The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-01
NEW LIQUOR Law
CREATES STRIFE
Utah County Vets Are Likely
to Lead Authorities a
Merry Chase.
ADVISED BY ATTORNEY
TO IGNORE STATUTE
Hold Cities Are Not Required to
Pass Ordinances Conform
ing to Legislation.
Snecial TO The Tribune.

Special TO The Tribune.
PROVO, April 30.--According to Coun-
ty Attorney Jacob Evans we are TO have
''hades exemplihed" when the new liquor
law goes into effect May 10, While 1t
Is not known what attitude will be taken
by all OF the city attorneys Of the cities
In Utah county, some OF them nave
looked into the question sufficiently TO
enable them TO arrive at a decided stand.
Attorney j. w. n. Whtecotton. who is
attorney for American Fork. Pleasant
Grove and SpringYille business men, has
publicly stated chat he will advise his
clients to have nothing to do with the
enforcement of the state law, no mat
ter which way the election goes. wet or
dry. claiming that II will be ND to the
state through the county officers, 10
police the cities and regulate and control
the liquor traffic.
Regards Law as Optional,
MI Whitecotton reads the law TO mean
tha! II is optional with the cities as to
whether they will take hold OF the liquor
law; the law does not make IL man
datory on the part of cities to pass or
dinances In accordance with the state
statutes, and therefore If the cities re-
be up to the state. II II falls on the
state to so regulate. it will then devolve
on the county attorney OF each county
TO Initiate prosecutions for violation OF
the law and 10 advise in the matter OF
policing the cities In the county. Utah
county, being the second largest county
in the state in population. would require
the services OF fifty 10 100 deputy sher-
ffs distributed among the several cities
in the county, There are eight incor-
porated cities in Utah county and sew
eral Incorporated towns which are gov
crned by a town board
On this question Mr.. Evans: az coun-
~ attorney frankly admits that il the
cities in the county take the position
-I--.
likely not be any regulation of the liquor
question in Utah county at any rate.
While Mr. Evans does not make posi-
tive announcement of the position he
will have anything to do with the en-
forcement of the state law.
Prohibitionists Active.
Regardless of the tangle in which the
liquor law will leave the state. the
prohibitlonists are going ahead organIZ-
and Utah county. The anti prohibition
lists here are Just waking up to the fact
that there Is to he a great struggle,
with the odds against the vets because
church. and because OF this attitude
there are many people who have here
tofore supported prohibition will now
work and vote with the sntls. Then
there are the loyal Democrats. those who
have stood steadfast to the cause OF
Democracy. and who in the last cam
paign made a hard fight for state wide
prohibition, knowing all the time that
the Mormon church was against them.
now feel like working and voting with
the vets. showing their contempt for
the church's interference i'm this 1ght
II is conceded and asserted here that
Utah county is In The worst mixup that
II has ever been In in its history, and
the contest which is to he decided June
~ presaSes one OF the fiercest political
battles ever waged in the usually quiet
Garden city.