The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-09-23

IN
The Petersbure election was ore o.
the fret to be heard from, and SIS
soon as II was learned that this city
hal gone dry by over y hundred ma
for!ty, the leaders of she temperance
cause felt. assured thai their previous
estimates gould he fully confirmed
sna surpassed The Richmond ma
= 3orsty was more than offset by he
returns from one county alone, Rock
snraam, SURPRISING the amount 81
Rfchnond's majority fer the saloons
General Interest,
Greater interest vssys taken I'M the
election OF yesterday than IN 6ny
previous election IN virginia IN tn',
,sneruory Of the preseS; generation OF
z voters The entire State was gwen ,
over In the discussion Of the election
returns last night, and tie oNerwhrln-
tly majority OF the drys eXctea tae
most ,rbo,Inded enthusiasm through
n,,s The state THE TepUfcd gains
made nv the wet interests. which had
beer claimed for them ny wet news
papers as features az the last rev
weeks, turned o1t To he ynanp1aciuteH
nof,ings. The facts and returns IN
d!rate that the majority estimated "F
inc tenn perance people Was far Sdr-
nassed In the beginning they eA-
Dnsted 10 carry the state by some
FORTY thousand. y seems At the pros
ye~f +onigh: that the State has been
carried by a much larger figure.
Cities Vote.
In the cities az Virginia nineteen ~
number the total vote cast was '7tt'-'s
The total az dry majority ~ thiS mum
her was Sss3 ard the total Oh VI
masortiiee 344a SHOWING that tn3 e1t5eS
Of Virginia. counted on by the " etS Ter
their largest support. returned a eieaT
roaso~ity Of over 4n6 against Inc t@-
looms I.ynchhurg and Roanoke re-
turned The largest matoriIfes, but IN
proportion TO population "'""t9 ''N
eana.1v as we'll There Us not town
In virginia in which the Antt-sai"on
league did not far exceed the pros
meets for. their success at the omen
ing 81 the campaign and constituted
the chief Disappointment II The vets.
In the country districts the MAORI
ties for the temperance cause were
equally as large. Tho hAc rome "l We
prohibition vote came from the caun-
frv districts. showing up especially
strong at the sections ia which The
Itouor forces had made their strongest
srnsal Those sections where the To-
haeeo fake of the vets had been count
ed on 10 take effect were among those
that voted NEST heavily for pFahibt-
don The Southwest. particularly the
Ninth district, where wet. leaders had
repeatedly elaiuled they would roll up
enormous maiorities, ~ege the strong
est dry supporters The tide from tho
Ninth reached the ten thousand marx
early In the night
Defeat Conceded Early.
nv . o'clock the Local Self Govern
nsr. league conceded the state In the
Anti Saloon league and other tam
perance organizations by thirty thous-
sand majority They also are said to
have conceded the night before the
election that their figures showed the
prohibition law would cafrEe ny ma
tority Of ten thousand while several
days previous 70 that they calculated
that the prohieisionists would poi ar
least $1,000 votes on election Gag.
Much Enfhus"siH'
MANY scenes OF ehtnhsltEF' "re ~
ported from al over the STATE Nue'"
interest was uh~na'ea ~ "a
prominent ary "oiNNls ts@ 49,. -,
hahs ~ say na'.''l'N 80, 49,,
speefive voting placcs mete s@1l'e,u
tne roao ~ CRY WV .'.. A..
ia.aons an ~ =" ,,..la,,i ~x,.,,t-
Seidofh nave "lute ui'l 20, -.
Iesiatohs lIah iH"Ae ~ 'aI' '.s - :
sHroushout II si'i'"
IN .hls STATE, s,o..,o., ,,-s,s,
Ine ,lip ~, ,a+a1' ~ wy ~, ,r,,,a
seaai1eo a1A pEeI -. t-a,e,.l,1,-
Anu-Saioon ieaeue had ptefi U.s. : -
LOT "ass W ssl sc ~ $50,
70 various eitles tnI e - .,.t.s,
try Ihe vHsfn'Aa WIS H''''.o w" ~
messages from p4p"fs ~ w -
south anu E@st pes'i mig ~ ~ -
omosai sources he7e Ft'Ut US
gwen eariS as ZIG 49, ~ ,sa,,e
Dsliot a1o %hs s''. ~ e,,,} t .tottst,cs
HAue ~ l'osS,'Is ~ ,,,oto 81
turns had been received over the
joint spacial wre of the SlrRiniao una