Smyrna times., 1933-09-06
SEE REPEAL BY
NOVEMBER 9TH
Elimination of Prohibition
Before Christmas Expect
ed By Wet Forces
II MORE STATES NEEDED

band wagon gave it a push that
will assure elimination Of prohibi-
ton before Christmas, national
and state repealists said as mount
ing returns from Tuesdays cleo
ton indicated the State of Wash
ington returned only four dry dele
gates to 95 vets. The total vote
for wet and dry delegates with
2079 precincts out of 1858 report
ing, was 34O,31O for repeal and
141, ,857 against. The people voted
by legislative districts, so the
Statewide vote was only an indi-
cation of sentiment, but the wets
apparently elected their delegates
to the constitutional convention
October 3 in every district but two
the Ninth and Tenth, composed of
four agricultural counties, Whit
man, Asotin, Garfield and Column
bia, in eastern Washington. H. c.
Herbsman, director of the wet
campaign in Washington, said
nothing can stop repeal now. The
drys had the advantage because
we elected by legislative districts
and they were showed under. The
drys' forlorn hope was that Wash
ington would stop the parade Of
states toward repeal, and their
hope was blasted" Postmaster
General James F. Farley announc-
ed from the national capital that
the vote of Washington, long re-
garded as zone of the outstanding
bone dry states" now the Path to
vote repeal, makes certain his pre-
diction that prohibition will be
abolished before the end of the
year" BY November Z, 81 states
will have voted on repeal The re-
pealists need only IL more states
to win; the drys need 13 to block
repeal. 1t was the first special
statewide election Washington
has held since it became a state.
Last November the state bone dry
law was buried by wet majority
of 133, 200. Dry since 1917, Wash
ington was one of the earliest
states to try prohibition. At least
Is or more States will vote before
November s providing a min
imum of three more than neces-
sary for repeal-should the unin-
terrupted procession of the first "a
be continued. New England be-
came the focal point of national
wet and dry interest today as Yer
mont and Maine sharpened pencils
for early September balloting.
They were the first of seven States
to vote within the next three
weeks. Should II of the Is States
sure to vote before the 8th of No
vember follow the line of the first
"a, the prohibition amendment
would be formally abolished on De-
cember 5 or 6. Three ratifying
conventions meet on December 5th
and two more on the 9Th. Stats
ticians adding up and analyzing
the vote thus far figured that al
though only half the States had
balloted, more than 100000 of
the nations 122,698,190 population
lived within their borders on the
basis of the 1880 census. The pop
ular vote in the "a recorded States
stands in round numbers at $780,
900 in favor of repeal to 100000
against. These figures, of course.
do not include the recordings in
Nevada and Wyoming. where dele /
gates were elected by mass meet
ings and county conventions. On
the basis of present voting dates,
all but nine States holding Ia, $685. /
076 of the nations population will
have balloted by November s.
These nine include Kansas and
LaIisiana. Governor Landon has
called a special session of the Kan
sas Legislature to meet in Septem-
ber, and probably voting day will
be set during the present year
'Governor o. K. Allen, of Louisiana,
has stated he also would call
special session. Should both these /
States vote this year, only about
100000 of the population would
not have been given an opportun-
ity to ballot on repeal during this
period. Here are the election days
already established during the next
10 weeks: Vermont, Sept 5, Maine.
Sept, IL; Colorado, Maryland and
Minnesota, Sept. IL; Idaho and
New Mexico, Sept. 10; Virginia,
Oct. 8; Florida, Oct. 10; North and
South Carolina, Ohio, Pennsyl
vania Irtah and Kenti1clx1r (fenta-