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Show HEJVY f OTE AND J&NY TILTS Today's election on the liquor question ques-tion closed the most active campaign for votes that has ever been waged In Ogden and as a result of the agitation agita-tion of iboth the regulation and prohibition pro-hibition forces it Is believed that the largest vote ever cast In the city will be counted when the polls close at 7 o'clock tonight. Never in tho history of this community com-munity has I hi propaganda of any quostlon been more widely and effectively effec-tively sprend than upon the Isbuc which the voters are today deciding with their ballots Scores of pnm-plets pnm-plets have been written and distributed; distribu-ted; the newspapers have been extensively ex-tensively used and orators In pulpits, upon platforms and street corners have thrilled audiences with their arguments ar-guments for and agalust prohibition. During the past two weeks little olse has been talked on tho streets and meeting places of the city but the question of the "wets" and "drys." While to both sides the question has been a vital one, having at least a more apparent Imnort than most of the political contests of recent yenrs, tho campaign has been handlod by both sides with but little vilification vilifica-tion or personalities. One young lady at the Armory became be-came quite exaspprated and broken hearted when tho ofllccr advised her that If she did not comply with the law regarding electioneering at the polls, ho would escort her to the Police Po-lice station. She toroko Into "tenrs. and. throwing down her ballots and other paraphernalia for electioneering electioneer-ing declared she would leave the pesky old place and having nothing more to do with the "rotten election." At the Armory, Judge Horn Is pitted agalnsttllynim Belnap, "wet" and "dry," respectively, and. It is said that It is an amusing affair. Up to the time of going to press the vote In the various districts Is a little heavier than Is usual, even at general elections, but the afternoon work will undoubtedly bring out a heavy vote. The registration Is about 2,000 greater llrin at previous elections elec-tions and It is predicted by those In close touch with the election that fully S.000 votes will bo cast. The "wets" claim the election bv not less than 1,000 while the "drys" are not at all Inclined to -concede that majority, ma-jority, many of them contending that they will win by a small margin. Jiany women are at work for loth sides, there 'being more feminine pur-suaslon-ln the election than in anv previous one. There have been Interesting incidents inci-dents at tljo polls, some ludicrous, others tinged with sadness and disappointment. dis-appointment. Challenges hao been offered of-fered against supposed "wot" voters by "dry" challengers at ncarlv all the polling places in the city, the grounds for the challenges being largely that the parties arc not residents of the districts In which thev- are voting 4Secrotary Allison of the Merchants' association states, however, that this is a common occurrence and that It will not amount to anything. Tho parlies challenged, in nearlv every Instance, have sworn In thei'r votes. Some or tho young ladies working for the prohibition side have met with tho thrilling experience of being ejected from polling places. At the Deo school, the Madison school and the Armory, where voting booths are stationed, they have persisted In electioneering elec-tioneering inside the louildlng, and within the 100-foot toundary line which prohibit electioneering They were told by the offcers that they would have to get outside the restricted restrict-ed district to use their pursuaslvo powers on the voters, but they did Hot aeem to realize the Importance or the officers instructions until tho hand of tho law was placed on them |