The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-04-06
VETS DENY PEOPLE
RIGHT TO VOTE ON
SALOON QUESTION
Liquor Interests Defeat the
Referendum By a Vote
of 80 to 81
FEAR POPULAR VERDICT

By a vote of so to 81, the vets de-
featcd the saloon referendum bill in
the Illinois House of Representatives
last week. The bill was slaughtered
by the vets under the lash OF the liq-
uor lobby because they feared to
trust their cause to a popular vote.
Galleries Are Crowded
The battle was watched by one of
the largest crowds that has ever APP
peafed in the state house. The pco-
pic began arriving early in the morn
ing on intcrurban and railway trains.
In the audience, men who had grown
old in the fight against the saloon,
rubbed shoulders with representatives
of the liquor interests who have led
the battle for rum for over a quarter
of a century. Clcrgymcn, members
OF the w. c. T. u. and thousands of
others who are seeking to make the
state better place in which to live,
sat side by side with the debauchcrs
of youth and the corrupters of poll
tics. 1t was clearly battle between
the liquor and vice interests on the
ono side and the moral element Of the
state on the other.
How They Voted
After four hours of oratory the roll
was called and the line up was as fol-
lows:
For the Bill
Abbey, Baker, Bancroft, Benson,
Bentley, Bippus, Boyd, Brewer, Bull
ington. Cannon Carpenter. Carter,
Caviezcl, Church, Cooper. Dahlberg,
Davis, DeYoung, Drake, Ellis, Ether
ton, Fclts, Flagg, Green; Green, Carl,
Gregory, Guernsey, Hamlin, Havill,
Hicks, Hill, Holladay, Howard, Irwin,
Kssserman, Kirby, Lacy, Lyle, Lyons,
McCabe, McDavid, Mem k i n :,
Meents, Meyers, Miller, Odum, Pace,
Perkins, Reaugh, Robbins, Rowe,
Shurtleff, Smell. Sonnemann, Stanfield
Strubinger, Thomson, Thompson,
Thon, Turner, Van Duser, Vice, Wal
ters, Watson, Wells, West, Will
son-67.
Against the Bill
Boyer, Breen, Brinkham, Browne,
Bruce, Burns, Clettenberg, Conlon;
Curren, Thomas; Curren, Charles;
Crandal, Desmond, Deveraux, Devine,
Dieterich, Donahue, Dudgeon, Ep-
stein, Fahy, fostering, Fieldstack,
Franz, Fridrichs, Frisch, Gallagher,
Garcschc, German, Graham, Griffin,
Hennebry, Holten, Hruby, Igoe,
Jackson. Jacobson, Jones, kilens,
Lager, Lucas, Lynch; Lyon, Sidney;
Maher, Marcy, Marshall, Maucker,
Mccarthy, McGloon, Milroy, Muel-
Ter, Mulcahy. Murphy; Murphy, T. D.;
Necf, O'Brien, O'Connell, Overland,
Petlak, Placek, Prendergast, Rentch-
ler, Rethmcier, Roderick, Roe, Ryan,
Ryan, James W.; Scanlon, Schuberth,
Schultz, Self, Sheppard, Smejkal,
Smith, Tyers, Vickers, Volz, Wag-
ner, Wa1ch, WaIz, Weber. Young-S0.
Not Voting
Shannahan (Spcaker), Cole Moras-
sy, Tuttle (seriously lily, Cameron
(seriously lily, Putnam (died.)-6.
Devine and Browne Line Up With
Some doubt had been expressed as
to how Representatives Devine and
Browne would vote, but this was
made plain during the debate. These
men, with Igoe, Garesche, Dietrich,
Milroy and Burns. led the speaking
for the liquor interests. The people
were championed by Thomas E.
Lyon, Smell, Miller, Perkins and Bull
ington.
Mr.. Lyon emphasized that this was
not an out and out dry measure, but
a referendum just as the question of
submitting a constitutional conven-
ton which the great majority of the
members of the House had supported,
was a referendum question, and urged
that the men who had voted to submit
NINE-ILLINO1S
other vital questions to the people had
no right to deny the people the priv
ilegc OF voting on this question.
An example of the sort of logic ad-
vanccd by the vets was given in Rep
rcscntative Dietrich's speech. He
read a letter from the pastor of the
First Methodist church of fremont,
H.. in which the minister told him
that $50 voters OF the church would
support him in the future if he would