The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-04-16

garet Swinbank. l0l years old, east
her irst vote here today. She voted
dry"
Lockport, Ill.,, April I. Mrs. Lyd.
Ia {. Barnes, 100 years old, cast her
first vote here today. Mrs. Barnes
voted dry
Chicago, Ill. Reports from the
battl stields Of the vets and drys al
over the state indicate sweeing vic
tory for the snti-saloon league The
women's vote was the determining
factor 10 many instances. Over and
over again returns showed thai where
majority of the men voted for sa-
looms, the women voted asgaist them
The vets carried Springfield, the
capital OF the state, which furnished
the hottest fight in the whole cam.
paisn. The majority was $500, and
in this instance both men and wom-
en- voted the wet ticket
Dixon, Aurora, Sterling ana Joliet
are also in the wet column. though
there were conflicting reports and
conficiting figures sent out by each
side, both claiming tie yictory.
Galesburg, Dwight, Rockford, Pom
tiac, klgin, Batavia, Canton, Bloom
ington, freeport, Assumption, Mon.
mouth, Clinton and Pennington
we're among the cities carried Dy the
drys.
The result is a sweeping victory
| for the drys,' said h. Scott Mcbride.
SUPERINTENDENT OF the anti-saloou
league tonight. The indications
are that we will carry about nine out
of every ten counties In which the
PROPOSE lon vas submitted to vote,
The only comparable victory t. this
is the victory OF 1908, when We won
1850 out OF 1900 townships Then,
however, none OF the large do~nstatt
towns was captured. The result is
very encouraging la the places
where our women were well organized
and made a hard tight tie saloons
we're wiped out.
All over the state the fight was
keen and bitter. Intense interest
was SHOWN everywhere. In Aurora
the contest brought out the biggest
vots ever cast in tbat city and out Of
total vote of ISIS, 1900 women
east their ballots. The city of
Springfield gave the dryS the surprise
OF their lives. In the thirty-nlne
precincts there women cast 407g dry
votes against 45s7 wet votes. The
men voted two to one for the vets.
Great interest centered about the
fight in Rockford, which was the
only large city which was dry aud
which the vets sought to regain.
Rockford voted dry few years ago,
but went vet again and then later
was captured by the dTys. The TOW n
went dry again today by 1000 major
ity, despite the fact that the men IA
vored the saloons by over 1000. Only
oue-hfth OF the women voted for the
wei proposition.
In Galesburg, the only wet place in
the county, there was dry majority
OF 2jsl. One OF the first cities To he
returned to the dry column vas
Dwight, the home Of the Kelley in.
situte Ii abolished saloons by slen-
der margin of 43 votes The narrow
est margin WAS 10 Lake county,
where Wauconda voted Wet by only
u ballots. Ten saloons we're put out
of business in Clinton by vote OF
g24 women, oaly l2s men voting for
any town. In addition to the thirty
counties in which no liquor can be
sold, The following counties Joined
the anti-saIuon column: Boone,
Brown. Christian, DeEAlb, Jerseg,
knox, Livingston, Macon, Mclean,
Stevenson, Warren aud Wiunebago.
Conservative estimates, based un
actual reports from townships, were
that more than lOOO saloons hsu been
voted out OF existence.
iftIHiAs- AnulAlD4dA ItAufNh re-
ceiyed today from yesterdays local
option election In tuei~e Michiga ]
counties revealed that each Of the op-
posiug factions won tao counties
from the other. Wexford county
which Sas conceded 81 tie drss last
election, Went vet ny = malority Of
ar VofeS Tue vets also captured
Clare county from The drys, and the
latter took RoscOmniun county aud
lnghsm county, in which Lansing.
the capital, j. located from the sa-
loon forces The principal csmpaign
centefed in lngnsm gouuty ana for
that reason the anti-saloon forces are
especially lunilanI TODAY.
Omaha. In tudzy's municipal elec.
tioBs tie issue. af license and sun
day baseball divided interest. ~itn
party politics entering Irt0 bit feN
Of the contests. Temperance adra-
Gates claim = victory on tie license
ssue sOus toSBs which have lnnR
lI- n vet g0iLs drt TIE opposition
however. turned the tide IN = nun
her OF other PLACES, earring them -
the set ooluu B. The state Ia giss,
towns the riEht 20 pass on Suaday
tall games. Al Hastings, a memlsr