The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year   Number 8
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 30, 1904

PROHIBITIONISTS ARE SUED.
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The Local Option Question at Mart is
Warm.
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     Waco, Texas, June 25. - A damage suit for $20,000.00 was this morning filed in the district court by M. J. Hutto of Mart, Texas, against the prohibition central committee of justice precinct No. 2, which includes Mart, Riesel, Battle and Harrison.
     The suit is against J. C. Baldwin, L. M. Benson, C. D. Whitley, T. H. Lumpkin, R. E. Bell and W. W. Woodson, all prominent men, who compose the central committee.
     Hutto's petition alleges that the committee issued a circular to the voters of the precinct in which Hutto's character was attacked by slanderous and false statements relative to law breaking, etc.  He claims that his name was used straight out in these circulars.
     A local option election is to be held in this precinct next Tuesday and the contest is growing hot.

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