| Show MAYOR CLOSES I CHICAGO RUM SELLERS Dever Dover Is Wet But Says Law Must Be BeI I Obeyed I T 1 POPULACE AGHAST Booze Crowd Believes En En- Enforcement Enforcement Enforcement Will Bring Legal Beer BackBY Back BackBY BY JOHN Special Correspondent of ot The Standard CoP right 1 1923 23 CHICAGO Oct 27 This This western metropolis 0 w t In sentiment and tendencies to- to today today to today day Is 95 96 per cent behind Mayor am Dever Dover In his bis rigid enforce enforce- enforcement enforcement ment mont of the eighteenth amendment and the act When hen IL a a room bar-room murder and the assassination of t two tao 0 men as ne a result of a beer trade war started Mayor De er on his mopping up just 38 days das da s ago today and pros uttered callow laughs In their sleeves Three necks later the chuckle of the had changed to a I chortle of glee and the wets were emitting squeals of anguish and dire threats threat Si the administration Sentiment against the Dover Dever campaign u grew almost hysterical as hundreds on hundreds of act et establishments es and called so-called soft drink T parlors were closed MUST ENFORCE LAW Then Mayor Dover Deter spoke to a great gathering of foreign born citizens and their offspring declarIng declarIng declaring ing that lawn laW was law and ond that he must enforce It despite the fact that ho he does not believe In prohibition prohibition tion and would like to see the Vol- Vol Vol stead act limbered sufficiently ly to tho the sale of ot light wines and beer Ho lIe Insisted that regardless of sentiment every citizen should take the same attitude and antl that In his opinion strict enforcement of an 11 unpopular law Jaw was as the surest way to hR have bate 0 It changed It took another two weeks or morn more for forMa t or Devers Dever's remarks to sink sin It Inand In Inand inand and become fertilized and j ear fruit POLITICIANS S CLOSED OUT Meantime the mopping contin continued Some of the most powerful politician saloon keepers ore acre caught in the net pet and their places T padlocked adlo ked Others closed of their 01 oan n accord or changed their establishments establishments to retail soft drink par par- par flors viors or lunch rooms tor for the saw saw- the saw on the pe pc Jo 10 date mole mome than of or ap- ap ap approximately proximately sort soft drink par par- lore lors parlors par have been closed Of tho 1000 or less remaining mighty few are arc selling anything with a kick in it 11 And the tho scant few foss are arc not selling beer If you aro arc very well ell known yOU can enter shake shike hands aith th the boss slip clip him the amount 75 73 during the greeting and In ina Ira II a moment the boss will still bid you au re again shaking your hand thereby transferring to you an ounce unco bottle of a fairly good grade grad anI I of f boulbon scotch or rye These lilaces however howe er cannot last long under the present lUsh puh pu h of ot the th Dover Dever forces which already has Ijas hassent lla sent nent millions of dollars worth of o Injunction suits Into the court courts and an several high police officers towar to and disgrace and oblivion lon ion m WETS LEND LE D SUPPORT Ith s ith all this picture of efficiency and and determination before them theta the 1 ets today lave have almost switched from active opposition to con con- support of the tho Dever cam cam- campaign campaign This Includes not only e who have been selling SoilIng It but the tremendously large rank and file who ho bitterly oppose the b act All hope by this moans means to so soI 1 I crystallize sentiment that congress a ill take toke up the tho of liberal liberal- liberalIzing ining the law low Id Id I'd hate hato to say how mad I 1 as aas when this thia campaign started fI said Louis Ellison of the College Inn Annex Now I can BOO ace Its It's the best thing for tor everyone Under re- re recent re eat cent wide open conditions CI ac had to pay 50 50 and US a barrel barr for beer That's no secret Every Every- Everybody body knew It It This Thle meant that customers had to pay 25 cents for tor forthe the old five cent stein Manufacture turo ture of beer doesn't cost anywhere near that and we wo were constantly constantIn In danger dancer of Interference THEY WANT WL BEER Now I believe I 1 speak for tor thou thou- thousands beback sands when I say wo we want stant ant beer r back but we want It back legally We e believe If It we who vho want It are denied all signs signe II of or It It for lor a 0 time It WIll eventually come back and back sooner than otherwise NorthSide Ernest 0 G North Side Turner Hall official at and ond a 0 lawyer said eaid Germans and others want beer be nd light wines wineL Wo We A wore all sore so e Si hen Mayor Dever Dover started It isn't that t way now for nobody here herp lIer r e ci Cr r took the law until toda CO aa en Page Paco Two T 1 3 MAYO MAYOR CLOSES i SES I CHICAGO RUM SELLERS Continued Continual from Pogo Page One Well We'll help De Dover cr as good citizens and In the hope of ot getting getting- beer at least back legally A dozen or more bootleggers saloon keepers and beer runners In- In In Interviewed ten by the writer today re- re repeated repeated re repeated these sentiments All said sald they believed they could get steady I jobs and tar far safer sater ones under other conditions nn i I |
