The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-08
MUSGROVE LATEST MAN MENTIONED
 FOR SENATORSH|P
Jasper Man Says Tuesdays Election Insures Amend ment Ratification in
 January

In prohibition circles it was rumored yesterday that L. B. Musgrove of Jas. per. chairman of the national cam paign committee of the Anti-Saloon league. would oppose United States Sem
 ator Oscar w. Underwood in the cleo ton next year.
 Mir Musgrove left t noon yesterday
 for his home in Jasper after spending four or five days here awaiting returns from the states in w.ich ratification of the federal prohibition amendment had
 been an issue in the recent campaign. Satisfied by the reports received by him up to noon he decided to go to Jas per for a few days rest and to look after private business matters. It has been generally understood for sometime past that Senator Underwood would have oI position when he offers fer reelection next year, but MT. Mus groves name had not been mentioned as his probable opponent until yester : day. In fact. those who claimed to be
 on the inside had stated that Borden
 Buir, one of the prominen. attorneys at the Birmingham bar. had been set ted upon as the most available man co
 make the race as the prohibition can dioate. Mir. Burr has been a member oi the state democratic exec tutive com ntttee the past four years and was re elected to that position n che August E. mary.
 SWITCH TO MuSGROVE The switch to Nil Musgroye, it is stat. ed, was made because of the fact that ha has been .r ',e head IT the organi zatlon that has fought for the ratifica- tion of the federal prohibition amend ment, not onty in Alabama but in eS- cry state since that measure became an issue. He championed the cause ot Richmond Pearson Hopson in the sena- tni ial race five years ago when Senator Underwood was first elected, and has fought MT. Underwood politically for lyears.
 Mir. Musgrove received reports from all of the states in which the federal prohibition amendment was an issue in
 the recent campaign, and claimed that ratification was assured when the legislatures meet early next year.
 He stated that he had received de- tailed telegrams from Missouri, Wyom- ing, Nevada. Ohio, Illinois and Flor ida, six wet states. and that in every one of these legislatures favorable 10 ratification had been elected.
 The following dry states, 19 in num- CT, he said, will ratify when their leg- islatures meet iny 1919: Alabama, Ar kansas. Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kan sas. Maine, Michigan. Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Ten, nessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Idaho.
 RATIFICATION RETURNS
 Thus it will be seen from the reports already in hand" he said, "A states having already ratified, the 19 dry states conceded for ratification and the six wet states which have just elected ratification legislatures, makes a total of 39 states that have been definitely heard from that will ratify in 1919. Since it requires 36 states to make pro- hibition effective, it is already adopted.
 "Advices from New York and Penn sylvania claim that both of these states are in the ratification column. A close vote will make necessary an official count.
 From all the advices and figures in hand 1t is safe to say that more than AZ states will have ratified national pro- by early 1919. It will become effective one year after the thirty-sixth state ratifies. So we confidently ex- pect a constitutional prohibition In AmericG ov early 1920"
 The E4 states that have already rati- fled the federal prohibition amendment are: Mississippi, Virginia, Kentucky South Carolina, North Dakota, Mary land, Montana; Texas, Delaware, South Dokta, Massachusetts, Arizona.