The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-10-17
BRYAN TALKS DRY"
TO A FULL HOUSE
WON'T BE SATISFIED
WITH LESS THAN 100000
Speaker Registers His Hope For
Postal Card Ballot in The
Near Future.

The Medina Baptist church was
filled on Wednesday afternoon to hear
VIM. j. Bryan talk on the wet and dry
proposition in Ohio. He is making a
tour of the State in the interest of
the adoption of the dry amendments,
which are to be voted for at the No
vember election.
Mr.. Bryan made one hit that met
with the approval of large majority
of the people present-an appeal for
a postal card ballot. The idea is to
permit voters to register their choice
by mail, the concensus of opinion be-
ing that a postal card will furnish the
necessary medium for registering the
will of the voter at many elections,
and where the ballot grows to blan-
ket affair, as it does in certain in
stances, then it can be done by letter.
Such system would prove meri-
torious in several instances. 1t would
cost but cent to vote, at home, while
for many men to stop work and go to
the polls costs several cents at the
lowest possible computation.
Then it would give women chance
to vote without the jostling incident
to crowded poll. And finally, it
would give the men who canvass the
vote an opportunity to verify the bal
lots where there was any doubt as to
the validity of the expression regis
tered.
He cautioned the drys that as the
ballot had been prepared it was neces-
sary for every dry to vote, for if the
election was allowed to go by default
it meant as good as vote for the
vets.
Mr.. Bryan called attention to the
fact that if the vets were to win in
Ohio they will say to the world that
the crest of the dry wave has passed,
the people of Ohio don't want prohibi-
tion, and the fight will be prolonged.
He called attention to the claims of
vets that that this state was voted
dry when the soldiers were away, and
that the rest of us took advantage of
that fact. Said this was using the
soldiers as a buffer and the people
should not be fooled in this manner.
Mr.. Bryan asked for 100 per cent
dry vote this fall; that is, every dry
vote at the polls and voting dry. He
added that the dry voter who stayed
at home on election day was not 100
per cent dry; one could be 100 per
cent dry only by going to the polls
and voting dry. He also said that
defeat of the dry forces this fall would
mean the undoing Of all the dry work
and accomplishments of the past and
demanded unanimous vote.
Mr.. Bryan is great advertiser, and
knows the power of advertising. To
get full results he asked that the
school children be all marched in line
in big prohibition parade.
He explained the long and short
ballot and asked Prohibitionists to
vote "NO," the short word, on the
short ballot, and YES" the longer
word on the longer ballot. Said in
thta way Prohibitionists could not
make mistake.
Mr.. Bryan said he wants the pres
cnt ratio of water and alcohol con-
tinued. He wants it SO that man
who would get drunk will need to
drink 100 quarts Of water to get one
pint of alcohol. Then, he says, man
will burst from taking in water before
he gets enough alcohol to make him
tipsy. He'll get the water habit, he
added, before the alcohol habit.
Mr.. Bryan predicted that Ohio
would go dry by big majority but
he said he'd not be satisfied until the
vote showed a majority of 100000 for
the drys.
There was very little of that old
"Bryan fire" in his address of We'd
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