Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-10-08
WHAT WOULD YUMA ID IN TIE EVENT IF
 STATEWIDE PROHIBITION PASSING IN ARIZONA

eral public to know what Yuma will
 do if the pendulum of public opinion
 puts us in the dry column on NOvem- Der 3. Of course, at the outset a
 great many things may happen and
 some things will happen ;and, while
 The Examiner has sought diligently \ to truthfully forecast what may be
 or will be, and in the research many
 interviews have taken place, yet the
 man doesn't live-unless he be q
 prophet-that can more than make a
 guess as to a probable dry effect.
 Most people will agree that Yuma is
 some dry now, especially in July, and
 to make it any more so is hard to con-
 ceiye-but such a thing is possible,
 notwithstanding that Yuma is ul-
 questionably in favor of the present
 status of the question. However, what i Yuma says will have very little
 weight in the final analysis for the
 sections of our state in which there are no saloons and where none are
 desired by anyone-notably the large
 farming sections-may Outvote the business districts, cOnseuuences Or. ID consequences, for in this matter many people view the dry question only from the moral viewpoint, and senti- ment alone controls; while in the pop
 ulous centers the business interests preGominate and it is merely a matter of which is the strongest numerically,
 so that, truly, Yuma may be only
 drop in the bucket when the vote of the entire state is counted.
 Sometime ago, that is, before the Democrats became all powerful and have been all but successful in their war on American labor and American
 industries and some 10000 miners have been eliminated from the voting ! population of the state, it was said by i the wise ones that the state would 1 go wet about 5000 to spare. Now, however, the vets claim the state l by but 2OO0, which must be admitted is very close margin for a border state where there are yet so many many miners who would rather drink than eat. So much for that.
 Khe Examiner has interviewed the best known of those now engaged in the sale of liquor in Yuma and includ- ing some good guesses, which was in ferred at the outset of this article has ascertained what may happen in Yuma should the state go dry.
 Frank s. Ming and Randall H. Lee the popular proprietors of the Home stead Bar and Cafe, were formerly in the drug business, and it might be conceded that they will open a drue store, and men Of their well known energy will make good.
 Allen B. Ming, who has an interest in the Old Plantation bar and lunch counter, but whose time is entirely taken up in the capacity of county ass 'ssor, was formerly a Southern Pacific train dispatcher, and-any way, he isn't the kind that waits fol .hings to happen, but turns things up l His partner. r. w. Thurston, was for nerly with the Los Angeles Whole salers Board of Trade, and came tc Yuma to take charge of the Lone StaI Grocery. Later, wishing to make Yu ma his home, found an investnen n the Old Plantation. His old posi- ion at a salary which most men envy las always been open for him at Los Angeles; but men like MT. Thurston J Ire needed in the upbuilding of Yuma
 Paul Moretti, former city council ' nan and leading member of the l yuma Commercial Club. has large req state interests in the heart of the ity and these properties are suffi ient to keep any man on the aler nd Mir. Moretti is a very active busi ess man and real estate dealer.
 Jack Dunne, of the Ruby, is mem er of the city council, director and u tOckhOlder of the Yuma NatiOna Iank and the Yuma Title Abstract nd Trust company and a member Of he Commercial Club Mr. Dunne's '' arge real estate interests might tax J he ability of an ordinary man to -s andle; but MT. Dunne is equal to 'l - and so is his patrner and brother, u ddie Dunne. 1T Nose Hubbard, of the Gandolfo bar nC lada ranch in the heart of the sand De lree miles out on the Yuma mesa IT e is making good while waiting for
 ncle Sam to put water on his big lnch. It is known far and wide as ha