The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-12

RATHER CLOSE RESULT
Cities Piled up tho Count for Change
While Country voto Was
Strong for Dry
ness.


dications are that the vets have won
the fight for the repeal Of the prohibit
tory amendment to the state constitu-
ton.
With thirty-two towns to hear from
they have majority of 1900 and the
returns from these towns will not Off
set the result to any appreciable de-
gree. The drys, however, are still con-
fident.
The missing vote probably will not
be received until late as the towns are
IL sparsely settled territory.
Returns from the first coneression-
al district complete show majority
of 2171 for repeal. Twenty-seven years
ago it stood 9423 in favor of the am
amendment.
Portland, the largest city in the
state, went overwhelmingly wet, the
vote being 6679 yes and 4261 no, a
majority of 241S for the vets.
All the other cities except Calais
, voted in the wet column in the same
proportion. and Biddeford threw 1906
of its 1900 votes for the anti-prohibi.
J tionists.
The fight was bitter all over the
state, but was particularly close in
York County, which will give mar
! gin of less than 100 votes in favor OF
repeal The prohibitionists had reck-
! oned on York as one of their counties
One small town, Greenwood, gave the
1 biggest percentage Of majority for the
4 vets by polling IS yes votes and but a
4 solitary ballot for no.
/ Although the cities gave heavy yes
majorities, in the country the vote fol
/ the retention of the amendment was
4 large, probably enough to offset the
\ city vote. Every effort was made tc
get out full vote, while in many o
/ the cities and villages women wert
| present at the polling places, implor
ing men to vote no, while prayer
meetings were held in the churche.
and the bells tolled every hour dur
i ing the hours that the polls were
i open.
i One hundred and twenty thousand
voters cast ballots on the question
With the twenty-five towns MISSING
the vote was 60.S7S for repeal and So
i 563 against change in the constitu
ton.
1 As had been predicted, the cities
were the chief strongholds of the re
1 peal faction, but the majority of 12
900 in the total city vote was barrel,
sufficient, according to the lates
available returns, to offset the vote Q
the rural regions.
Although the vote did not equa
that OF a year ago. when the demo
Gratis swept the state, which for year
had been republican stronghold tn
election was an interesting contest
There was not home In any part 0
the state which was not flooded wit
literature by both sides, while the voi
ers were waited on by personal worF
ers and harrangued at public gather
ings to cast their ballot for or agains
repeal. The result was that hundred
Of voters who had not visited tn
polls for years, with the possible ea
ception of last year, were recorde
yesterday.
Little excitement marked the vot
ing Although the polls in some OF tn
cities were crowded during much G
the time, it was an orderly crowd an
gave the officials little or no trouble
Undaunted by the small majority G
about 900 votes against them, tn
prohibition workers today began 81
!, curing the 10000 names necessar
for petition to call another specia
election. Gov Plaisted said today h
would not announce just now whetf
er he would call a special session G
the legislature to pass local optic
!, law.
The prohibitionists will not al
NIT defeat and If necessary will II
sist on recount. The returns th'
afternoon indicate only about 500 fe
the vets.
.