The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-11-01

maries, imagined that the state had gone
wet. They were disillusioned, however,
last Tuesday, when Wilbur M. Brucker,
an ardent dry, was elected governor and
legislature overwhelmingly dry was
chosen. Mr.. Brucker's opponent had the
support of all the vets including the
Moderation League, the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment and
the Crusaders. Lieutenant Governor L. d.
Dickinson was reelected lieutenant gov
ernor for his sixth term. He has always
stood solidly against the wet program.
United States Senator Couzens was re-
elected. Mr.. Couzens has consistently
voted dry on legislation coming before the
senate.
SOUTHERN STATES
The Southern states voted almost solid
~ Democratic Democratic and dry.
Where drys were defeated they were in
Variably defeated by drys these defeats
coming in many instances as the result
of the returning Of the states to the DEM
ocratic fold after the detection of 1928
Thus it will be seen that without mini
MIXING in the least the victories that
came to the vets last Tuesday, giving
them all the benefits of every doubtful
scat, both branches of congress are over
Whelmingly dry and the expectation of
early return of beer and wine is but a
fanciful dream. And yet as stated above
the vets did make some gains, enough
perhaps 10 encourage them to continue
the intensive drive for repeal and modi-
fcatiOn, certainly enough to show that
the fight for prohibition is not yet won.
Let the drys take warning and act &C
cordingly.
In the wet referendum in Illinois the
Iynt Of Cnn1r ~. ln1 ntno
which is about one third of the total vote
cast in The presidential election at which
time 1,528000 votes were cast. Down state
vets polled 6l0000 as against 1,554,000
cast in the presidential election.
Drys had been advised TO refrain from
voting on these advisory propositions.
The next house will be nearly evenly
divided between Democrats and Republi-
cans, the Republicans probably having
majority of one, with one Farmer-Labor
member from Minnesota. There is much
speculation over the possibility of the
Republican insurgents joining forces with
the Democrats. 1t is gratifying that Dem
ocratic and Republican leaders are said
to have agreed upon a coalition to pre-
vent obstruction of needful and progress
sive legislation.
David Lawrence nationally known po-
litical writer, in a special copyrighted
story to the Fl. Wayne Qndiana) Ne1Ds-
Sentinel, says of the election, among other
things:
while the wet states voted wet in much
more emphatic fashion than usual, there
is no conspicuous case of a clear-cut
oVerturn of a dry state, for even Ohio.
where a Democratic wet won the Sena-
torial election, a Democratic dry captured
the goVernorShip.
''The vets will derive much comfort
from the pronounced verdict in wet con-
stituencies, but the size of the vote polled
by the victors in New York and Illinois
and Massachusetts, together with the
Democratic victory in Connecticut shows
Enthusiastically that the dominant issue
was unemployment"
Westerville, the headquarters of the
American Issue Publishing Company, cast
,412 votes. Roscoe G. McCulloch, dry
candidate for United States senator, car
ried every precinct. In every instance
where the contest was between a wet and
a dry the cry was given an overwhelming
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