The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-07-23
LOCAL OPTION SNAP SHOTS.
Facts and Incidents Worth Repeating
Original and Selected,

place where liquor of any description is
either manufactured or sold legally.
On Monday five barrels of whiskey
consigned to NJ, ]. Miller's Sons, Pied
mont, were seized under warrant by
Sheriff C.. E. Nethkin at the B. & O.
station.
Prohibition may not prohibit in West
Virginia, but it is giving the whiskey-
ties tremendous amount of trouble.
finding bondsmen to keep out of Jail, in
fact all over the State men are being
jailed for violating the law and great
quantities of liquor are being confscat-
ed. Five cases of beer shipped from
Cumberland to a Piedmont man was
captured and taken to the jail for safe
keeping until court.
An effort is being made to have Dr.
Hare deliver an address at the Swanton
picnic next month. May the effort be
successful, and if tits, we advise every
body who can attend that picnic to do
so. 1t will be day well spent, a most
enjoyable and profitable occasion. DR..
Hare is a steam roller, live wire and
a great thunderbolt all combined, If he
gets to that picnic there will be some
thing doing. Take our advice and hear
the Doctor. Its worth the time, the
travel and the cost required to hear
him, and more too.
In fourteen weeks the voters of Gar
rett county will render their verdict
against the saloon. Aren't you glad
the day of deliverance is so close
Everybody get busy and see by how big
majority we can defect the liquor
business in the county.
Garrett county dry on and after
April Goth, 1915. Sounds good, dom
it? Are YOU going to help bring
about this result?
SiXty-nine thousand, nine hundred
and thirty-six voters of the State of
Virginia petitioned the governor to call
an election on the question of State
wide prohibition. The election has been
called for September %, and if a ma
jority vote is cast for prohibition at
that time, the State will be declared
dry on and after November 1st, 1916
1t is rare occasion when more than
$780, voters participate in a State
election; but it is believed that larger
vote will be cast in the proposed cleo
ton than ever before in Virginia his
tory. Here is wishing that Virginia
may go dry by 100, 600 majority. That
it will not go dry is not questioned.
People in practically all the cities and
towns of the State of West Virginia
where there were saloons can find at
least one grain of satisfaction in the
fact that the Yost law has eliminated
practically all the old time ''panhand-
lers'', those professional pikers who
were always stalling for drink at the
expense of some one more prosperous.
They have been compelled to go else
where to bum a thin dime or "gitney"
with which to buy a drink. That old
gag that they were awful sick and must
have drink was familiar one around
the saloons, but now it is heard nc
more.
Now the panhandlers have been COM
PEELED to move on to other states where
the beverages that intoxicate are still
dispensed and there will be some peace
for folks passing on the streets.
Martinsburg was, like all other cities
where there were saloons infested with
bunch of this class and they would
work in spite of the fact that the police
watched them closely and would invari
ably arrest them when they could catch
them in the act. So far not hyper
has been arrested in the city since the
saloons went out of business.
That Idaho will join the procession Of
prohibition states seems to be well as
sured, inasmuch as the three leading
political parties adopted prohibition
platforms in the convention recently
held. The Democratic platform pledg
es the submission to the voters in 1916
of a constitutional amendment forever
prohibiting the liquor traffic. The Re
publicans and Progressives went fur
Their, and promised prohibitory statut,
in the event that constitutional pro
hibition should for any reason fail t.
pass. The party leaders evidently thinl
the people want prohibition, and doubt
less will fulfil the pledges now made
The people will do their part. Though
there was a flight in the Democratic
convention, prohibition won by a vot
of 100 to five.
A graphic illustration of the growtl
of temperance sentiment Is the fac
that it took ten years to get the Web
Interstate Liquor shipment law, t
permit the states to enforce their owl
police regulations, out of the Judiciar
Committee of the National House o
Representatives. Two chairmen 0
this Committee were defeated, an
finally the Speakea who appointed ther
went down. Now the amendment TO
National prohibition, the most drasti