The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-11-14
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Analysis of Election Results
Show the Struggle Between
License and No license
DEMOCRACY TO QUIT
Future Campaign Battles Are
to Be Between Republi .
cans and P roIlibftionists
Of Election Results
DEMOCRACY TO OUT
cans and PROM bftionists

CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 14-CS Especially
Row that the various party managers
have figured out how badly Bryan
was beaten by Taft. they are turning
vote cast at the recent election. One
of the most interesting features In
this connection Is the statement of
Eugene v Chain. Prohibition candli-
dafe for President. who, At the
! washington Home the other night,
said that the Prohfbttien movement
I on Nov. , received decided setback
Mr.. Chain says:
With the aid OF the liduor bust
ness the Republicans carried New
York City. Chicago, st. Louis and
Cincinnati. Every temperance. can
Ididate OF prominence on both sides
was Knocked out at the recent. elect
ION Including Governor Folk OF Mis-
souri,. This means that the fight Will
be between the Republicans and the
lProbhfbftfonfsts from now on. and I
am confident that n ProhtbitIonist
viii be elected President in 1912
There are many thousands of vo-
ters In both parties who are ready to
COME with us just as soon as they
are convinced that Whfskey sdomf-
mates the present elections. We are
sure to win
That the Prohibition movement
made no headway, as Mr.. Chain in
of the votes in the various states.
The storm center OF the Prohibition
lists fight in the election was in In
diana, Ohio. IillnoIs. South Dakota,
Rhode Island. Minnesota, and Ten
nessee. In each of these states the
Prohibitionists were defeated and a
numbr OF weIl-known candidates who
champfoned their cause failed in
election
Probably the hottest contest over
the Prohibition question was in In
diana, because Of IT'S 1fvotal char
acter in the national election Gov.
J. F. Hanley. Republican, Is a we'll
cured crITtroI o. the ReoRblican state
convention. He secured county
koptIou plank in the platform The
Democratic party platform advocated
village and township option Gov.
HanIey. however was not satisfied
and as the campaign progressed call
ed "a special session of the legislature
which was Republican. and procured
the passage of county option law.
In this step he was ably assisted by
Me Republican nominee for Cover
nor. james Watson. and United
States Senator Hemenway.Th action
of the Governor caused much crftf-
cism and in the campaign County OPP
ton became the issue. The state
went Republican on President by TO-
600 plurality, but the Republican
candidate for Governor. Watson. was
defeated by Marshall. Democrat, by
over $4,000. while the Republicans
also lost the legislature. which Will
now elect a Democratic United States
Senator to succeed Senate Hemen-
way. Gov. Hanley's associate in the
county option fight
In Ohio, the birthplace of the Anti
Saloon league. the lines between the.
I PrnhihiftnnfSfa he II
sharply drawn. The Anti-SaIoon eIe-
nent championed the cause of Gov.
Harris, candidate for reelection.
Harris had been prominent during his
administration as an advocate of Pro-
hibftion and had obtained the pass
age of the Rose county option law by
the legislature. In the campaign. he
was opposed to Judson. Harmon the
Democratic candidate. who was sup
ported by the more liberal voters of
the state. The result was that Ohio
gave Taft $4,000 plurality. but in
spite OF this sweeping Republican
victory. the Republican candidate on
a Prohibition platform went down in
defeat and his Democratic Oppo-
nent was elected by over 10000.
state Senators Rose. Sites, Neck and
| Drake, who We're lieutenants of Har-
ris In his Antl-SaloOn campaign, also
We're defeated. Rose was the father
of the county option law and Drake
the chairman Of tho committee of the
legislature having charge of all tenn
perance Legislation.
In Illinois the AntI-Saloon people
conferred their light in nm effort to
capture the legislature for county OPP
ton. Returns show that they were
overwhelmingly defeated, IS per cent
/ of the members elected to the senate
and house being opposed to county
option. The leader of the local OPP
/ ton forces in the last Legislature. o.
r. Berry. was retired.
! In, South Dakota the question of
county option was squarely presented
to the people of the entire state under
+, the initiative and referendum. The
! Erohibitionists and the Anti-saloon
/ Ieaguers had joint headquarters and
made vigorous light. County optic
was defeated by T,OOo.The defeat of
the question Is more decisive In South
/ Dakota because it IS a purely aEri-
cultural state and in recent years ha d
experience In state Prohibition.
The Anti-Saloou league selected
Rhode Island as a point in which to
test it's strength in New England.
Two weeks before the election under
a decision of the Supreme Court 1t
became necessary for the state m a
I whole to vote on the question o. IL
\ cense or no license, A short but live
lily campaign followed and resulted in
the vets retaining all the towns aud