Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-13 | Page 1 | Polling Closed on Prohibition

POLLING CLOSED ON PROHIBITION Ne Nearly Vote on Telegram Telegram Telegram Tele Tele- gram Ballots LETTER LETTE CONTEST BRINGS HUNDREDS Sentiment Heard From II All Over Nation TELEGRAMS TELEGRAM'S POLL For no 0 change For repe repeal N 2386 For modification o TOTAL DRYS TOTAL WETS The Telegram prohibition race has been finished in a a. blaze of glory The balloting and the contest contest contest con con- test closed at midnight Friday night The tabulators and the jUdges are still working and the re results results re- re suits cannot be he announced until Sunday morning There are nearly ballots to count and tabulate There are several several several sev sev- eral hundred letters In the contest to o be read and Judged as to merits r second second It becomes a task worthy of the great question presented As the voters were informed The Telegram conducted its ballot or straw vote t together gether with hundreds of other newspapers throughout the nation in an attempt to get a IL wide nation opinion as to whether the people want the prohibition law as it is is want It repealed or want it modified to permit the sale of wine vine and bee beeThe beer The result has been truly aston- aston Continued on page 5 POLLING CLOSED ON PROHIBITION Continued from page 1 11 The Tile telegram was as flooded by ballots from all over ove- ovetIe e the stats slata but the vast majority majot-Ity came from Salt Lake itself showing that the citizens were almost a much alive aliveto to the prohibition Is issue ue as they have been in their thElI city elections The same spontaneous response came in The Telegram letter contest contest con con- test on What hat I Know About Pro- Pro Hundreds o of let letters ers were written and sent in iii from men and womer women all over o the intermountain country The judging of these In Indeed Indeed In- In dc deed d becomes a formidable It is deemed probable by the tho Judges that the thO winning letters Jetters can be decided upon in time for their publication Sunday morning I