The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-10-22
LOCAL OPTION LEAGUE COLUMN
Practical Suggestions on Local Option
Campaign.

Campaign.
Only twelve days more until the vot
ers of Garrett county will decide the
greatest question ever submitted to
them. Shall the sale of liquor be pro-
hibited in Garrett county? 1t is up to
YOU, Mr.. Voter, to answer that ques-
ton. DO YOU realize this fact? THE
RESPONSIBILITY of the rum traffic
in Garrett county IS PLACED UPON
YOU. There is no lodging the issue.
The legislature, by enacting the
Speicher local option bill into law, the
Governor by placing vhis signature to
the enacted bill, wash their hands of
all responsibility and places it upon
YOU, Mr.. Voter.
Your individual vote decides the ques-
ton.
If whiskey is sold in Garrett county
after April 80, 1915 IT WILL BE
YOUR FAULT. 1t will be because
YOU betrayed YOUR trust, because
YOU failed to do YOUR duty. Get
this fact into your head.
Never before has there hung so much
power to your ballot as today, for good
or evil-tremendous good or tremendous
evil.
There is no valid excuse for your not
doing your whole duty. Because some
one else fails to discharge his obliga-
tons to God and his country, is no rea-
son why you should fail to do your
duty.
You personally must answer for your
vote and no one else.
There is no lodging the issue. YOU
are either For or Against Local Option.
There is no neutral ground. There is
no escape from this PERSONAL RE-
SPONSIBILITY. 1t is either YES or
NO.
The great question stares you in the
face. SHALL INTOXICATING LOU
ORS BE SOLD INsGARRETT COUN-
TY? That is the question. There is no
getting around it. There is no getting
away from it.. 1t is there Yes or No.
1t will. be decided Tuesday. November
8. 1t will be decided by YOUR vote.
The legislature has proclaimed it. The
Governor of your State has laid the re-
sponsibility of.deciding the matter upon
cho,1lIar0 ,e
YOU. 1t is with YOU. YOU are on
the firing line. Will YOU Loyalty do
YOUR dutY?
The widows tears, the orphans cry,
the drunkard's sobs appeal to you. Shall
they plead insvain? Can you kneel in
your morning or evening devotion and
say, Tiny will be done on earth as it
is insHeaven, and fail to vote Dry?
Not to vote is vote for the contin-
uation ot this awful business of running
mankind. Silence is consent, is rec
ognized.maxim the world over.
Do not.forget the fact YOU ARE
FOR or YOU AREs AGAINST Local
Option. AS you value your happiness
here and In eternity act like man and
brother. Go to the polls early and vote
DRY.
Then to develop your manhood, to
get in real good healthy condition go
after yourineighbor and persuade him to
vote Dry. Do something good, noble
and manly between now and election
day. Be power for good; be useful in
the uplift of mankind, help the fallen
brother to his feet, help him help him.
self. He needs your assistance.
What are YOU.going to do about it?
You failed to register. YOU ARE
sorry, sure. Now, there is only one
thing else to do. You have lost your
vote, but you have not lost your in
fiuence, you have your voice. Use it
for the cause. Get others to vote in
your place. Get substitute. Better
get two votes. One to take your place
the other to advance the number to Dry
voters.
You will feel much better, you will
feel more manful, more patriotic. You
will have part in this great conflict.
1t is too late now to register. Thank
God it Is not to late too get vote on the
right side. A word from you may in
fiuence some hesitating voter to do his
duty.
Some one may need your cheerful
word. your encouragement. Mr.. Voter
do your best, get busy, be up and doing
while it is day, tomorrow NAV be to
late.
This is your opportunity to do some
thing grand and good. 1t is the op-
portunity of life time.
Christ died to make men free. Will
you vote to do,the same? YOU are the
man interested. If you can't vote get
another man to vote Dry. Show some
interest in your fellow man, in his
family, in the welfare of your country.
If you could hear, as | have heard. the
plea of the poor drunkard, the plea of
his suffering wife, as she held her babe
in her arms, husband and father in jail.
and she without money or food; the
plea of the gray haired mother for her