River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-11-11

seats IL Tie lower DranCn Oh the loSlS-
lature, with no change in the senate.
Upon a joint vote the G. 0. P. viii
have 200, against 79 Democrats and
one Socialist. For the first time in
several years there will be no Pro
gressiye in the assembly.
Democrats are inclined to lay their
defeat to detection Of the German vote
due to the feeling against President
Wilson.
The Progressive vote in the state
wS& almost negligible. Nelson B.
Clark, the nominee, received 1922
votes.
William Shaw, the Prohibition nomt
nee for governor, polled 19,471 votes.
Mr.. Mccall, though his main back,
ing was of the old-time G. o. P brand.
had large support from voters who
have been allying themselves with the
Progressive party. His election re
verses the situation of two years ago,
when he also was a candidate and was
defeated by Governor Walsh by more
than 1900 votes.
1t is almost certain that the Progress
sives today, with their fewer than s.
900 votes, will be denied a legal party
standing hereafter, the law requiring
that a party, to be recognized, must
have cast 3 per cent of the total vote.
Calvin Coolidge, the Republican
nominee for lieutenant governor, was
running more than 10000 votes ahead
of former Lieutenant Governor Barry,
Democrat.
In the city of Boston, where the
question of the recall of Mayor James
M. Curley was on the ballot, returns
indicated the probable defeat of the
recall movement by fairly close vote.
Chicago, Nov. 4.-The defeat of the
proposed stability amendment to the
constitution Of Ohio is a greater vic.
tory for the drys than that of the
vets in voting to retain the saloon in
the state, according to F. Scott Nc.
Bride, head Of the Antisaloon League
of Illinois.
A great part of the Ohio dry cam
paign was directed from Chicago Wet
leaders regarded the Ohio result as an
indication that sentiment in Illinois
would be overwhelmingly in their IA
vOr in a statewide fight.
"The defeat Of the amendment"
said Mr.. Mcbride, "is a victory for us.
It means we will begin at once another
statewide fight to make Ohio dry. The
fact that the pro-saloon majority in
the state was cut more than half from
the last previous statewide vote there
indicates to me that we will win the
next time.
"The stability amendment, which
was backed by the vets, provided that
upon the defeat of proposal by the
electorate the proposal could not be
submitted to the people again for six
years. 1t was vigorously opposed by
the drys under the leadership of Will
liam Jennings Bryan.
eve must remember" said Mr. Nc
Bride, that this was an off year, and
that probably the vote was smaller
than it would be at normal time. We
will be able to get an expression from
a larger percentage of the electorate
next time.
Eventually we will win in Ohio, and
by that I mean within two years at the
outside. The wonderful advance in
dry sentiment in cutting the vets ma
jority from the $4,000 they had at the
previous statewide election to the
present figures indicates the trend of
public opinion, not only in Ohio, but
all over the country.
GAS to the result in Illinois, the fact
that we lose two small towns is not
particularly significant, because Of the
fact that the sentiment for or against
liquor In them is very evenly divided,
and the vote is likely to show major
ity either way at any time"
In the Illinois elections the only two
wet towns which voted on the liquor
question chose to remain in the wet
column. They are Beardstown and
Mounds.
Women's Vote Against Bars.
The Tuesday election was the first
opportunity the women Of the town
had had to vote on the wet and dry
question, and they gave a majority Of
118 against the saloon. The majority
of the men for it, however, overbal-
anced the woman's vote and kept the
saloon by 436 votes. The wet major
ity in Mounds was 121.
The two towns which went from the
dry to the wet side of the fence are
Percy and Willisville. The majority
~ Doroxy vyoc On vOtnc and in Willis.
Vile 153. These towns remain dry
by the figure given: Metropole. "a:
Pinckneyville, 243; Baldwin, 9;
Thebes, 80; Coulterville, 215; Grand
Chain, 40; Ullin, 68.