Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-17 | Page 1 | Wet Vote Retains Great Majority

WH ET VOTE RH RETAINS AIN GREAT GHA J MAJORITY Ballots Cont Continue nue at Rate a e of f P Daily ily TOTAL COUNT MAY REACH Rate Is Five to One for forMo Mo Modifying Law V Copyright 1926 by United Press NEW YORK March 17 United Press Participants in newspaper p pails lIson lIs' lIs on are entering their votes on possible modification tIon of the act at the rate of more than daily dally according to figures gathered gather d by the United Press today Present IndIc indications s a are that by Saturday when the climax of i the the balloting will be reached approximately approximately votes will have been beeh received by M newspapers who h have ve Joined d in the large country country- countrywide countrywide wide units conducting the polls polls' Since at least a score of lf newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers have held individual polls the tot total l vote may reach I or 01 about one-eighth one of bf the normal presidential el elections elections- The principal sU support port of prohibItIon prohibition tion continues to come from the smaller towns In Goshen Gohen Go hen Ind for instance nce the vote stood 2769 for forthe or orthe orthe the existing laws lawe for repeal and 1215 for tor modification In Ip that lo locality 10 ballots were not only printed in the Times News-Times but distributed at chur churches hes and factories One of the driest spots spots' to report was nas Kl Mo where the Express ss tabulated vot votes s for prohibition 40 for repeal and 90 for modification tion Results of the wide nation polls printed today Newspaper Enterprise association with 37 newspapers For modification For repeal For prohibition Hearst newspapers and others For lor prohibition Against prohibition For wine and beer Against wine and beer Chicago Tribune New York Daily Dally News and others For wine and beer Against wine vine and beer The grand totals ot these polls are ate For existing law For changes cha This ratio pf 5 Ii t to change Is virtually the same as yesterday when the vote was to