Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-02
Overwhelming Defeat For
Prohibition Taken as Ma
tiOnal Barometer.
LIBERTY LEAGUE IN
sEDITIOUs STATEMENT
Dry Leader Declares Vote on Liquor -
Without Sisnifieanee-Four Of Every
Five Women Register in Favor OF
Saloons-Resuit Of Little Effect Ex-
eept to Register Sentiment Of citi-
xens.


wet vote in the election here yester-
day was said by personal liberty"
leaders to mark the actual beginning
of a campaign to repudsate national
prohibition.
The wet vote was ss1,2So. the dry
vote 1902 Four out of every ttNe
men voted wet and three out OF every
five women did the same. The vote
OF the men in every one Of the thirty
five wards was wet. The women Vot-
ed dry only in six wards, which are
distinctly residential.
The thirty fifth ward returned the
tremendous wet majority OF 1l,Sis out
of total vote of 1856. ffe trades
union liberty league issued the fol-
lowing statement:
Thru the overwhelming defeat
o. the drys Chicago has spoken in
tones that will ring in the ears OF
those subservient lawmakers who have
so cravenly surrendered the liberty OF
American citizens at the dictatioa Of
q CLIQUE Of paid prohibition lobbyists.
There is but one answer. The peo-
pie have awakened to the fact that
they have been grossly betrayed. There
will now be no letup in the protest
against prohibition tyranny until the
freedom Of the people has been fully
restored to them. This is the message
Chicago sends to Congress"
Seditious, Says Dry Leader.
On the other hand, f. J. Davis. Chi
cago superintendent Of the anti-sa-
loon league, said:
II am not surprised at the result,
We made no fight and asked no one
to, vote for dry Chicago. To have
done so would have been to dishonor
the acts Of congress. The efforts OF
Chicago vets to use Chicago results
in an eheort to terrorize congress and
the supreme court is little short Of
seditious.r
The wet and dry election was plan
red for two years ago. but court pro-
ceedirgs delayed 1t until yesterday.
Meanwhile the presidential proclama-
ton and the prohibition amendment to
the constitution deprived local option.
which was the issue on the ballot, of
it's Importance. except as allowing an
expression Of sentiment. Had the anti
saloon proposition carried Chicago sa-
looms would have been compelled to
close May next.
No Fight by Drys.
The organized dry forces did not
make any fight for the anti saloon end
Of the controversy. All Of the cam
paigning and the organized work was
performed thru the organizations that
insist upon personal liberty as funda-
mental to living in the United States.
The saloons formed the individual
headquarters for the Vote No" move
ment. ,N
Spokesman for the anti saloon league
refuse to take any responsibility for
the sweeping victory that was won by
the vets. Long before the elect ION
they disclaimed any intention OF MAX
ing a contest, inasmuch. they said. as
the nation goes dry July !. probably.
and next January certainly. under the
federal prohibition amendment.
r The vets. on the other hand, profess
to sec in last nights returns a smash
ing rebuke to congress and to the state
legislatures that ratified the dry
amendment. They claim that the cam
paign that terminates in Chicago with
a. to 4 wet proportion is but the ad
vance agent Of a popular wave OF OBJ
lection that is to sweep over the ma
tion.' p-a,s
3 End Two Years Fight.
It should be understood that yester-
days yote in Chicago is the stub end
Of the fight that was started fearly
two years. ago to make Chicago dry
under the state local option law. The
petitien Of the :drys was held insult
ficient by the board Of election COM
missioners and the question was not
permitted to go upon the ballots Mt the
election at which the Chicago Dry Fed
Grafton sought to have the vote.
The question OF the validity Of the
petition upon the legal points involved
was carried to the Illinois Supreme
court and Unexpectedly to all con-
cerned the supreme court at the last
term held the petition good and di-
rected that the questions be submitted
at yesterdays election. Meantime
July 1 prohibition had been ordered
by congress and the federal amend
ment has been ratified.