The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-28
SALOON PRETENS|ONS ARE
BLASTED BY THE MASTERY
ADDRESS OF JOHN. H. CLARK

jury where they purchased the liquor
which made them drunk and caused
them to stagger and reel on the
streets of that city. Sidney is city
of open saloons.
But there is an object lesson in
these placards posted by the Burkes
and the oKeeffes which should ring
the changes on the liquor crime ana
curse in Marion county. Here are
proved and self-confessed law-breaS-
ers instructing the people ''how to
vote wet" These men have the ada
mantine gall to instruct by diagram
the decent, law-abiding, Christian peo-
pie Of this county how to vote. Their
kind of people who burn up their
brains and sensibilitles with booze
may need this instruction but the
clean, honest, intelligent, patriotic,
law-abiding, God-fearing men and
women of Marion county need no
such law-breakers and promoters of
vice and crime and degradation and
the liquor curse to instruct them how
to vote. Furthermore, the honest
men and women OF this county ought
to consider these posters put up by
these law breakers an affront to their
intelligence, an outrage on the sensi-
bilities OF honest men, an attempt of
the unpatrotc and disloyal to walk
brazenly over the honest and law
abiding and patriotic people of the
county and promote the cause OF
drunkenness, immortality and crime
at the ballot-box Let these posters
be properly resented.
THAT Roll of Wet Petitioners.
The speaker discussed the matter
of the wet petitioners and showed up
the forgeries and frauds in that In
strument 1t seems It was this same
crowd of convicted lawbreakers who
carried these petitions around over
the country and which now are found
to contain the names of men VINO
have been dead several years, of some
who left this county as long as twen-
ty-nve years ago, of some boys VINO
are not of age. of many good men
whose names are forgeries and who
denounce bitterly the use of their
names and are hard at work for the
drv cause. of paupers at the infirm-
arv and of others secured by misrep-
resentation, deceit and falsehood.
Then the important argument In
the present situation was met. That
is whether prohibition prohibits Then
Mr. Clark called the long roll on the
law-breakers and showed them up
There was the cases of number VINO
were fined and sent to the works, not
having any money to pay their lines
There is the case of the Burkes' iath-
err and two sons. who have been hneu
81 700 and their business discontinued
until the election and II the county
goes dry they Will give up.
Abel and Coonrad have just been
arrested and taken to Toledo 10
answer for the violation of Uncle
SANS internal revenue laws. They
also have fines of 5000 hanging over
them here and more cases pendin>
o'Keeffe has been arrested ana
fined as well as others ana the pat
tie will go steadily forward III was
shown how 1t had been boasted th'l
more liquor was sold here thah ever
before. how the Burkes, Oheenes'
and other bootleggers were setVihs
rich But when the Burkes Were
fined S1.7O0 It was found that theS
had but n little over $4OO III panN
although II had been adVertiseu pS
wet spouters that they had $"oVo'
However, many of the bootiesgers
caught had no money to pay thelr
ones and we're sent to the workhouse'
An important argument was ad-
vanced by calling attention to the
boys and girls present and impresslng
the consideration that 1t is these chill
dren which the saloonists want for
their patrons and whose lives would
be bllghted by their return. A lawyer
who has been working for the return
of these saloons said with brutality
characteristic of a fiend to mother
solicnous about her boy: "Oh. II the
saloons are voted back Wen get your
boy" Was there ever before exhibit
ed such a satanic spirit?