Show i Y IT WAS the temperance question f that helped to break theOhio repub 4 j licans all up last fall but the party Si seems disposed to proceed with it though on a different basis There is 1 a strong temperance influence in i I the legislature and it tried various plans for controlling the liquorbus i mess in the state with little hope of i i success until the other day when the proposed constitutional amendment r amend-ment was suddenly and unexpectedly unexpect-edly adopted The republicans are said to be delighted with the shape f the matter has assumed for they gain all the credit for a declaration J in favor of temperance without committing themselves to it The t i1 Coilumbus Journal comments on the proposed amendment as follows fol-lows The amendment embracing as it doe S legislative control and prohibition gives an opportunity for every shade of opinion opin-ion on the temperance question to make f itself fet Tax local option and license are all clearly possible under the first i proposition while prohibition is contained i con-tained in the second The ball is opened aril the temperance campaign may be S TjSasidered as fairly begun The people f now have the whole subject in their own bands and if they do not settle it satisfactorily satis-factorily they will have only themselves 1 to thank for it E |