Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-11-05
VOTES OF WOMEN
MAKE DRY TOWNS
Illinois Cities Heretofore Wet
Swing Over to Prohibition
Column
HOLD GROUND ALL PLACES
Not Single Community Is Won Over
to Saloon Against Opposition
of New Voters.

With women taking part in local op-
ton elections for the first time. the
~drys" yesterday won victories in sew
eraI Illinois cities and villages. In
most instances the vets" would have
won IL only the men had voted. Towns
heretofore wet" which were carried
by the "drys" were the following:
Petersburg, Menard county.
Pinckneyville, Perry county.
Percy, Randolph county.
East Beardstown. Cass county.
Ullin, Pulaski county.
Grand Chain, Pulaski county.
Thebes, Alexander county.
Metropolis. Massac county.
Brookport, Massac county.
lockwood. Randolph county.
Baldwin. Randolph county.
Willisville. Perry county.
Towns heretofore dry" in which
the foes Of saloons again were vic
torious were the following;
Jacksonville. Morgan county.
CoultedviIle. Randolph county.
Virginia. Cass county.
Redwood. Calhoun county
Hardin. Calhoun county.
Hamburg. Calhoun county.
Carlin. Calhoun county
The following wet" towns were car
ried BY the vets:
Duqucin. Perry county.
Mounds. Pulaski county.
Mound City. Pulaski county.
Sheeleville. Pulaski county.
Brussels point PrecincJ, Calhoun
county.
in
=Cave-in-Rock. Hardin county.
Rosiclaire, Hardin county.
In Crater precinct, Calhoun county.
which includes the village II Brus-
sells, the result was a tie. Crater now
Is wet"
The VETS" failed TO win "A single
dry" town The entrance OF womeS
into the local option campaigns IN ;he
small towns proved disastrous TO
them.
GAIN NV COZ MY.
The "drys" gained one new county.
This was Massac county. in which
Metropolis and Brookport bo-h drove
out the saloons.
Previous TO yesterdays election 80
out OF the IO2 counties in the stare
were without saloons.
Twenty-eight precincts in ten diff
ferent counties. most of them in the
southern part OF the state. held local
option elections. Only cities and vii
lases in the seventeen counties in the
state in which the precinct is the unit
.Sere able to vote yesterday. Yester-
days elections were only a preim
mary skirmish in advance of next
ApriTs elections. when cities in coun-
ties under township organization will
vote. The success OF the "drys" yes
terday will cause them to bring The
saloon question TO an issue in April
in nearly all the important cities in
the state which now have saloons.
The women's heavy vote in most Of
the towns proved a surprise TO the
''wets" In every instance the dry"
women outnumbcred those who IA
vc-ed saloons.
In. Jacksonville, the largest city
which voted on the proposition, 2.9S1
women voted dry" while only 654
cast their ballots the other way. The
"drys" would have won in. Jackson
vile by rs votes even without the aid
q the women
Beardstown. Cass county. conceded
10 be one OF the wettest spots in Ill
nois. voted one OF the five precincts
dry by a majority of 1873. The liquor
question was submitted in but one pre-
cinct. East Beardstown. and the wom-
an vote was responsible for 12O OF the
majority. Out Of l75 votes pOlled by
the women all but % were against
saloons