1899, Marion City Election

The City Election

During a Day of Quiet and Peace Temperance People Score a Victory

The contesting forces, saloon and anti-saloon, met and measured swords in this city Tuesday. The contest was exceedingly quiet and fell short the full vote, considerable, but resulted in a victory for the temperance ticket. The result was a surprise in more ways than one; however, many will say, “I told you so.”

For some time past the saloon party has been in power and well-fortified, but owing to the open violation of the law and conduct exceedingly bad Continue reading