Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-10-10
JUDGE EXPLODES
WHISKEY CANARD
Liquor Dealers Fake that Pro-
hibitionists will Lose Vote
is Exploded
He TELLS HOW TO VOTE RIGHT
JurIst Points Out the Simplicity Of the
Plan of Voting on the Proposed
Amendment-No Reason for
Error BY Anyone.
[By Judge ]. c. McWhorter.l

[By Judge ]. c. McWhorter.]
The statement is being circulated by
the liquor people that the voter who
attempts to vote for the prohibition
amendment Is in danger Of spelling
his ballot and losing his entire vote.
This Is rank nonsense. 1t Is refec-
ton upon the intelligence Of every
voter. When understood, 1t Is an easy,
simple thing to vote for the amend
ment. Look at the bottom Of the bal
lot. On every party's ticket, at the
bottom Of the ballot, are these words:
"For the ratification OF the Prohibi-
ton Amendment" Right before these
words is little square. Put cross
mark in this little square, and then
you have voted for the amendment
and against the saloon. Unless you
do put this cross mark in this square,
you will not vote for the amendment,
no matter what ticket you vote. just
under the words quoted, In another
line are these words: Against the
ratification of the Prohibition Amend
ment." Should you put cross IN the
little square before these words, then
you will have voted against the pro-
hibition amendment and for the sa-
looms. It makes no difference at all
on what party ticket you vote for the
amendment. All the party tickets are
exactly alike so far as this amend.
ment is concerned. Then, after vot-
ing for the amendment in this way on
the bottom of some one Of the tickets
In the ballot, go to the head OF the
ballot and vote any ticket you please,
and your vote will be alright For in
stance, suppose a man wants to vote
for the amendment and also to vote
straight party ticket. He can vote for
the amendment on the bottom Of eth
er the Republican, Democratic, Social
list, Progressive Republican or Prohi-
bition ticket, no matter which, then
20 to the head of the ballot and vote
any straight ticket he wants to, or d.
vide his vote In any way he pleases.
In other words. the amendment
proposition is on every ticket exactly
alike, and Is put on all of them only
for convenience, and while so placed
on the party tickets at the bottom, it
has nothing whatever to do with the
party tickets and Is no part Of either
of them. It Is separate proposition
and has to be voted upon separately.
So let no voter be afraid Of losing
his vote by voting for the ratification
of the amendment
No one should be frightened at the
name of the pending measure known
as the Prohibition Amendment" 1t
is not a party measure. We are all
prohibitionists in large way. Every
law against murder, larceny, burglary
or any other crime, is a prohibitory
law. 1t is prohibition applied to GER
tain wrongs. The prohibition amend
ment simply seeks the application Of
the same principle to the saloon
wrong, and this is only common sense
No voter should fear to vote for the
ratification OF this amendment to the
constitution because it bears the
name of prohibition" We are all
prohibitionists in the sense that we
favor laws prohibiting public or pr.
vate wrongs.