The Washington times., 1914-09-22
ISSUE
IN VIRGINIA TODAY
leaders of the "Dry" Forces
Claim BaImy Weather Will
Win Them Many Votes.

Virginia is voting today to decide
neither the State shall remain wet"
r. 90 dry" Friends of the prohibition
mendment throughout the State de-
larc ii will be carried by safe ma
0Tty. while the opponents of the meas
re. who have waged tremendous
Shit for the last five months are Just
emphatic in their declarations that
he Old Dominion will never accept
,rohibition.
Throughout the State the opinion is
unanimous that the fight has been the
fnest since the days of Gen. William
Malone and the readjuster amendment
very voter in the State, as we'll as
The women and girls and boys, seems
10 have taken an active interest in the
campaign. All of the big men of the
State have come out either for or
against the amendment.
Political sharps declare the ideal
reather favors the prohibitionists The
rote. owing TO this fact. they declare
will be unusually heavy. as the "coun-
try vote of the farmers will be cast in
larger numbers than it would have been
had the weather conditions been other
wise.
Nas been waged can be given by stating
hat the ''drys' have a daily paper Of
their own in Richmond. numerous week
z papers in the State on their side;
Z number of church publications. most
of the churches, preachers, women's or
Eanizations. and so on. They started
IF. it is said. with about 95 per cent
q the territory of the State dry" now,
md the momentum for their cause
rising from that condition. Also, un-
10, hn 1na6 nf ha
on. ir.. they have been Strengthening
heir organization for a long time.
Against that the vets have been
Orking like beavers. And this is what
hey have been using..a part at least
COX. prohibition Victorious; then
Vhat7' another book, Religion and
rink a circular showing the Anti
saloon League going after the tobacco
v-ade after it has disposed of the liquor
Governor Hanly of Indiana, who came
ITO the State for the temperance
'orCes: a large circular containing an
sttack on prohibition by Westmoreland
navis, one of the, big, farmers in the
state: a circular bearing a picture of
F. one-legged Confederate soldier saying
tat he fought for home rule and local
elf-government in 1861 and will vote for
90 in 1914: an attack on prohibition by
1ormer Attorney General w. w. Ander-
son: circular stating that Tennessee
= as suffered economically under its pro-
h.bition law; another circular about con-
. lions under prohibition in North Caro-
Ina; a circular bearing a resolution
acainst prohibition adopted by the Rich
ruond Tobacco Trade, and about fifty
other similar letters, resolutions,
8 eeches. essays. all topped off with
weekly paper called the Trumpeter,
y hich was established and published at
Richmond for the purposes of the cam
paign.
1t has been some fight. Both sides
seem dead. dog tired, now that it is at
an end. So far as can be learned no
other State prohibition fight of years
has SO engaged the energies of the
leading men of the social, religious,
trade and industrial organizations and
"f the women. The cost, when the polls
ose today, will have run far into the
ms of thousands. No one can gage it
"Nactly. But probably il will have been
ne most expensive State election ever
I'D below the Mason and Dixon line.