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or prosecuting attorney should find it necessary to tell the voters in large
TYP, ygn and emphasize !. IL it fir from m,s the Platform ssst n. that is IL he ,d is for ept anw msr wpau BE-
becomes a candidate and assume that he will perform the duties of his of
perform theirs if elected. Why should he be called upon to answer the
QUESTIONABLE sent out by the Anti-salOon League a to where he stands upon
law enforcement? Can it be that the AntiSaloon League expects that
any candidate for these offices is going to reply that he is opposed to law
enforcement?
1t seems tt is that what the League and allied organizations really
mean by their imperhnent question is that if he is not afflicted with their
strorious cmenv to animals are f. minor importance tbev will use their
influence to defeat him, and their questionable is in fact nothing more than
a yelled threat to the man seeking office office
We take it that the Anttsaloon League of Wyoming like other organ
izations of fanatics, Russina Reds and l. W.. VS., believes that the end
justifes the means whether it be blowing up buildings or merely assassin
athng characters. Its methods were very well illustrated when, on Mon
day night, before the election, the country "a flooded with reports" upon
candidates for the senate, house and sheriff and prosecuting attorney.
1t was too late to correct the impression this report created-that these men
the andida.es thsv hranded as nfsvorablen were onnosed q law enforce
ment, regardless of their personal opinions as to the practcablty of the
prohbitory law IS it is at present, and they were, furthermore, particularly
The report was a IS follows and it will be noted that only one of the
candidates the And-salOon League supported in Park county was elected:
For State Senate: John Cook D). Reply favorable. Reported
favorable. S. A. Nelson t). Reply favorable: Reported favorable.
unfavorable. il. werts (D). Reply favorable. Reported favorable. G.
C. Caldwell R). Reply favorable. Reported favorable. D. E. Powers R).
For Sheriff. W. H. LOomis D). Reply favorable. Reported I'M
favorable Ea c: A, Davis Go, Reply Favorable Favorable nl Rep Rsa1l favorable favorable Re.
ported favorable. Good record. J. E. McElvain (). No reply. Re-
ported unfavorable.
Representative John Phillip Hill, of Baltimore, Maryland, who made
cider out of the apples IN his farm and then gave a party attended by 1000
persons, had his trial last week for violating the Volstead act and manu-
featuring a beverage which had a n alcoholic content of II per cent He
won a decisive victory when Judge Morris A. Soper ruled that the nehaf
of one per cen clause in the voltead act does not apply to beverage made
in the home for home consumption.
Batting prohibition officers and law enforcement departments promises
to become n of the national sports as entertaining and full of thrills as
ia baseball sssm,., I'm e. 10 omD nh OF o0 0n sI rhs,,.s sun vi%.. hat ths y u 'nt0a asd
Invite h prohibition forces to come n get them. This club is; composed
of war veterans with $4,000 members all of whom art of different religious
denominations They will demand Jury trials when arrested
There "a a time when being arrested and serving a Jail sentence was
looked upon Is a disgrace and the offender forever branded in the commun-
Iiy. That the public viewpoint has changed with the coming of the Vol
stead and the 18th amendment which has resulted in wholesale arrests
of people who have been reckoned good citizens, is pretty well shown by
der sentence of two years in a Federal prison o n a liquor charge. Whether
he goes to congress n to Jail remains to be seen.
Mrs. Mary T. Norton, of Jersey City, who believes in a modification
of the voltead act and has eve hestated to say C, was elected to repre-
sent the Twelfth District in her state by a majority of $4,000.
Dry publications are trumpetng the Jews that the province of Ontario
mention the fact, however, that in 1919 a similar referendum showed a ma
jority of 100000 in favor of the dry law and that the prohibfionists have
lost $4,000 of their supporters.
One hundred congressman have received letters advocating the nj
forming of prohibition enforcement agents patroIing the public highways
for the purpose of searching ar for intoxicants. Some of these letters CON
tain the naive declaration that there is n way of distinguishing these
agents by their clothes language or manner, from common thugs and hold
We would suggest stripes as a suitable uniform
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H. c. sarris, suspended prohibition enforcement officer, of Birming-
ham, Alabama, was found guilty last week three of 20 counts charging
acceptance of brides lin connection with his duties as a federal hicer
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Assistant United states, Attorney payidf l. Hart estimates that there
are 5000 Industrious .booteggers in Washington alone. He also estimates
that 10000 charges Of bookkeeping have been brought into court during
the last five years. G~ ftr
Mr. and Mrs S. A. Watkins enter H. W. Thurston and "Tex" Ken