Show prohibition IS THE ITE ISSUE IN SEVERAL STATES NOW ow texas voted on me aufa W tiou of constitutional prohibition hibi tion at the recent special election the first gun was wa d 41 1 i 1 series of sensational liquor 03 08 that are several tates maine it to t follow in september with a crack at the prohibition clause that has been in her primal law for more than halt a century ohio la is torn by n wet and dry strife for the contro control of the coming constitutional convention i send 4 out a wall ag dinst the I 1 no license feature of her orga organic n I 1 C law kansas liberals are preparing to fight a similar clause out of her constitution west i ii li getting ready to put ono one in tiers indiana la Is busy scattering municipal oases through the county 8 ibaran of the stile and even conservative nem ew jersey the most liberal of all the states the liquor mour organ boasts la Is thinking of taking governor woo wood rott rom Wll sons tip tit that local option li ii quite a proper thing for her to into lan lau in texas texia Is not i t stranger qt ranger to liquor ex cite menti T temperance people have bien nen rn v there for a long time and of recent years a rising tide of tion sentiment aai awi has threatened the state with the liquor row ta in ae 04 which she Is en today 1 ojik N year or two ago tic L V va this sentiment be salt came strong y enough to force the 1 legislature to action the solemn solons did not quite know at first what to do about it but finally they decided to ask the people whether they would like ire to have a prohibition ll 11 constitution al amendment submitted to tv them for approval in the state primaries last fall the people said they gouldby woul dby majority it was drawn and submitted and they have just said sald that they dont really want it after all in maine the state of maine Is 1 trying get prohibition out of her constitution where it 1 baa has been tor for more than fifty years its pros pres ence there h a s long been an irritation to elements in hr lation asid a growing e sentiment ban has 4 urged its elimina tion the democrats have made 11 I 1 t s resubmission to boular oto ioto the pivotal issue in all their recent campaigns aud n u 1 I I 1 plaisted rL each came closer rind closer to win ning the state on it two years ago they had reduced the fixed republican majority m of to about and last year they succeeded in planting plein ting the state in the democratic column the special point of attack in the last campaign was the sturgis law which authorized st elite ite sleuths to in lit ado the hoine 3 in hunts for clandes tine whisk the 1 mind became so inflamed b the espionage that Pl alsted who reached the goer governor nor ship vai was ulso also favored with a donio demo erotic to bar bim him llly first act on attaining office was to throw the obnoxious sturgis Loni 1 out of office 1 in the most sum stint mary fashion arid when ution te t e legista turo ture sent fent to him an act rot to i nt M ote I 1 of f the people on the rL of the indent ne claun he h planed eulth undisguised the dale date for lin li n bern been liw fur for sept 12 and the tits ir it lia liti t aroused absorb the people to the of all other topics ibe the pro iro exi ex buslon of all nil oth r topics in kansas enking a cue from the maine move merit the saloon inhere ati in kansas ore are for a resubmission of that st states rites con prohibition hibi tion clause they quote OOT gov arnor stubbs recent announce that since 1 prohibition wn made state wide kansas has tol dented th the bootlegger le gerthe the speak cas the basement attic joint nm ar I 1 c ry othera other kind ot of alse jlii 00 EMNOR r law violation too long as a prohibitionists confession that whatever it may mai do evRe where I 1 docs does not prohibit in nan haq while tacy picture a deen decadence dence la in the ciulei and lind towns of the state as one of the dire results of her alon policy polley the aliv v b hire bire ire olid d n borr ore than a 1 thousand thou and brant hea oi 0 n 11 a ato organization chose mission 1 to promote the election thu full of a legislature ts that will enact a law for resubmission submission loa their canynan had mc scarcely arcely becu barted started before they ran up against the suffragettes suffragette a and fear that they may have struck a dead wall the liquor forces fortes know jat they alway faveto ficht the at the women if the women ore are enfranchised ays the leading liquor organization of abo 0 country I 1 they i w ill go a 10 to I 1 in favor f aver of the re ret of the be ant liquor clause in ohio I 1 liquor agitations increase in ohio aa as tho time for the assemblies assembling of tho the popular cui mention entson that Is to frame a new fundamental liw law far the state next year approaches iches the dry fortes forces hope to induce the delegates to include 11 prohibition lauso clause i in lit their draft the delegates arc are to be chosen at the pen gen oral ra I 1 I 1 aton in the coining fill and tho the wet wets and teetotalers are engaged in a fierce bt ruggle for lav layering oring mem bersi ber 3 ohio publicists all agree that the state constitution has outlived its usefulness it Is more than edity years since it was given to tho the wealth and something lisa antiquated is d demanded 41 b nin ut of all nil parties partle ono no of I 1 its features Is a clause providing that th liquor traffic 4 ahall shall never be licensed the courts have construed this to mean not that the traffic Is 19 no vEnNor but thai thal it may be cor conducted cordue ducted ted under other conditions it has since sinco gone on under what are known as mulct laws I 1 and other police regulations laid down by the legis lature from time to time that which 1 is now being mado made Is the second attempt of recent years to girt the state nn an organic law more in keep heep ing with her greatness than that she now has constitution fashioned ed by a popular convention in ISSN was vas de feinted because the people a not like it its liquor clause 1 have been bakon tat n against the repudiation of the work nork of next gears ears convention for reasons of or bat that character the legis lature has directed that tho the clauses con cc ning liquor shall be voted on oti separately from the body of the inspru merit IL V mighty discussion Is going on between the contending forces as to the form in which those clauses shall be presented to the penpit the temperance worker hale haie al at ready written upon the statute books of the tate a county option lan ian the modification of which wae was attempted at the recent session megaton of the buckeye ire many cities voting wet were forced to go dry by the ote of the surrounding places ic in the coun ty and an act offered to the legisla ture was nas designed to enable the cities to do as they pleased about it in other state states it was be baiten iten in ohio but indiana which huh has it similar county option law passed an amending law it permits the aith cillis 4 that want sal saloons n in dry counties 4 to vote them in bine its passage fifty of the municipalities that imp held elections under it have been to tal I 1 en out of the prohibition area they aall the dry counties maharas in tit ohio the saloon voting titles are known n as 4 oases by the thirsty tl 71 who ma arve been by bienn 1 atter sons anti ril und find its explanation in the collis on of the prohibition movement with the larger politics of kentuck ac cording to the story tory told in dal circle circlet ex senator bebb am 4 the liquor interests of ha having defeated hi 4 ambition in nit recent united state states senatorial contest und and tit his dire for revenge WATTERSON las lias driven him into a combination with judge 0 hear rear a n republican ant for the governorship the joining of forces 1 Is to make 0 po Forer vernoi nor and end hend beckham Ilot kham to the united states senitte mo most at interests 4 the to 1 Is 14 4 that 0 heir I 1 an avowed pro und and that his gubern calva 14 1 4 to be made on i plit platform form ol 01 state nl n l exclusion of th tho saloons saloon 4 the apt ignee in the fit flold id of mo gol bernor NN jsn alaon of new ew jersey as an ad of total option aly bring liquor question into incidental kroml nence in the approaching national cam the democracy of the state has set its 1 face local option rind governor Ho vernor letter to the th state antl anti filoon league in which he h d alires for option may enter into tho khit his for thi lipport of the jersey delegation ir in tb th national democratic convention Is expected to arouse |