The Sentinel=record., 1911-12-15
VOTE WET
scioTo AND LAWRENCE coUN. TIES IN OHIO REPuDlATE PRO- HtBiTIoN AFTER THREE
 YEARS TRIAL.
BOTH GIVE BIG MAJORITlES
mains Wet; Three Go Wet and One Stays Dry.

Columbus, 0.-Three counties in Ohio which have voted on county op- ton under the Rose county option law shayc determined that for the next three years the "bootlegger" and blind tiger" keeper shall not wax fat i from the profits of his illicit business within their county's borders.
 Scioto county on October 25th repu- dated prohibition by majority of l,274 votes. Three years ago the sa- 1 looms were voted out of Scioto county by 2sl maority. The total vote in the recent election was over 11,000 and i was the largest ever boiled in the county. Portsmouth. the county seat. gave a wet majority of 1,431 as against as it's former wet majority of l41
 Not only did the drys lose heavily
 in the city. but expected gains in the county failed to materiali2e. Out of 25 precincts outside the. city but five gave the drys small gains. New Bos- ] ion, which Is the second iarges; cor poration in the county. increased it's i former wet majority from 46 to 137 votes The vets lost but of the 23 1 city precincts, and these by small ma. iorities.
 The drys adopted the usual election tactics. Church bells were tolled all day and women held hourly prayer meetings. The precinct of Judge Blair. noted dry advocate. election purifier and anti-saloon league speak CT. went wet Former Probate Judge , Sikes, who handled the wet campaign. although himself a teetotaler, reduced the former dry majority in his pre- cinct an even 30 votes. The wet cam paign was backed by business mems l organization consisting of over 200 members. They claimed that prohi- 1 bition has been & failure in Scioto 1 county.
 | The drys find their greatest surprise l in the failure of Evangelist Billy Sun i day to stem the tide after having been brought to Portsmouth for his ceie- ! brated "booze sermon" last Monday night. Seven thousand voters, at this
 meeting. pledged their ballots to keep
 Scioto county in the dry column. At the election the drys cast barely 5,000 f votes in the entire county.
 After one of the most strongly con-
 tested campaigns in the history of
 Lawrence county, the business men s
 association won over the local option
 league in wet and dry fight by over If s00 majority. ironton, the county
 seat. gave the vets a majority of 136.
 The county three years ago voted dry by over 1,500 and the city dry by 6S. II Besides local speakers, the drys inn
 ported speakers from other cities and
 towns to bolster up their campaign. Among the speakers were Wayne B.
 Wheeler and F A. Baker, of the Anti
 Saloon league; Seaborn Wright, of Georgia. and Mrs. Lulu Shepard. The
 Women's Christian Temperance Union took great interest in the fight and pa raded the principal streets of the city on the morning of election day leading many school children and headed by | two brass bands.
 Shelby county, which recently voted | wet under the Rose county option law, retains saloons and completes the trio ] of Ohio counties which this year have voted on the liquor question. The re-
 turn of Scioto and Lawrence counties \ to the wet column is taken as an evi- | dence of the reversal of opinion in Ohio counties from county option to { local option.
 Athens county went vet Oct. 2Sth by one thousand majority and over six hundred dry majority in Meigs county ] was wiped out.