Show lACKED ENOUGH NAMES Petition of Chicago Prohibitionists for a Vote on Saloon Question S Denied by Commissioners Chicago March 25 Chicago has lost its chance to vote yote on the saloon ques question question question tion at the election on April 5 accord according accordIng ing lag to o a decision by the th election com corn commissioners commissioners missioners tonight The commissioners decided the peti petition petition petition tion offered by the drys to have the question Shall this city become anti antl saloon territory put on the ballots lacked lacke sufficient signatures The wets weta had filed a complaint asserting that out of the names were those of persons not registered Tha The commis commissioners commissioners commissioners I sustained this charge after an investigation and the prohibition forces tonight declared too little time inter intervened Intervened intervened between now and election to per permit permit permit mit of court action to have the ques question question tion submitted to the voters This decision nullifies the work of hundreds of prohibition workers in including eluding many women who for weeks stood in the downtown streets on elevated train platforms and am in public i buildings bun reeking necking signatures to the pe petition petition petition According to the drys each man was asked whether he was a registered voter before he was allowed I to sign sigh signA A E Wilson state chairman of the prohibitionists announced that peti petitions petitions petItions will wili be circulated tomorrow to have the question of f statewide billon submitted to the voters He also declared next year Jear the drys would succeed in having the question voted upon in Chicago S |