The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-08
Ante-Campai9n Promises.

George Tucker. The latter was push- ed aside and Mann got the nomina- ton.
 Ante-Campalgn Promises. The charge has been repeatedly made that the liquor dealers were promised by the Democratic machine" leaders that if they would support Mann they would see to 1t that the Legislature to be elected this year should not spring any proposition looking to vote for statewide pro- hibition. The Governor-eiect is under stood to be favorable to any prohi- bition bill that might be passed; at least when the issue was put up squarely to him in the campaign he declared that he would approve a pro- hibition bill if one should be sent to him. That was to pacify the anti- saloon crowd who are insisting that local option does not go far enough They want to make the cities of Rich mond, Norfolk and Petersburg as dry as are Danyille. Lynchburg and Staunton. and they swear they are not going to rest until they close up every saloon in the State.
 Mir. Tucker stated that he would if nominated for Governor. veto any Statewide prohibition bill. on the ground that he favored local option and did not think that because ma jority of the people of Richmond and Petersburg or any other city wanted saloons licensed they should be made to abolish them simply because some other cities had decided their towns should be dry" And yet the liquor dealers all over Virginia rallied aI- most as one person to the support of Mann. who was also the prime favor ite of the anti-saloon element
 oar1fD0 xrfrfar dnuA&1aa~ the officials of the Anti Saloon League will hover around Richmond with a view of influencing the Legislature to pave the way for a Statewide prohi- bition contest. The chances are they will scarcely get respectful hearing
 Maryland aDrysn Discouraged.
 The Maryland prohibitionists are somewhat down-hearted since the re- cent election. They tried public sem ton, of which Hagerstown is the chief town. They secured special vote as to whether saloons should be licensed. and they were whipped out of their boots. They had thought that in Wes- tern Maryland the anti-saloon senti- ment was rather strong, and if they had carried Washington county they intended to make a move later on in some of the other counties fin that portion of the State. This start was made to frighten the people of Balti- bition on account of the large number of distilleries. breweries and whole sale liquor houses located there. A great many firms moved to Baltimore | from North Carolina and Georgia after those States adopted prohibition. | Unless the Maryland prohibitionists can make serious inroads out in the l- L | Is hopeless. for the vote of Baltimore would swamp the movement in short | order. The city people are not will ing to give up the large amount ot | revenue that Is derived under the H. cense plan. The foreign population of | the city Is almost solidly against the proposition for State wide prohibition and 1t begins to look as if Maryland will continue indefinitely to license saloons. But there are number oi counties in Maryland. just as there are in Virginia and Kentucky. that have banished the saloons under tho local option law.
 Several of the Maryland countie. down on the Eastern Shore have beer dry for twenty-five years or more One county, Montgomery. which liei immediately next to the District o Columbia, has not had an open saloor m II TOT quarter or century. Int authorities though in Montgomery county are constantly engaged in lo eating and breaking up blind tigers and 'speakeasies."
 Some time ago Speaker Cannon anC Congressman Sam Mccall of Massa.
 chusetts were talking about the loca option plan, and Uncle Joe" said h,
 doubted very much if closing the sa looms had the effect Hof preventing tn,
 people from getting all the liquor the,
 wanted.
 "oh.' said Mir. Mccall, my towl
 has been dry ever since I could re
 member, and I really believe that 1t f
 . good thing for the people. They d, not seem now to care about liquor"
 Now. look here, sam." exclaimed tn
 speaker, your town. you must remem
 Der, is not such a he'll of a distanc
 from Boston where plenty of the stuf can be obtained"
 The county Of Montgomery in Mary
 land is similarly located so far as tn
 city of Washington Is concerned. The anti-saloon Organizations ar making their plans to press prohibi
 ton for the District of Columbia a
 the coming session of Congress. Tn
 statement is going the rounds tha Representative Wyatt Aiken of Sout
 Carolina will introduce the bill mex
 month in the House to make the na
 tion's capital dry" In the last Con !. gress the measure was offered by Rer | raaaufative SfrnR oF Tappaaaa. h,.& !,