The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-03-29
PROTEST
Presented to the Board Of Election Commissioners of the
City Of Chicago March 10, 1918, When the Board
Rejected the Dry Chicago Federation Petition

To the Honorable The City
the which body
you January peonng printing on the ballots
for the election held proposition City
become AntiSaioon Territory" We do this behalf of
duly signed
petition in good faith behalf
the right of petition who the right the who
loves American fair play and who believes in
When objections to this petition fled argued
had no legal right exercise judicial functions
questions necessary to be decided by resort to other evidence than the face
of the petition must be left for the legal contest provided for the local
option law that when that contest should be reached we would be glad
One of the questions contended
their husbands Christian instead of their Christian
their husbands addresses If
Court the evidence in each would have
Doe for
duty
this body? every John Mary
Doe" had the address and John Doe also
address, commissioners
indulge that that the signature lawful That
have not done
We cited hand decision Supreme
that Mrs of the other hand
court that if actually served a merely
question den and the served the
me binds her property
The however decided upon precedents relating
proceedings technical rules adopted to pre-
Here merely
that petition must be signed by registered legal and solely
question OF identity Common and law meet
everybody fact that the thus registered the
wife living with the husband his residence that
the signature OF the wife To such signatures the thousand
plainly papably and
We attach hereto afidavs reliable
of clerks while checking said petition They
20 Of the cards investigated thrown this
their objections that netidn gnc we're t 1, ' 10 h @
1920 thus rejected
That
matters thus signed in spite instructions in this
liquor interests malciou and without support
charged dishonest fraudulent wlu
On another important point said afdvts disclose that fairly
OF the names which have stricken off which had been
from the registry the February 1918 revision
duly registered when he signed the petition before February
but who thereafter moved deprived his lawful
SAID petition The law requires only that person be registered legal
when he signs petition; after that he
validating the signature already signed Fortunately
of
admit should be counted is clearly ated by lawyers of
a who volunteered watch the checking and whose adavs
among those hereto attached Those names therefore amount fairly 44
Our said fidavs further disclose
said petition because the middle initial the
and the petition Our Supreme Court has times decided that the middle
initial is of name? If the aim follow Supreme
ruling why not in another The result
where it aids the and followed
Our adavi further disclose that in hundreds
petition who their residence
noted the registry the side the
reference the known fact that all flat buildings single
have two or more numbers
Our ahdvts further disclose that the prefix Mrs
the registration books and the card the address
BOTH the signature rejected
Our adavi also disclose that
the card and the registry the address being
signature rejected If the Supreme Court is relied theory
that has said that Mrs (and Mss)
applied where aids the and not applied where aids
Our aHdavis further disclose the following facts:
deprived of his
A<B was construed into P and the involved rejected
of the difference
When there registry alphabet
cards rejected without them with
at ALL
Names comparing brewers
cards with the registry.
who signed Catherine deprived of rights
because the clerks had spelled her
The registers of
acting the polls and they subject imperecon
but they this spelling
and INITIALS the the
your fact that no small proportion of the sigma
documents gb checking up viewpoint