The Calumet news., 1914-04-08
Sixteen Counties Added to Thirty
Already Dry as Result of
Election Yesterday
WIN IN ELEVEN LARGE CITIES
No City or Township Dry Before
Election Was Lest by the
knti-liquor Forces

Chicago. April S.-Women voting
! for the first time in Illinois township
elections demonstrated their power
yesterday by closing more than
| thousand saloons, adding sixteen coun-
! ties 10 the thirty already dry" ana
| larrng the sale If iutoxicants i'm APP
lproX.ma;oly two hundred OF the three
hundred townships in which local op-
ton was an issue Their victory in
cluded eleven Of the larger cities in the
state which We're wet" territory. They
are: bloomington, ,ialcsburg. Elgin,
Decatur Canton Frecport, Belvi2,s@.
Monmouth, Kewanec, Lockport, East
Galena.
According to newspaper reports,
Bloomineton voted dry" by the slen-
Ger majority of nftceu If the official
canvass shows a dry" victory the
vets" intimate they viii ask for a
recount
Jolie: voted wet" by q majority Of
approximately twenty-five hundred.
Late reports We're that The city had
gone dry No city nor township
which was dry" before the elections
was lost bv the anti-slloon forces. buu
the cities of Springfield, Quincy Rock
Island Aurora. Alton. Moline. Dixon
and West Galena remained wet Rock
ford, Mattoun and GalVa were kept iu
the dry column by The women's
votes. Springfield was one of the few
places ln which the majority of the
Vomen's votes were cast in favor of
the saloons.
Incomplete returns from s. town
ships give 40. 631 dry" in votes and
is ISL wet showing that approxi-
mately seventy per cent OF the women
voters favored the gnti-salcon tickets
Where accurate figures are available
lhc mems vote was shown 10 DE about
cnc-eighth greater than the women,
and was divided appro Nimately sixty
per cent wet and forty per cent
dry"
New women officials elected were 2N
township collectors three town clerks.
am done woman member of the city
board of education, Mrs. Mary Morris
ON. of Springfield.
The sixteen counties added to tho
list Of thirty already dry" are Boone.
Brown. Christian, DcKalb, Dewitt.
Fulton, Henry, Jersey. Knox I.iviugs-
ton, Macon. Mclean, Shelby. stephen
son, Warren and WinnchaEo OF the
nea dry" counties, resulting from the
election, Joe, Dayiess and Whiteside
have each one wet city, West Galrnt
and Fulton, respectively. and Kane
county has five wet" places. Aurora
81. charles. Dundee, Rutland and Bur
lington.
Nearly ten thousand women voted
at Joliet the ballots being nearly
equally divided between the "wets"
and "lrys"
Treeport for fifty years wet" saw
'ts As saloons wiped out by the votes
If women.
The township 90 Trov..a. outside
'higa.o, voted "Uer.' There are g. sac
looms ana % larIe amusemcnt park n
.lc township
Women Loss in Chicago.
Chicago April S.-Although seventy
three per cent of the Chicago women
eligible to vote i'm yesterdays munich
pal election took advantage of their
newly gained franchise. none Of tho
nine women candidates FOR the city
council was successful The women
Received only 20 scatteted vote
The vote in Chicago totallcd nearly
half "a million, ur which 2i1,s14 were
women. The council viii bc over
whclminsly Democauc. as it has boeu
Tor several years,
lu the First vard whore the sufrragg
and civic societies had combined thr.r
strength to aId Hiss Marion Drake.
who opposed "Bathhogse" John Cough
lin, who FOR Cd score of wears has rep-
resented the ward, CoughIu won by
nearly tooo votes Tie defeated Miss
Drake 3 TO J., and received nearly
twice ass many vomcu's votes aS ht,
crpoucot
The t.WCn voters 1ucoutratrd ur.'
strcu-tH CON questions Of papuc pu,t,y
submitted on o. separate ballet. TIE
women Vote defeated bond issues ag-
ereg.t,us t9.ooo ono An issue or
health department. BOMBS and an ISSUE
for puhltg bathing beaches alone were
carried
4 plan for a subway transportation
system involving probable delay in re.
lieving the traction situation was de-
feated in an avalanche OF votes.
or the SO aldermen elected. n wCrc
Democrats, nine Republicans. three
Progrcssives and three Independents.
OF the successful candidates only Is
II -.
political complexion Of the new coun-
Gil is; Democrats. 40; Republicans 21;
Progressives. 6; Independents, 3.