The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-04-07
FAIR VOTERS STORM POLLS
Feeling in Many Cities Is Running
Righ-.Fear Clashes Be-
tween Factions
DRYs PREDICT GREAT VICTORY

Chicago, HIS, April Upon the
votes toGay. OF women, depended the
fate of more than three thousand sa-
,aors I'M Illinois. I'm three hundred AMI
tveuty-four townships in siNty-seYen
courtics. they went 10 tae polls Fifty
Thousand doWn-state women arc elis-
uIe to vote. Rain and cold is general
In southern Illinois but thousands Of
women accompanied their husbands
who stopped at the polls before going
IN work. They voted i'm large NUM-
bars I'm the mid-forenoon, showing
tbrfr interest IN the sharpest and biz
tercgt fight ever wagcd between the sa-
looms and their foes Of this state.
Supreme Court Judge Craig last
night issued "a writ of suporscdcas pre-
yca,ug the consideration of local OPP
zion question in La Sale county. Every
available policeman and a large force
Of extra deputies guarded the polls at
Springfield to prevent threatened
trouble. Anti-saloou workers asserted
the two hundred saloons in the capi-
tal would Ice voted out of existence.
FccIng is running high.
Largest Vote in citys History
More than 2IG5O0 women registered
in Chicago ana for the FIRST time en-
joycd equal rights with men in the al
dermaEi, election. It. is estimated
more than eighty per cent Of those
REGISTERED would vote. It also is esti-
4 90
ter,d male voters would cast their bal
lot today. making the vote the largest
recorded i'm This city. Because Of fea'
that women might spoil their ballots
in their first vote. nearly haif-million
extra ballots were distributed at the
polls 10y extra police details in several
wards
The most important aldermanic con-
test Was in the first ward where Miss
Marion Drake, "a court stcnOgrapher,
opposed Alderman John Bath house
Coughlm for reelection. BESIDES the
aldormanic candidates. twelve import
ant propositions appeared on the bal
lot, the most important providing for
the building OF comprehensive sub
way at "a cost of $l30.00O,OO0. Heavy
eariy-yoting was the rule in majority
of wards
Women Cast Vote Carefully.
Women take much longer To vote
than men according to election officials
here. They examined the ballots de-
liberately. marked them carefully, and
ftIIll thor, 4
percentage of new voters took the fun
time allowed by law.
At Aurora, women with their first
opportunity to vote on the saloon qucs-
ton. stormed the polls They came
aIoot and in automobiles, in fashion
able dress and aprons.
At quincy a record vote is being
polirj. II is estimated more than
seven thousand women will vote. The
ant-saloon campaign has been free
ifom personalities. Quincy has two
WrWories and 14O saloons. and is con-
SIDE ed one Of the strongest wet" Cit
les in illinois. Pana township may not
'H able TO vote on the liquor question
today.
At 1 o'clock this morning, Town
'leiN Lister ran to police Leadquar-
'eiS and gasped out he had been held
UP hy twenty armed men and three
'hodSand election ballots were taken
Ii'm him. They were All mems bal
lots. The attack followed a visorous
attempt To keep the wet" and dry"
question off Tho haIIot
businessmen of Altoona placed arm
'o Guards In their establishments in
anticipation of possible street clashes
with The liquor factions.
MIS- NJ. II. Vansant, aged So trav-