The Detroit times., 1916-11-04
Some Men You Should
Vote For Tuesday and Some
You Should Not Vote For

Prohibition asks five years 70 prove
itself.
Many of its benefits will be felt lm-
mediately if the amendment carries next
Tuesday, but the maximum requires time
All that is claimed for prohibition can
not be brought about in a day.
A certain period IS required for read
justment
A certain period is required 10 spot and
weed out the men in public office, charged
with enforcing the prohibition law. bat
who are found to be out OF sympathy
with the cause and the purposes Of the
majority.
Two years will suffice for us to spot
and weed out these men in Detroit and
Wayne county.
The Times has made it practice 70
print slate of desirable candidates for
all local and county offices in our cleo
tons, but dispenses with the practice this
year for two reasons:
The wet and dry issue has not been
permitted by the dry leaders to enter in
TO partisan politics, wherever it could be
helped.
The whole force of their guns has been
directed to the great issue of prohibition
as it has been felt that a more accurate
expression of the voters will be obtained
by keeping the issue outside of party
lines.
While The Times does not agree with
them in that position. it has been desirous
of giving these leaders all TIE help that it
could, and with the exception Of a few
Offices that are most closely related TO
the future of Michigan under a prohibi-
ton law, will refrain from an expression
of choice.
Secondly, the history of prohibition
states has been thai the officers Of the
law have been quick to fall into line
with the predominant sentiment just as
they may be expected to do always, and
by neither opposing nor indorsing any Of
the candidates for our pohce-or prosecut-
ing offices, The Times gives them all
fair start and fair chance to work out
their own political destines
This newspaper believes that the Office
Of mayor of Detroit is one for It's concern
and the concern of all dry voters who are
looking forward for the greatest benefits
from prohibition that the Office Of gov
crnor Of Michigan is another and that the
office Of representative in tie legislature
is another.
In desperation, facing defeat in their
opposition to prohibition, the saloonkeer-
crs have turned to trick, which they
have called home rule as a straw t.
save them, in case the voters Of Michigan
Danish the bars.
Their lying, cheating, Intelligence
sulting proposition viii be beaten. and
their next resort will be TO get through
friendly public officers what they will be
unable to get through their viciou.
amendment proposition.
Consequently candidate for office
carrying appointive power, whose sym.
pathies with the booze and saloon GROVE
are known, SHOULD BE DEFEATED.
Mayor Marx is in sympathy with that
crowd
His administration has been notorou.
for its saloon and booze sympathy
Ills administration gave us the oper
Sunday saloon. front and back in Detro
until political exigencies made it neces
sary for him to surrender mis- sympathy
and replace a police commissioner VIII,
tolerated law-defance with one who vii
NOT tolerate law-deiance.
But with this new police commissioner
the man who made Detroit wide opeI