Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-11-14
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.
5ITiON 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 leader.
AS 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 Boosting on Mon
day that they had from $50, 900 to $780,
600 on hand to buy up every negro and
every white who was susceptible" he
said. Even the first returns show
that the prohibitionsts polled a major
ity of from 1000 to 5000 in the total
aggregate vote of the state.
I'm Kentucky, the defeat of Hager,
the democratic candidate for governor,
was victory, not 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 prohibitionlsts, had
made secret alliance with the brew
ers and whisky-makers, pledging them
th..t 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.
1.-The encouraging feature of the To-
cal option returns in Illinois" he con-
tinued. sis that the coal miners and
other workingmen voted for prohibi-
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
do the same had she the chance.
Before the election there were ten
dry counties in Illinois-Moultrie,
Douglas, Lawrence. Crawford, Wa
BASH Edwards, Hamilton, Jefferson,
Johnson and Wayne. The following
counties have joined the dry column;
Hardin, Union, Pope, Massac and Will
hanson, with Scott IN doubt. This list
will be enlarged considerably next
spring, when the major portion OF the
state will vote under the new local
option law.
I'm Illinois we now have $4,000
square miles of prohibition territory.
There are 300 cities, villages and
hamlets in the state. OF the LOTT in
corporated cities and villages 500 are
dry OF the unincorporated villages
] 200 out of the 1,500 are without sa-
looms, and of the 1900 hamlets more
than 1000 are dry. The population of
this dry territory In Illinois, esti-
mate, is 2,250,O00, divided thus Chi
cago, 100000; rural, 100000; cities.
100000; villages and hamlets, $4,000.
Notwithstanding this encouraging
situation which doubtless will be a
surprise to most people, Illinois still
has more than 10000 saloons, larger
number than in all the fifteen states
of the south, with a much larger pop
ulation. | expect to see prohibition
win in that state as well as In the
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