Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-27
'DRYS' WIN BYB|GvOTE
North Carolina Claimed by
Fully 10000 Majority.
STATE GOES PROHIBITION
New Law Becomes Operative First Of
Next January.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RALEIGH. N. c.. May 27.-At noon
today the more sansuine OF tho pro-
hioition leaders are claiming 10000 ma
jority for state prohibition as a result
Of yesterdays election. with full Or &C.
curate returns received from three.
fourths of the counties. Others more
conservative fix the majority at 10000
The anti-prohibitionists do not admit
that 1t will reach over twenty to twenty.
five thousand when the full count ID in
1t is probably safe to say that state pro-
hibition has been adopted by at leas,
10000 majority. The new law does no,
become operative till the LIST Of next Jan.
uary.
This (Wake) county voted wet" by
700 majority, and the city Of Raleigh
which gave prohibition a two-thirds
| vote in the local option election five
months ago, the majority being nearly
700, went dry this time by only seventy
in the city proper. while Raleigh town.
ship. including four precincts outside
city limits. went wet. ofsetting the city
dry vote majority by fourteen
When this big revulsion was frst
learned the prohibs were badly scared
for while, but the balance Of the state
as whole did not vote the same way,
most Of the wet communities giving
smaller majorities than anticipated. The
prohibition vote fell of generally in
plaes where prohibition has been tried
lately. but nearly all such places still
remain dry. Less than thirty Of ninety
eight counties voted whole wet To the
work of the women much Of the victory
is attributed.
Second Vote on This Issue.
1t was the second time the voters have
been given the opportunity to decide this
issue. and the result was in sharp con.
trast to the dry" advocates in 1881
Then the whites divided and the negroes
voted SO solidly against prohibition tina,
the saloon majority was practically the
negro vote. Few negroes voted today
and OF these. perhaps, majority voted
the dry ticket. It had been roughly cal
culated at anti-saloon headquarters that
not more than twenty counties Of the
ninety-eight could be carried by the
VETS"
The "wets' went to the polls early by
direction Of their state chairman. Mayor
A. II. Boyden OF Salisbury. Boyden's
own city. which is the main center of the
liquor trafhc In the state. went dry by
| a great vote for prohibition. Gov. Glenn
and Judge Pritchard, the two chief pro.
| hibitionist speakers. democratic and re
publican respectively. carried their home
! counties handsomely.
The fact that Salisbury. the headouar.
tiers OF the anti-prohibitionists. went dr.,
by lbs majority gave the prohibitionist:
extreme pleasure. as did the smallness oil
the wet majority at Wilmington and
the victory in Winston.Salern, these beins
the chief liquor towns In the state.
Raleigh Center Of Hot Fight.
Raleigh was the center of q hot fieht
but the city proper went dry by eighty.
four majority. The vets claim this
county by 800.
Asheville went dry by 500 majority
Charlotte, 1000: Winston-salem, 600, and
Greensboro. 1000
The prohibition wave swept the stat.
| from one end to the other. and out OF
ntnety-eight counties the "wets" only
| carried five.
The prohibition leaders. including Gov
Glenn and United States Senator Sim
mons, declared on the stump and In cir.
culars that nothing less than 5000 would
settle the question definitely" and thai
the vets would renew the fight at thu
| first opportunity ii defeated by a small
majority. The vets were interested, es.
pecially the National Liquor Dealers As.
ISOLATION. in keeping the majority as Low
as possible because of the effect 1t Nigh,
| have on nearby states, especially Virginia