The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-17
STRUGGLE
For County Local Option
on in Dead Earnest
Through Slate
STARTED IN SUM Nit

Columbus, Sept. 13.-The announce
ment was made from the state head
quarters of the Anti-Saloon league
today that there would be no attempt
to drive saloons from Cuyahoga un-
der the county option law. The league
will not risk a fight in the five larger
counties of the state. Saloons will
be cleaned out of Cuyahoga, Hamil-
ton, Franklin, Lucas and perhaps one
or two other counties by state wide
action" says Wayne B. Wheeler, state
superintendent.
Reports to the Anti-Saloon league
Offices are that the petitions for an
election in Lorain county will be
ready for fling by the middle OF
next week, at the latest. Polls have
been taken, and the local organiza-
tions perfected for the circulation of
petitions in Portage, Medina, Lake,
Huron, Trumbull, Tuscarawas and
| Sandusky counties. Saloons have
been voted out of Geauga county un-
der township option, and there will be
| no action under the Rose law.
| Starting today the so-called cam
paign of education is to be inaugu-
rated in Akron and from the city into
all parts of Summit county. Seaborn
| Wright, leader OF the movement end
! ing in prohibition in Georgia, is to be
conspicuous figure in the Summit
county campaign. He has been sent
| from state headquarters here to tear
! things loose in Akron"
An army of more than 200 Ohio
speakers has been mobilized by the
anti-liquor forces to use in the county
option fights all over the state. The
| local orators are to be REINFORCED by
noted temperance pleaders from all
over the country. Many of the men
who participated in the big campaign
against the saloon IN Illinois are to be
turned loose in Ohio. Included in
the list are Seaborn Wright, of
Georgia; Governor Hanley, of In
diana; George Young, head of the
Anti-Saloon organization in Ken"
lucky; Col. George w. Bayne, of Ken
lucky Thomas Hare, of Washington,
D. c.; John G. Wooley, of Chicago;
DR.. John Taylor, of Boston, who talks
point, and Clinton Howard, travelling
salesman, Of Rochester, N Y.
The first elections under the Rose
law will be held next Saturday. On
that day the voters of Meigs and War
rem counties will decide for or against
the saloon. The fight will be hot and
heavy from that day on, September
30 elections will be held in Athens.
Van Vert, Scioto, Pike, Adams, Jack
son, Hooking, Vinton, Morgan and
Noble counties. An election has also
been called for the same day in Gallia
county. The ousting of the board of
elections by Secretary of State
Thompson may delay settlement Of
the issue in that county, however, in
definitely.
On October 8 elections will be held
in Ashtabula, Carroll, Union, Logan
and Columbiana counties, with cleo
tions in Delaware and Union counties
October /. The vote will be taken
in Champaign and Madison counties
October 5, and in Wyandot county oc-
tober 6.
In addition petitions signed by a
large majority of the voters, are ready
for filing in Darke, Pickaway, Law
renee, Shelby and Wayne counties.
Mass meetings are being arranged for
not alone for the cities and villages
but in every crossroads in the coun-
ties already under fire.
Seaborn Wright with other speakers
from outside the state are working
in Ohio for one and two month en-
gagements. Wright has made about
twenty speeches in Ohio already.
Il find the sentiment just as strong
in the smaller counties of this state
as in any county in the SOUTH" says
Wright IF the people in Ohio could
vote on state wide prohibition today
they would carry it,"