Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-11-20
WITH THE RESULTS OF THE
RECENT ELECTIONS IN
VARIOUS STATES.
ESPECIALLY PLEASED BECAUSE
COAL MINERS ARE TURN
ING FRoM THE SALOON.
GENERAL CAMPAIGN FOR PRoHI.
RlTioN ALL ALONG THE LINE
IN PRESIDENTIAL YEAR.

Seventeen counties in illinois gone
dry.
Local option making great Roadway
among the soft coal miners.
Henry Watterson routed in Louis
vile and that bourbon city captured.
Emphatic prohibition victories
scored in Delaware and Mississippi
with heavy gains in Ohio, Kentucky
and New Jersey.
Small wonder that prohibitionists
are delighted.
Tuesdays elections prove that pro-
hibition will be one of the Invest is
sues of next years presidential cam
paign," declared a leader.
las a result the prohibition party
will at once launch the most strenuous
and best organized national campaign
IN its history with the expectation that
all the predictions and plans of the
liquor politicians for 1908 will be
completely upset before the canvass is
six months old"
Discussing the situation in Delaware
and Kentucky, he declared that the
setbacks were really victories.
THE liquor victory in Wilmington
was through fraud and bribery, the
whisky bosses openly boasting on Mon.
day that they had from $4,000 to $780,
600 on hand to buy mp every negro and
every white who was susceptible" he
said. even the first returns show
that the prohibitionsts polled a major
ity OF from 1900 to 5000 in the total
aggregate vote of the state.
In Kentucky, the defeat of Hager,
the democratic candidate for governor,
was & victory, not a defeat for the
prohibitionists. Last Saturday rumors
were verified that Hager and his back
ers, who had all along been claiming
the support OF the prohibitionists, had
made a secret alliance with the brew
ers and whisky-makers, pledging them
that he would not sign certain further
prohibition measures which might be
adopted at the next session of the
Kentucky legislature. The facts of
this amazing development were wired
to every election district in the state
and produced a sensation in the daily
press of Louisville, Lexington and
other leading centers. This was a
strong factor in the defeat of Hager.
"The encouraging feature of the To-
cal option returns in Illinois," he con-
tinued, lis that the coal miners and
other workingmen voted for prohibit
ton. All through Illinois the cities
controlled by the coal miners went
dry. That was also true in Alabama
recently, where Birmingham routed
the saloons. think Chicago would
90 the same had she the chance.
Before the election there were ten
dry counties in Illinois-Moultrie,
Douglas, Lawrence. Crawford, Wa
bash. Edwards, Hamilton, } fferson,
Johnson and Wayne. The following
counties have joined the dry column:
Hardin, Union, Pope, Massac and Will
hanson, with Scott in doubt. This list
viii be enlarged considerably next
spring, when the major portion of the
state will vote under the new local
option law.
TN Illinois we now have $4,000
square miles of prohibition territory
There are 1900 cities, villages and
hamlets in the state. OF the 1,017 In
corporated cities and villages 500 are
dry. OF the unincorporated villages
1900 out of the 1900 are without sa
looms. and of the 1900 hamlets more
than 1000 are dry. The population o.
this dry territory in Illinois. esti
mate, is 2,250,000, divided thus; Chi
cago, 100000; rural. 100000; cities
100000 villages and hamlets, 20 600
Notwithstanding this encoura, Ing
situation which doubtless will be
surprise to most people, Illinois still
has more than 10000 saloons, a larger
number than in all the fifteen states
of the south, with a much larger pop
lulation. | expect to see prohibition
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