Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-01-18 | Page 1 | Prohibition Receives Rap

PROHIBITION RECEIVES RAP Nashville, Tenn., Jan. IS. Gover-norPatterson, Gover-norPatterson, in his annual messapo to th"b legislature, today recommended tho repeal of the present state election elec-tion law. In his -opinion, this law was designed for fraud and he says there has not been a honest general election in Tennessee since its enactment. enact-ment. Governor Patterson stronglv condemns con-demns prohibition, pronouncing it as "fundamentally profoundly wrong as a governmental policy, and In a country coun-try where the largest measure- of freodom of action Is accorded the Individual, In-dividual, it becomes intolerable." Ho recommends "high license, strict regulation and forfeiture of li-censo li-censo for violations of the law."