipment OF
liquors into dry" state from hny
other state. Supt. Morrow oecinIes
that all the force OF the DIG orehniz1
ton will be used to obtain sucn ies-
islation.
aIf we get that, then We shall try
"a ret state legislation forbidding the
shipment OF liquor from q wet county
10 a dry one," says the superinten-
dent. "But there is no use attempt
Ing 10 get such state legislation, when
there Ia no federal law to prevent
other states from pouring liquor INTO
dry counties"
Gov. r. d. Glenn. of North Caro-
lima win again be one Of the Anti
saloon league orators In Michigan
durine, the coming campaign. He VIII
tour the state for 10 days.