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Show 'WET' FORCES SCORE HEAVILY IN VOTE OF AT LEAST FOUR STATES Illinois Gives 600,000 to 200,000 in Favoring Modification Modi-fication of Volstead Act; California Votes Down State Enforcement Act bv Two to One CHICAGO, Nov. S. Proponents of f-elaxlnp th present prohibition laws scored heavily In at least four states Tuesday, according to compilations today from the nation wldo election In Illinois an expression of sentiment on the Volstead act favored modlft-- modlft-- cation by approximately CO". 000 votes to a negative of 200.000, with ono-h:ilf ono-h:ilf th' stat reported; f'allfornln defeated the state nforcemcnt aet by sM'fl nn Indicated two to one vote, Missouri re-eocted I'nlted States Senator. James A. Rood, an avowed opponent of prohibition, and New Jersey, It Is indicated, sent Governor HMward I.I Kd wards, also avowedly against prohibition, pro-hibition, to the rnlt.-il States senate, over Senator Frelinghuyvon. In Illinois, the congressional delegation dele-gation will take In three "wets." reports re-ports indicate that the Wisconsin delegation win be "wet" seven to four.. the majority from the state Including! Victor L Bcrger. Socialist, elected for tho third time. W i. onsln also reelected re-elected Senator P.obert M DaFollctto, classed as an antl-pre-hlbltlonlat by 1 The "dry." NKW YORK "WETS" WIN. In New York state, where tho ) mocrats swept th. state, the Demo-' Demo-' ratio platform contained a plank favoring llpht wines and beer. In the seventh Minnesota congressional congres-sional district returns indicated Representative Rep-resentative Andrew J. Volstead, father of the prohibition act. to bo making a strong flpht to overcome the early lead of the Rev. O. J Kvale, "Wets' drew little hope from that, however, as the Rev. Kvale has described de-scribed himself "as dryer than Volstead Vol-stead " In various congi esslonal districts In which the "wet" and "dry" question WM made an outright campaign I Issue, tho two sides fared about alike, some of the "drys" being boaten decisively de-cisively and a few of tho "wets" winning win-ning The "wet" opponent of W. G. Senna, In the second district of Nebraska, was defeated easily. In Indiana, .1 P. Turk, an avowedly "wet," was defeated by Merrill Morse, who stood for re-election. 1 NOTABIjE ex eptiox. Pred Hagerman, Democrat, who made the race in the third Iowa district dis-trict on s "wet" platform, was uviciuru, wuin; unions ijiom? e(rrt.i j was Robert t'le.ncy. a Demo-' Demo-' rat in the first Michigan, and Clar-ence Clar-ence McLeod Republican. In the thirteenth thir-teenth Michigan. Clancv ns a Democrat; Demo-crat; and the only member of that i rtj r ported elected In the first six districts to report. a c. Shallenberger, (Democrat, fifth Nebraska, also a proponent of modification of the Volstead art. had a lead oer his Republican opponent. In the twelfth congressional district of Missouri. Congressman L C Dyer, n protagonist of the "wet" platform! was re-elected over his 'dry' opponent- |