The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-26

ernor Johnson recently carried vic
toriously the Initiative. the referen-
| DUN, the recall and female suffrage.
and all but the latter with over
whelming majorities, three or four
to one.
| The question as to who stands for
these propositions was answered by
calling the roll of American up-to-
| date statesmen-Col. Roosevelt Gov.
Wilson, Gov. Stubbs, Gov. Har-
mon, Gov. Foss, Gov. Johnson,
Gov. Marshall, Gov. Osborn, Speaker
Clark, Senators Gore, owens, La FOL
lette, Cummins, Poindexter Bourne,
Nelson, Clapp of Minnesota (who
will speak on this issue, in Marion,
on November 2nd) and all other live
American statesmens \ few dead
ones like Cannon and Aldrich stand
opposed.
Other questions like the short bal
lot and the commission form of gov
! ernment were discussed briefly.
Rev. Miles.
Rev. j. w. Miles, the Boanerges
of the reform movement i'm Marion
county. followed with one of his elo-
quent and soul-stlrring ad dresses and
swept the field. He discussed nearly
all phases of the problem to be de-
cided next Wednesday and tore the
husks Of deceit, Misrepresentation and
delusion from the giant iniquity of
converting boys and girls into drunk
ards and castaways by the process OF
the open saloon. when they should be
protected and saved for the homes.
the schools. the churches and the
state. Early in his speech he refer
red to the fact that he had discovered
that certain men were posting up
placards from LaRue to Marion aud
all along the highways OF this county
! with this heading:
HOW TO VOTE WET"
When he passed the parties who
were posting up these placards he
| discovered that one of the men, the
man in charge of the squad. was the
convicted and self-confessed law
breaker. Carl Burke. This Burke and
his brother had just been convicted
of bootlegging in Mayor Settlers court
and fined $1.700 and to get the fine
reduced confessed and agreed to stop
waging their GRIND against society.
Now, said Rev. Miles. what do YOU
good people of Marion county think
of that? How do you honest patri-
otic, Christian men and women like
to be advised, educated ana eXhortcd
| to vote wet that carl Burke and his
| kind of law-breakers may ply their
| Infamous business To debauch your
boys and girls. to drag them down
| from their purity and health and
manhood and womanhooa to land
them outcasts of the saloon and pos
sibly to drunkards' graves?
The point fell on the audience with
the power OF a trip hammer and no
man i'm that audience VIII ever vote
wet
he rotten places in the petition
whereby the bootleggers brought on
this vote were shown up i'm a red
light. Along with the bootleggers and
the law-breakers and the thugs and
the drunkards and the outcasts are
some good citizens who have signed
But many of these high-class citizens
say they never signed the wet petit
tion that their names have been
forged, that they never saw that PEE
tition and that they are opposed to
saloons. These men feel outraged
and are becoming our best workers
Another class OF men were deceived
and beguiled into signing the petit
tion. They were told Il was a dry
petition or that the time had expired
and there had To be an election. still
another class of signers are boys not
of age and thirteen paupers at the
| N Ufh -a1 a.,
mans handwriting and that mono OF
said paupers signed the petition. These
are the works of fraud and crime,
this deception, falsehood ana forgery
which the good. reputable people OF
Marion county are expected To in
dorse at the ballot-box next Wedncs-
day. win you voters stand for this
| falsehood and crime?
Another strong point pushed home
with dramatic and telling force was
the fact that the claim of the vets
that the local option law Is not well
enforced Is not as true as they would
like II to be. OF course 1t Is admit
ted II Is not perfectly enforced. The
liquor business has been intrenchine
| itself for one. hundred years and II
cannot be driven out i'm few months
But men cannot sell out of theil
pockets and i'm secret retreats, taking
one person at time, the tenth part
as much booze as they can I'm the
open saloon >where they line up two
rows deep and drink at Will, Non
are one-hfth as many boys reached
and made drunkards by this secret
lawless means.
If you want to know, ask Charles
| Miller or Mrs. Charles Miller, eX'
booze artlsts-if you can find them.
\ Ask the Burkes. fined $1,700, the
|, three men In the workhouse, those
i tnat have been let out, the many con-
victed persons IN the mayors court
i Abel and Coonrad who have just been
| arrested by the United States govern
! ment and taken before the court at
/ Toledo. and see If prohibition doesn't
i prohibit some and make Jordan a
| hard road to travel for these law
Il breakers. And when this county goes
i dry the balance of them Will get q
i move on them. This criminal effor
i to overthrow the law, wlnked at anc
supported by some officials, Will have
to go.
4 Now, let every man do his duty
II And LET the women pitch in, too