Evening star., 1933-11-08
WET MARCH ENDED
BY THE CAR0LNAS
Both States Remain in Dry
CoIumn-BaiIey Denies
Roosevelt Revolt.
BY the Associated Press.

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CHARLOTTE. N. c.. November B.
North Carolina. one of the first States
to adopt prohibition. stood today as the
| first State of the Union to have def
nitely recorded its opposition to repeal.
BY vote Of approximately two and
a half to one. the State yesterday re-
fused to sanction a convention to act
upon the proposed twenty-first, or re-
peal, amendment, and thus brought to
an end the previously uninterrupted
march Of 33 States to the anti-prohibi-
ton band wagon.
Returns from 1,444 precincts OF
1881 gave l08.246 votes for repeal
and PSI 1872 against Every county was
represented in the tabulation with 36
OF the 100 complete. Prohibitionists
took the lead in the first returns and
saw it mount steadily and swiftly.
VETS Concede Defeat.
Two hours after the polls closed at
$50 Carl K. Burgess, director of the
dry campaign, issued a statement
claiming a victory of Landslide pro-
portions and within the next hour
the Ine manager of the repeal campaign,
waiter Murphy, conceded defeat.
Repeal speakers had predicted the
Eastern counties would vote heavily
against prohibition, but the returns
proved them poor prophets. In the
Western counties, where the Republican
vote is normally strong the ma jorities
against repeal were overwhelming.
The result of the election was de-
clared by Senator Josiah w. Bailey. who
advocated repeal, as 'in no sense
revolt against President Roosevelt"
L think the people of the State are
just as enthusiastically for the President
as ever and that he would carry the
State today by an even larger majority
than the $4,000 given him last year."
he said.
Bishop Halls Result.
Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, an
active campaigner against repeal, hailed
the result in a brief statement.
The proud flag of independence floats
over the State of North Carolina" he
said. TO lovers of righteousness
throughout the Nation we send this
greeting: We have just begun to fight,
and In the end we will once more roll
back the wet tide
Explaining the South Carolina out
come. Romulus Reese, secretary of the
Association for Prohibition Reform. said
repeal advocates were lust too sure"
AAc iCpcdl fOte QlQ not Deg1n TO turn
out, he added. There was too much
over-confidence and too much the idea
that repea! was a foregone conclusion.
In North Carolina, Jake Newell. a
Republican leader asserted the result
was in reality "a Republican victory"
Every county with normal Republican
strength gave a huge majority to the
dry cause" he said
In both CarolinaS, the prohibition
forces organized early, and waged
much more intensive campaign than the
advocates of repeal.
In Charleston, Richland (Columbia)
and IA other counties, most of them in
the Eastern 'low country" the repeal
Isis led as late returns from yester-
days referendum were compiled, but I'D
through the red. rolling hills of the
Pledmont manufacturing section the
prohibition ballots were counted with
maJorities of upward of 2 to /.
With 872 of the States 1920 pre-
cincts accounted for, 81 ,604 votes were
listed for repeal and 80, 3,595 against.
Except for the tremendous sentiment
Tor repeal in Charleston, the drys would
have piled up a heavy majority. In
Charleston County the complete vote
was 8,3s5 for repeal and $50 against.