Show NT ARlO ON N lI LIQUOR IS ISSUE U Government Control Instead Instead Instead In In- stead of Prescription Rule Is Now Sought f TORO TORONTO TO Dec 1 AP The AP The people pepie of Ont Ontario are balloting Jo to today day to choose chose representatives fot for forthe forthe the seventeenth legislature of the province but wilh the main issue wet or or dry Old party lines have be been n cast to th tho winds during aurl g the campaign G G. Howard Hovard Ferguson the conservative premier is Is' asking to be be returned to p power on a platform that all sales of liquor shall ahall be be under government government gov gO gov- gov supervision and that s 's sales les lesOn on doctors doctors' prescriptions ris shall bed be d ne' ne away with The premier has argued rg d' d duri g the campaign that hi his ils J proposed s stem would kill of off the he frade of the bootleggers bootlegger and thu thus hus be Je e more of a temperance e measure meas meas- ure than th the present act pel l nutting s sales mi l on The Tle liberal party the progressives and the he prohibitionists on the other othet hand hanu hold that hold old old- th that t If It Mn erguson is Ic victorious S his m measure measure will make nake liquor more rn m re re readily y obtainable and therefore constitute a a ablow blow to tem tem- temperance perance lerance perance These glo groups ps are ae demand demand- en anding and and- big ing ng a cont continuance nuance and more mor strict enforcement ot of the Ontario temperance temper temper- ance act which w was wa l brought into force orce in 1916 as a w war r r rn measure sur Und Un Un- d del der r this thicket act bars and and liquor stores stoies were banished from the province and in place of them a government commission has conducted saries anes in c certain populated pop d centers centers' for or the sale of f spit spIrits Its on doctors' doctors prescriptions BEER PERMITTED The sale aleto tt beer eef of of a 4 4 alcoholic content eight i Is t n now t per permitted d in the province M. M Mr 1 i Fergusons Ferguson's calls calls' for tills this beverage also alsoto alsoto alsoto to be placed under government nt control con- con with pr proof high of liquor Churches of practically all ll de denominations denominations de- de I nominations have taken a hand In Inthe Inthe inthe the campaign and the charge has been made that pulpits have b ben been en used for waging p political warfare Tie The government forces have a candidate in all of f. f the i districts except one Th The liberals h sixty candidates the tho progressives twenty and the prohibitionists about thir thirty ty There are are a few lew ew candidates representing other groups These conservatives already have been hen elected by acclamation The conservative government came arne into power powei in June 1922 se securing securing se- se curing six seventy seats as against thirty-five thirty held by all the other groups combined On One seat has been added under under a a redistribution measure of last year jear ear making a total of seats eats S |