, 1924-09-17

hoVe |ae MI" H"ee rLerup is d canuua ir uPeime"ue"' VI
Entepnr in Big BY Aor nns county s%"; IL view of ne s nature OF u e0""" !" the
WY NTsS-fIEs-
The prohibiionhts made much of the fact that both the republicans
and democrats ignored the prohibition question at their national conven-
Now up jumps the prohibition nominee for President and asserts that the
real reason u because they did not dare to.
There is something that has been preyng on u mind since the publ
think about it the more it troubles u.s.. We read tina, Sheriff Loomiys sal
airy for the month of August "a sl6666 while Mr.. Gopperts was s16667.
terest o r money advanced the county? Was it in the nature of a fee for
extra legal services rendered o r wear and tear OF shoe leather in gathering
evidence? Anyhow we thought we'd mention it for we don't aim to see
any grating going o in official circles without telling the public
The disquietng w reaches US that unethical and dishonest bootleg
gers from another part of the state are preparing to turn loose a poisonous
the territory of our local mansfasturer npp pnd de us as it " as unnrofessiopa a
infant industry. We issue this timely warning in the hope that the in
Will change heir mind @ and " TO Powell
Gus Allen declares that he had four birthdays in less than a year dur
ing his last visit to Sweden. He explains this remarkable phenomenon in
a fashion which sounds reasonable and worthy of credence.
, The LIQUOR traffic is under government control in that country and
liquor a month Upon special occasions however. such a farewell parties
times strains a point and issues an extra allowance between times. 1t SO
appearance and bland manner, was able to get in in sx farewell aseI parties and
four birthdays before he was discovered and tagged.
In observing Mr. Gopperts activities W have noted that the relies con-
the last term of district court it will be recalled that Mr.. Goppert produced
some two or three bushels of empty bottles which he had collected in the
ing as his w detective in searching thu premises Again at ths unve;Tno
N' ooPPSt 10 ASPUSo W nave ISoNCICu u DOheH pOlN,
the pieces of which he smeled carefully to determine its previous contents
A more recent Illustration of the extent to which the prosecuting attorney
relies upon his nosew a given when he inspected the Billings airplane that
landed o n the bench above town some three weeks ago. According to a n
interested spectator, Mr.. Goppert, accompanied by a good Methodist, lost
no time in reaching it after the news Of its arrival had been communicated
hin. Burying his trusty nse in the cockp pit and other parts of its in
terror he gave it a thorough once-over RIM the probable hope of detecting the
smell of liquor All of which prompts us o suggest that if he is defeated
in the coming election, he continue to develop his ense of smell with a
to obtaining a lucrative position with the federal Or state prohibition
forces trailing fugitive liquor vialotors.
Picture Mr.. Goppert "giving tongue when he struck the warm trail of
a moonshiner, or at the foot of a tree baying at a boothgger!
H. P. Faria candidate for president o the Prohibition ticket. declares
that the heads of the other tickets are ntw what they ought to be on the
wet and dry question if the truth were known. He asserts that MI. Davis
sidestepped when he asked him point blank whether he "a wet o dry,
while he has his suspicious of Messrs Coolidge and La Toilette for the fol-
lowing reasons, which he unfolded to his audience in a recent speech at
Cherryvale, Kansas:
"a OF necessary. His keeping Mr.. Mellon, If the leading distilers
OF the country, as secretary of the treasury and head W all officials con-
nected with the enforcement of the eighteenth amendmnt and the Volstead
law, answers that question.
the question to La Toilette, who has n rea party back of him, and his
association with those who in times past claimed to make Milwaukee fam
US through manufacture of HelPs Broth beer is well known"