Evening star., 1933-06-26
TWO MORE STATES
| TO VOTE ON REPEAL
California and West Virginia
/. Will Cast Ballots To.
morrow.
-Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The old "get-out-the-vote" plea to-
day wound up campaigning in the two
Etates-California and West Virginia
which will decide tomorrow what they
want done about the prohibition amend
fnent.
For once the vets and drys claimed
q common objective. In an argumen,
Dver whether heavier votes would have
Changed the results in the IA States
that already have indorsed repeal, Their
leaders agreed in Washington that
everybody should ballot in tomorrow's
Elections.
! Said F. Scott Mcbride, superintend-
ent of the Anti-Saloon League:
Z Returns SO far in elections on repeal
show that the dry vote is strong enough
to win every remaining State if the
drys succeed in getting out as large a
proportion of dry voters as the vets
have gotten out in States that voted
for repeal"
Shouse Welcomes Plea.
! Replied Jouett Shoyse, president OF
the Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment:
"Cheerfully we welcome DR.. Nc
Brides appeal for larger popular par
ticipation in prohibition repeal cleo
tiOliS OuG VI CfCIy 1,ooO az
ditional votes DR.. Mcbride helps us to
get to the polls, 60 to 30 per cent will
be cast for repeal
, Because of that campaign and nu-
merous State issues, California officials
predicted heavy vote. In West V1r-
ginia drys said vets would not profit
because of stay-at-homes.
Both States though were looked upon
as only sort of warm-up for what is
considered a more crucial test on July
18 when Alabama and Arkansas become
the first Southern Commonwealth to
act on the twenty-flrst amendment.
Indiana Delegates Meet.
Today also was the day for 1ndiana's S
S29 delegates in convention to express
formally their States decision, recorded
in the June election. Two hundred
and forty-six delegates were pledged to
vote for repeal, 80 against.
In an analysis of the ballots cast, DR..
Mcbride said the total vote was less
than one-third Of the total vote and
in the last general election. In only
one State, Rhode Island, he continued,
was the repeal vote larger than the
vote for Roosevelt for President.
DIR. Mcbride complains" Shouse
said, "that the vote for repeal Is not
larger than it is. The way to cure that
is to have every possible voter go to
the polls. I am glad to join DR.. NC
Bride In advocating the fullest and most
representative vote in every State.
Declared Foregone Conclusion.
Prom the beginning the only danger
to an overwhelming popular vote for
repeal has been disposition on the
part of those citizens favoring repeal
to regard the outcome as a foregone
conclusion and that it was not neces-
sary for them to get out and vote.
Every potential vote against repeal has
been regemented by the die-hard apollo
gists for the eighteenth amendment.
Far more informative than DR.. Nc
Brides statistics are the percentage Of
votes cast in the States which have
voted on repeal. New York voted 88.7
for repeal, 11.3 per cent against. Con-
laecticut and Rhode Island voted 81
per cent for repeal. OF the votes cast
In Wisconsin 50 per cent were for re-
peal and in Massachusetts, 81 per cent
were for repeal. Illinois voted 78 per
cent for repeal, Delaware n per cent,
Michigan TAT per cent and New Hamp-
shire II per cent.
Indiana and Iowa, on which the
leaders of a lost cause relied, cast "a
and so per cent, respectively, for re-
peal. In the face of this record it is
futile to speculate on what the stay-at-
home vote might have shown"