Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-11-01
Cheering Election Returns
Prohibition Forces
100 600 Many Prohibition Candidates Successful.

natl, whose tool Geo. Herrick, now
defeated, was believed to be, is boss
saloonist and has been until recently
proprietor of the Bloody Murderers'
Alley Saloon in which a number of
whiskey homicides have taken place.
Then, too, the Anti-Saloon League
opposed Gov. Herrick's reelection on
the ground that he compelled the
emasculation of the Brannock Qocal
option) liquor bill in order that it
might secure his signature. The
League openly and earnestly favored
the election of Pattison, the Dem
ocratic candidate, and although he was
silent on the saloon issue during the
campaign, tens of thousands of clean
men deserted Herrick for him on the
ground of his temperance record and
other thousands of his brother Dem
ocrats deserted him for the same
reason. Next to the issue of graft,
if it was even second to that, it was
the saloon issue around which the
Ohio fight was waged. The Prohibi
ton party failing to secure promise
from Pattison to bring the saloon is
sue into his campaign, made an ex-
cellent fight for a full, strong ticket.
Although Jerome, district attorney
elect in New York County, is not an
ideal law enforcer, yet he is such to
a sufficient extent that it was the
friends of law enforcement in general
as well as the opponents of robbery,
eXtortion and crime that gave him a
certificate of election, although ap-
posed by the bosses and although his
name appeared ON the ticket of none
of the parties. Murphy, Tammany
Democratic Boss, who received a
severe rebuke, even if the election
returns do not prove him to have
his politics is of that stripe. Jas. c..
Crawford headed the splendid Prohi
bition ticket for mayor.
Every Indication points to an en-
couraging increase in the party vote
over that of 1904. Chicago Prohibi-
tionists had complete ticket in the
field. Kentucky Prohibitions had
forty-five candidates for the legislat-
ure in the field. That state polled
$3.50 Prohibition votes for president
in 1900 and in 1904 gave DR.. Swal-
low $500, the largest vote in the
history of the state. Louisville had
a strong ticket The Prohibitionists
of Maryland took a square stand
against the German gang attempt to
foist the anti negro amendment to the
constitution upon the state. They
denounced the amendment as danger
GUS and unfair and are doubtless re-
joicing in the defeat of the gang and
it's amendment. They fearlessly ar
raigned both Democrats and Repub-
leans for keeping the liquor traffic
in the path of both the white and the
negro population. Every county in
New Jersey had complete ticket in
the field. In six years the Prohibi-
tionists of Oswego county, N. Y,
have grown from a mere handful to
over thousand stalwart champions
of clean politics. This year their
growth compelled the endorsement of
their tickets by the Democrats, who
in many townships had fallen behind
the Prohibitionists, and Pitts was
defeated for District Attorney only
by close shave. Chairman Wolfen-
barger conducted remarkable cam
paign for an off year in Nebraska.
One feature of it's field work was the
participation of body of consecrated
young college men whose efforts have
won many converts to the cause.