Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-04-04 | Page 18 | Michigan Vote Startles Wets

MICHIGAN VOTE STARTLES WETS 80 to 90 Delegates Out of Are Instructed for Repeal Hy my Associated Press DETROIT April 4 Michigan 4 next Monday Monda will cast the first formal state vote in favor of ot repealing ng the eighteenth amendment to the federal constitution Wet strength that surprised even the organizations sponsoring repeal swept through all but a very few of the state legislative districts yesterday yesterday yester yester- day to elect between 80 and 90 of the lot delegates to the the convention that will act on the r repeal peal proposal Only 51 vot votes s arc are required to control the con convention ven tion It was vas the first opportunity the electors of ot any state have ha had to vote on repeal of or the national prohibition bi tion hon law and the convention next I week will be the first assembly of ot its Hs kind ever held Appearing on the ballots ns as pledged to vote either cither for lor or against repeal the delegates meeting in Lansing Lansng Lans Lans- Ing ng April 10 will function much as nn an electoral college e. e carrying out the will of ot the voters as expressed in yesterdays yesterday's referendum Am Among the centers that voted for tor repeal dele delegates gales were such s cities ns Detroit Grand Rapids Flint Jackson Jack son son Kalamazoo Marquette tuske duske- gon Saginaw Port Huron Battle Creek and Lansing On incomplete returns the only districts showing snowing dry strength were in Barry county Hastings and Ingham county's second second sec see ond district lying outside the city of ot Lansing In Detroit 17 delegates pledged to o repeal were named by a margin marginot of ot nearl nearly 10 to 1 When figures had been tabulated from eft city precincts pre the vote was For repeal against repeal Although repeal forces had claimed they would carry airy Wayne county easily the wet majority surprised I even them The ag aggregate vote from 1757 of ot the he states state's precincts was 71 for repeal and against The election of delegates however was vas entirely by legislative districts and the total vote was significant only in so far as it revealed reveal cd little change from the vote of last No No- ember when the propos proposal l to eliminate elim- elim mate nate the bone dry law from rom the state constitution was carried by a heavy majority Gov Governor William A. A Comstock ardent supporter of repeal had ready for lor or introduction in the legislature today tolay today to- to day lay a measure to permit the manufacture manufacture manu- manu facture and sale of 32 beer in Michi Michi- gan By the quickest parliamentary procedure the measure can be enacted en en- acted to make beer available by April 17 7 As the legislature is definitely wet the administration anticipates quick passage of the bill the only delay elay that might occur being due to toa a possible disa disagreement regarding licensing provisions t i I a Sharing Sharing- interest with the repeal vote ote was the indicated victory of ot Demi Democratic Dem Dem- candidates candidates' for minor state offices On the face of ot returns froma from rom a little more than third one-third of ot the state late the Democrats held a lead of at around round for all these I offices now ow held by Republicans They in in- eluded a state highway commissioner commission commission- er er r two justices justic s of the supreme court regents of the university superintendent dent of or public instruction and members members mem- mem bers of ot several state boards I The Democratic victory would leave cave only one Republican slate state office office of of- fice ce holder the secretary of ot state I Frank D. D Fitz Fitzgerald erald who survived the ic November Democratic whirlwind