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Show "WETS" CLOSE THEIR WAIGN Addressing a crowd of pro'bably'OO people m front of ft0 cltbflUrfinV last evening, C A. Boyd, the local at-torney, at-torney, brought to a close the cam-' palgn which was inaugurated by the wot organization The plan of the "wets" to eliminate the final outburst of oratory ana otnor qampaign accessories acces-sories at the vory close of he pre-' election period was carried out Mr. Boyd s address, as the last pub-1 lie utterance of the campaign in favor fa-vor of tho saloon, was an appeal to the voter along the general lines of argument which have been heard throughout the stiuggle of the past two weeks. He rcUewed tho situation situa-tion in practically every phase and took up section by section the final appeal of the 'drys" which has been published and circulated in tho form of handbills. The attorney declared that the "drys" were appealing to tho voters to holp the banks, the grocery stores and other business institutions bv voting "dry," when, he asserted, u largo majority of the bankors, grocers gro-cers and in fact business men in general gen-eral wore against prohibition. In the matter of the church question ques-tion which has been brought Into the campaign. Mr. Boyd said: "This country was founded on the dissolution dissolu-tion of state and church, but when j ou allow the church to enter into politics it ta"kes away political free- dom, it takes away those things fori ' which we fought ' "If you takoiyour instructions from I a preacher, be lie Methodist, Baptist or Mormon, fhei ou ought not to be allowed to vote If you don't go to the polls tomqrrow and vote accoi cling cl-ing to tho dictates of your own conscience, con-science, then ( am ashamed of you When you govto the ,polls tomorrpw vote as you -wjJjU this town to go, not as the church wants you to vote, not as your boss wants you to vote, but as you want to vote "Do this and I pi edict that Ogden will go 'wet' by a majority of 2,500. If you do that we will have a 'wef town and a good town " .At the conclusion of Mr Boyd's address, ad-dress, County Recorder Carl Allison made the announcement that thoj "drys" were preparing for a wholesale whole-sale challenging of votes on the grounds of Illegal registration. He said that tho prohibitionists were circulating cir-culating the report that because a man was registered In one voting precinct pre-cinct and had later moved to another precinct he could not return to the ono in which he was registered and vote. This the city official doclared was a bluff on the part of the prohibitionists prohibition-ists and he urged all those so situated sit-uated not to stand for tho bluff, but to go ahead and vote In the precinct in which they had registered. |