The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-29
|[|QUOR FIGHT
/ RENDS IDAHO
Forces Are Concentrating for
County Option Battles in
the Fall.
|WETS, BOYCOTTED, MAKE
APPEAL TO THE VOTERS
Farmers Put Business Men
Who Favor Saloons in En-
4 barrassing Plight.
....,sI 70 The Tribune

rsecial 70 The Tribune
poIsE. Idaho. Aug. 2S.-The wet"
ma dry Issue in many OF tho twenty
s,r.n counties OF the state OF Idaho
,,ouIses 10 become paramount this fall,
q, no, only those counties that are now
,ar,' will hold special elections either
|r remain In that condition or become
'ertt." but many OF the wet" counties
An test the local option law.
The Idaho AntiSaloon league liz In
tsnplete charge OF the campaign TO keep
,ounties TO the water wagon" list.
4 The local option law WAS passed by
',ts Tenth legislature three years ago
ssd before the session had adjourned
Tnre than sixty DAYS local option cam
iFsnty-three counties Of the state. all
n them voting TO become dry" and
hereby banishIng the saloon and liquor
,rsfac from their territory. Three of
liz counties. Oneida. Latah and Cassia,
Esre dry through orders OF the county
Manufacturers, who refused 10 issue sa-
bon LICENCES. The law was operative for
|fvo years. expiring this fall, with the
result that campaigns are again being
'saged In the respective counfies-in the
|~set' territory To make the counties
'"dry" and in the dry counties to make
ihem wet
BOuI INC" CouHtlCb.
Four new counties were created by the
Eleventh. leglslature-Clearwater and
Lewis on, OF old Nez Pcrce, Adams out
|of the north half Of Washington, and
Bonneville out of part OF Fremont and
Bingham counties. AS the territory
from which these counties were formed
xas "dry" at the time the county crea-
Necessarily became dry" making total
n twenty dry" counties in the state
. and seven wet The segregation OF
-wet" and dry counties is shown In
he following list:
Dry counties-Bonner. Kootenai'
latab Idaho. Nez Perce, Lewis, Clear
Eatsr. Washington, Adams, Canyon. Lin
roln Twin Falls. Cassia. Bannook. Fro-
mont. Bonneville and Bingham.
"Wet" counties Owyhee,
Ada Elmoyc. Custer, Boise and Blaine.
Il The local option fight is now at fever
heat In Canyon county Headquarters
have been established by both the vets
md ''drys.' The business men have or
ness Mems and Voters league. an or
arzatlon that favors strict regulation
Ibs local optionists were said 10 have
leclsred n hovcott against all members
. ia this organization and circulated peu'
lions asking supporters for their plan
The members OF the League thereupon is
t1Rd circular in which they say In pare
Persons circulating petitions whicl
nntain threats OF boycott. and which
faye been brought TO the attention o
business mon OF Caldwell with the cvi
rnl Intention and purpose Of intiuenclnf
1hslr stand on the leading Issues OF IN
PRESENT campaign arc liable 90 action II
court OF law. The names of the parties
Fno have been circulating such paper
ue Known 10 tho officers Of the Busl
ctss Mems and Voters league OF Canyol
Uuniy. We do not care To deal harshl,
ath our opponents who resort TO sucl
miGr: un-American. unprincipled meth
cos or campaicninE. We appeal to tn
.olers OF Idaho, men and women VIII
'alne their citizenship AS Americans Il
p-ioelcss gem, to resent such method
" !egstcring and voting on elect!o
W. Wednesday,. September &. IN fave
y license and regulation and rolling u
majority against county option
efonE that II will stand as a rebuke I
nhat'fism and prescription for all tim