LOCAL OPTION IN ILLINOIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 132, 26 May 1908, Page 4

LOCAL OPTION IN ILLINOIS.

To the Kditor. Sr.- [ jtromw'd some tinu* iigo to fliv.* yoli thf li'-ult* of lilt" in. ;11 iijjtiOM p'-ii iwitli to l!u' lown>hi|i->) <m *m April !a-t. i have ju?l m-ehvd tlio irivhw lurticulinvt. and a.s iKi*. v v.-nil of jour nuders in reform. the nudin«: of what Jol!u\v.~ will almost iik<* a fairy lu!.\ At the head of Uu; column of in hj, ?yp.'. ] rturl: -rifle,-u hundred >ulooii.«, wIV voted nut.) Iv. <-«ty rojintie-. iM-came dry' a., the re>ult of tli" dcetinn. E\citeni n r li.nl 11, it U'en so jrri'at -ini-e the e.mipiiigii aeain-t .-Lively." Then follows tin' li-t of towns, several of uhi:-h ' I -pent time in. and the immlier forty-iiine. Xon> of tho.e which wer;previously dry went wet, and (lie e.m--e.pienre i> that 11!..:t of the State outside Chicago is dry. From a private k'tter I LMtln r tin* -tartliii:: fact that -re-!' la-t fal! -.inrlhin- like >" SIM* „r liliiioi- lm-e ' i I" tin- eitv of I'lo. lining - t.'U it.-elf til:- jioli ,va- I;y t lit-' ]l;> Vrmi in.iru'in oF :;!>_• vol.'-, t if all that promised to vote dry had done .... Thee would have wmi hy ali.iut a thnu--aud. I here nniM h.n e hern -.niiethm:' more than oilllPoli at the lra.l,- „f „jj tiie entlm-i.i-.in that could produce -u:-li miroroimni re-u!;- : lait faeis are -tiii:lioru tl-iiiy-.—T am. etc.. l-Mvt.] ,i. ii< >iii;i:xs.