Show WAR lIAR UPON TEXAS SALOON Folks Crowding J I Us Awfully Is the Cry From Lone Star State PRESENT LAW IS IGNORED BIG FIGHT IN THE COMING ELEC ELECTION ELECTION ELECTION TION Austin Tex August The action of the League of Texas in deciding recently to enter on an ac active active active tive campaign to drive the saloons out of every county in the state Is looked on In state Democratic political circles as the preliminary pr step toward mak making making makIng ing prohibition an issue in politics po next year when the members of the legislature are to be elected It is as asserted asserted asserted by the leaders of the prohibition element of the state that the new liquor law drastic as it appears to be beon beon beon on its face is not being enforced in inmany inmany inmany many towns and localities At no time has the sentiment in favor of submit submitting submitting ting the proposition to the people been as strong as It is now according to the men in close touch with the situa situation situation tion The charge is made that in El Paso San Antonio and a number of smaller places particularly In south and south southwest west Texas the new law which makes forfeiture of license a penalty for keeping a saloon open on Sunday or after midnight is openly violated In some instances a pretense is made of selling sf soft drinks at these places Ila Es it is said These drinks go by various names names such as Ino mo Uno Hia Hiawatha Hiawatha watha etc They are manufactured by the breweries and are sold in beer bottles It Is asserted by the prohibitionists prohibitionists prohibitionistS who are keeping up with things that these soft drinks taste like beer and have the Intoxicating effects of beor beer if enough of it is drunk League Is Busy The League members have bae begun their campaign by divid dividing dividIng ing Irig the state into ho eight districts Each district is placed in charge of a man manager manager manager ager who is charged with the duty of arousing prohibition sentiment among the people Preliminary to the con concerted concerted concerted effort to elect none but men who favor state prohibition to the legislature the league will exert itself In extending the local option territory to additional counties If state prohibition should be made madean an issue next campaign It will Involve the several ral candidates for state office in an Interest ng contest While the th fight would be centered principally on candidates for the legislature there would necessarily have to be a lineup on one side of the question or the theother theother theother other by the candidates for the other offices Governor Campbell is counted as a prohibitionist but if the efforts to smoke him out on that proposition succeed suc eed no better than that to dis discover disCOVEr discover cover which side he occupies on the controversy over Senator Bailey he will travel in the middle of the road In a prospective fight Governor Camp bell has proved himself an adept at dodging troublesome questions at least questions which he perhaps does not consider should be Issues in poll poli politics pollI I tics The prohibition leaders say j however that he lie would Join them i f 7 openly and vigorously if It the question I is made an issue Issue May Be Forced The three candidates for attorney general R V Y Davidson Davidon T B Love and S P Skinner would be unlikely to accept the prohibition question as asan asan asan an issue unless the proposition should i ibe be forced on them thorn Mr lIr Davidson is i spoken of in this connection as a can candidate candidate for reelection r While he has made no formal announcement of that fact it is generally generall understood that he be has decided to make the race Mr Love is looked on as leaning toward the prohibition element With state prohibition as an Issue isue Mr Skinner would likely take the affirmative side of the question his friends here say In this connection it Is interesting to note the fact that the country press of the state seems to be In a fair way of succeeding In Its avowed determination tion of causing the of or every member of the legislature who sup supported supported supported ported the provision In the pass law which prohibits railroads from giving transportation in ex cx exchange exchange change for advertising |