The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-10
VETS PREPARE
PETITIONS FOR
REPEAL VOTE
Organization Would Have
Question Voted on at Pri-
mary Election in June

question vOteQ ON ~ frl.
mary Election in June
Repeal Of the prohibition clause
of the state constitution is asked in
petitions which were placed in cir
culation this week by the Better
Citizenship association, with head
quarters here, according to C. P.
Stone, head of the organization.
Circulation Of the petitions, Stone
said, marks the opening of an often.
| sive war which will be waged by his
! organization in an effort to restore
conditions in this state to a point
where a premium will no longer be
placed upon law violation" Only
dry fanatics, those who have no ade-
quate grasp Of the situation which
prohibition has cngehdered, and
bootleggers are for prohibition as it
now operates, Stone said.
Wet Legislators Sign
Each of the printed petitions con.
tains places for the names of IS
signers and 10000 voters must sign
them before the prohibition issue
can be placed on the ballot at the
primary election in June, 1928. The
petitions are signed by % persons,
10 of whom were members of the
c%okn nr;clo%,,rr ~ <hA l0c% cacc ~.
The list includes all the legislators
who supported wet legislation at the
hast session and one additional, j.
A. Meidinger, Mcintosh county. The
other signers are Charles Stretch
Herman Rabe, H. H. Williams, Oscar
Oberg, Herman Hardt, Pierce Blew
EFT, John Ehr, w. A. Thatcher, F.. r.
Hclbling, Jocsph Renner, r. C. Mont
gomery, George Aljets, H. G. Kap.
fer, C. A. Miller, Albert Van Berk-
ON, II. r. Fettisy m A.WyErickson,
Peter Keierleber, Richard Bubel, F.
G. Hildebrand. Roy A. Yeater and
C. p. Stone. All are listed as men,
hers of the committee for the petit
TONERS.
No request is made in the petitions
for a vote on the various state laws
regarding the liquor traffic. Stone
I explained that the legislature would
be expected to repeal these laws in
line with the wishes of the people if
the prohibition clause is eliminated
from the constitution.
Could Make Wine and Beer
I CaaOOocc nf tho S>racnnk tS1nuo,4nAnf
Stone said, will mean that North
Dakota citizens may legally make
and have in their homes light wines
and beer. These, he said, are not
prohibited by the federal prohibition
law.
Challenging the good citizenship
of any one who may attempt to pre-
vent the issue from coming to q
vote, Stone predicted that vote on
the prohibition question cannot be
productive of anything but good,
whether the constitutional repeal
proposal wins or is defeated.
"Ours is an organization which
believes in the constitution Of this
state and Of the nation and is willing
to support it," Stone said. "How-
ever, we claim our constitutional
right to, attempt to change the con-
stitution as it seems necessary to do
| in the interest Of the people. Any
one who attempts to deny the people
the right to vote on the prohibition
question is not, in my opinion, a
good citizen. Such persons would
I only be- attempting to deny the peo-
pie the right to express themselves
upon an important issue.
Says People Want Chance to Vote
I'VE believe that the people feel
they have never been given free
opportunity to vote on this question
and that they are demanding that
right. Whether we win or lose ]
feel that the result will be beneficial
and will do much to dispel the dis
! taste for the prohibition law which
is 90 apparent. When they have had
an opportunity to express them
selves the people will be more will.
ing to abide By the prohibition law
Il the voters Of this state decide that
it should be continued.
"The COMMITTEES feels that pro-
hibition has not worked out well and
that honest, law-abiding people want
q change. The movement is con-
ceived IN good faith and ~ we are
asking ID that the proposal ~ pre-
Sented to the people honestly and
g. :arely fer decisionvbY them.
Although only 1900 names are
required to place tie question on the
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