Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-09-15
DRY LEADERS NOT
FIGHTING TOBACCO
Former Local Newspaperman
Tells of Aims of Body Back
ing State Prohibition Act

81 would like to impress the
fact that the Statewide Prohi-
bition Federation is engaged IN
no anti-tobacco movement" said
r Sherman Porter, of Lexington,
publicity man for the federation.
this week. Mr.. Porter is well
known here, having acted as city
editor of the Daily Register
several months last year.
"Our entire energies are being
devoted to the adoption OF the
State Prohibition Amendment,
regardless of the National
Amendment Ne says. The
State Amendment is submitted
this fall and on separate ballot,
we ask the voters to remember
that and to request the officers OF
the election to give them that
ballot.
"After the State Amendment
is adopted, the Federation is very
likely to assist in the matter OF
obtaining law-enforcement legis-
lation at Frankfort.
"We have information that
saloons of Louisville, Lexing-
ton, Newport and Covington still
are selling booze and drunken
men have been seen the past two
weeks in all these cities.
"Both Collector Elwood Ham
ition, of the revenue office at
Louisville, and District Attorney
Thomas d. Slattery, Of Maysville,
have had these reports, / do not
know how true they are, but the
police of all these cities know
whether booze is being sold or
not and can stop it instantly if
they want to. They cannot es-
cape responsibility on the ground
that no law enforcement legisla-
ton has been passed. The SELL
ing of liquor without a license
violates the ordinances of these
towns and cities and the public,
liberal as well as dry, will uphold
the heads of the police depart
ment in enforcing the law, and
it ought to be done vigorously.
"My understanding is that
this liquor selling in confined to
the old criminal gang among the
saloon keepers who never re-
spected any law of God or man
and never will. The law of force
is the only law they recognize.
We hope to have such DAVIS en-
acted at Frankfort after amend
ment is adopted in Kentucky as
will have a powerful effect in
getting this class of undesirable
citizens clear out of any liquor
selling business in Kentucky.
"If booze is being sold illegally
in Lexington very simple rene
dy easily applied would be to re-
woke the soft drink license of the
seller of booze and close his place
permanently, so far as that kind
of a business is concerned. A
few doses of that kind will i'm
press the rest of the craft with
the fact that the law is easily to
be enforced.
"The liquor people are des-
perately anxious to enroll the to-
bacco men with them, not only
on the State Amendment this
year and for the future if they
successfully contest the National
Amendment. The prohibition
people who are seeking to free
Kentucky from political inte-
ference of the old liquor crowd as
well as to stop the enormous in
dustrial waste due to the saloon
business, refuse to be diverted
from their mutton. 1t is necces-
sary to create sentiment against
the saloon business. The saloons
did that for us by the finished
product it turned out and the
crimes due to drinking. All we
are now trying to do is to i'm
press upon them two things:
"First-The Importance of vot-
ing on the State Amendment
November 4th. !
"Second-Fhe Importance Of
remembering that the prohibition)
amendment is voted on a sepa-.