The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-27
Liquor Campaign Is Now on in
Earnest Throughout the
State.
TODAY LAST DAY FOR
FILING OF PETITIONS
Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo, Logan
and Brigham City Storm
CenterS.

Today is the last day under the new
liquor law for the fling Of petitions ask
Ing for an election in the county units.
Under the law the liquor elections are
to be held in all of the Incorporated
cities and towns of the state. but will
not be held in the county units except
on petition ot % per cent OF the quail
He'd voters living in the county unit. en-
less such an election is held and the vot-
all territory in counties outside Of the
incorporated cities and towns will %
prohibition territory after October ! next
Thus far, the only election that has
oeen ordered In any county unit has been
IN salt Lake county petition con-
tanning the names OF more than 70 per
cent OF the voters living in the territory
affected was filed with the county COM
missioners and an election has been or
dered.
Formal notices OF the liquor election in
the county unit in Salt Lake county are
being prepared and Will be posted within
a day or two. The notices are made In
the form prescribed by the new law. I'm
der the law these notices must he post
cd at least twenty days prior To the
election.
Petitions for liquor election have neen
circulated In some OF the other counties
OF the state. but they have either not
yet been filed or the county commission
ers OF these counties have not yet acted
upon them In case petitions are filed to-
day the county commissioners have ten
days i'll which TO consider the petitions
and order the elections.
Campaign Is Spirited.
In almost every city and town in the
state where elections are to be held
spirited campaign Is already in progress
\ large majority of the cities and towns
are already dry and in some of these
the wet forces are making fight To
Will be elections in Sail Lake Bingham,
Sandy. Midvaie, Murray and Forest
Dale. and In the unit composed OF all
the rest ef the territory IN me f,,,,I,u G1unsy ~
the cities and towns mentioned, tbs
county unit includes. Lark. Alta. Draper.
Garfield Mill Creek, Saltair Hartman
and other uniucorporated towns of the
county.
The principal battle between the. pro-
hlb,tion and the anti-prohibitlon forces
sides arc thoroughly organized In each o,
these cities and the Indications are that
the campaign will he an interesting srone; one;
dry" cities in the state. wilI be the
scenes OF two warm battles on election
day The df{s claim 10 be ,ookinT ig s"s a
determined effort to reclaim the two
cities Residents OF these cities are
scarcely prepared to hazard guess as
to which way the election VIII go
In Logan recently former Senator
Herschel Bulen attempted to secure an
expression from the COMMERCIAL cup as
stand either for or against prohibition.
However, To head off such an eXpression
a motion &c adjourn was quickly MADE
and carried. and the club was rot placed
on record.
Prohibitionists Active.
The prohibitionists are conducting an
active campaign IN Provo. Several meet
ings have already been held and several
prominent leaders of the prohibition
movement have spoken. Sunday. June
IS has been designated as prohibition
Sunday in Provo. and prohibition talks
will be made in most OF The churches.
has already begun. John Q. Critehlow,
Salt Lake business man. spoke at
Richfed last sunday as9inSt pronlolo
spoken for prohibition Richfield is re-
garded by both sides AS close II was
dry" for Il time and prohibition was an
vets won out at the last election and
the city council voted To license saloons.
Brigham City. one OF the largest wet
campaign for prohibition. Other towns
in the county. now dry" also are eN-
perienoing liquor campaigns. Honeyville.
OF Box Elder county. have applied to
the county commissioners for incorpora-
ton IL is understood that these towns
viii be incorporates IN, IN time r 70 Vots reom on
River Utah has just been Incorporated
as a city Of the third class. and an elcc-
1
Is conducting the campaign for the pro
hibltionists AT Green River, Green River
is now wet"
Mount Pleasant wet"
There is only one town AT present in
Sanpete county in which saloons are IL
ccnsed This Is Mt. Pleasant. Here the
are conducting active
campaign. Recently the members OF the
priesthood of North Senpete stake OF the
Mormon church. which includes the
principal cities OF the county, voted IN
favor of prohibition and will participate
In the campaign In the cities In TINS
subdivision OF their church.
Al Elsinore not long ago President Jo-
seph r. Smith spoke in favor OF proh
billion at the dedication OF the new Els-
more tabernacle Apostle G.. w, PeDrose
urged the Mormons in attendance at
conference OF the Mormon church held
at Nephi to vote for prohibition.
In Carbon county where the wet
forces are said 10 be particularly strong,
the "drys" have organized for the cam
paign and will work for prohibition in
Price. Helper and other cities OF the
4 prohibition organization has
beor formed in Castledalc Emery county,
Visits TO tho various cities and coun-
ties Of The state during the campaign
will be made bv Nephl J.. Morris, y, +.
Grant, Mrs, Lulu l.. Shepard and others
of the prohibition leaders. Who Will ad-
dress the meetings.
The Manufacturers and Business Mems
a ssocjation OF Utah. having the dircc-
ton of the campaign against prohibition.
Is arranging an itinerary which Will take
their speakers into the various sections
Of the state In which elections arc held