Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-22

licensed bars, and in 1873 voted for local
option by 1,577 majority. Probably basing
their guesses on this last fact, and comput-
ing probable heavy gain in temperance
sentiment in Is years, w. H. Falls, ESQ.,,
j. q. Emery, F. j. Afford and others IN
recently published interviews predicted the
adoption of the amendment In Lawrence
comfy Nv from .. 500 to 5000 majority.
C. IL. Akens, ESQ.,, Chairman OF the
Democratic County Committee, however,
differs from this high estimate. When
met him in New Castle he said to me:
This county will vote for prohibition, but
with only 900 majority, or possibly LOU, but no
more than that. In total vote OF aoout ooUO
it is asking too much TO expect o,VVV naloIsty
for the issue The sentiment in the county for
prohibition is strong. especially in the northern
section, around slippery ROCK ana Nortn
Beaver townships. New Castle Will probably
be close. There are many SWedes and ltanans
working in the ore and lime quarrles throughout
the county but very few of them have vote
There is quite large settlement oil German
farmers in the neighborhood OIL a,o MurtemDurg; %
them probably like their beer, it is note
worthy fact that the proprietor OF the hotel
there stopped, of his own accord. seven OF eight
wears ago applying for license. 1t will all de-
pend on how well the farmers votes are can
Yassed in this campaign.
BUTLER'S PROHIBITION VOTE.
Butler county will vote for the amend
ment without doubt, if politics are kept far
in the background. Third party prohibi-
tionists must lay low, Republican must
walk arm in arm with Democrat, and Green
hackers should embrace all three at the
same time, in order to make the issue sue
cess up among the soap mines.
In other words, if license or no license is
voted on purely on the merits of the ques-
tion, no license will come off victori-
GUS. Ex-Sheriff Kelley, Alonzo Shiras
and Thomas Mechling told news
paper correspondents lately that they be-
lieved the majority for prohibition in But
Ter county would run from 200 TO ], 500. w.
c. FindIey, Chairman of the Republican
County Committee, fixed it as high as 2, 500.
All admitted that as many Democrats as
Republicans are in favor of the issue, and
that it should be allowed to remain on nom
partisan grounds in Butler.
The county adopted local option in 1873
by 1 141 majority. The refusal of all liquor
licenses by the President Judge of the But
Ter County Court a few years before the
enactment of the Brooks law created consid-
erable sensation at the time, but since then
public sentiment has always indorsed that
judicial ruling. A portion of Quicken
heimer & Co. s big distillery at Freeport, or
rather one of their bonded warehouses,
stands on the Butler county side of Buffalo
creek.
PROSPECTS IN BEAVER.
The county in which National Chairman
Matt Quay, ex-Chief Justice Daniel Agnew
and President Jacob Henrici. of the Econo-
mites Society, cast their votes, will be ar
rayed on the side of the Constitutional
amendment. Whether all three of the dis
tingulshed gentlemen named will aid in
making the array is not known by the pub
lie. The ex-Chief Justice will vote for it
sure. He was one of the first Presidents of
the Constitutional Amendment Association
of Pennsylvania, and is now enthusiastic in
his work for the success of the campaign.
Much curiosity is shown in regard to which
side of the tally sheet the other TWO
votes will be marked upon. 1 am told that
Senator Quay signed W. c. 7. q. petition
here few months ago asking the Legisla-
lature to adopt the submission resolution,
but he has told no one yet how he will vote
in June AS to the votes of the Economy
Society, they are equally uncertain. Their
wines, elders and beers are better known
than their ballots. The old men usually do
not take much interest in politics, only
casting a full vote at Presidential elections.
This campaign, however, may be regarded
by them as more important than political
elections.
Beaver county adopted local option in
1873 with 1,23O majority. The number of
her licensed bars in recent years has been
very limited, and with a strong prohibition
feeling in townships, boroughs and the town
of Beaver, which is a college town, the
county's majority for the amendment is
variously estimated at from 1000 to ], 800.
Beaver Falls, being a manufacturing town,
will be closer than any other part of the
county. L. E. SToFIEL.