The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-03-29
CITY ORGANIZATION TO HELP
VETS and Drys Plan for Great Meetings
to Present Question Of Liquor Problem
to the People on Sunday and Wed
nesday-C Churches Aid the Fight.

Pleasant Prairie voters joined the
battle against old "John Barleycorn
Friday afternoon when a petition sign
ed by more than sixty voters of the
town was presented to Edward Thomey
the town clerk, demanding that the
question will be submitted in this town
the same as in the city.
1t is admitted that the local Dry
organization will give every possible
aid to the Pleasant Prairie Drys in
their effort to vote out the saloon.
Pleasant Prairie has half a dozen
saloons and one Of the big objections
raised by the Vets to voting Kenosha
dry was the fact that Pleasant Prairie
would be wet and that these saloons
would be open to the people Of Keno
sha. A regular organized campaign is
on in Pleasant Prairie and it is de-
clared that house to house canvass of
the town will be made. The fact that
the petition came as surprise found
the Vets in the neighboring town en-
tirely unprepared to meet the issue,
but it is expected that they will have
the aid and succor of the Vets in Ke-
nosha.
Pleasant Prairie has been one Of the
sore spots for WHukegans and it has
been declared that the state line saloon
has done considerable to nuIlify the
prohibition vote in Waukegan and 9TH
or parts of Lake county. Petitions
may be fled until tonight for prohibi-
ton referendums and it is admitted
that it is possible that the town of
Somers win also submit the question,
but o petition for submission had not
been filed with the town clerk early
this afternoon.
The present campaign is the most
notable ever fought in Kenosha with
liquor as the issue and it is one of the
hardest battles ever made in any coun-
ty in Wisconsin. The two factions are
now thoroughly organized and it is GER
tain that from now, until election the
voters will be bombarded with hot
shot from both the Wet and Dry ar
tillery. The speaking campaign is to
be opened on Sunday afternoon and
evening and the Drys will have the
opening.
Two great meetings are scheduled
on Sunday afternoon and evening. At
the afternoon meeting at the High
school, the women of the city interested
in the movement will have a meeting
of their own with prominent women
speakers from. this and other cities and
states. At night a great mass meeting
will be held at the Coliseum and
the speaker will be P. J. Young
dahl of Minneapolis, famous as an ora
tor and as worker in the nationwide
fight against liquor. He is declared
to be next to William Jennings Bryan
IN the big fight
The churches of the city will get
actively into the campaign to vote out
The saloon on Sunday and special SER
mons on the "Issue of the Day" will
oe preached from half dozen pull
pits in the city during the day.
The Vets have planned to spring
their biggest gun of the campaign on
next Wednesday night when O. A.
Windle of Chicago, editor of Branr s
lconoclast, will be the speaker. The
paper has been given wide circulation
in Kenosha since the inception of the
wet and dry campaign. Windle is
thoroughly wet and he is said to be
one of the hardest hitting speakers in
support of the saloons of the country.
1t is expected that other speaking
meetings will be arranged for later in.
the campaign.