The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-07-16
LOCAL OPTION SNAP SHOTS.
Facts and Incidents Worth Repeating
Original and Selected,

The only question is, how large the
majority.
September % "Old Virginia" will
vote on Statewide prohibition. There
is no doubt of the result. 1t will be
Dry State.
Poor Oklahoma! She's perfectly
satisfied with her Prohibition policy,
yet she must go through with an election
in August. just because bunch of vets
want her to. Of course she'll lick EN-,
but who wants to be pestered with
skunks in August? Issue.
Let every citizen, loving decency and
justice, be he veteran or recruit, push
on the battle of Local Option for Garrett
county right up to the enemy's gates.
Avaunt tired and "rest" until the
most vicious enemy in the greatest war
in all history shall have Internationally
surrendered. Fall in!'
This fall Garrett county will have the
largest registration of voters in the
history of the county. Many persons
who do nottvote at the regular State
and county election, will register this
summer, so as to be able to cast their
vote against the saloon and its ruinous
business, at the November election.
Get every Temperance vote on the
registration books.
In few days over fifteen weeks the
electors of Garrett county will vote the
saloon and the business of making
drunkards out of Garrett county. Do
you realize this great fact? Senator
Speicher made his campaign one year
ago on the promise, 'If you elect me to
the Senate will give you the right to
vote whether liquor shall be sold in
Garrett county or not. " The electors
took his word at par and elected him
State Senator. He made his promise
good, made it good in wet legislature,
in a legislature politically opposed to
him, by large majority. 1t was re-
peatedly prophesied that the bill could
not pass the legislature. 1t was the
first bill passed in the Senate For
time it hung fire in the House, but the
power that put it through the Senate
put it through the House by almost
unanimous majority. The Senator on
Wednesday, February 25, 1914, made
his word good and from Annapolis by
telegraph and by phone the word flew
all oyer Garrett county. That the
Speicher Local Option Bill had passed.
Now it is up to the voters of Garrett
county to do their duty, irrespective of
creed of party or personal feeling. To
do their duty and place this splendid
law on the statute books of the State.
1t is up to each and every individual to
do his best to make Garrett county dry.
Will,you do your part? We vote, DRY.
Over 1000 convlcts IN Pennsylvania
penitentiary have voluntarily sent
petition to the Legislature of that
State, asking for state wide prohibition,
as the majority laid their downfall to
drink This is what might be called
expert testimony, from the patrons of
the liquor saloons. Church members of
Garrett county are you going to vote as
you pray? A vote for the Speicher
Local Option bill means vote to Danish
the Saloons and It's drunkard making
business from this county.
Which would you prefer. a Drunken
town or town killed because saloon
less? Of course, the towns are killed
only in the eyes of the Saloon, drunkard
making crowd. The FACTS prove,
however, such towns are very much
alive Vote for the Speicher Local
Option measure.
Twenty-one saloons have been put
out of business at Madison, Wis, by
cOuncilmatic action, as result of the
close vote at the last election. Most
of the places denied licenses are in out
lying districts, and their records were
not satisfactory. Sixty-four licenses
were granted.
Yes, Prohibition prohibits at Lansing,
Mich. At least, it has the effect of
greatly reducing the number of arrests,
The report of Acting Chief of Police
Cole to the board of fire and police COM
missioners shows that during May only
sixty-four arrests were made in the
city, as compared with 204 in May of
1913.
Robert B. Glenn, who was governor
of North Carolina when Prohibition was
adopted eight years ago, in an interview
declared that abolition of the liquor
traffic has done much to solve the crime
problem. Since Prohibition was adopt
ed, crime in North Carolina, among
both whites and blacks. has been re-
duced fully so per cent. The putting
out of saloons has not hurt the state
revenues, said Mr.. Glenn, but on the
contrary, they have increased materially
since liquor was barred. He declared
that the law in his state is being enforc-
ed strictly.
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