Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-26

entirely dry county. Heretofore SO
Of the 102 dry counties in the state
have been without saloons. The dTys
added Henry county 10 the list by cap
turing the town of COlona, but lost
Mclean and Williamson counties, re
ducing the number Of arid counties to
SO. The loss of Bloomington took Nc
Lean county from the dry list, while
the dry defeats in IIerrin and Blairs-
vile cut off Williamson county.
The important dry cities which re-
NAMED dry included Decatur, Belvi-
dere, F'reeport, Nation, DeKalb, Ke-
vance. Elgin and Woodstock. The
larger wet cities where the drys were
unable to gain a fOOthOld included Al
ton, La Sale. Rock Island, Aurora,
Savanna and Galena.
"Women's votes affected the result
in nmmber of townships, among them
being Moline, a wet city which voted
dry. and Geneva, which remained dry.
-Four townships voted in Cook county,
three voting TO remain wet and one
y0tingfO remain dry. The hottest fight
was in the township Of PrOvisO, COM
prising the villages of Forest Park,
haywood, BeIIwoOd, River Forst and
AIeir0se Park, with 70 saloons.
Victory in Spring.
Two weeks after the township cleo
tions came the city elections on the
wet and dry question and again we
scored a great victory.
"MOmence, after a spectacular fight,
remained in the dry column by a ma
jority Of 80, due to the womens votes.
''ATenzyille, Cass county, dry for
two years, went wet by a majority of
"A.
"Huey, Clinton county, with one sa-
loon, voted dry by II votes.
Percy, Randolph county, with four
saloons, voted dry by G. majority.
SteelevilIe, in the same county, re
NAMED wet by %.
witt, Montgomery county, voted TO
remain wet by majority Of 1919.
Atkinson, Henry county, remained
dry by is. keeping the county in the
list OF entirely dry counties.
"Ashkum, Iroquois county, remained
dry by 80 majority.
"Chebanse. in the same county, stays
in the dry column by more than 200
majority.
"Deerfeld remained dry by 90 ma
iority.
"WOrden. Madison county, remained
wet by vote of $50 10 1874. The wo-
men voted 105 wet and so dry.
Nashville, county seat Of Wash
ingtOn county. one of the important
cities. remained wet by 146 majority.
/ The dry women Outyoted the wet wO-
men by 10 votes.
"AltamOut voted dry by a majority
Of so votes Mound township, in which
Altam0nt is located, went into the dry
column April 4 by a majority of 20
votes
Mounds. Pulaski county, voted to re
main in the wet column by a majority
of 1S5 votes
Arlington Heights, which has al
ways been wet territory, at the VIII
lage election, by a heavy vote decided
to retain and support its five saloons.
A total of 537 votes were cast for sa-
looms and 33S ballots were counted in
favor Of closing the bars Six years
ago a vote was taken to make the vii
/ lage dry but it lost heavily.
The 'drys' won a victory at La
Grange, the only other village to vote
on the saloon question, when the vot-
ers decided in favor OF remaining anti
saloon territory by vote Of 737 to
g.
In the village elections held
through the state, the vets emerged
victorious over the drys Arenzviue,
WHICH NDltQ Oig AWO years ago. re-
turned 10 the wet column; Chillicothe
and North Chillicothe elected wet
boards of aldermen and Arlington
Heights remained wet The village of
Huey, with one saloon, was voted dry
by II votes.
"Danville saloon keepers are still
doing business at the same old stand
Ii viii be remembered that a year ago
the city voted wet. but the board Of
aldermen, by a majority Of one. refus-
cd 10 issue licenses, but the treasurer
needed the money and he accepted the
license fee, but by common consent
the saloon men kept open during the
whole year The case went to court
and the drys were beaten.
1t is to be deeply regretted that
many more Of the dry cities did not
return TO d license system, bat we
must consider that when a city goes
dry the legitimate dealer who is tied
down with property or family ties,
seeks a new home where he can con-