The Green Forest tribune., 1912-09-13
STATEWIDERS STILL
 HOPE FOR VICTORY
REV. FRANK BARRETT SAYS RE TURNS ARE TOO INDEFINITE AND MEAGER TO JUS-
 TlFY FORECAST.
AMENDMENT NO. II IN DOUBT
All Acts Appear Defeated and Amend ments 12, 13, IA and 5 Have Good Leads-Negroes Cast
 Big Vote.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
 Little Rock.-Returns from Mon, days election received up to noon Tuesday indicated the defeat of Act No. 1, (Turner-Jacobson bilI) Act No 2, Statewide prohibition bilD Act No. 3, (election law) and Act No. i text book bill)
 Of the amendments, 1t appears that No. II tthe Grandfather clause) stands a good chance of being de. feated, although many of the more remote districts have yet to report on this issue. Amendments Nos. F and 13 appear to have carried by good ma jorities, especially the latter which is Attorney General Norwood's sixty, day session measure. Amendment No IA (the recalD is strongly in doubt with early returns indicating a slight lead for the amendment, and No. 15 (the bond amendmentl has a big lead on returns received up to noon Tues. day. Final returns from remote dis tricts may, of course, change the re- suit on some of these measures.
 Chief interest seems to have cen. tered in the prohibition measure and the Grandfather Clause. The negroes turned out en masse at most places to register their votes against both meas ures, it is said, and many appear to have voted the straight Democratic ticket for the purpose, some say, of making sure that their votes against the Grandfather Clause and Statewide Prohibition would be counted.
 Returns up to Tuesday noon indi- cate that Statewide Prohibition has lost by from fifteen to twenty thous- and. It is. of course, true that many remote districts may reduce the lead of the anti-prohis, but it is also true that many districts yet to report are expected to register just as strongly against Act No. ?.
 Not only does Act No. , appear to have been defeated, but half dozen or more counties which were formerly dry" have gone wet" according to early reports. Miller, Craighead, Phil. lips, Ouaehita, Union and Crawford counties have good chances to go wet" on the face of early returns.
 Rev Frank Barrett of the Anti-Sa- losn League, had nothing to say Tues. day morning, preferring to wait until more definite returns came in from all parts of the state. None of the state, wide leaders cared to express them selves so early. The liquor leaders, however, talked freely and cheerfully Joe Lyons, head of the liquor dealers association, declared the majority against statewide would not be less than 33,000, and that probably ten ad, ditional counties had gone wet" Ex, Gov. Dan W. Jones, president of the Local Option League, says the state has defeated Act No. ? by a decisive majority of from twenty to twenty-five thousand.
 The election throughout the state seems to have passed off quietly and no disorder was reported from any county. The judges in most places began counting the vote immediately after closing the polls at six o'clock, but the count is necessarily slow and up to Tuesday noon only indications could be given of the trend
 The vote on the Grandfather Clause was close on returns received up to Tuesday noon.
 Some indications.
 Hot Springs county will go against Acts Nos. l and 2, for the grand father clause" and for the bond amendment. The county will vote against No. 3, proposing a change in election laws.
 Pulaski county gave majority of probably 2,O0O for local option and li- cense.
 Sebastian county is strongly against statewide and also Garland county.
 The vote in Benton county on state. wide prohibition will be very close.
 In Franklin county the statewide prohibition act is believed to have lost.
 Havana, in Yell county, will give majority for statewide prohibition. for the grandfather clause amend ment for Amendment No. 12 and for the bond amendment
 Murfreesboro, in Pike county, votes in favor of statewide prohibition and the grandfather clause" amendment and against the proposed bond amend ment.
 Greene county will vote for state wide prohibition and against the Fur ner-JacObson bill
 Prescott, in Nevada county will go for statewide prohibition, for the bond amendment, against license and against the grandfather clause" amendment.
 Statewide prohibition will lose in Garland county and the bond amend ment will carry.
 Crittenden county will be for local option, and against the grandfather clause" amendment.
 Scott county votes against license.